Perhaps Lineker was referring to the insidious nature of German propaganda in the early 1930’s, they didn’t come out straight away saying put all Jews in death camps and burn their homes down but rather compering the Jews to ” an enemy within”. Later on they began portraying Jews as rats working their way into society in cinema film reels and trying to take over in an underhand way. Despite Lineker not using the best language in this case to accuse him in the extremes that have been hurled at him by Braverman and her ilk is unfair IMO. Whilst Sunak and Hunt have both said it is up to the BBC to settle the Lineker matter, the right wing of the Tory party and their language since his reinstatement at the BBC say otherwise.
