BBC are in a bind. They have to be impartial. Thats part of their charter. And Linekar is an employee of the BBC. So he cannot leverage his position to make political points. No one would even care what Linekar said if he was not a presenter on BBC.

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Finest (U17054)
posted 59 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 37 seconds ago
Its the same bond crisis that UK had under Truss. Banks have continued to lend knowing their customers cannot repay living in some delusion that interest rates will go down. Countries want fiscal tightening as thats the only way to bring down inflation. And this bank is a warning shot.
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“Countries want fiscal tightening…“

Define ‘countries’. *People* don’t want fiscal tightening.
People have had more than enough of that, and the damage it has done to working families’ lives and well-being, infrastructure, society and the economy.

People want investment, quality jobs, strong public services, a strong safety net; and they want corporate responsibility, rather than yet ANOTHER round of socialising losses having watched multinationals around the globe record record profits across sectors through 2021 and then again last year.

Fiscal tightening? For millions of people, for communities, for local economies, there’s nothing left to tighten!
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People have been living on low rates of borrowing for years. And all thats happening is that those rates are at an end and 'people' have to adjust to living on what they earn. Its that simple. Spend less.
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Spend less?

Two meals a day for your kids will do I guess. That’s OK.

Can’t afford your energy bills? Well, you can turn the central heating off - it’s March already after all! - and just put another couple of jumpers on.

And your kids’ classes are getting larger and larger, you’re waiting six months to see a specialist, the bus service through your village has been reduced…

But we’ve all had it tooooo good if anything for so long, so we shouldn’t complain about that really.

Record profits, record levels of share buybacks, record dividends, record executive remuneration, record wealth extraction on top of a record wealth divide, well, that’s not our business is it? Nothing any of us could do about that.

Just remember: You’re poor, and you’ll have to suck it up. Why? Well, that’s irrelevant really. Because when the going ‘gets tough’, it you, the people, who have to pay. That’s just how it *has* to be.

Why do so many people struggle to spell 'Lineker'? Probably the most frustrating thing about this whole scandal.

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 23 minutes ago
BBC are in a bind. They have to be impartial. Thats part of their charter. And Linekar is an employee of the BBC. So he cannot leverage his position to make political points. No one would even care what Linekar said if he was not a presenter on BBC.
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He made the point on Twitter. Like many other BBC employees do.

BBC now need to drop Sir David Attenborough and Sir Alan Sugar if they are going to remain truly impartial when implementing this policy.

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 22 minutes ago
BBC are in a bind. They have to be impartial. Thats part of their charter. And Linekar is an employee of the BBC. So he cannot leverage his position to make political points. No one would even care what Linekar said if he was not a presenter on BBC.
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I don’t remember reading that the BBC Charter doesn’t allow anyone associated with the organisation to express their own privately-held opinions outside of the workplace though their own channels.

Probably the beginning of the end of the BBC as we know it.

comment by Robb #teamlineker (U22716)
posted less than a minute ago
Probably the beginning of the end of the BBC as we know it.
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What the Tories really want.

The ‘just spend less’ mantra is often spouted by those of pension age now who benefitted from things like free university education, social housing, cashing in on right to buy then selling at a huge profit, being able to get on the property ladder, cashing the pension in early, knowing the house they bought cheap and sold high will see them through.

Then they preach to younger generations about how easy they have it compared to growing up in the 60’s.

Not saying Jenius is that age, or of that ilk. Just fed up of hearing from people who actually had it easier how those less fortunate should do what they say.

At least they left channel 4 alone (or were forced to). Thanks to my VPN I enjoy all that content as it shiiits all over Australian TV

comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Fines... (U17054)
posted 29 minutes ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Finest (U17054)
posted 59 seconds ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 37 seconds ago
Its the same bond crisis that UK had under Truss. Banks have continued to lend knowing their customers cannot repay living in some delusion that interest rates will go down. Countries want fiscal tightening as thats the only way to bring down inflation. And this bank is a warning shot.
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“Countries want fiscal tightening…“

Define ‘countries’. *People* don’t want fiscal tightening.
People have had more than enough of that, and the damage it has done to working families’ lives and well-being, infrastructure, society and the economy.

People want investment, quality jobs, strong public services, a strong safety net; and they want corporate responsibility, rather than yet ANOTHER round of socialising losses having watched multinationals around the globe record record profits across sectors through 2021 and then again last year.

Fiscal tightening? For millions of people, for communities, for local economies, there’s nothing left to tighten!
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People have been living on low rates of borrowing for years. And all thats happening is that those rates are at an end and 'people' have to adjust to living on what they earn. Its that simple. Spend less.
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Spend less?

Two meals a day for your kids will do I guess. That’s OK.

Can’t afford your energy bills? Well, you can turn the central heating off - it’s March already after all! - and just put another couple of jumpers on.

And your kids’ classes are getting larger and larger, you’re waiting six months to see a specialist, the bus service through your village has been reduced…

But we’ve all had it tooooo good if anything for so long, so we shouldn’t complain about that really.

Record profits, record levels of share buybacks, record dividends, record executive remuneration, record wealth extraction on top of a record wealth divide, well, that’s not our business is it? Nothing any of us could do about that.

