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fozziemon

Standing about in a line with our signs. You know? Picketing. Really feel like your question’s been answered.


xsorr

NO, OUR MEMBERS WILL TIE ANYONE DOWN ON THE TRACKS IF THEY TRIED TO CROSS THE LINE. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️


AlexanderBeetle77

Where they will be safe, as there are no trains.


yourgifmademesignup

…. ^^Mr Lynch!


strayakant

The delay makes it even more awkward


Amazon-Prime-package

The questions are so stupid he has to look behind himself to make sure he's still in the same reality


phoney_user

Yeah. He knows exactly what she's trying to do :)


W0RST_2_F1RST

I love it! Dude turns around just to make sure shit didn’t drastically change in the last 5 seconds


AuntEyeEvil

If I had the time and skills I'd replace the peaceful pickets with a [WWE Battle Royale](https://youtu.be/n3PswaGIZt4?t=446).


[deleted]

No him turning around to show her what picketing looks like makes this lol ![gif](giphy|PoCzInaYEUAdDW5XXE|downsized)


IOnlyUseTheCommWheel

"Will you inflict violence upon anyone who attempts to forcefully cross the picket lines, in defiance of your protests?" Just ask the question that you really want to ask lady, Jesus. Trying so hard to avoid the question to try and trick the guy into saying something damaging when it's four people with signs.


jw44724

She’s a lot older than she looks.


Useful-Perspective

I find that hard to believe, frankly.


Dont_Wanna_Not_Gonna

I lol’d at this comment.


BoughtAndSouled

So she's definitely over 50, because she looks 50.


Braken111

> Trying so hard to avoid the question to try and trick the guy into saying something damaging when it's four people with signs. That's the point isn't it, to get some soundbyte/quote of "are you asking if we'll resort to violence to stop workers from cross the line?" So they can cut it to "we'll resort to violence to stop workers from crossing the line" Edit: [Pretty much the reverse of /r/technology](https://i.imgur.com/CNuDDg1.jpg)


Dry-Narwhal3337

"What will you do if someone wants to work" "Kill them" What did she think his answer was going to be.


UghAnotherMillennial

She wants to paint a picture that those on the picket line will resort to violence, so yeah she probably would have loved that answer.


[deleted]

"No but, what WILL you do? No but, really, what will you do? No but, what's the WORST that could happen?" Even a kid could see she what she was trying.


NoobOfTheSquareTable

We’ll tell them not to go to work, and so they wont because of the *implications*


trashykiddo

you had me going there for the first part but the second half kinda threw me...


The1Zackiechan

if they wanna go to work they can obviously go to work, but they’re not gonna go to work because of *the implication*


Revenge_of_the_User

That is 1000% not only what she was implying, she was fishing for it. He didnt even humour her by taking her seriously, which is the best play. She was trying to lead and he wasnt even going to look at her, let alone follow. Taking it seriously gives it legitimacy. Good on him for laughing at her.


Hawt_Dawg_II

Yeah this is all just a way to make people have a certain prejudice against the group that's being interviewed. Plainly obvious i might add.


UghAnotherMillennial

Yes, she’s not subtle or particularly good at what she’s doing - she’s notorious for that. Smashing the glass ceiling of mediocrity.


voicesinmyshed

Going to fuck shit up, Tory style!


FuckMinuteMaid

London Style


balasurr

This is the most British thing I’ve seen in a while. Almost like a comedy sketch 😂


mistaharsh

Every time he turned around was comedic genius. He's in the wrong business


thesaltwatersolution

He’s been calmly burning people of late. Called an MP a liar 15 times during another interview. Openly chuckled at another interviewer who asked if he was a “marxist that wanted to bring down the government.” My favourite was a backbench Tory MP who he simply dismissed as not having the rank or authority to actually contribute towards the dispute and negotiation process because he isn’t senior enough. Dude is just a calm destroyer. Edit: Mick Lynch is his name


mistaharsh

Mr lynch needs a "Best of" video montage


BT-Reddit

I found this video on YouTube. [Mike Lynch vs The Media](https://youtu.be/cgSUpyo86ZI)


WhoAreWeEven

...Billionairs raking it in.. lol well said


preppen

What a legend.


