Sara Morrison v BFF Thread 3

[SexRealistic]

For background please read here:

https://genderblog.net/sara-morrison-v-belfast-film-festival/

So that last minute organised addition to the Film Festival looks a bit sus, doesn't it? Or should it be even more sus?

Did it get hired out to anyone else?

Did they get any income from it I wonder?

(Did anyone know how to erect it and actually read the 37 page manal?)

A tip about checking whether a youtube video has a word or phrase in its dialogue. Under the video you click on more which unfurls explanatory text, and if you find a Show transcript button at the bottom of the text, clicking it opens a transcript box next to the video, and you can then use CTRL+F to find if the word or phrase is present in the dialogue transcript.

I think it’s a company on companies house

I’m not even on YouTube and I want to hide 🫣

Maybe I just need a screen break...but I wondered if Sara's tweet reply that her favourite French film was Cache was a coded reference to her team discovering archived/cached information about Deborah Boyd - given the overall thread context was about praising her legal team?

x.com/seeredwoman1/status/1989460597776527608?s=46

I've posted the right link now, and still can't find an actual capital expenditure expense or mention of buying it in their reports.

I've got to go out in a minute so will come back to it later.

I love this insight.

I would say the bigger issue is that she was even claiming EJ Sturgeons role.

Never ever call yourself a Judge if you’re not.

If a lay member is passing themselves off as a Judge it undermines the integrity of the proceedings.

Love the insight too although I disagree about the judge thing being worse. Doing it in passing on a chat show is bad of course but sitting in a tribunal with Professor on your name plate, with the EJ and advocates calling you by that tithe is much much worse.

If she’d tried to put judge on her name plate in the ET there wouldn’t be much left of her I don’t think.

Another video link:

In this video, (apologies I can't hear it well as I have a noisy workman in but I'm reading the transcript), DB seems to be saying she's a business lecturer - which is it, business or 'environmental science and waste management? She says she's a non revisiting lecturer at UU (again transcript may not be 100% accurate) and a guest lecturer at universities in the UK. She also says she never went to university and confirms she left at 16. She's been a tribunal panel member since 1989 (so that's what...36 years of not being looked into?)

Its not the most coherent of speeches imo, but does provide some additional background. Not sure how relevant it is to Sara given that DB has now recused herself but it does raise concerns about the whole NI ET system.

ETA I'll be out part of today to avoid said workman so pissed that I may miss part of NW tweets so will try to catch up / post on here when I can.

Based on reading the synopsis of the film, I was assuming she meant they had been given some information (perhaps literally film footage, perhaps not), possibly by a mysterious source. I haven't watched the film as it has a violence warning and I don't enjoy films that need those, so if there's anything more subtle that might be going on, no idea!

Thanks for excellent squirrelling! I haven’t looked but ‘non revisiting’ in AI generated transcript might be ‘honorary visiting’. I’ll try and check later.

Y/e 31 March 2023 there are fixed asset additions of £96k which could be the screen.

I find it really interesting that in the brochure for the Enviro Solutions Conference she is posted as Professor in the speakers list, alongside others with titles and honorifics. Presumably people paid to attend and hear the talks.

As well as in parliamentary minutes and government docs.

Literally no one checked.

Anyone could do this.

@Largesso you may be right, I cannot hear it properly over drilling sounds, hopefully someone else can have a listen and confirm what she actually said.

I've had my PhD for nearly 30 years now and nobody has ever wanted to see my certificate, not for my two postdocs (one US and one UK university) nor for my jobs afterwards. My PhD supervisor was named as a reference for all of these and I have publications but nobody ever wanted to see proof.

She is introduced as a Professor working in both the universities in NI "something something business" but it's unclear.

Can confirm that at 5:48 she says honorary visiting professor

I'd be surprised if they're all Catholic, not because Catholics aren't as capable of grift as anyone else, but in NI that attitude of 'I didn't need an education, I could get any job I wanted' was a very old-time protestant thing when the community was extremely well networked and protectionist. The Catholic schools, and the community they served, always knew the only way out of poverty for them was education. It's why there was a tendency in recent years among NI prods to regard all those Catholics with academic and professional posts as evidence of some kind of conspiracy involving sneaky Papist ways.

I dithered a bit about the name Murphy, but my old pal the 1911 census lists hundreds of Presbyterian Murphys and even more Presbyterian Boyds.

Arlene Foster was up to her neck in RHI.

She adds that she lectures at Ulster University 'regularly'.

Someone’s put in an FOI request to Ulster!

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/professor_deborah_boyd_relations

Agree.

My credentials- not from NI but NI Catholic parent. Catholics of that age had, as a group, fewer opportunities and so they disproportionately valued education. Not all of them, but enough for there to be a definite trend.

This and this all the way.

I had a gander at their accounts.

I can’t see £100,000 heading out to pay for a screen.

They get about £80000 from Belfast City Council and £90000 from Screen NI which I can imagine is tax payer funded.

Michelles salary likely take up most of that income. Then an employee or two.

No moolah for a BIGLY ERECTION READY SCREEN.

Very curious 🧐

This is what UU currently says about Visiting Professors

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/life-and-health-sciences/medicine/visiting-professors/honorary-and-non-remunerated-titles

For Information: re Visiting Professor
This is a title awarded by the University and is through University nomination of a senior individual who is delivering activity which, were that person an employee of the University, would be at a level to warrant professorial status.
They may hold Directorships of, or lead major research teams in, organisations with which the University has a close working relationship in research (such as Associated Institutions) or hold similar positions in local organisations with which the University has close working relationships in the areas of teaching or research infrastructure.
A Visiting Professorial title is generally conferred for three years, and as part of the annual academic promotions round, existing Honorary Professorships are reviewed and proposals are made for their renewal where appropriate.
A Visiting Professor is generally expected to contribute up to 14 days per year to the University.

'Generally conferred for 3 years'. I wonder when that came in.