Just remember: You’re poor, and you’ll have to suck it up. Why? Well, that’s irrelevant really. Because when the going ‘gets tough’, it you, the people, who have to pay. That’s just how it *has* to be.
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Players not boycotting MOTD interviews, so BBC have had to announce they won't be approaching players or managers for interviews.

Just need the commentators to drop out for the clean sweep.

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 4 minutes ago
Players not boycotting MOTD interviews, so BBC have had to announce they won't be approaching players or managers for interviews.

Just need the commentators to drop out for the clean sweep.
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Commentators have already dropped out

comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 4 minutes ago
Players not boycotting MOTD interviews, so BBC have had to announce they won't be approaching players or managers for interviews.

Just need the commentators to drop out for the clean sweep.
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Commentators have already dropped out
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All of them?

Footballer people having the moral high ground over politicians, I don't recognise this world any more.

BREAKING: The BBC are considering removing Football Focus and Final Score from their schedule today after Alex Scott and others refused to work.

When are we expecting the u-turn to come in place lads?

From who, the pundit team or the BBC?

BBC of course, this is a losing battle they’re facing

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 6 minutes ago
Footballer people having the moral high ground over politicians, I don't recognise this world any more.
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I don’t think that’s the case here at all.

comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 57 seconds ago
BREAKING: The BBC are considering removing Football Focus and Final Score from their schedule today after Alex Scott and others refused to work.

When are we expecting the u-turn to come in place lads?
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I expect that they'll eventually say that it was only ever a review, they needed to be able to come to a mutual understanding, nobody was trying to silence the privately held and expressed opinions of BBC staff and associates, blah blah blah, and we'll return to where we were.

Otherwise, I hope that Lineker stands firm and what now appears to be more or less the entirety of the BBC Football staff continues to stand in solidarity with him.

There's no way the BBC chiefs should be winning this one.

Speaking to the Today Programme, former BBC director general Greg Dyke said the corporation had "undermined its own credibility" by suspending the presenter and created an impression it had "bowed to government pressure".

Dyke added that the ongoing controversy surrounding BBC Chairman Richard Sharp and allegations that he helped facilitate a loan to former Prime Minster Boris Johnson had helped to helped fuel perceptions that the organisation was failing to stand up to government pressure.

Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy wrote on social media it was "chilling" to see "a great public broadcaster cowering to right wing fanatics".

"Our democracy is made of tougher stuff than this," he wrote, adding the BBC should "get a grip" and put Gary Lineker back on Match of the Day "where he belongs".

Labour's Lucy Powell, the shadow secretary for digital, culture, media and sport, was on BBC Breakfast earlier.

She says the BBC has got itself "in a real mess" by "bowing to the Tory campaign to cancel somebody who disagreed with their views.

Challenged on whether is really is a Tory campaign, she says it's "clear for everyone to see" because of "ministers on the airwaves" being "boosted by friends in right-wing media".

She suggests the timing of the BBC asking Lineker to step down shows the BBC has "capitulated".

It’s been incredible seeing the gammon rage in shared hypocrisy. They seem to be the biggest fans of cancel culture. Funny that 🤔

comment by Robb #teamlineker (U22716)
posted 2 minutes ago
It’s been incredible seeing the gammon rage in shared hypocrisy. They seem to be the biggest fans of cancel culture. Funny that 🤔
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Mad isn’t it. Suggest removing the statue of a slave trader, for example, and they lose their shiite about free speech being impugned. Speak out about an abhorrent government policy and they scream for silence and the sack.

Two things that seem to be getting lost in this are.

1. What Lineker said was horseshit, I made a point of reading what exactly was happening in Germany in the 30's yesterday and I suggest anybody who thinks that things are similar in modern Britain should do the same.

2. If Lineker broke the impartiality rules in his contract then he's banged to rights. I think all of his footie mates pilling in behind him is being done because they like him rather than them having any understanding of the real issues here.

MOTD with no commentators or pundits could be a big improvement, I'm at Spurs today (for my sins) and it will be interesting to gauge proper football followers opinions on this.

What Lineker said was horseshit, I made a point of reading what exactly was happening in Germany in the 30's yesterday and I suggest anybody who thinks that things are similar in modern Britain should do the same

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Why would you be a reliable narrator on matters like this? It would be like asking a butcher what he thinks on veganism.

comment by PawlBawron (U1055)
posted 12 minutes ago
Two things that seem to be getting lost in this are.

1. What Lineker said was horseshit, I made a point of reading what exactly was happening in Germany in the 30's yesterday and I suggest anybody who thinks that things are similar in modern Britain should do the same.

2. If Lineker broke the impartiality rules in his contract then he's banged to rights. I think all of his footie mates pilling in behind him is being done because they like him rather than them having any understanding of the real issues here.

MOTD with no commentators or pundits could be a big improvement, I'm at Spurs today (for my sins) and it will be interesting to gauge proper football followers opinions on this.
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Lineker didn’t compare what is happening in Britain right now to what happened in Germany in the 1930s.

Maybe you should read his comment again.