Gary Lineker tweets about refugees again as BBC bosses say he'll be back on air this weekend
The BBC apologises for the episode and announces an independent review into its social media guidelines, while Lineker thanks director general Tim Davie "for his understanding during this difficult period", adding that he has "an almost impossible job keeping everybody happy".news.sky.com
What the statements on both sides there tell you, is that this had nothing to do with GL being 'offensive' by 'minimising the holocaust' but purely about having the right to criticise a government policy and how that may be seen to reflect on the BBC. Particularly by the party in question.
It also shows the only people that saw this as a BBC driven criticism are the Tory party, who started the vendetta the BBC then took up. They and their cheerleaders are also incidentally the only ones trivialising the holocaust here, by latching onto it for shock value to score political points.
Glad it is coming to a close, but the BBC need to follow through a bit more. And the government policy and language shouldn't get forgotten about here either.
