Sacked for telling the truth .

[patman post]

Feck me Posty I hope you never get anywhere near a Jury

I've been on two crown court juries — I always supposed I got onto the second because of my ability to cut through crap and masking waffle, sift out the salient facts and arrive at the correct conclusion...

[Streetwalker]

^^^
As both groups followed the same tactic, seems like mob rule is when those you disagree with succeed (temporarily in this case), but it's not mob rule when their opponents — who you agree with — overturn the first decision.
To me, both look like democratic actions using legal, available tools...

Feck me Posty I hope you never get anywhere near a Jury

[patman post]

^^^
As both groups followed the same tactic, seems like mob rule is when those you disagree with succeed (temporarily in this case), but it's not mob rule when their opponents — who you agree with — overturn the first decision.
To me, both look like democratic actions using legal, available tools...

[Streetwalker]

Didn't your larger and more active crowd on change.org overturn the decision and oust the trustees who'd responded to a smaller and less active crowd on change.org wanting Buckley out?
Was either mob rule...?

The first instance when he was sacked was motivated by the mob and a knee jerck reaction from the then trustees . The second instance was a crowd funding exercise which resulted in the hiring of someone expert in employment law and the end result of righting a wrong .

So the first was mob rule the second was following UK law .

[patman post]

Isn't that mostly democracy — whoever can get the largest, loudest and most active crowd out usually gets their point accepted...?

No thats mob rule with a side of anarchy , performed by those who have lost their argument through democratic means

Didn't your larger and more active crowd on change.org overturn the decision and oust the trustees who'd responded to a smaller and less active crowd on change.org wanting Buckley out?
Was either mob rule...?

[Streetwalker]

Isn't that mostly democracy — whoever can get the largest, loudest and most active crowd out usually gets their point accepted...?

No thats mob rule with a side of anarchy , performed by those who have lost their argument through democratic means

[Sheepy]

Isn't that mostly democracy — whoever can get the largest, loudest and most active crowd out usually gets their point accepted...?

That does not mean they are a majority.

It does on the day Mr doom and gloom.

[papasmurf]

Isn't that mostly democracy — whoever can get the largest, loudest and most active crowd out usually gets their point accepted...?

That does not mean they are a majority.

[Thomas]

If the reaction wasn't public it wouldn't have had the legs to get the guy fired — the public outcry over a posted opinion didn't happen in secret...

The public reaction and outcry from what i can see amounted to a change .org petition calling for his head that received a massive 465 signatures , while the counter petition to get him reinstated got 38 X that amount.

That public outcry?

[patman post]

Reading that report makes me really quite sad. The mob mentality is really rife in this country, and others, it is quite worrying.

Isn't that mostly democracy — whoever can get the largest, loudest and most active crowd out usually gets their point accepted...?

[patman post]

LMFAO.

public reaction?

A small extremely vocal "woke " minority , representative on no can't but themselves in society , panicked the trustees into sacking him you mean.

If the reaction wasn't public it wouldn't have had the legs to get the guy fired — the public outcry over a posted opinion didn't happen in secret...

[Thomas]

But it seems the public reaction to it panicked the trustees into sacking him.

LMFAO.

public reaction?

A small extremely vocal "woke " minority , representative on no can't but themselves in society , panicked the trustees into sacking him you mean.

[patman post]

Really Posty ?  Being someone that see's motive in everyday actions I would have thought you would see a left wing Marxist highjack  when its right in front of your face .

"Sacked for publishing an opinion" would be the truthful title.
I haven't read the blog item concerned, but from what I see in the link, it's his opinion to which he's entitled. But it seems the public reaction to it panicked the trustees into sacking him.
There again I don't know the employment terms of the charity which may have been breached. However his legal team found a technical flaw in his dismissal, and he's now back. So how am I supposed to see "left wing Marxist highjack" ...?

[Streetwalker]

Common sense has prevailed for once . Following a petition by the Free speech union   all the trustees that sacked him have resigned and the new board of trustees of the charity have reinstated him to his previous position .

https://order-order.com/2020/07/23/charity-boss-reinstated-after-free-speech-union-intervenes/

Sacked for telling the truth seems a bit strong as a thread title

Really Posty ?  Being someone that see's motive in everyday actions I would have thought you would see a left wing Marxist highjack  when its right in front of your face . 

[patman post]

Common sense has prevailed for once . Following a petition by the Free speech union   all the trustees that sacked him have resigned and the new board of trustees of the charity have reinstated him to his previous position .

https://order-order.com/2020/07/23/charity-boss-reinstated-after-free-speech-union-intervenes/

Reinstated on a technicality it appears, because the original trustees didn't follow the correct procedure. Let's hope the new lot are up to speed with charities law.
Sacked for telling the truth seems a bit strong as a thread title — it was only an opinion after all, which it looks like he'll tone down if the charity wants to concentrate on its good works...