Beeb Gags Lineker

[CEB]

Barney Ronay has written the best take on it;
https://www.theguardian.com/football/bl ... ay-comment

[Dunners]

I only just learnt of the Attenborough thing. Jesus f*cking Christ! That's so much worse than Lineker.

What is the Attenborough thing, please

[faldO]

[Dunners]

This may be an improvement.

[EastDerehamO]

Great re no presenters, am I the only one thinking that'll save some licence fee payers money?

[The Mindsweep]

I would have loved it if they took the bait

[ComeOnYouOs]

I would think Gary Lineker would consider sueing the BBC . If this thing isn't solved quickly.
The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
Alan Sugar has tweeted vile political tweets, yet he has not been thrown off the channel. There are others too
GL was spot on with his comparison to the German rhetoric from 1930s.
The fascists are taking over

[The Mindsweep]

I think Dulcet Dave has a free day tomorrow

[Give it to Jabo]

BBC Management: your decision has gone down well. Are you pleased with your decision?

[OyinbO]

I think Dulcet Dave has a free day tomorrow

He wouldn’t scab. But you know who would.

[spen666]

I would think Gary Lineker would consider sueing the BBC . If this thing isn't solved quickly.
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Sue them for what?

Enforcing the terms of his engagement with the BBC?

[Type high]

We will see if his principles outweigh the financial reward he takes from the licence payers.

Sky waiting in the wings

[Type high]

Just shows how far we've gone as a country that, after sobbing about how mean it is that anyone would make comparisons between your policies and 1930s Germany, your immediate response is to do things you'd probably have seen in 1930s Germany and a large chunk of the population will lap it up.

Lineker is a sport presenter and should stick to it, If he wants to dabble in politics, put himself up for election, see how far he gets with that, dissapear out of sight hopefully

[Type high]

Shearer out aswell now. I wonder who'll scab?

They'll get some eejit .

You putting yourself up for it then

[Type high]

To be fair the Tories are playing a good game here. Stoking the culture wars is all they have left before the next election and the left wing, if you look on Twitter etc seem to be falling for it. It looks like brexit on Social media all over again and the only way the Tories can survive is to continue to turn this up into 2024. Watch the gap between Labour and the Tories start to close as the liberal elites vs the people is game on again. It’s just got interesting!

Wish I could feel as enthused as you about such morally-bankrupt c*ntery.

Why the bad language on a public forum

[George M]

Great re no presenters, am I the only one thinking that'll save some licence fee payers money?

No , but I’m thinking Match of the day has always been about football. It shouldn’t be about the presenters. They come and go. There will always be replacements who will present it in a better way.

[The Reverend]

Just shows how far we've gone as a country that, after sobbing about how mean it is that anyone would make comparisons between your policies and 1930s Germany, your immediate response is to do things you'd probably have seen in 1930s Germany and a large chunk of the population will lap it up.

Lineker is a sport presenter and should stick to it, If he wants to dabble in politics, put himself up for election, see how far he gets with that, dissapear out of sight hopefully

So unless you work directly in politics as a politician you aren’t allowed to have an opinion on politics?

Does the same rule apply to football? Unless you’re a professional football player/coach you can’t have an opinion on a football match?

[Rich Tea Wellin]

Proper funny how the right wing mob on here cry when they feel like one of them or one of their own is getting cancelled by ‘snowflake wokies’ but when someone says something that goes against their morally bankrupt views it’s all ‘stick to sports mate’. Hypocrites.

[Long slender neck]

So are we living in 2020's Nazi Britain?

Is this 1-0 to the lefties or right wing fascists?

[Story of O]

The BBC did not mind when Lineker and other presenters were making political comments at the World Cup. And I believe the Chairman of the BBC makes donations to the Tories, not very impartial

[Highwood Man]

Looking forward to watching MOTD without any presenters. Just concentrate on the football and forget about all the meaningless claptrap.

[Long slender neck]

Bbc running scared of the govt but needn't be.

Would like to see it without comms, like the analysis though.

[Beradogs]

Proper funny how the right wing mob on here cry when they feel like one of them or one of their own is getting cancelled by ‘snowflake wokies’ but when someone says something that goes against their morally bankrupt views it’s all ‘stick to sports mate’. Hypocrites.

Sure. If Lineker had said we need to turn around the boats and drag them back to France do you think his fellow pundits would have walked out in sympathy? Do you think the BBC would have only given him a suspension. Right wing views = instant cancellation. Left wing views. Oh poor Gary.

[CEB]

Proper funny how the right wing mob on here cry when they feel like one of them or one of their own is getting cancelled by ‘snowflake wokies’ but when someone says something that goes against their morally bankrupt views it’s all ‘stick to sports mate’. Hypocrites.

Sure. If Lineker had said we need to turn around the boats and drag them back to France do you think his fellow pundits would have walked out in sympathy? Do you think the BBC would have only given him a suspension. Right wing views = instant cancellation. Left wing views. Oh poor Gary.

Observing - accurately - that the governments language is similar to that of 1930s Germany is not an equivalent or opposite to demanding that we send/drag every refugee back.

The thing about “cancel culture” is it’s not as simple as “left wing cancels people doing right wing stuff, right wing does the opposite”; it’s about organisations either second guessing public mood based on perception of pressure from outraged public - in this instance it’s been seized upon by the government as a dead cat strategy.

[Beradogs]

No. Observing that it’s like 1930’s Germany is clearly ridiculous while dragging economic migrants back from whence they came is a policy that has already been enacted in Australia.