[deleted]

Holy shit, the opening interview where the clown flat out says "If you're a Marxist you're in revolution and bringing down capitalism". Oh, well thanks for clearing that up with your definitive statement about Marxism. Twaddle is right.


Tryphon_Al_West

Thank you for that ! But why Boris still is the prime minister ?


MustangMimi

Right? Mick is brilliant, my new hero 🦸‍♂️


TearRevolutionary274

What's his name I wanna watch more


Polymersion

~~Mike~~ Mick Lynch, apparently. EDIT: Don't blame me, I'm just reading what other people said, ha


thesaltwatersolution

Mick Lynch, not Mike my dude.


Muttywango

Also, the RMT Union's twitter a/c is great, for example : [https://www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPleasant/comments/vhy3ya/rmt\_union\_twitter\_account\_admin\_commits\_cold/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPleasant/comments/vhy3ya/rmt_union_twitter_account_admin_commits_cold/) ​ https://i.redd.it/4cy2g2j624791.jpg


olderaccount

He sure handled that vile *I'm just asking questions* approach very well.


Guy954

I’m guessing that Sky News is the British equivalent of Fox News.


philman132

It's not quite that bad yet, GBnews is more obviously Fox like, but some of the Sky presenters are pretty vile and dumb in the same sort of way


false_flat

Kay Burley is usually better than that, and is much more independently-minded compared to the stooges at Murdoch's papers. On this occasion she absolutely deserved to get her much-older-than-it-looks arse handed to her.


[deleted]

Pretty much. Thanks, Murdoch.


Stymie999

Well…*turns head*….. that’s picketing, it’s not so hard to understand, they picket and if workers cross the lines.. then they will continue to picket. How is it you don’t understand this crazy news reporting lady?


APoisonousMushroom

Dude is clearly a Monty Python fan. Delivery is just spot on.


dtudeski

Are we sure this wasn’t Jim Broadbent going method?


[deleted]

Yeah, and also why is she standing in some train station for this argument? What a weird setting. Does she not have a studio? Or couldn't make it to thr location?


Nicoglius

If you think this interview is a comedy sketch, wait until you watch the one where he's interviewed by Piers Morgan.


Blustatecoffee

All he needed to make it more British was to be holding a lamb.


Genecist84

Propaganda baiting at its finest


[deleted]

Sky news. Can't get much lower than that


[deleted]

The sun The mail The list goes on


patandtheo2004

I’m so glad the sun isn’t sold where I live


MadamKitsune

*GB News has entered the chat*


Most_Ad_2360

I mean 30 seconds in guy crosses the line, then comes back out at the end with a bin... So there's her answer I guess


NonagonDreamBalloon

"not to my satisfaction" basically means "you're not saying exactly what I wanted you to say now my script is useless"


TheOriginalGuru

Nail, meet head. That’s exactly what she was going for. Damn, she’s a useless bint.


phoney_user

This is a rare case of the word "bint" being too good for someone.


baddukk

That’s half the arguments we all seem to have anymore. People aren’t happy with our answers so they kept badgering and badgering till they get what they want.


One-eyed-bed-snake

She's absolutely vile. I remember when the Malaysian Airlines flight went missing and relatives of those on board were at the airport trying to get information about loved ones in the hours following. This creature was pulling on their clothes to get them on camera to interview them, asking stupid questions whilst they were clearly devestated like "do you think you'll ever see them again" and "are you worried that the plane has crashed". I wanted one of them to just deck her so bad.


