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

The bbc, daily mail and tory party are just as one.

As someone who lives in ramsgate and see's the boats almost daily on local news. I also know a few lifeboat people, they know on calm days like today they could get a shout. So I have my views regarding this.

There are lots of local people who are very anti the small illegal boots. They want it stopped and sending back. This area is a run down old seaside town. Litter, graffiti, smell of dope hangs over the town and you dont hear English spoken much. This is the place were Nigel Farage nearly got in as MP, he lost to a tory who quit Nigel Farage party !.

They are small groups in thanet that will fight the system, they stopped the boat people from being housed in the run down manston airport ex RAF builds which have been empty for decades.
This area has been and still is a tory stronghold has been since the year dot.

The point is the bbc, daily mail and the torys will still have lots of support in areas like this. This is another ramble of mine I guess the point I'm trying to say is lots will disagree with free speech. I would say around 90% around here agree with the bbc actions.

I dont think lineker spoke out of turn, it's called free speech. I dont thinking was offensive.

Dont know if any of this makes sence !
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Yeah, I wasn’t due to be on MOTD tonight either, but I’ve decided to withdraw in solidarity too.
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*lol* I wasn't due to appear tonight but I have deleted my automatic recording in solidarity....


I'm actually wavering at the moment as I am nosy enough to want to see how it goes!! Does this make me a scab? ;-)
 
Eccles Blue said:
*lol* I wasn't due to appear tonight but I have deleted my automatic recording in solidarity....


I'm actually wavering at the moment as I am nosy enough to want to see how it goes!! Does this make me a scab? ;-)
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No, but it definitely makes you a tool of the military industrial complex :-)
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
No, but it definitely makes you a tool of the military industrial complex :-)
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Then my wavering has departed and I will not record it. I've also had to delete my automatic recording of Football Focus as well now after reading the Alex Scott has said she won't appear.

It's confusing my recording device something shocking all this!!!
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Are you sure you know what happened in 1930s Germany. I'm not sure you do judging by that statement, in all fairness.
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Funnily enough, I was going to ask the same of you earlier, but held off as it felt a bit dickish. Either that or I felt you were deliberately selective.

But do bear in mind your post came on the back of a few others claiming it was a comparison to the holocaust, so I partly thought that's what you were also implying, in that context.

A decade is a long time and a lot happened, you and I seem to be focusing on the opposite ends. I take from his tweet, given it is a comment on the language used, the early part of it all, and the mood that language brought about. Either way, I maintain my opinion that his comparison is appropriate, and it is a reach and semantics to argue he is equating the government to the acts comitted by the nazis.

Which is exactly the reach Patel made, to put the BBC under pressure to stop being impartial.
 
bowp said:
It really annoys me comparing Alan Sugar to Linekar. One works for the BBC one doesn't, a clue in case you can't guess Sugar works for Freemantle who make the Apprentice and sell it to the BBC. They could just as easily decide to sell it to channel 4 (as the makers of the Great British Bake Off did).
To expect people with no contractual relationship with the BBC to be required to follow impartiality rules because they are on a programme broadcast by the BBC is for the birds. I mean Sully: Miracle on the Hudson is on BBC1 on Tuesday does that mean Tom Hanks should be forced to comply with impartiality ru
les?
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You really need to research before you post - I have added below the BBC impartiality rule - and Sugar is associated with the BBC - also Lineker is a freelancer employed via a 3rd party agency much as you describe Sugar is so therefore the two are in exact parallel - its just what has happened to one has crippled the BBC football coverage and will hasten its decline the other posts what he wants butis anti Left so gets a free pass

Do the BBC's impartiality guidelines apply to Lineker?

Lineker is a freelance broadcaster for the BBC, not a permanent member of staff, and is not responsible for news or political content, so does not need to adhere to the same rules on impartiality.

His twitter remarks were made on his personal account, which does not include an official link to the BBC or MOTD in his bio.

However, BBC guidelines also note that figures that are “clearly identified with the BBC” are expected to behave appropriately and “in ways that are consistent with the BBC’s editorial values and policies.”

Mr Sambrook told PA: “For a sports presenter in their personal life to express views that aren’t impartial, is not as serious as if it was a news journalist.”
 
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