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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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Time to reset who is in charge. Also a great opportunity to get rid of so many.
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Much as I don’t like Mr Lineker or necessarily agree with his views he is entitled to an opinion and has a right to express them. He didn’t make his comments during Match of the Day so I don’t really see the ban as necessary.
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Classic Tory move; Get your Tory donor, PM loan facilitator, chair of the BBC to deflect the conversation away from the illegal, immoral, and badly designed legislation and pass the public furore onto a television pundit rather than where it truly belongs.
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No pundits, should please some viewers, well NI at least!
Spot on Bobby. I won’t have to scramble for the mute button on the remote tonight!
Having said that Lineker is the least annoying and is a decent enough anchor.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the poor souls either. Sky & ITV will be putting together offers faster than you can say Premier League.
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Supine BBC giving way to right wing political pressure.
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Classic Tory move; Get your Tory donor, PM loan facilitator, chair of the BBC to deflect the conversation away from the illegal, immoral, and badly designed legislation and pass the public furore onto a television pundit rather than where it truly belongs.
If it’s deflection, surely it’s a bad attempt. This puts a spotlight right on the comments in his posts and what he was responding to. I’d usually agree with the deflection angle but they didn’t engineer this, just scored a massive own goal.
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I think you will find none of those worked for the BBC.
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All very nice, but what if he was promoting the right agenda would you be on his side then, of course you wouldn’t. Time to let them all go and replace them with someone else especially lineker, shearer, and wright. Bring back Andy gray Richard keys and Ron Atkinson?.
Alan Sugar and Andrew Neil made right wing comments when at the BBC, as is their right. No problem from me in regards to their jobs, but Linekar gets made an exception of. Either it’s free speech or not, and while the right love to point at hypocrisy which does exist on the left, ignoring the free speech worries over Linekar only exposes their own.
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Sugar was a politician Neil a political presenter and I would expect them to make political comments, Lineker is a football presenter and pundit and expect him to make comments on the footy, sure Kier will be on the phone soon offering him a job or candidacy.
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Ridiculous view IMO.
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Sugar was a politician Neil a political presenter and I would expect them to make political comments, Lineker is a football presenter and pundit and expect him to make comments on the footy, sure Kier will be on the phone soon offering him a job or candidacy.
Aye, only politicians are allowed to talk politics.
The rest of us should doff our caps and stay silent. “Nothing to do with you peasants; you just carry on planting your turnips”.
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Time to ditch the TV licence. Not at all happy that the Beeb hasn’t worked out yet what ‘free speech’ means and the responsibilities and limits of what can and cannot be presented for discussion.
Another case in point would be the total lack of debate about the economic effects, especially on the poor, and the actual effectiveness of current attempts to mitigate perceived problems with the Climate.2 users thanked author for this post.
Whose limits?
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Govt pressure on the media to silence those with alternate view hmmm heard this happened somewhere before….
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