Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

[domalino]

No pundits. No commentators. Just football.

Thank fucking god.

No pundits no commentators no interviews after the match with managers or players.

It sounds like you just want to watch YouTube/twitter highlights which is already an option.

 

[Postman Pep]

 

[hcblue95]

The presenting football highlights show lane.

I guess that means you shouldn't talk about anything other than your job right?

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Linekers a prick.

We REALLY do have a huge problem with illegal immigration. We cant have boat loads coming over without any sort of limits or checks. We have to do something, we need to find the ones who need our help and restrict the ones that dont.
Lineker saying what he said isnt a help.

We should all be able to day what we want without the govn shutting it down.

I agree on immigration BTW. Its something that does need an answer. But shutting down conversations isn't the way. Whomever is doing it.

 

[Lavinda Past]

No chance of picking up an early edition of Football Pink?

That only has half time scores... I need to check my pools.

 

[domalino]

Linekers a prick.

We REALLY do have a huge problem with illegal immigration. We cant have boat loads coming over without any sort of limits or checks. We have to do something, we need to find the ones who need our help and restrict the ones that dont.
Lineker saying what he said isnt a help.

When did anyone say we should have boat loads of people coming over without any limits or checks?

Can you just point to me where anyone has advocated for that ?

 

[argyle]

5 live affected as well.

I think Ian Wright is the one who really deserves credit as he was the first to say he wasn't appearing.

 

[domalino]

The BBC have suspended Lineker "For breaking their guidelines on impartiality". The point is, not what he tweeted per se, but whether, under his contract, he is allowed to comment on political matters.
It is a matter of fact if he signed up to any restrictive covenant or not.

The guidelines on impartiality don’t seem to be something written down and signed up to. And as we can see with this response to a complaint about Andrew Neill, BBC policy doesn’t apply to freelancers speaking on social media…

 

[Lavinda Past]

Get the Football Pink from your local newsagent.
And 20 Rothmans whilst your there

I'm in mid Wales... we don't have the Pink delivery until Monday morning.

I'll need to get a mortgage to buy 20 fags nowadays.

 

[Brewster's millions]

Not really. For once this isn’t about who he used to play for. There’s a groundswell of support for Lineker, why should Dublin’s mean less.

Really.

Where exactly is the groundswell of support for Lineker, outside of the clique of overpaid BBC Sport presenters who play the game and seem to spend all of their time laughing at each others’ jokes, and of course left wing Twitter types who latch onto anything or anybody who criticises the Conservative Party? There isn’t any.

All that happened is that Lineker made a stupid, lazy and ridiculous comment comparing government policy to Nazi Germany. I suggest, frankly, that he has a few history lessons and he simply shouldn’t have made the comment. He then refuses to retract the comment - specifically the reference to the Nazis - even though there are a thousand ways he could have retracted it while still making clear his opposition to what the government is doing.

His BBC chums then back him because they’ve forgotten that they are paid to do a public service and, frankly, because they don’t want anybody upsetting their little club, which pays them all very nicely thank you very much.

Meanwhile, people who rely on the BBC doing what they should be doing - i.e. providing a public service - miss out because Gary Lineker wants to throw around references to Nazi Germany. The whole episode is ridiculous and just shows how far removed the BBC has become from what it’s actually supposed to be doing.