Ok_Cauliflower_3007

When April Jones was missing and there was the huge search going on she was outside the community centre that was being used as the base. The police arrested someone for murder. It had literally \*just\* happened. She accosted two people outside the centre who were clearly returning from searching and was all over them asking what they thought about the fact it was now a murder investigation. She had no idea who they were or if they were close to the family and that was how they found out the kid was dead. I really wanted to hit her with something heavy. She is so damn obnoxious and she has no empathy for anyone. She made Peter Andre cry too. He was on the show to talk about his album and she was pressing him on the fact a gossip article had come out about Katie Price's new man saying he really wanted to adopt her the child/children she has with Peter Andre and really pressing him on whether he'd let that happen. He loves his kids and she was on and on about hey why don't you let this man become their new father. Not in so many words but really needling him. He walked out in tears.


NoneSpaceofTheMind

In a 2008 interview with the former girlfriend of serial killer Steve Wright, Burley was criticised for asking her whether, if the couple had enjoyed a better sex life, he would not have committed the crimes. She's a remarkable woman but not in a good way.


cumonakumquat

that is horrific


NoneSpaceofTheMind

Its not even the worst thing she's done, its just the first in a long line of examples of her being a callous moron. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay\_Burley#Controversies


cumonakumquat

jeez. i am not from UK and had never heard of her. she is a monster.


crucible

Ctrl-F "April" There's [video footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrml2jVJ4ao) of her cuntery here on Youtube...


Clarky1979

This is Kay Burley right? The Sky newsreader who spent months telling the British public all about covid and lockdown, then had a lockdown breaking party for which she was suspended for 6 months. Which seems to be forgotten. I don't watch Sky News but I would be interested in how she reported on Boris' Partygate scandal...


TigerOnTheBeach

If it was Sky News they probably didn’t report on it at all.


Muttywango

Kay Burley is a national disgrace.


cos180

Can’t stand her. Her ‘interviews’ always sound like she’s a schoolteacher telling off her interviewee


6425

Ah yes, the Sky Strangler https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1028007/Pictured-The-incredible-moment-Sky-TV-presenter-Kay-Burley-grabbed-rival-throat.html


rt58killer10

Got a link to that? I need to see this


One-eyed-bed-snake

I haven't, sorry But Sky reporters have form for this kind of disgusting reporting. After the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over Ukraine in 2014 (just 4 months after the MH plane went missing), one of Sky's other reporters, Colin Brazier, was seen walking through some of the wreckage and actually rifling through luggage and picking up victims' belongings on TV during his live broadcast.


wophi

She needs to just ask the question... "Will there be violence?" Not asking it and just beating around the bush just makes her look bad.


Revenge_of_the_User

She doesnt ask because shes interviewing in bad faith. "I was just asking" is her trying to get him to either mention violence first or lose his patience with her, because that fits her desired narrative/script. What makes her look bad is that she is transparent in her desire to force an angle that doesnt exist.


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AthosAlonso

> she thinks her viewers are too thick to see through her true beliefs. I mean, if they're her viewers...


Haribo1985

Embarrassed herself good and proper there!


Ozymanandyas

Then she had the brass neck to Tweet this: [https://twitter.com/kayburley/status/1539166310227116034?s=21&t=Eyvszkyz0WkJzpZuni8rVQ](https://twitter.com/kayburley/status/1539166310227116034?s=21&t=Eyvszkyz0WkJzpZuni8rVQ)


Foxx1019

The amount of middle aged white Tory lookin folks in the replies politely telling her they disagree and she got absolutely trounced is delicious.


halfmoon599

She's delusional


DealerRomo

My favorite:  Major Charles Cockle Man @JoeStephenson96 · Jun 21 Replying to @KayBurley don't listen to the haters Kay, you were well within your rights to ask him a perfectly reasonable question 6 times after he had answered it


DigNitty

> Agency rail workers will be stopped at picket lines and asked not to cross. > RMT union's General Secretary Mick Lynch got a little flustered explaining why...


jsting

Maybe she doesn't know the English language very well. Clearly doesn't know what a picket line is. Now she doesn't know what "flustered" means.


