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Spicerack - // Wonder did Andy have an emergency.
He never returned to explain the wider impications. //
No - just up to my neck in work!!
By 'wider implications', I meant the implications on a number of fronts.
First and most important, I believe this sends out a message that, just because you have married into royalty, it does not make you immune from cricitism, and it absolutely does not giveyou the right to use your power to silence such criticsm.
Secondly, there are implications for ITV, who should never have bowed to such insidious pressure in the first place, and having done so, it should own up to its moral cowardice and return Mr Morgan to his position, for which he is still being paid, while they dither about what to do next.
Now they can't fire him, and he is not going to resign, so they are painted into a corner by their venal cow-towing, and will have to find a face-saving way out - good luck with that!
And finally, this is a victory for free speech.
Mr Morgan is entitled to his opinion, indeed he is, or was at least, paid to express it - he is still being paid, just gagged by moral cowardice.
But just because a view is contrary, or may be unpopular, does not mean that it should be stifled.
We shall see where this goes - but the discussions at ITV HQ must be 'interesting' to say the very least.