throbber Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Coming under fire quite a bit this week for comparing the Conservatives recent take on immigration policy to Nazi Germany. Overall I think he’s a great guy (if a little bit odd) who is trying to speak out about something he feels passionate about but because he has a few quid and is famous people from all sides of the debate use this as a stick to beat him with. Same goes for Gary Neville who is also a good guy, if a bit odd. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 9 minutes ago, throbber said: Coming under fire quite a bit this week for comparing the Conservatives recent take on immigration policy to Nazi Germany. Overall I think he’s a great guy (if a little bit odd) who is trying to speak out about something he feels passionate about but because he has a few quid and is famous people from all sides of the debate use this as a stick to beat him with. Same goes for Gary Neville who is also a good guy, if a bit odd. Neville probably qualified as a good guy until he took the Qatari dosh tbh. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Just now, Bairnardo said: Neville probably qualified as a good guy until he took the Qatari dosh tbh. What did neville do that the other pundits didn’t do out in Qatar and why does he get singled out for going out there? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 8 minutes ago, throbber said: comparing the Conservatives recent take on immigration policy to Nazi Germany. Except he didn't. Most of the outrage stems back to people showing a lack of critical reading skills and then spreading Chinese Whispers, furthered by your OP. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Sobotka Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Mind when Lineker shat himself on the pitch ? A more innocent time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 5 minutes ago, throbber said: What did neville do that the other pundits didn’t do out in Qatar and why does he get singled out for going out there? He made a Sky Series basically talking up how great everything at Qatar was and it was extremely cringy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Godwin tweeting is poor form. Don't mind Lineker & the BBC are fucking reprehensible. They let cuntos like Fiona Bruce, Kunessberg & Neil go un-challenged. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 James O'Brien did a decent piece on Lineker and the furore against him yesterday. Basically Lineker is one of a handful of celebrities probably well off enough and powerful enough not to have to give a shite about attacks from the sewer-dwellers in the mainstream media and vermin like Suella Braverman. I'm surprised no one's pulled up Lucy Frazer for her blatantly using her grandparents in the row either. She stated they'd fled Nazi Germany to come to the UK so Lineker's comparison was insulting. A year ago when writing a submission for International Women's Day she'd stated they'd fled Russia. These hopeless fuckers can't even get lies about their own families straight. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bully Wee Villa Posted March 10 Popular Post Share Posted March 10 If he works for BBC News, his political views are an issue. If he mentions his views on air, his political views are an issue. As neither is the case, the BBC should mind their own fucking business and stop pandering to the breathtaking hypocrisy of the "you can't say anything these days" mob who have suddenly discovered they like Cancel Culture after all. 53 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Wonder if the Beeb will be having a word with well-paid host of the BBC Show "The Apprentice" over his outspoken Political views? Nah, thought not. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 He's not even a BBC employee so shouldn't even be subject to their pretend impartiality rules. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fifer Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 8 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: He made a Sky Series basically talking up how great everything at Qatar was and it was extremely cringy And for someone as preachy as Neville is to take that cash is for me the difference between him and the rest. He was torn to shreds on HIGNFY. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 9 minutes ago, Bodie said: Mind when Lineker shat himself on the pitch ? A more innocent time. They mink its all over, it is now-his pants. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 3 minutes ago, Benjamin_Nevis said: Wonder if the Beeb will be having a word with well-paid host of the BBC Show "The Apprentice" over his outspoken Political views? Nah, thought not. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 (edited) Where's the line drawn anyway? Are all BBC employees/contractors that appear on screen subjected to a 'go home, shut up' policy, whether that be appearing on a prime time show, or a minor scrambling-for-relevance part in some regional show watched by 20 people? Edited March 10 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bully Wee Villa Posted March 10 Popular Post Share Posted March 10 2 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: Where's the line drawn anyway? Are all BBC employees/contractors that appear on screen subjected to a 'go home, shut up' policy, whether that be appearing on a prime time show, or a minor scrambling-for-relevance part in some regional show watched by 20 people? If you're in charge of deciding the audience on "Question Time" and you regularly share and like posts by actual Nazis, that's fine. If you host "Question Time" and your husband is making a fortune in deals with the Tory Party, that's fine. If you actually run the BBC and you're best mates with Boris Johnson, that's fine. If you present a show about a bunch of blokes kicking a ball around and think that it might be nice if the government stopped being massive racists for a bit, SHUT THE f**k UP, TROTSKY! 60 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 It’s not because of impartiality either it’s all to do with someone influential in the BBC speaking out against the Government which is the total opposite of what the BBC is there for in first place. We’re always talking about the propaganda coming out of Russia as well. I hope Lineker leaves over this, I don’t think he’s going to back down on his tweets and apologise. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 25 minutes ago, Big Fifer said: And for someone as preachy as Neville is to take that cash is for me the difference between him and the rest. He was torn to shreds on HIGNFY. I never saw his documentary, I only thought he was getting torn to shreds because he’d spoken out about it and then still went out there anyway to do the punditry. A massive own goal for him there if he wants to ever talk about being a Labour supporter. It’s not like he needs the extra cash. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 (edited) To me this screams a big venn diagram of a party chucking out the bottom of their barrel red meat to energise their base just before an election, and realising a load of their red wall voters are probably football fans and watch Gary Lineker on a weekly basis, and they're trying to run interference because they're (the Tory party) shameless scumbags. Edited March 10 by Jeff Venom 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Tory HQ will be on the phone to the Mail, Express and Telegraph asking them to rake through his bins and call up every big titted big haired wannabe from the 80s to try find some dirt on him. Can't be letting him get away with telling the truth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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