Caporegime
Football Focus and final score both cancelled completely now 
BBC vs Lineker
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Soldato
Hopefully the bbc stop wasting money on them permanently,Football Focus and final score both cancelled completely now
Any news on 5 live
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Caporegime
The BBC has been massively left leaning for a long time now. Was that impartial? You are very unlikely to have someone at the top of any organisation who is politically agnostic.
If they have broken his contract then they will be in trouble and it will indeed have been a very bad move and I wouldn't be surprised if heads roll. I would be somewhat surprised if they did this on a whim without legal advice but who knows.
Soldato
Thing is he’s not suspended they’ve just ‘stood him down’ from presenting MOTD while they discuss his social media use. I presume he’s still being fully paid so I’d imagine up till now they’ve done nothing wrong.
What they do next on the other hand needs to be very carefully thought out!
What they do next on the other hand needs to be very carefully thought out!
Soldato
Probably needs a thorough investigation with lord somebody or other writing a huge report at the end of it.
The bloke is not exactly Martin Luther King is he.
It’s a farce.
There are countless examples of BBC presenters making political statements. Andrew Neil, Lord Sugar, senior people at the BBC are ex-Tories etc.
The impartiality angle has no credence whatsoever. It’s an excuse.
If Lineker had said he agreed with the immigration plans, this wouldn’t have happened. The government would have been delighted.
There are countless examples of BBC presenters making political statements. Andrew Neil, Lord Sugar, senior people at the BBC are ex-Tories etc.
The impartiality angle has no credence whatsoever. It’s an excuse.
If Lineker had said he agreed with the immigration plans, this wouldn’t have happened. The government would have been delighted.
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From the standpoint of someone who doesn’t care one way or the other, this whole thing is hilarious.
The BBC is a tory run network, those previous examples being no issue (and prior with Clarkson etc.) isn't a surprise
It really isn't, not by any reality-based measure, but whatever.
There's a world of difference between politically agnostic and personally donating hundreds of thousands of pounds to a political party, fixing up favours for a sitting prime minister, and then being appointed to chair the BBC by the person and party you've doing favours for. It's simply corruption. Brazen, and in plain sight, but corruption nonetheless.
Caporegime
Go on...
Soldato
Absolutely. Lineker really isn't doing himself any favours. He claims he's giving a voice to those who don't have one. Who asked him to be their voice and champion? Does he really believe he has power to sway immigration policy?
Why is it rubbish? I'll break it down for you, not that it'll do any good as you seem a tad emotional.
1) Linkeker knows tweeting such hyperbole will land him in hot water. A complaint against him not adhering to impartiality standards was upheld previously by the BBC ECU, and that Tweet was less severe than this one. It's safe to say it's not news to him that continuing to comment on political matters is not looked on favourably by the BBC.
2) He does have a choice to find employment with another organisation that has no requirement for impartiality, should he feel the need to voice his political stance.
Heck, the distasteful Andy Gray and Richard Keys found employment in sports commentary/punditry after they left Sky. Linkeker won't have any issues.
By what measure is the BBC left leaning then? The news division? Or is it the natural history output? Sports? Do Labour politicians get more airtime? Is the radio output biased? Question Time got the wrong panels? Antiques roadshow?
Maybe the mythical leftie bias manifests itself somewhere in the BBCs output that I don't consume? If so, where?
Caporegime
To be fair, I was talking more about the entertainment side of things. I would have said the news reporting is far more balanced. Apologies for not being specific.
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Soldato
Agreed! I couldn't care less whether Lineker comes back or not to be honest (and come on he'll show up at Amazon/TNT/Sky before you can say Walkers crisps so he won't care) but the whole **** show it's stirring up is entertaining!
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There's a difference between saying something political and calling the incumbent government Nazis.
He implied some of the language was similar to language used by the early Nazi party - which it is.
A holocaust survivor confronted Suella Braverman about it a couple of months ago and she refused to apologise.
He didn’t imply it, he outright said it. I don’t know if the language is similar or not but I can’t believe it would be.
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Soldato
Citation required that he called the incumbent government Nazis.
Aaaaaanyway...obligatory banter content
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