The BBC | Tim Davie resigns as Director General over Trump documentary edit (p 187)

[MCFC1993]

BBC is becoming/has become a tory mouth piece.

I'd like to think nobody of any decent standing in the football presenting world will step into the temporary role.

 

[Summerbuzz]

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Not sure why he doesn't quit. He would have his pick of Sky, Amazon or BT and all three would pay him better.

My TV licence is not being renewed. Until the public service broadcaster realises its job is to question government and not kowtow to it they can do one.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

These were fine though.

Lineker has only stepped aside for the moment. But if he does get the boot, Sugar will probably follow soon after. Andrew Neil would’ve gone too had he done so already.

 

[Don Karleone]

Lineker has only stepped aside for the moment. But if he does get the boot, Sugar will probably follow soon after. Andrew Neil would’ve gone too had he done so already.

If he had any sense, he'd quit. There was nothing wrong with what he said and I say that as someone who thinks he's a twat.

 

[joe123]

With the bloke loaning Boris money and now this, difficult to argue that the beeb isn't a Tory tool. Along with the many other Tory tools in this life.

 

[argyle]

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Good to see the back of him, horrible bastard.

Nothing off limits to save his own adulterous arse.

 

[TinFoilHat]

BBC News department needs fucking off pronto.

 

[Mycenae]

And yet there are people who will say the BBC is "woke"

This is political correctness gone mad, we are not even allowed to talk about climate change anymore without being cancelled /s

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

The worst thing about all this is, that if Lineker had said: “sending migrants to Rwanda and dehumanising these people is, in reality, the only thing that will work”, he’d not only still be presenting MOTD but would likely be up for a knighthood. It’s getting a bit serious now.

 

[argyle]

The BBC stopping an Attenborough documentary episode because facts are now a left wing conspiracy.

The Tories have completely lost the plot.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

This could get ugly.

 

[hcblue95]

Shocking that in the same day the bbc have censored David Attenborough and Gary Lineker.

The MOTD pundits should all back Lineker and refuse to present.

 

[argyle]

And yet there are people who will say the BBC is "woke"

This is political correctness gone mad, we are not even allowed to talk about climate change anymore without being cancelled /s

The ring wing press and the Tories have done what Fox News and the Republicans did in America. They called anyone who isn't a far right conservative as left wing, far left, woke/pc gone mad, etc.

As such they removed anyone who was reasonable at the top of the BBC and filled it with entrenched Conservatives - even Conservative donors.

The conservatives claim they're against cancel culture and they hate snowflakes... yet here they are cancelling people and getting offended over something they don't want to hear.

 

[MCFC1993]

Pretty scary now, quite clear the tories are turning it into a state media channel with no dissenting voices.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

The worst thing about all this is, that if Lineker had said: “sending migrants to Rwanda and dehumanising these people is, in reality, the only thing that will work”, he’d not only still be presenting MOTD but would likely be up for a knighthood. It’s getting a bit serious now.

I do hate how people trivialise the Nazis to make some sort of point?

Akin to comparing your local butcher with Himmler.

It will always insult millions of people.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Ugly?
Either Lineker will stand down or leave.
I agree with his sentiments but it’s what we can expect from this shit show of a government we have running scared of any criticism.

 

[argyle]

I do hate how people trivialise the Nazis to make some sort of point?

Akin to comparing your local butcher with Himmler.

It will always insult millions of people.

He didn't directly compare the conservatives to Nazi's.

He said their language used about migrants was reminiscent.

Bravermans language this week certainly was.

 

[MarsLlama]

Cutting out a man's tongue doesn't prove him a liar, it tells the world you're scared of what he might say.

If the tories believed they were doing the right thing for the country then they'd let Lineker say what he wants.