June 5, 201510 yr Author comment_210552 Kay Burley is such a bitch, no wonder Frank Partridge smacked her one.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210554 Sky News have a caption up saying: "MERLIN ENTERTAINMENTS CHIEF EXEC: SAFETY PROCEDURES CLEARLY "WEREN'T ADEQUATE" ON THE SMILER" which is not what Varney said at all. That is a terrible thing to say.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210555 This Sky news interview is awful. This woman is a complete bitch. Nick Varney is doing very well. She is being absolutely ridiculous, what a joke. Merlin should refuse to do any work with Sky news ever again. How stupid is this woman on the news?
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210556 The interviewer on Sky News is absolutely clueless. Absolutely horrible woman, think how much stress Nick Varney is in at the moment, he doesn't need some stupid woman who thinks she knows more than him about rides. Absolutely disgusting attitude.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210557 Should have gone with the BBC. She's like this though, she doesn't have very much respect in the industry thankfully. Just another Murdoch mouth-piece.
June 5, 201510 yr Author comment_210559 How stupid is this woman on the news?Very, she's an attention whore who got punched in the face by a colleague because he got so angry with her a few years ago.Sky have quiet a reputation for being like this, don't forget they accused someone of murder on live TV only to find later he was 100% innocent and 100 miles away at the time, they also hounded a twitter user, stalking her to the point that she topped herself, he did very well to say calm with her, should have gone to the BBC instead.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210560 I am asking Sky News how I can officially complain about her. She was scare mongering, she was overly aggressive, she didn't listen and had her own agenda.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210561 I have so much anger from that woman, she is really trying to rip them apart when merlin are just doing the best possible thing Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210562 Very, she's an attention whore who got punched in the face by a colleague because he got so angry with her a few yeas ago. I'm not surprised, she seems like a vile woman going from that interview.
June 5, 201510 yr Author comment_210563 I'm not surprised, she seems like a vile woman going from that interview. Let's just say she is not well liked within the industry, including colleagues.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210564 She also blatantly ignored everything that he said. I do applaud him for not losing it with her though. I doubt I could have made it that far through an interview without just telling her to shut up.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210565 Just watched the whole thing and like already said, that women was horrible. Ignoring what he was saying, and kept saying the same thing. Felt sorry for Varney in that situation, but he did a good job.
June 5, 201510 yr Author comment_210566 Yeah, I know of people who won't do interviews with her anymore, her reputation precedes her that much nowadays. It's not just her though, the entire Sky operation is pretty much hated by the people they work with, they all have the same attitude.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210567 I have to say, Ive just watched that interview and I feel throughly sorry for Mr Varney having to interview with her. Every time he tried to explain something she cut him off and made it impossible for him to acutally explain everything that is going on and why things are being put in place. He handled that extremely well.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210568 If you ignore all the interrupting and repeating that she forces him to do it was handled very well. They seem to have a good indication of what happened and can easily implement ways of preventing the same kind of incident across the other rides. I expect Alton Towers will be open again soon and that once the HSE investigation is complete and we know for sure what happened we can expect the return of The Smiler after any needed changes are made however long that may take. Though it's reputation will be scarred for a long time.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210573 Kay Burley is such a bitch, no wonder Frank Partridge smacked her one. That's bang out of order to say... Frank and Kay had an argument at an office party about who should have the last word on some program they were doing, he lost his temper and slapped her. Whether or not Kay Burley is a bitch on or off-air, or is a difficult interviewer is still not a reason to be slapped and doesn't make her deserving of it, and what you said, Ian-S is insensitive.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210575 Following the interview I have emailed Nick Varney praising him for being a great representative for the theme park industry during this rubbish time. I know it is the media's job to scaremonger, get attention and exaggerate, but the interviewer seemed to come from the point of view that any ride that takes the tiniest, minimalised risk in order to entertain millions of people should be shut down. This woman tried to trash the industry I grew up with and that I know so many people enjoy. That kind of interviewing will only perpetuate the misinformation and totally unfounded Claim Culture that unfortunately surrounds theme parks. I'm not angry because its what I expect from Sky News, but it's so irritating and undermining to be honest.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210576 What an disgusting interview.... She has clearly no idea of all the health and safety procedures which are already in place on rides like that. Adding a further one (also if maybe unnecessary as the ones in place should be enough) just shows the professional side of the parks. Stating that the rides would have been unsafe all the time is just wrong and after what happened disgusting to say. What bothered me even more is that she was just rude and also filled the whole time of the interview with the same comments instead of asking more relevant questions and fill the interview with interesting facts.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210578 That interview is vile. This happens so frequently, but people still inexplicably return to view Sky. I don't get it. So, we still have no idea what happened, mostly because that useless journalist wouldn't lit him tell us.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210579 What does "extra safety protocols" mean though? Surely it's not running the coasters permanently on reduced capacity? Or waiting to dispatch until after the previous car has passed the first set of brakes? That would be beyond dire.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210580 I have a real respect and admiration for Nick Varney having watched that. Daft interviewer, kept going round in circles and not listening to the answers. I know NV is paid handsomely, but he's a human like the rest of us, had had a week from hell, and is trying to balance the support to the injured guests and handling the HSE investigations. To keep his composure is a sign of a really gifted person. I get the feeling that among the enthusiast community, there is a general core of support, sympathy and understanding for Merlin. And a nice touch from electricBill to drop a note of support.
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210582 I know I'm normally very against a lot of Merlin's decisions and the way they run the place. However they way they are handling this is very well. Not sure why Varney agreed to have an interview with sky but he did handle it very well. The media will always exaggerate and ask difficult questions(especially when that person has no knowledge of he subject and won't accept any answer than the one they are looking for).
June 5, 201510 yr comment_210583 What does "extra safety protocols" mean though? Surely it's not running the coasters permanently on reduced capacity? Or waiting to dispatch until after the previous car has passed the first set of brakes? That would be beyond dire. From the circumstances of The Smiler crash I would guess it is more to do with the evacuation and response to breakdown/valleying incidents than it is to general day to day operating of the ride itself.
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