Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

[Rory Bluelow]

I agree that freedom of speech should be available to everyone but unfortunately it’s not these days. The problem for Gary is that he has a contract that SHOULD (plenty of examples of the BBC turning a blind eye) exclude him for making comments like that as he works for our state broadcaster and therefore be sensitive to all the political spectrum. In theory if he wants to pass comment he should jump ship and go to Sky or BT where you pays your money and takes your choice.

Unfortunately the whole thing isn’t straightforward and is riddled with hypocrisy both by the BBC and Gary Lineker. Gary didn’t mind crossing the picket line in Qatar did he?

The behaviours around the Qatar WC exposed quite a few superficially “virtuous“ people.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Civil liberties as in those freedoms that apply to citizens? Covis romanas sum as Kennedy invoked in his famous Berlin speech? I’m very keen on those and don’t consider them a trivial issue. However, I can’t detect any erosion of those in the actions of the Home Secretary. Care to enlighten me?

The fact you are conspicuously unable to acknowledge or recognise any erosion of our civil liberties by the government of the day has striking parallels with 1930s Germany.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Interestingly, the news channel “euronews” does a segment of exactly that. It lasts no less than a minute and it’s called something like “no words”.

It’s fine enough, but if you wanna know what you’re even looking at you still have to listen to the real program shown a minute after.

No comment is what it's called.

 

[bowp]

Your gonna need to provide some links here to back up your numbers as they seem like pure fiction or some sort of false equivalency.

Uk immigrants Y/E June 2022. Office for National Statistics https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...tionalmigrationprovisional/yearendingjune2022

France Immigrants 2022 Le Monde - French Newspaper of record. (I note not exactly like for like as the UK measures to year end June whereas France does calendar years).

Immigration rose in France in 2022, driven by labor needs and foreign students

In 2022, more than 320,000 first residence permits were issued, and 15,000 foreigners were deported from the country. The share of labor immigration has never been so high.

www.lemonde.fr

Pew Research illegal immigrants Europe.

Europe’s Unauthorized Immigrant Population Peaks in 2016, Then Levels Off

Most live in Germany, the UK, Italy and France, and about half had arrived in Europe in recent years.

www.pewresearch.org

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Again one would suggest that the Rwanda Civil war and associated genocide was a terrible thing. That being said I dont really think it should define the country forever more.

Why not go and live there yourself and report back to us on what it's like?

 

[Rory Bluelow]

Maybe there’s a market for football without the bollocks :-)

WSL ?

 

[Vic]

You missed the key point.

Just bizarre.
The hypocrisy is incredible.

It's wummery.

 

[bowp]

Your gonna need to provide some links here to back up your numbers as they seem like pure fiction or some sort of false equivalency.

Uk immigrants Y/E June 2022. Office for National Statistics https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...tionalmigrationprovisional/yearendingjune2022

France Immigrants 2022 Le Monde - French Newspaper of record. (I note not exactly like for like as the UK measures to year end June whereas France does calendar years).

Immigration rose in France in 2022, driven by labor needs and foreign students

In 2022, more than 320,000 first residence permits were issued, and 15,000 foreigners were deported from the country. The share of labor immigration has never been so high.

www.lemonde.fr

Pew Research illegal immigrants Europe.

Europe’s Unauthorized Immigrant Population Peaks in 2016, Then Levels Off

Most live in Germany, the UK, Italy and France, and about half had arrived in Europe in recent years.

www.pewresearch.org

Ill leave you to look up the 2007 Borders Act and its requirement on the Home Secretary to deport people....

 

[remember arthur mann]

I had a TV like that in my bedroom when I was a kid. Took about 5 minutes to warm up and come on!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

The fact you are conspicuously unable to acknowledge or recognise any erosion of our civil liberties by the government of the day has striking parallels with 1930s Germany.

People with active imaginations about conspiracies in football probably don't have time for reality.