The tedious twat Lineker, it seems that his co-presenters are also walking off in solidarity.
Match of the Day is in chaos tonight after taking Gary Lineker off air – with fellow hosts Ian Wright and Alan Shearer staging a walkout in solidarity
Lineker, 62, will not present Match of the Day this weekend after the BBC decided his tweet comparing the Home Office’s immigration policy to Nazi Germany breached impartiality rules – but he has been roundly supported by colleagues.
If you work for the BBC, you accept that there are limits on what you can do or say. Quite apart from the content of the tweet demonstrating rampant ignorance of history, it was political and the BBC is bound by its Royal Charter to remain apolitical. I realise that Lineker is not the sharpest tool in the box (although he is a tool), but even he knows this. What we are seeing here is a temper tantrum and the best thing to do – if you want to watch the football – is tune into a rival programme. Problem solved. If people behave like children, treat hem like children. And, no, this is not a free speech issue, it’s a contractual one.
Is it too much to hope for that the BBC will change the locks and pretend to be out once Lineker gets over his tantrum?
Or even have 3 tubs of lard and a chat bot present the football?
*orders even bigger box of popcorn*
Let’s see what diversity hire takes his place. I guarantee it will be someone darker than “mixed-race” Lineker.
Oh noes what will the supporters of nancy ball do. If they had any sense they’d stop paying the tv license and do something useful.
The Home Office has an immigration policy?
Yes, it’s ‘let anyone who wants to come here come in while talking tough on what you might possibly do in the future. When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.’
It seems to me that Lineker is typical of his tribe… mass immigration for everyone, except his overtly racist and super-discriminatory spiritual homeland of Israel. It would be a much shorter journey for most of the dross currently washing up on the bonnie shores of England.
This has a ring of truth:
https://order-order.com/2023/03/10/linekers-bbc-defiance-could-be-about-swerving-his-5-million-tax-bill/
If the BBC wants someone to do his job, I’m willing to try talking about football on TV for them (not that I like men’s football, but I’d give it a go). I’d do it for just half a million a year too, so they’d save quite a bit
I detest football with every fibre of my being and know nothing about it other than it involves kicking a ball about, but I’m sure I could talk unadulterated bollocks about it for that money.
Probably. Lineker invariably does.
@alexander the mediocre. Perhaps if you weren’t so mediocre you’d realise that Lineker was anti Israeli rather than pro , but perhaps you can’t let the opportunity for some anti semitism to pass you by.
Disagreeing with a Jew is anti-semitism now?
If you hadn’t noticed, his actions do not match his words. I suppose noticing that would be anti-semitic too?
Spotted elsewhere: “Presumably all those who are supporting Lineker likening the current government to the Nazis were also supporting MP Andrew Bridgen when he compared the vaccines to the Holocaust?”
As I noted in response, there is, in fact, a difference: MPs are paid to voice their political opinions; BBC employees are paid not to.
This seems to be something that people are struggling with. It isn’t a free speech issue, it’s a contractual one. His employer has a social media policy. He is not allowed to spout off on political issues. That restriction comes with the job. He chose that job and the restrictions that go with it. He isn’t being cancelled and he isn’t being silenced. He just thought he was too big to have to follow the rules he signed up to and is finding out that he isn’t.
One particularly nasty aspect of the Holocaust was that medical experiments were performed on unwilling victims. For that reason there is a valid comparison between that and coercing people into taking a largely untested medication. Had the Covid shot actually worked like a conventional vaccine there may have been some justification for that. If an effective vaccine had been available there wouldn’t have been any need, people would have taken it if it had been proven to be effective.
@mediocre – what on earth makes you think he’s Jewish? mediocre or just an idiot ?
Probably the fact that he’s Jewish, like his mother, which makes his Nazi comparisons all the more odious.
Btw, resorting to personal abuse is usually a sign a person has no valid points to make and has no idea what they are talking about.
This is not the right (not far right) forum for this discussion and I will not impose on our host’s good grace by continuing it. Suffice it to say that Lineker is a hypocrite of the highest order, one evidence of such is his insistence that the average Joe pay for all and sundry to come to live in the UK whilst doing his darndest, as a multi millionaire, to avoid paying his taxes, like the rest of us, by creating artificial systems in an attempt to claim he is not employed by the BBC.
I’m presuming that his huge pay packet has to do with the number of viewers that his telly program pulls in. I seem to recall that this was how it worked on radio. I suspect that fans tune in to MOTD for the football and don’t really care who the presenters are, this may become apparent quite soon. On another thread someone commented that he only tunes in when the match starts so that he doesn’t have to listen to them.