might actually watch it for a change as it will likely be an improvement going forward should be a good salary saving for the bbc
What everyone who doesn’t want to simply say ‘I back the Tories on this one’ is saying. It’s not saving his excessive salary though, because he’s not sacked and will be back. He just doesn’t have to do anything for it this week.
Massive round of applause for all of the bright sparks out there who need to add their two pence but can’t do any better than ‘MotD is **** anyway’.
Oh dear, they have bitten off more they can chew this time, looking forward to the "There is only one Gary Lineker" chants today. Who would have thought the hero we needed at this time was Gary Lineker. All they have done is turned the spotlight onto themselves. Dont **** with the football community. The BBC will always be a government mouthpiece no matter who is in charge due to who controls the purse strings, I hope this isnt turned into a way to bash the BBC as the people at the top dont represent the workers there. I see it the same as people bashing our club for all the sackings when it is the people at the top. Loving the way people are backing Lineker and Attenborough. Where there is darkness let there be light.
is it i agree with the crisp munching twunt i disagree with the way he said it and amazed that so many people take notice motd is **** though
@reg_varney will be pleased - Football Focus replaced by Bargain Hunt. Radio 5 Live coverage now in danger.
I might look forward to The Repair Shop instead of Final Score but won't get back from Loftus Road in time. Meanwhile, Dion "Homes Under The Hammer" Dublin has pulled out of Radio 5 this afternoon.
How is it you disagree with how he said it? Do you mean he shouldn’t voice his opinions at all or simply find a better way than bringing up Nazi Germany rhetoric, which I agree isn’t always helpful. But you know the reason why so many take notice. Tory Central Office and its newspapers went on full scale manoeuvres on this to take attention away from the Government’s failures and extremist language. They pumped away until the BBC suspended him. Now it’s becoming a crisis. Once more, divisive Tory politics splits the nation. And what a failure this is. A small boat problem, that barely existed before we left the EU, conjured up from nowhere because the UK Government wanted to look tough. It could have set up post Brexit agreements, safe routes and processing centres in France years ago. Instead it chose increasingly aggressive rhetoric and the shameful Rwanda plan.
As Gary Lineker is so happy to use his “ political voice “ so often, maybe he should stand for MP in one of the Leicester constituencies!
So you can only justifiably voice opinions if you are willing to enter politics? Strange point of view.
Informative thread on the BBC’s editorial guidelines, quoted by the many, read by the few. https://twitter.com/andybell2000/status/1634208918564904962?s=46&t=oqOMSJXE_g7J5C7kNPG9LA
Do you Lineker fanboys actually think that he cares ? Or is it more likely that his political twittering is about building a case against HMRC and his current £4.9M tax dispute ? .
I’m not a Lineker fanboy and think he is paid too much. What is clear though, is that the BBC is being pressurised by the Government to suppress criticism of it. Any right minded person would object to that. Let them criticise him back all they like, but pushing this campaign to have him sacked through the stooges they planted, Boris’s loan pal and Tim Davie the DG is rank. Frankly suggests Lineker’s criticism was too tame. As for the second bit, that sounds highly improbable. How would it help him? Liberals and socialists are big on people paying tax. But as for him really caring, why not? Why can’t he care as much as you or me?
It's like this Moose . Put aside his tax issues . Who in their right mind would encourage people to undertake a dangerous crossing across the channel.? Just to jump a queue.
Snap taken by Greater Manchester FLAF (Football Lads and Lasses Againsts Fascism) used by Janey Godley for lols.
Anyway if you Google 3rd one down The Guardian from 2021 says : Gary Linekers political tweets could help him save £4.9 m in tax ...... Anywho... Lovely bloke ...says such nice stuff on twitter....
Interesting how the BBC viewed a complaint about the contents of freelancer Chris Packham's socials just a couple of years ago... I wonder why the tory donor and former PM loan organiser led BBC are responding differently to the complaint about Lineker?
No one would. That’s why everyone but the Tories have been pushing for safe routes and processing in France. So those genuine refugees, which is most of them, can make it safely. Your phrase to ‘just to jump a queue’ is odd applied to anyone fleeing persecution. And also there is no queue. The Tories won’t allow one to be set up.
I absolutely agree with this but I cannot give one inch of compassion for a smug multi millionaire who is taking everyone for a fool for his own ends .
This may have been lost in the exchange "Safe routes " Myself and @Moose are on the same page with this one
You don’t have to. It’s the principle that is important. And if you are angry about people at risk in small boats, direct that at the architects. The Tories who failed to seek an agreement post-Brexit, who are so obsessed by suppressing immigration they wouldn’t set up safe routes. Those B’stards are using your reasonable scepticism of Lineker for their own ends.
I fully support the BBC in this Line-acre matter. It's time to crack down hard on these left liberals with their woke agenda! Fire every last man jack and woman who dares to criticise our dear leaders, that'd be my solution! Hang 'em, then flog 'em, then hang 'em again! String 'em up! It's the only language these commies understand! Disband the BBC sports department and let's never mention so-called 'sport' again! Then replace EVERY piece of BBC sports programming with repeats of Bargain Hunt like yesterday. Perhaps we could even have a weekly 2 hour special 'Bargain Hunt of the Week' episode on a Saturday evening, with slow motion analysis and punditry discussing the week's purchases and sales. It would be heaven.
If anyone is in any doubt how thin the grounds were for taking action against Lineker, this tweet went completely without censure.
I was just discussing this with Mrs K. I don’t think it’s the same, not least because Sugar is in the Lords. The issue, if there is one, is whether they should have kept him on once he was made a peer.
Why should someone who is a Lord have greater rights to self-expression at the BBC than others? Would it be ok if Gary Lineker was also a Lib Dem councillor?
Must admit I'm mystified by the reasoning here Keighley. What difference does it make Sugar being in the lords? Could I also ask you and the wife, if Lineker had expressed full and whole hearted support for the government's immigration policies, do you think the same would have happened to him?
Of course it makes a difference, Sugar has a publicly-funded political role. If the BBC accepted that that was OK, they were effectively accepting that he would make political statements in connection with that role. The question, to my mind, is whether they should have kept him as a “presenter” once he became a peer. In answer to the last sentences: Moose, yes, if Lineker was a councillor that would change matters and make the BBC’s action even less justifiable than it already is; and Clive: of course it wouldn’t. The Beeb is terrified about losing the licence fee and being commercialised by the Tories.
To be clear, I think both should have been allowed to say what they want but looking at this purely from the BBC’s perspective I think the cases are distinguishable, albeit only because the BBC left itself open to this by keeping Sugar on when he became a peer.
