What rotten luck. Another BBC journalist has been caught trying to board a plane to London with cannabis in his suitcase! This time round, it’s Jonny Dymond. Happily, even though he was arrested and fined, the Beeb won’t be taking any action since the incident happened “in his own time”. (As opposed to him taking it live on camera?) I’m sure you remember that another BBC presenter, Radio One DJ Grooverider, was also caught with cannabis last month. Again, no action was taken. Is it possible that a liking for illegal narcotics is a key requirement for BBC presenters?!
A DYMOND GEEZER!
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Drugs abuse is clearly quite common at the BBC.
This prat even got his job back
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/specials/drugs/351602.stm
Now boring us sensless on 5 live at night time.
Does the BBC not have a drugs and alcohol policy? Most companies do these days.
Even if you take drugs in “your own time” if traces of it are found in your blood on a random sample, you normally get fired.
Not only that, if I got caught like that I’d get fired for bringing my company into disrepute.
I guess the BBC has such a bad name these days even a limbo dancer couldn’t get any lower.
Good job for Dymond it was Lithuania and not Turkey…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/newsid_3810000/newsid_3811300/3811319.stm
Midnight Express?
Could have been worse,he could have been hiding cocaine up his nose.
Richard Bacon stayed at a house belonging to some friends of mine, shortly before the cocaine revelations.
Apparently he’s an asshole of the highest degree, with the ” Don’t you know who I am ” attitude which you might expect from an overpaid, underworked waste of oxygen who never had a proper job in his life.
Allegedly 🙂
This is a non-issue and makes this blog look something like the Daily Mail.
Richy:
I can’t agree. You’re probably saying that because, like me, you have no objection to drug culture. But just because we have that opinion it doesn’t mean to say that the BBC isn’t up to its old tricks again – turning a blind eye to “cool” transgressions whilst lambasting the slightest sin against, for example, environmental or “social cohesion” issues. I don’t care how many drugs the BBC employees take, but if they’re going to softsoap THIS issue, they can’t afford to take the moral highground on things like road-pricing, plastic carrier bags or immigration.
Mr Orange:
Your extraordinary attention to the private behaviour of BBC staff is beginning to win me round. I do not want my children growing up in a world where anyone who has messed around with drugs should be on the wrong side of the microphone from us.
Kudos, too, for your efforts to boost Elvis Costello’s career. Quoting the title of his finest album, My Aim Is True, as your battle-standard gladdened my heart, and your choice of El as your Valentine’s Day chanson was inspired.
Just one little worry, though. Should we not carry through our principled concern about small issues of personal misbehaviour to all areas of our lives. Who said this, for example?
This was easily the most drug-influenced record of my career… It was completed close to a self-induced nervous collapse on a diet of rough ‘scrumpy’ cider, gin and tonic, various powders… and, in the final hours, Seconal and Johnnie Walker Black Label.
Oh, sh*t It’s El!
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Hillhunt:
I don’t care about your opinion of Mr Orange; it’s not relevant. What is relevant is the fact that if I got caught with drugs I’d lose my job (like 99% of the population). Somehow the “cool” Beeboids (paid by us) are treated differently from the general population – drugs are OK at Planet Beeb, but driving a 4×4 is a heinous crime. You couldn’t make it up!
I’m a regular reader of this site. Like it a lot! this will be my first post though…
Anyway, the trouble, in my opinion, with presenters and celebrities taking drugs and not getting censured or punished when obviously breaking the law is the effect it has on children watching television, reading the paper etc, and thinking this is the way society is, and that it is acceptable. I have 3 kids at primary school, and i dont want them aspiring to a lifestyle like Amy Winehouse!
the bbc, subtle institutional bias, its what we do best.
..Farming Today, an everyday story of agriculture, as viewed through the distorted perceptions of the beeboid presenters.
townie girl presenter, ‘so, you represent hundreds of nasty farmers who have applied for licences to cull TB infected badgers, but the goverment has rejected your plan to gas them. That means you can’t cull them. Farmer, erm no, it means we will have to cage trap them, which is not nearly so efficient.
Townie girl presenter, and now we will devote the rest of the programme to a nice man from the badger huggers. Man from badger huggers then procedes to explain that farmers are far too busy to trap badgers and so they can’t be culled.
These people are from planet Zog, if your life is largely built round your herd of cattle and you can virtually eliminate the risk of having the herd slaughtered because of a positive TB reactor, you might just find of an evening that sorting out the badger problem comes higher on your list of priorities than watching the bbc’s rubbish.
Phil H:
drugs are OK at Planet Beeb, but driving a 4×4 is a heinous crime. You couldn’t make it up!
