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

Good grief, there's some no-mark first election Conservatives on backing the BBC. That he opposed the taking the knee is hardly a surprise, and he's trotting out the govt numbers and not addressing the situation.

Any sane MP would be not going near this, so they must have called everyone they could to get one in.
 
sir baconface said:
No. There would have been a seismic uproar from the left. And well you know it.

He fronts a supposedly impartial institution and shouldn’t be making inflammatory and overtly political comments full stop.
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Like there was when Sugar said Mick Lynch was a power hungry sled publicist or when he tile everyone to vote Johnson to stop Corbin?
 
balotelli's back pocket said:
The BBC are talking bollocks. Alan Sugar has, over the last few years, told people to vote Tory, posted racist memes and attacked Mick Lynch and the strikers, and last I checked he's still doing The Apprentice.
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He used to be Labour, funny old pickle is the TV aerial salesman.
 
This whole thing is bullshit. Alan Sugar wasn’t sacked for slagging off Mick Lynch or Jeremy Corbyn. So you can only present on the BBC if you suck up to the government now?

Free speech goes both ways. You can’t complain about Le Tissier being sacked but then call for Lineker’s head. And speaking as a Jew, I want Braverman to take the Holocaust out of her fucking mouth. An actual Holocaust survivor told her the language she used reminded him of the Nazis and she didn’t care.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Gary Lineker is "stepping back from Match of the Day", says the BBC

We have said that we consider his recent social media activity to be a breach of our guidelines. The BBC has decided that he will step back from presenting MOTD until we've got an agreed and clear position on his use of social media"

Seems like the comparison with the 1930’s isn’t so far fetched after all.…
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If the next time he fronts MANUreMotD and he is required to wear a badge à la 1930s could it be this one?

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mdj0520 said:
Saying there is similarity in rhetoric from the early 1930s isn't the same thing as saying "they're Nazis" or belittling the horrors of the Holocaust. The initial populist rhetoric the Nazi party used in the early 30s to get elected is what he is comparing the wording of the Tory policy to.
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Yeah, and I'm sure that's what the smug twat was thinking when he said it. My arse.
 
TV Licence is trending on twitter.

Oh the laughs just keep on coming! Defund the BBC just gained some unexpected allies.
 
So everyone who wants Lineker sacked was fine with Le Tissier being sacked? Or other people posting right-wing propaganda? Should Alan Sugar lose his job or is he OK because he’s not left-wing?

Free speech only goes one way, it seems. I thought cancelling people was a bad thing but it looks like it’s OK now.
 
FightLikeAGirl said:
So everyone who wants Lineker sacked was fine with Le Tissier being sacked? Or other people posting right-wing propaganda?

Free speech only goes one way, it seems. I thought cancelling people was a bad thing but it looks like it’s OK now.
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Does that mean admitting cancelling the other people now wasn't okay? Is cancelling anyone for any views whatsoever, supportive or not, now not okay?

Where are we on the spectrum of morality, it appears to keep changing.
 
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