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Nor is it license, JI. As for Heath, takes one to know one I’d say.
Siderite, the first problem I have with Lineker is that he’s paid a ridiculous amount of money out of a publicly funded organisation. He’s also built a fortune on the back of that organisation. It’s all very well for NI to claim that people “can choose not to have a TV licence”, but in the real world that isn’t the case. Even if I never watch the BBC I still need a TV licence if I want to watch another channel.
The second problem I have with Lineker is a total and utter failure to accept that with the privileges gained from working for the BBC also come responsibilities. The guidelines around working for the BBC aren’t grey at all. In fact they couldn’t be clearer; and if Lineker or anyone else is in any doubt then the fact he’s the highest paid person at the BBC might provide some sort of clue as to his position relative to the organisation. As I’ve said before there’s a very easy way to test this, which is to ask what would have happened had Lineker supported the Government’s position. In that case you lot would have been all over it like a rash; and, frankly, you’d have had every right to have done so.
The third problem I have with Lineker is how this affects his colleagues, all of whom are paid less and many of whom are paid a lot less than him. Despite Deerey’s snide little comments, designed to belittle me just as much as he claims I’m trying to belittle him, I can assure you that a lot of BBC employees are seriously fed-up with Lineker.
The fourth problem I have with Lineker is the self-righteous, “I’m a better person than you are because I stand up for vulnerable people”, which I must say applies to you lot just as much as it does to him. It’s all very well to call the Tory policy ‘hideous’, but it’s not even close to being as hideous as people handing over their possessions to traffickers and dying a horrible death in the Channel.
Good luck to Starmer who is apparently going “to stop the traffickers”. These people are like rats. Get rid of one lot and another lot just come in. On top of that it’s a 100% fact that a lot of healthy young men are exploiting the system and coming in from perfectly safe countries, while France has been useless at stopping what’s happening. It’s a pity Lineker doesn’t aim some of his ire in that direction, but being a remainer, of course, he’ll ignore France’s appalling treatment of migrants.
Finally, Lineker loves to position himself as representing the ‘ordinary, working-class man’. In fact the only people he truly represents are the North London, left-wing elite who wouldn’t know one end of a shovel from another.