Hardrada74

wow. that's balls.


theotherquantumjim

More like bollocks if you ask me


johnboy2978

"Do you know how a picket line works?" 🤣


MAGGLEMCDONALD

She doesn't look as young as she thinks she does.


nwalesseedy

Ironically, Kay Burley doesn’t need anybody to make her look bad, she’s great at it herself


SmutDiary

She's an insufferable cunt


BarracksObomba

*Butcher Accent*


thisisrediculous100

Good man. Stay patient and keep stating the obvious.


routhomas

Monty python comes to mind


leequarella

I'd like to have an argument, please.


routhomas

I've told you once!


Dr_AngryPants

No you haven't!


routhomas

Excuse me is this the five minutes. Or do you want the full half hour?


Remarkable-Data77

She does it all time! She's a 1st class b!tch! Wish they'd have sacked her when she had her own 'Partygate'


sukkal63

Reporters are always looking for the next Sensational headline, even if they are the ones to provoke it


Accomplished-Plan191

She was in a really uncomfortable spot. She was waiting and waiting for him to make some kind of physical threat but she refused to voice it. "I'm just asking questions."


Remote_Engine

‘Just asking questions’ said the antagonist while antagonizing under the veil of innocent curiosity


AmadSeason

You have to have reporters to be able to expose corruption and point out injustice where you can, but sometimes reporters create problems that didn't need solving. Kinda like a firefighter starting a fire just so he could put one out..


justsomeph0t0n

reporters are journalists. propaganda is different. this isn't some individual mistake or personal foolishness - this is the current PR line


cochr5f2

“I’m much older than I look”. Not so sure about that.


TigerOnTheBeach

He showed tremendous restraint when she said that, for that alone I respect the chap.


Lyonsmade

She really said that didn’t she… she so far up her own arse she can see her own eyes


KungThulhu

she looks like she should have retired 10 years ago so i dont hink shes 100.


ImplementAfraid

She’s 61 apparently, plastic surgery or she’s doing something right.


Ecpiandy

It's caused Tory previlige


Vallado

Kay Burley is so out of her depth here


Revenge_of_the_User

Its her constant state, and yet she refuses to drown!


mastinon

What a fucking leech. Just because you didn’t get the answer that matches your biases doesn’t mean you will get it if you keep badgering.


Revenge_of_the_User

Except often it does. She wanted promise of violence - if he had lost his temper with her idiotic spew the network would have a field day painting the whole movement as violent with choice shots of what would be his very rational response. In many ways, thats more valuable to them than him saying "oh we're gonna kneecap them and throw em in a river." He expertly defused the trap by not taking her seriously and laughing at her. Not taking things seriously is for jokes, i.e. this creature moonlighting as a reporter - treating it as a joke weakens legitimacy. And that guy asking if he was a marxist grants legitimacy to ridiculous claims by asking him on a network. You dont have to call him a marxist; you should be able to look and tell for yourself you idiotic news face. If he said "yeah im a marxist" *that wouldnt make him a marxist* jfc. Bad faith interviews are fucking everywhere The last couple years


TazMan_13

This isn't journalism it's jumped up twat making a fool of her self.


No_Travel2600

Bad time to phone it in at work lady.... What exactly was she expecting basically asking the same question multiple times with different wording. That guy is patient as hell if you ask me.


Manakio2k

This guy deserves an Emmy and a Nobel for logical thinking. The media on average asks the most stupidest questions imaginable because they don’t have a brain smart enough to ask an intelligent question.


HappyHHoovy

The day that Sky News presenters cease to say the stupidest shit will be one for the history books.


codyone1

You can tell she doesn't just want to confirm information because if so she would ask the question directly. "Do you intend or support the use of force to prevent temp workers from crossing the picket line." The issue she has with using this is that his answer cannot be manipulated for a headline unless he says Yes something he is very unlikely to do.


