The British #MeToo scandal which cannot be revealed

Murdoch?

Murdoch isn't British. The article says it's a British businessman.

Ohhh! Richard Branson then.

Oh fuck, that's a good guess r3 I hope it isn't him, but everything and everyone I admire ends up turning to shit so part of me wouldn't be surprised.

The UK has weird libel and privacy laws.

I hope im wrong OP. I like him.

Could Air Miles Andy be considered a businessman?

Simon Cowell perhaps?

Prince Motherfucking Andrew.

I guessed him too, but I'm not sure if he is considered a businessman. What about Lord Alan Sugar?

Simon Fuller...

R10 That was going to be my guess.

Sir Philip Green

Tony Blair

My money would be on Philip Green. I don’t think Branson would be racist. Nothing would surprise me about the odious Green.

I don't even think Branson works lol.

Okay, looking at this from a practical POV: the injunction on naming the creep applies to The Telegraph. Can another UK newspaper obtain The Telegraph's information and publish it?

And if not, surely someone can leak the info to a US publication, or even a website. This guy's name is going to come out one way or another.

It’s a matter of hours before a non-UK media outlet “mysteriously” gets a hold of their research and runs it.

No, another newspaper cannot take the Telegraph's info and publish it! Do you know nothing about UK libel laws? I'm suing you!

Non-UK outlets have to be VERY careful as well.

Branson is a sexually harassing dick, I don't know about the racism, though. Andrew is way beyond #metoo, and his mother will protect him.

This NDAs silencing people accusation is bullshit. They can disclose, but they have to give back the money, as Rachel Uchitel did when she did an interview about Tiger Woods after signing one.

As R20 Says, Branson is a definite on sexual harassment - he liked to take the prettiest stewardesses out for dinner as a group and then they would gave to deal with him. The clear vibe of the whole thing was very icky. As others have said, don't think he's racist, though. That does sound more Green or Sugar.

It could be Mike Ashley though I don’t think that would surprise anybody.

With it being the torygraph, I think it’s probably Lord Alan Sugar as he is a Labour peer.

These injunctions never seem to have the desired effect though (just ask Ryan Giggs!) so I reckon it’s only a matter of time before it all becomes public knowledge.

It's Joe Lewis

The Telegraph is doing everything short of publishing his name.

R23 he lives in Bahamas. How is he going to avoid black people there?

Publish it in the US!

[quote] Non-UK outlets have to be VERY careful as well.

Why? They can't be sued outside of the UK, so why do they have to be careful?

The UK press did the same thing when it came to Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville hiring hookers to fuck him in the ass with dildos. They refused to name him but his name made it into the US press about a week later.

Phil Green is my guess too.

[quote]The article says it's a British businessman.

Well, that’s a relief.

R27 Because they'll be in contempt of court in the UK. So if they have a British arm, that could be in danger, and they'd be subject to arrest if they entered the UK, or possibly even the subject of an extradition request.

R28 WHAT? How have I not heard this???

R28 WHAT? How have I not heard this?

R32

[quote]Once again, in a magnificent display of the teeth of the British Super-Injunction—designed to protect the public from having its heroes torn down by the press—it emerged in the U.S. that a British actor engaged a prostitute in 2010 for £190-195 to pleasure him inter alia with toys (presumably not a Buzz Lightyear figurine).

I'd never heard this either.

Just watch the British newspapers over the coming days. Look out for articles about a British businessman that have no real need to be published, or references to a British businessman that seem somewhat forced in to other stories.

The British Press has a way of outing the subjects of the NDAs. Look for an absolute puff piece/s on a businessman that in no way seems 'newsworthy

The Telegraph, The Sun and The Metro all leading on this story tomorrow. Nothing like an injunction to bring newspapers together.

The I, not the Metro

Could be Prince Andrew. I know this person is referred to as a businessman, but they couldn’t very well have said “anonymous royal.”

Murdoch by a mile.

It's Mike Ashley of Sports Direct.

Why are you all assuming that it's a famous celebrity businessman? It could be someone not widely known to the general public but still rich and powerful.

What does Buzz Lightyear have to do with Bonneville?

Aren’t the references in BI supposed to relate to the person’s identity?

My first thought was like r10, I’d think Alan Sugar or Philip Asswipe Green would be front runners, both thoroughly unpleasant cunts. Green is particularly heinous though, if for nothing more than foisting his lumpen daughter into the unsuspecting public’s line of vision.

Richard Branson

Geez, most of you don't know much about business. Do you think Richard Branson, Alan Sugar, Philip Green and Prince Andrew work in "business"?

They are all businessmen except Andrew r47, what’s your point?

Who cares

MeToo has been hijacked by business interests pretty much from the start (with the collusion of the media), Want the boss's job? Feel like you signed a dud contract? Care to manipulate the stock prices? Don't like the election outcome? Here's a braindead twitter mob we can sick onto your rival with just a few anonymous accusers and an old photo taken out of context....hell, give us some lead in time and we can drop some "blind items" and line up a couple of ambulence chasing lawers ahead of the coup.

Are they really anymore r48? The only one properly still working is Philip Green and he doesn't even do that much. There are so many businessmen in the UK in high-power positions running major companies, yet you're all just throwing out some celebrity names.

it's obviously not Richard Branson and they said the guy is merely a Millionaire.

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Oh dear, I gave him an extra L in his name. He can use it for loser. He gives me the creeps.

LOL at how many of us got it right. Such an obvious turd and boil on the face of humanity.

can the "sir" be taken away from him? what a fucking disgrace but I'm sure they are all like this behind closed doors.

I thought he lost his Knighthood?

He should’ve had his knighthood revoked after the BHS fiasco but somehow managed to keep it. Surely, this has to be final nail in the coffin?

I came here to say it was Philip Green but I was an hour late to the party. Not shocking at all, yet still creepy.

Ho! His daughter is married to Hot Felon or whatever his nickname is. That Daily Fail link also has a list of current injunctions. "Olive Oil Bath Threesome" sounds fun.

Run like the wind, Hot Felon, run like the wind!

R59 Less so when you realise it'd be a threesome with Elton John and David Furnish

[quote] Theresa May has already indicated that she plans to restrict the use of NDAs to prevent abuse, but Parliament has yet to consider changes to the law and campaigners are urging the Prime Minister to act now.

We need to do this, too. The law is being weaponized by rich people against poor people and that ain’t “liberty and justice for all.”

What do I win r52? Can I have his stuff?

He spenk 500k for nothing LOL.

R52 Id like all of Greens money & assets. None of his debts or lawsuits.

And I want to fuck his SIL, The Hot Felon.

Please arrange, post haste. My new jet is burning fuel as I type.

£500,000 in legal fees to keep a story secret, and you end up on the front page of every newspaper instead

Do any of our resident DL Brits know the IDs of the others still under orders?

Thank you to Lord Hain for revealing it was Green. Of course, now MPs are questioning the legality of him doing so when they should acknowledge that toads like Green, he being a particularly slimy example., repeatedly use their wealth, some of it certainly ill gotten, to regularly shield their greed and dishonesty from the law, the press and the lowly public.

He should have been stripped of his knighthood when he caused hundreds of job losses and stole working peoples’ pensions. If he isn’t now it puts into question any integrity and simple decency the establishment lays claim to.

But, really, if nothing happens apart from bad press I wouldn’t be surprised.

Also, fuck Kate Moss for hanging out with him. So radical.

R66, it’s beautiful, isn’t it?