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I’m under 70 cass and I remember Alf Tupper the ” Tough Of The Track ” great memories
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TBF JI you could make the same analogy about the Royals but there we all are contributing to their civil list money every year, some things are ingrained in our culture and the BBC appears to be one of them.
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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.
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Yes there does appear to be a few right wingers on here bleating about the fact Gary Lineker is back on the telly and the ERG are also kicking off in the Tory party, apparently talking about stopping funding of the BBC,again. So basically we want you to be impartial BBC but if you don’t see things from our viewpoint we could cut your funding, very democratic that.😂
If the BBC want to maintain this impartial stance malarkey they insist is so important to them then they have to start addressing some of their political commentators when interviewing politicians to correct them in interview when they don’t tell the truth. If Braverman had been pulled up live on air when she linked the word Holocaust to Lineker’s tweet and told ” that isn’t true, that isn’t what he tweeted “, a lot of this nonsense could have been avoided. All politicians who come bleating and distracting a phoney case to the BBC should immediately be shown a red card, it would end there.
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If you read what Lineker actually wrote then the versions being put out by Tories and right wingers is just a weaponised version of what they want people to actually believe. Don’t forget Bravermann has refered to migrants as ” the enemy “, she also refers to the opposition disagreeing with her as ” leftie lawyers “, how appropriate is her language considering she is a Government minister, it’s absolutely hilarious but she appears frightened of Lineker and his tweet and she clearly can’t get at him any other way but verbally attack him but bear in mind she also believes her proposed law may be illegal. Nobody wants to talk about the legitimacy of her proposals, people would rather talk about a football pundits private opinion on Twitter, a very clever distraction by an unpopular Minister touting an unpopular possibly illegal unworkable policy on migrants.
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I might start watching it again without that smug git presenting. I don’t need anyone to tell me what I’ve just watched. A missed opportunity to sack him and save the licence fees of over 8000 poor pensioners.
Think you’ve missed the bigger picture here Alfred but hey it’s just my opinion and your entitled to yours. I hope the BBC are in breach of contract with the Premier League because no presenters or analysis will be available this Saturday night and they offer the deal to ITV. The BBC are a sellout, first by Johnson and his £800,000 loan and then hiring the guy who helped set things in motion by giving him the BBC Chairman’s job and then pandering to the political right wing and media by coming up with this shite about Lineker. Freedom of speech by a private citizen on Twitter who is not a BBC journalist but a freelance sports presenter!!! F*** off BBC, free speech my arse.
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