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This wasn't Newsnight though and Gary Lineker is not a news journalist. He's just a freelance sports presenter so should have been allowed the same freedoms as you or I in choosing to express his opinions.
All the BBC needed to do was declare that it didn't necessarily endorse Lineker's views. The corporation will lose masses of respect both over this and the David Attenborough issue.
Tell em to piss off Gary , speak your mind
Ian Wright has stepped away from Saturday nights show in support of Lineker
Maybe they could present The Football League Show ?
he has his walker crisps millions to fall back on.
The BBC I think does a pretty good job on the whole of being middle ground and impartial
I thought corbyn was an idiot but he got a battering
It's good that Lineker has spoken out and good that the Tories are on the back foot again
I am sure he won't mind being sacrificed at the altar and he can afford it
It's a uk registered partnership he set up with his ex wife.
HMRC tried a similar claim against Lorraine Kelly. ITV contracted her company to present the Lorraine programme. Her argument was that when presenting the programme she wasn't Lorraine Kelly the person, but Lorraine Kelly the TV character. Despite LK the character being the Director of LK the company, presenting a programme called Lorraine, she won.
Perhaps they'll find out that people just want to watch the highlights and not the tedious drivel in between.
It's time for some fresh blood to spruce up the show, I think he's been a good presenter during his spell, it maybe only be temporary but IMO a makeover would be for the best.
Neither Wright or Shearer appearing tomorrow now.
Who'll be the scabs who end up presenting it?
What he tweeted was not foolish, it was factually correct. His tweet stated ‘This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the '30s’. Can you point out what was incorrect about his statement? No accusation of being Nazi’s, no reason for Braverman to feel intimidated and no threatening words. unfortunately in this day and age, the government has issue with facts
Compare this tweet to the one Alan Sugar did prior to the previous election (bearing in mind that he is a contractor for the BBC, just like Lineker).
‘I seriously back @BorisJohnson to be the new PM. The public like him and he will have a good chance of winning the election in 2021 if not before. Any one who can stop @jeremycorbyn from becoming PM has my backing.’
This tweet did not result in any sanction or threat from the BBC with regard to impartiality rules!
No, I’m not spreading misinformation, I just linked the article that reported it.