Saturday, 11 March 2023

Team Lineker

I would like to start this post by stating categorically that i will not be presenting Match of the Day in solidarity with Gary Lineker. Not that anyone has asked me but if they did i would be joining the rest of the BBC Sporting fraternity who have sided with the presenter over their suspension of the former Footballer after his tweet where he said that the rhetoric coming from the Government over asylum seekers was not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 1930's.
Obviously it suits the Government and their supporters to keep the focus on Gary Lineker rather than their unworkable proposal which pretty much every Human Rights group has called immoral, unethical and illegal which follows on from the Number 10's rhetoric which was akin to the dehumanising, cruel and callous language of a part of society back in 1930s Germany.      
That Gary Lineker has generated such astonishing levels of vitriol from the usual suspects at the Tory front bench, the right wing media and their useful idiots who clutched their Union Flags, sang a chorus of Rule Britannia and then called for the Match of the Day presenter’s head as he was in breach of the BBC's impartiality rules for wrongly pointing out that the man who once represented England was comparing Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak to Hitler and the NAZI's which he never, he said the rhetoric being used to try and vilify anyone wanting to come to the UK was the same as was aimed at the Jews back then, and it blatantly is from the same play-book.  
After buckling to Government demands, the BBC have announced that Lineker would be spoken to about his duty to be impartial, although who would do the actual talking to hasn't been announced yet, possibly the BBC chairman Richard Sharp who donated over £400,000 to the Conservative Party or the Director General, Tim Davie, a card-carrying Conservative member, either of those politically impartial employees of the BBC could do it.
That's always been the problem with the far right, they hate it when you accuse them of being far right just because us more compassionate and sensible types don't agree with their unbalanced, simple minded and hate filled views.

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