Reply To: The BBC Just Cancelled Itself

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The BBC staff who walked out in solidarity seemed very cheesed off with Linekar didn’t they?

Bucks always comes on as some sort of grandiose know-it-all who wants to counterbalance us guttersnipes. Yet it is evident to me that he has an agenda and is not a ‘very sensible’ person out to press for reasoned argument. Anything which goes against his view is disingenuous, only his agenda is acceptable.

We all have opinions, which is fine, but it is impossible for me or anyone to be considered to have a valid position against Bucks when disagreeing. Bucks claimed Dom Cummings would be seen as a great doting dad for driving miles to see family, who he never saw, and went eyetest driving and any who disagreed were made out to be out of touch and bitter. The public consistently thought Cummings was in the wrong. When the silly Corbyn is a Czech spy story came out, Bucks proclaimed it a real worry and anyone who disagreed, pointing out why it was rubbish was apologising for Corbyn. It never led to anything, and some of us arguing against this story here and elsewhere dislike Corbyn.

This is not to say Bucks is always wrong, he isn’t. His views on problems with the left are true for some, but he is too broad brush and applies it to anyone critical of Tory policy. It’s that any view to the contrary is just dismissed, anyone who argues against him has to be disingenuous, and it’s always critics with an agenda.

Now, I know I am not perfect, have been wrong, made unfair comments on others, so I am not saying this to say I am better. However, I try not to be blind to it.

On this, I will say that it may be written into Linekar’s contract not to air views of his own. However, many other BBC staff have aired their own views and would have breached BBC confidentiality rules if Linekar has. It sticks in the craw that Linekar has been singled out, while others haven’t. I don’t think any should, because I don’t care about Linekar, Sugar, Portillo or whoever airing their own view on social media so long as it’s not criminal or put BBC in disrepute (e.g. they used racist language). I don’t even agree with what Linekar had said.

I am against undue silencing of others, from JK Rowling to the Dahl being edited unfairly. This applies for many on the right too. I didn’t think Jordan Peterson should have been suspended from Twitter when he was.

Yet, I am still sure I am saying this because I am a bitter lefty guttersnipe with hypocritical and disingenuous tendencies wanting to back up an ideological ally.