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Gary Lineker vs. BBC

Paul R said:
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.
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Another conduit of the CHAOS I see...
 
Seanm said:
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.”
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I also think that maybe, Lineker's tweet forced Braverman, whether consciously or unconsciously, to hold a mirror to her position on immigration, and she didn't like what she saw.

Or am I ascribing too much hidden humanity to her?
 
Seanm said:
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.”
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And then there's this little snippet from the same article:

"On Friday evening the popular former England striker was asked by the corporation to step back from Match of the Day while a resolution was sought.

The Observer understands that Lineker was told he had no option after he refused an offer to settle the matter with an apology. Earlier in the week he had been assured there would be no action taken against him, prompting some to suspect that pressure from government turned BBC minds against him."

Implicit in this is that the Tory Scum/BBC expected him to apologise for calling out the Government. Impartial my ass.

John
 
Cesare said:
There's another interpretation. Tim Davie is a smart cookie - I wonder if the BBC has run with this at the request of government knowing full well there'd be a massive backlash, with the intention of regaining their independence? I know, a long shot, but as I said, Tim is smart and may have been waiting for an opportunity like this...

Of course the easier interpretation is that the organisation is spineless and is full of raging incompetents. I know that's more likely, but i'm as usual hoping i'm under-estimating them.
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In case you missed the many other posts alluding to similar, Tim Davie is a Tory placeman doing the Tories' bidding.
 
gavreid said:
Imagine the BBC employing the editor of Socialist Worker in the same capacity and defending him/her in the same way as Neil. It wouldn't happen and it couldn't happen...
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Nail on the head.

The right/far-right is treated as normal, or at least as having a valid role in the "marketplace of ideas".

The left - and, increasingly, anyone with a social conscience - are treated as scum to be cast out into the outer darkness.

Thus, the discourse ratchets inexorably rightwards.
 
Julie Burchill’s erruptin in The Spectator. I knew you’d be surprised (to paraphrase Zappa). Footballers are actually blind piano tuners in Julie’s world,
https://twitter.com/nadinedorries/status/1634684254138388480?s=61&t=novyCm2QooMZoRvqeBbwZg
“When I was a girl, footballers had a somewhat limited vocabulary. That wasn’t to say that they were seen as inferior to wordy types – on the contrary, like blind piano-tuners, they were seen as accessing a higher level of excellence in one specific realm which we Normals had no chance of achieving”.

….it’s so good, Armando Iannucci could not have produced satire like this.
 
gavreid said:
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
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Maybe the half billion £ UK is giving French police could have been better used treating refugees humanely ? Just maybe.
What exactly is the moral, or even legal, difference between Sunak/Braverman parents and most of the refugees in those small boats ?
 
TheDecameron said:
Julie Burchill’s erruptin in The Spectator. I knew you’d be surprised (to paraphrase Zappa). Footballers are actually blind piano tuners in Julie’s world,
https://twitter.com/nadinedorries/status/1634684254138388480?s=61&t=novyCm2QooMZoRvqeBbwZg
“When I was a girl, footballers had a somewhat limited vocabulary. That wasn’t to say that they were seen as inferior to wordy types – on the contrary, like blind piano-tuners, they were seen as accessing a higher level of excellence in one specific realm which we Normals had no chance of achieving”.

….it’s so good, Armando Iannucci could not have produced satire like this.
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Anyone and anything that gets up Burchill’s nose is fine by me. Seems like Gaz is pissing off all the right people.
 
that was a much better MOTD, no annoying pundits or shouty commentators. Just need to turn up the crowd sounds and it'd be even better
 
oldius said:
The sooner the lies and inflammatory words of Suella Braverman, rather than the changed words of a tweet from an ex-footballer, are examined, the better.
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oldius said:
The sooner the lies and inflammatory words of Suella Braverman, rather than the changed words of a tweet from an ex-footballer, are examined, the better.
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Yes. 20 mins into LK and no mention of an immigration policy that any reasonable person recognises as “beyond awful”. Not even from the Labour rep.
 
If the Tories win the next General Election they will be in power when the BBC's charter is up for renewal.

I suspect that the BBC is acutely aware of that looming date.

But appeasing the slave owner has never been know to work in the long run.

RIP BBC
 
Tony L said:
How did Laura Kunessgoebbels handle it all on the BBC?
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Big focus on Lineker, brief mention of the issue, but mostly deflection onto the oh so scandalous observations of an ex footballer.

Reeves did talk about treating asylum seekers with dignity, but no talk about legal routes
 
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