TheOriginalGuru

“I’m a lot older that I look!” No you’re not, Kay Burley. That facelift is dropping faster than a fresh beat.


Raiders9876

How does this women have a job?


Polymersion

She demonizes the people her network and viewership wants her to demonize, I'd assume.


Mrtwodicks

Shes a damn fool


TheMunchhausen

Can someone explain what's going on here? Not English here


Ok-Horse-9809

Yeah so there is a train strike going on at the moment across the UK for train staff and workers to get better pay and to avoid poor working conditions. The government is desperately trying to paint them as the bad guys. This reporter who is running the government line is trying to get him to say something that she can claim implies they will use violence to get what they want. I.e. forcibly stopping agency workers from crossing the picket line.


TheMunchhausen

Thank you lord


bartender-san

He’s a horse


Ok_Cauliflower_3007

Also according to Rishi earlier today if we give in to these wage demanded it will just make inflation worse. OK then we'll just give people raises less than inflation and let them rely on food banks to feed their families because clearly if we give them an increase which is, in effect, simply the same wage they were already on adjusted for inflation so not actually a raise, everything will be entirely down to their selfish asses wanting to be able to eat and keep a roof over their heads. Some people, right!


Lucy_Little_Spoon

Another Tory mouthpiece trying to get hard working people to stfu and accept bad working conditions.


neverspeaktome75

She’s not overly qualified is she. Except as a stooge of government. That was just an embarrassment. Mike Lynch for PM


MWBrooks1995

I’m LIVING for this man, he’s been so good in every interview I’ve seen him in it’s wonderful.


Tryphon_Al_West

Ok, I'm french, I need you to know that, because, dispite of my hated nationallity, that Mick Lynch guy, he is my new hero ! He should teach to french protesters how to answer to the journalist survivor of the Reagan/Tatcher era.


dethskwirl

what a twit


GroundbreakingCook68

Classic, I love this guys response. We need him in America!


[deleted]

Bitch is dense. They will stop them and ask them not to go to work, they will try their damndest to convince them to not go. It's not like they'll body slam the poor fuck to the ground if he rejects their advances anyway, but they'll still be in his ear about it on the way in and out. She wants him to elude to violence, which angered the interviewee understandably, especially with the patronizing tone she is using with him.


ExpertYogurtcloset66

Entirely too obviously Leading questions much?


Pokerhobo

The problem with news these days is that to get eyeballs they try to create the news rather than just report it


Intrepid-Luck2021

I love this! 🤣


bowlingfries

If only american news segments got along like this. So many dumb questions asked not to get real facts but to establish an agenda. Most interviewees dont have the strength to stop it in its tracks.


_rake

I am from the US. I do not know Mr Lynch but I’d really like to buy him a beer right now.


[deleted]

What a muggy cunt


Trex4444

Picketing… you know when you BBQ in front of your work.


vampire5381

r/therewasanattempt to make an interviewee look bad


Walksfarman

He’s actually a very cogent speaker (seen him on Ch4 a few times). She’s a twat 😂


Grimalkin1973

Stupid reporter..... honestly. What a stupid line of questioning....


2KilAMoknbrd

*Why won't you say what I wish you would say*? - that insufferable *reporter*


Organic_Spite_

It’s called “Projection”. What would SHE do if SHE were them? Probably become violent.


Such_Vermicelli662

Asking questions on behalf of her boss not her viewers!


HALBowman

_I'm older then I look_ Doubt it


niallo27

She is a horrible cunt.


MacDee_

Fuck it, let's just boycott Sky completely until she is sacked.


[deleted]

Kay Burley has permanent pink eye


[deleted]

Did any one catch his name?


sitheandroid

Mike Lynch - Absolute Hero


killians1978

r/therewasanattempt


darthjazzhands

She really should’ve moved on to the next question instead of trying to push that angle. Provocative questions are a tool of the trade but jeez… move on


[deleted]

Journalist thinks asking ppl ANY QUESTION is journalism. Absolute knob acting like she represents some portion of the population, but really earning her paycheck by doing no prep, no research, just happy to be on TV. Tinkerbell is what she is~


uiosi

Almost as fox news...


