tuga
Legal Alien
They seem to be hiding behing the BBC policy cover.
Gary Lineker vs. BBC
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They seem to be hiding behing the BBC policy cover.
Nic Robinson
Moderator
Your BBC:
Nick_G
pfm Member
Not only that, but this too:
From https://twitter.com/SpinarelloDogma/status/1634472802425135108/photo/1
It's clear to even the most casual observer that the handling of Lineker's tweet has had interference from the Tories. Ironic really, that the complaint was concerning a tweet comparing the rhetoric of Braverman to 1930s Germany, is treated by the Tories/BBC a bit like, well, 1930s Germany.
I really hope this one runs and runs.
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
And while comparisons with 1930’s Germany are deemed unacceptable by some, there’s this from Alan SugarNot only that, but this too:
From https://twitter.com/SpinarelloDogma/status/1634472802425135108/photo/1
It's clear that the handling of Lineker's tweet has had interference from the Tories. Ironic really, that the complaint was concerning a tweet comparing the rhetoric of Braverman to 1930s Germany, is treated by the Tories/BBC a bit like, well, 1930s Germany.
I really hope this one runs and runs.
The hypocrisy of the BBC stinks to high heaven
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
GLs tweet and stance are spot on but
how so? far be it for me to defend our government but where is the actual evidence for your assertion
how so? far be it for me to defend our government but where is the actual evidence for your assertion
Nick_G
pfm Member
How about the unique treatment of Lineker, as those examples above show? Also, I refer you to the BBC's shelving the broadcast of an episode of David Attenborough's series on the environment, because it may offend Tories and the right-wing press. The guidelines quoted in the examples involving Chris Packham and Andrew Neil state that personal Twitter accounts are not in the BBC's remit. Therefore, the most obvious conclusion is that there is an attempt to silence Lineker because criticism of Government policy is apparently an actionable offence. State intervention of the public broadcaster in this way is a precipitous slide towards authoritarianism.
Tony L
Administrator
They’ve been top-loading the BBC with Tory propagandists for years. From the very top job down. It is obviously political.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
I thought I'd look on Karren Brady's Twitter to see what she's been up to and sure enough she re-tweeted this (26th Feb) from the Sun with her own comment:
"The Home Office is inviting 12,000 people to fill out a ten-page questionnaire instead of sitting an interview to have their asylum status approved.Some suggest the Home Office is prepared to “take a bit of a risk in order to get the backlog down” which is terrifying."
https://twitter.com/karren_brady/status/1629945427142352899
"The Home Office is inviting 12,000 people to fill out a ten-page questionnaire instead of sitting an interview to have their asylum status approved.Some suggest the Home Office is prepared to “take a bit of a risk in order to get the backlog down” which is terrifying."
https://twitter.com/karren_brady/status/1629945427142352899
k90tour
pfm Member
See post 223, and others like it.
Paul R
pfm Member
1. This is surely all about Lineker's tax avoidance scheme and current ongoing argument with HMRC. Is he effectively an employee or not?
2. The tweet was moronic, historically illiterate. In trivialising the Nazi's policies towards gays, Jews, gypsies, the disabled, communists, anybody else insufficiently blue eyed Lineker trivialises homophobia, racism et al.
3. If he offered a tempered criticism of policy, or suggested a solution, like open borders, there would be no great fuss.
The BBC used to be important, now it is irrelevant. I resent being expected to pay so much for something that offers me nothing, and which then pays this idiot so much to pontificate on a subject I care even less about. I do suspect though that football coverage without the banal waffle would be much improved.
2. The tweet was moronic, historically illiterate. In trivialising the Nazi's policies towards gays, Jews, gypsies, the disabled, communists, anybody else insufficiently blue eyed Lineker trivialises homophobia, racism et al.
3. If he offered a tempered criticism of policy, or suggested a solution, like open borders, there would be no great fuss.
The BBC used to be important, now it is irrelevant. I resent being expected to pay so much for something that offers me nothing, and which then pays this idiot so much to pontificate on a subject I care even less about. I do suspect though that football coverage without the banal waffle would be much improved.
Tony L
Administrator
There is a protest in That London against the far-right Tory refugee cruelty and human rights abuses (Twitter). Hopefully the Lineker thing will spill into that and turnout will be a lot better than otherwise.
PS I see one of our far-right culture-warrior Tories has de-cloaked. Well done for at least having the courage to wipe your shit on the walls in public.
PS I see one of our far-right culture-warrior Tories has de-cloaked. Well done for at least having the courage to wipe your shit on the walls in public.
DonQuixote99
pfm Member
Hah! Crushing irony. Totally opposite to the current program, which is to keep telling people the satisfying lies they have become hooked on.George Orwell. Outside the BBC.
I think it is clear from their public statements the Tories had it in for Gary Lineker, for example Suella Braverman saying loud and clear Gary Lineker's tweet "diminishes the unspeakable tragedy" of the Holocaust and was "unhelpful" and Lucy Frazer saying the Beeb "must maintain impartiality to retain the trust of the public" and later welcoming the DG having words. They spent days moaning in public, now Rishi Sunak says it is the matter for the Beeb?!? To me it is clear the Tories were publically meddling in the handling, pressurised the Beeb openly, and I have little doubt, behind the scenes too. I mean what is the point of appointing your stooge as Chairman if you don't call him to have a moan when Aunty does something you don't like? OK that is speculative on my part, but read the Tory MPs queuing up to have a kick at Mr Lineker up to the point he got "asked to step back", then spot the PM wading in to pretend that never happened by saying it is entirely a matter for internal BBC review, pish.
SteveS1
I heard that, pardon?
His comparison was with the language used by Braverman and others as they seek to demonise asylum seekers. He did not refer to later Nazi policies, but to the language they used on the road to those policies. It was not at all historically illiterate and all that was required for such language to lead to those policies was the type of denial you are displaying here.
Well you don’t seem to have a grasp of the facts.
Somafunk
pfm Member
Did you get sent that from central office?
Seanm
pfm Member
Maybe wishful thinking but it does feel a bit like reality is starting to intrude on the world of media-politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...s-topple-bbc-chiefs-and-hit-tory-asylum-plans
“Amid signs that the row may be changing public perception of the government’s asylum policy, the furore has also exposed deep Tory splits and unease over its hardline nature, under which refugees arriving on small boats in the UK will be detained and deported “within weeks” – either to their own country if it is safe or a third nation if it is not.
Several senior Tories, including Priti Patel – herself a hardliner on immigration while in charge at the Home Office – are expected to raise their concerns about what the bill, which has its second reading in the Commons on Monday, means for the treatment of children who arrive in the UK with their parents. Other Tory MPs are concerned that it breaches international law and the UK’s international treaty obligations.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...s-topple-bbc-chiefs-and-hit-tory-asylum-plans
“Amid signs that the row may be changing public perception of the government’s asylum policy, the furore has also exposed deep Tory splits and unease over its hardline nature, under which refugees arriving on small boats in the UK will be detained and deported “within weeks” – either to their own country if it is safe or a third nation if it is not.
Several senior Tories, including Priti Patel – herself a hardliner on immigration while in charge at the Home Office – are expected to raise their concerns about what the bill, which has its second reading in the Commons on Monday, means for the treatment of children who arrive in the UK with their parents. Other Tory MPs are concerned that it breaches international law and the UK’s international treaty obligations.”