Gary Lineker being reined in

Hap said:
I'm pro Beeb, in principle. It was created to be an independent voice and we need it returned to its original purpose.

The BBC chairmans position is untenable since, his involvement in Johnson's loan, being exposed.

The Lineker situation is beyond hypocrisy. By extension, how many other camera facing BBC staff and contractors require censure? Alan Sugar? Chris Packam? Deborah Meadon? David Attenborough?
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spot on. I'm actually pro beeb, but it needs political neutrality. It's not just the Chairman, it's the entire politics and current affairs division. How on earth could they employ Andrew Neil for years while he ran The Spectator that means he is responsible for the content that was political in that magazine. Then there is employing Bruce on QT and the way she runs it, which again with her husband working on PR for the Tories is not acceptable. Then there is paying a sitting Tory member of the House of Lords who clearly will post politics, he cannot, and never could avoid political bias. He should never ever be employed according to the rules as applied by the Beeb against Lineker.
 
ThePrisoner said:
Tuned into R5 to listen to Fighting Talk just now only to find that it had been pulled and replaced by one of Kamy's podcasts.
Looks like Colin Murray has boycotted. Or today's panel. Or maybe BBC didn't want to risk Garygate being brought up.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/l...08fe006b95e8f9#block-640c61dc8f08fe006b95e8f9
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Clearly heads have to roll at the top of the Beeb over this. There is no way out of this scandal for them.

I'd expect Michelle Donnellan to give a statement that is gaslighting nonsense in the next 48 hours, PMQs will be fun this week. There needs to be an independent enquiry into the appointment of the chairman, any comms from Downing St or the cabinet to him about Lineker and the role of the Beeb in the future, specifically its impartiality rules and its employment of people with ties to or even part of government. I mean Alan Sugar should have been removed the day he become a Lord.
 
BoroMart said:
Clearly heads have to roll at the top of the Beeb over this. There is no way out of this scandal for them.

I'd expect Michelle Donnellan to give a statement that is gaslighting nonsense in the next 48 hours, PMQs will be fun this week. There needs to be an independent enquiry into the appointment of the chairman, any comms from Downing St or the cabinet to him about Lineker and the role of the Beeb in the future, specifically its impartiality rules and its employment of people with ties to or even part of government. I mean Alan Sugar should have been removed the day he become a Lord.
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Alan Sugar is the massive, neon, flashing contradiction in this BBC stance on 'impartiality'.

It couldn't be that Sugar is allowed to publish his thoughts because they agree with the tory party? Could it? I mean the DG of the BBC is massively impartial? Isn't he? .....
 
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This has got me so annoyed! If Gary Lineker would have tweeted, STOP THE BOATS!! This would have been a non story apart from some lefty woke snowflakes on message boards like this. He would be championed by the flag shaggers quoting free speech.

I really do despair what this country has turned into.
 
Jammyd said:
This has got me so annoyed! If Gary Lineker would has tweeted, STOP THE BOATS!! This would have been a non story apart from some lefty woke snowflakes on message boards like this. He would be championed by the flag shaggers quoting free speech.

I really do despair what this country has turned into.
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Do you really need to be a lefty snowflake to be against stripping the right to not be slaves from people?
 
Jammyd said:
This has got me so annoyed! If Gary Lineker would have tweeted, STOP THE BOATS!! This would have been a non story apart from some lefty woke snowflakes on message boards like this. He would be championed by the flag shaggers quoting free speech.

I really do despair what this country has turned into.
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so what you are saying is the Beeb has been politicised by the government. Heads have to roll.
 
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