Excellent point. Just how many years in chokey would a Boibeed presenter get for getting high with an off-roader?
That Jeremy Clarkson got it in the neck from the Greenies for his antics with a Land Rover in the Scottish hills. Just how much flak did he get from his bosses?
A BBC spokesman claimed the test-drive was carried out on private land with the owner’s permission and that no damage was caused.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5367516.stm
JR:
Anyway, the trouble, in my opinion, with presenters and celebrities taking drugs and not getting censured or punished when obviously breaking the law is the effect it has on children watching television
Another excellent point. I have torn down the Johnny Dymond posters from my kids’ bedrooms and banned them from attending their long-cherished Dymond weekender in Ibiza.
backwoodsman:
bbc…badgers…cull…townie…Zog…badgers
Johnny Dymond was smoking badgers? Now that is serious.
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Hillhunt:
Amusing, but you’re ignoring the crucial fact: why should a Beeboid be treated any different from the rest of the population who would lose their jobs if caught in possession of drugs? You can make as many sarcastic observations as you like, but you’re conveniently ignoring the crux of the matter.
Any normal professional organisation would sack a member of staff who has committed a criminal offence.
If you’re going to use cannabis, which admittedly hardly makes you an ‘evil drug fiend’ to the same degree as some crack or smackhead, don’t get caught. And please don’t talk to me in your stinking rambling manner either or play me any of your music.
Phil H:
why should a Beeboid be treated any different from the rest of the population who would lose their jobs if caught in possession of drugs?
Why indeed? The standard advice to Human Resources managers in cases involving minor off-duty offences of personal class-C drug use is not to dismiss immediately, unless, for example, they’re a pilot or a driver, who will go on duty whilst the drugs are still active, compromising public safety.
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“The standard advice to Human Resources managers”
Who gives ‘standard advice’ to HR managers?? That doesn’t sound ‘standard’ in professional organisations which is presumably what the Beeb aspires to be??
JK,
You are very welcome and thanks for your comment.
Amy Winehouse is probably the Beeb’s idea of a role model for our kids , singing “I ain’t gonna go to rehab” even as she..erm, goes to rehab, no, no, no!
hillhunt,
are you on crack cocaine, angel dust, or have you been smoking that “skunk” that according to Al Beeb is 20 times more powerful that the stuff grown last week/month/year that causes madness just by looking at it, or are you just a plain ole wanker? i think the latter
ttfn ya muppet
Can someone who knowingly funds terrorism and international crime through drug use be regarded as impartial when it comes to discussion of such matters? Just wondering.
“Phil H:
why should a Beeboid be treated any different from the rest of the population who would lose their jobs if caught in possession of drugs?
Why indeed? The standard advice to Human Resources managers in cases involving minor off-duty offences of personal class-C drug use is not to dismiss immediately, unless, for example, they’re a pilot or a driver, who will go on duty whilst the drugs are still active, compromising public safety.
Hillhunt | 07.03.08 – 10:12 am”
Amongst my duties is human resources manager, it has been in previous jobs too.
It is true that in some cases drugs are specifically singled out, usually transport industry based as per The Transport and Works Act 1992, for those instant dismissal is standard.
Now the majority of employers make it dismissable in the contracts of employment, not least of which because of the damage to their reputation for employing drug using employees; it would be interesting to know if this was the case for the BBC, I would wager it says something like the BBC has the right to dismiss without notice for drug abuse.
When cases of drug abuse have gone to Employment Tribunals they have usually found that dismissal is a reasonable response to drug taking or being under the influence of drink or drugs at work.
Employment Tribunals often accept that an employer is entitled to assume that there is a safety risk in drug taking or drinking without there being any evidence.
A worker who faces disciplinary charges connected with drugs or alcohol would do well to provide evidence that there was no safety risk.
Off-duty conduct will not usually merit dismissal in itself, although it usually will if it affects the employee’s ability to do the job or the employer’s reputation, in the case of media you would have thought reputation was important, clearly the BBC does not share that view.
My experience of ganga smokers is that they are often wankers with little work in them. As licence payers we are entitled to better than this. He should have been kicked out.
Don’t sack him, send him to the new BBC Salford. That’ll be a worse punishment.
It isn’t just in the transport sector that you’ll be instantly sacked for drugs offences. You will end up in very deep doo-doo indeed if you are in the police, teaching, health services.
Well, Dymond works on, at the Socialist HQ (where else?)…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7285885.stm
Must be tempting to have a spliff after that result!
I think Ben Johnson took drugs ‘in his own time’, didn’t he?
I certainly don’t recall him stopping in the midst of a race to take some steroids. Come back, Ben, all is forgiven…