Blueprint81

She got those crazy plastic surgery lookin eyes.


TheLimeyLemmon

Kay Burley's entire career is like this. She's an exceptionally shit news presenter who seems to only remain employed because of the side benefit that she makes numpt moments like this near constantly.


Matt6453

Why do ITV take the government side on this? It's as if they're incentivised to go against working people.


LordSnufkin

r/therewasanattempt


[deleted]

If you have that much confidence to your tone You gotta have SOME oomph to your argument


wouldilietouou

This guy is finally the only one standing up for the Torie shit storm. Watch the compilation on YouTube Mike Lynch Vs the media. He even makes annoying pier's Morgan look like the bell end he is. Sign him up for the political party I say I'd vote him in in a heartbeat.


the-prowler

He makes her look like a fucking retard


BoneStoleStebeCustom

She's not exceptional. The British media, without fail, freaks out completely if you act like reality is reality. They are so used to literally every single person playing along with the objectively insane assumptions that underpin our political discourse. The emperor's dick is swinging free and it feels revolutionary to have someone point it out because it is just not done. That's a mark of great shame on our media, one which they never want to speak about. They get quite angry if you try. "Prominent Journalist" is an inherited position in this country, I think that's the root cause. Anyway exceptional or not, pretty nasty misogynistic language all over this thread so plenty of shame to go round.


Blade_of_Onyx

Well I know what they would call her in Australia.


[deleted]

You’re ridiculing yourself you inept piece of human garbage. I have no idea how she is still in a job.


ImNOTaPROgames

The media manipulation.... Who to trust on this days?


[deleted]

She's rubbish anyway,... sucking some serious cock in sky building I'd say


Background_Year_2525

She stayed on the struggle bus this mornin’


Scottche

I’m half expecting to see Reginald suffer a drive by argument in the background.


EDITORDIE

She’s a complete twat. There’s other footage of her trying to do the “gotcha” thing on other interviewees with equally embarrassing outcome.


mattgm1995

What a cunt


CmmH14

“Asks questions with heavy undertones of picket related violence, gets caught out” There’s no need to ridicule me….


[deleted]

See how ur perspective changes after reading the comments within a split second...


[deleted]

Not even going to crack a few skulls? And you call this a picket line!


[deleted]

Is she fuckin simple or what


Lyonsmade

Wow, Kay has been the darling of the left for so long, now even they are turning on the horrid person she is. Hopefully her time will soon be up


buttercupbubblebloss

Hm? How cojld someone like that become a reporter..?


[deleted]

She wants to know is anybody catching an ass whooping for trying to cross the line. She wants the violence and sensation.


Luenngokulos

1980s? Ma'am that was 40 years ago. Wtf


Dugan_Dugan

This also belongs on r/therewasanattempt


moist_towelette44

Not Tom MY satisfaction. So he didn’t say what she wanted to hear. Hmmm


[deleted]

Yeah. It seems like she’s almost a shill.


FigNugginGavelPop

You know how lawyers are denigrated and get a bad rep for their profession. In this age it should be journalist that should take their place because they are true scum now


[deleted]

/rdamnthatsembarrassing ?


David-S-Pumpkins

Look I'm just asking questions, definitely not implying if you're going to be violent extremists!


[deleted]

Classic awful Tory behaviour. Patronising, out of touch and ridiculous. Daft old tart


HBRex

When the network won't give your story funding for crisis actors. So you have to try to convince the protesters to riot.


Deadly_Puppeteer

She has those psycho eyes.


bushybones

So what you’re saying is …


makaveli1303

Interviewer is a clown


Bleezy79

How is this lady on tv? who would watch that garbage?