He doesn't need to read the comment again. Tories and their supporters are deliberately misinterpreting what he said and changing the meaning.

comment by Winston (U16525)
posted about an hour ago
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.
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Agree to disagree, imo, it's exactly the scenario.

I think the BBC changed its policy in 2020 with regards to social media posts.

Examples cited prior to that as examples of inconsistency are not relevant for that purpose.

I really despise it when people engage in Godwin’s law, he has been rightly criticised by those on the right, the left and most relevantly by prominent Jews, including Holocaust survivors.

I suspect that he has broken to rules which were brought in a couple of years ago by the BBC, which is why he is facing what he is facing.

I have no issue with him criticising policy, personally. But he loses all of my interest or support when he engages in Godwin’s Law. He should apologise for that analogy and reissue his point with mentioning 1930s Germany. There are plenty of words in the English language, he can use them to describe his thoughts on policy without mentioning 1930s Germany.

Here is a link to the new guidelines in 2020 and guess who is mentioned there already? That’s right, Gary Lineker:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54723282

Loving the idea of Pawl going round WHL with a notepad and writing thoughts down as he gauges opinion

comment by Robb #teamlineker (U22716)
posted 22 minutes ago
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.
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https://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html

You're right why take my word for it.

https://twitter.com/joey7barton/status/1634499302746718208?s=46&t=Q7d9VBn2D1mqeajRPjVm0Q

Joey Barton posting his absolutely cretinous horseshoe politics diagram.

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 7 minutes ago
Loving the idea of Pawl going round WHL with a notepad and writing thoughts down as he gauges opinion
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It'll be better than watching us lose to Forest.

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 6 minutes ago
Loving the idea of Pawl going round WHL with a notepad and writing thoughts down as he gauges opinion
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If he's there with a notepad he should give the beeb a call, they are probably desperate for some footy journos.

I love the idea that his match report will probably be 90% about starmer.

comment by Robb #teamlineker (U22716)
posted about a minute ago
https://twitter.com/joey7barton/status/1634499302746718208?s=46&t=Q7d9VBn2D1mqeajRPjVm0Q

Joey Barton posting his absolutely cretinous horseshoe politics diagram.
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That hurts my brain

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 3 hours, 21 minutes 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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I am not sure it is the same. Under Truss investors dumped bonds. In this scenario everyone is buying bonds as a flight to safety

Lineker would already be dead if it was Germany in the 1930s or at best in a hospital bed with life changing injuries and with o legal recourse

I didn't make the leap to Holocaust when I read his comments,but it was an absurd comparison.

comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 3 minutes ago
Lineker would already be dead if it was Germany in the 1930s or at best in a hospital bed with life changing injuries and with o legal recourse
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He didn't compare the government though. He compare the language.

I didn't think you'd be one of them.

comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 2 minutes ago
I didn't make the leap to Holocaust when I read his comments,but it was an absurd comparison.

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Has anybody actually read his comment, ffs

I don’t know how many times this is going to have to be posted, but…

He
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Final Score has been replaced by The Repair Shop at 4:30pm on the BBC One schedule.

It comes after presenter Jason Mohammad said he would not be presenting the show.

Football Focus has been replaced with Bargain Hunt

comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Finest (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 2 minutes ago
I didn't make the leap to Holocaust when I read his comments,but it was an absurd comparison.

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Has anybody actually read his comment, ffs

I don’t know how many times this is going to have to be posted, but…

He
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The Tory supporting newspapers made that tenuous link the following day in their headlines, replacing the word language with policy.

A holocaust survivor visited Braverman's surgery asking her to refrain from using incendiary language to describe the channel migrants, as it reminded her of language from 1930s Germany. Braverman refused.

https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/national/23250859.home-secretary-tells-holocaust-survivor-wont-apologise-invasion-rhetoric/

comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 3 hours, 21 minutes 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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I am not sure it is the same. Under Truss investors dumped bonds. In this scenario everyone is buying bonds as a flight to safety
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The reason why SVB went under was because it used too many bonds to guarantee their ratios. Then the interest rates went up and those bonds were pretty much worthless as collateral for their risky investments in startups. When they tried to raise money in the market they found there is little appetite for risk until inflation is under control.

comment by What would Stuart Pearce do? Who do you think you are kidding Mr.... (U3126)
posted 0 seconds ago
comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Finest (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by SWTN - Judas is number 1 (U7916)
posted 2 minutes ago
I didn't make the leap to Holocaust when I read his comments,but it was an absurd comparison.

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Has anybody actually read his comment, ffs

I don’t know how many times this is going to have to be posted, but…

He
Didn’t
Compare
Present
Day
Britain
Or
The
Policies
Of
Its
Government
To
1930s
Germany
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The Tory supporting newspapers made that tenuous link the following day in their headlines, replacing the word language with policy.

A holocaust survivor visited Braverman's surgery asking her to refrain from using incendiary language to describe the channel migrants, as it reminded her of language from 1930s Germany. Braverman refused.

https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/national/23250859.home-secretary-tells-holocaust-survivor-wont-apologise-invasion-rhetoric/
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"When I hear you using words against refugees like ‘swarms’ and an ‘invasion’, I am reminded of the language used to dehumanise and justify the murder of my family and millions of others"

There are 3 very different issues with Gary Linekar which are being conflated imo.

1) Gary Linekar is an employee of the BBC and therefore bound certain charter limitations. Its very important for the BBC to maintain its impartiality. It is not a private company and taxes the UK public for all its income. That includes right wing people and left wing. If the BBC allowed a free for all I can guarantee it will lose the license fee. Irrespective of a Labour or Conservative government.

2) What Linekar said if he meant propaganda is a good point. The Cons are using that language because it not only helps their bona-fides with their supporters but also sends a message to the smugglers that this country is not hospitable. The asylum seekers are coming from France, a safe country. Not directly. Why aren't they seeking asylum in France?

3) Labour is even more authoritarian in this and were under Blair and Brown. They know asylum seekers undermine labour and definitely unionised labour. Businesses can pay little to these workers and get away with it.

The impartiality guidelines aren't supposed to extend to presenters who sit outside whatever subject they're supposed to be impartial about. As such a football presenter is supposed to be allowed to have and share political opinion on their private twitter

Regardless of that the problem here is clearly how inconsistent the outrage is, Andrew Neil and Alan Sugar are almost encouraged to keep hammering Corbyn but the moment someone criticises the govt they have to make a humiliating climbdown or resign?

Censorship of criticism of the state is far more fascist than the useless new approach to migrant boats

“Labour is even more authoritarian in this and were under Blair and Brown.”

comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Finest (U17054)
posted 6 seconds ago
“Labour is even more authoritarian in this and were under Blair and Brown.”


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ID cards?

J99 becomes more Tory by the post.

Still struggling to spell 'Lineker' too.

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 12 seconds ago
J99 becomes more Tory by the post.

Still struggling to spell 'Lineker' too.
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That I am. Spelling part. My fault on the tablet.

comment by Jenius99 (U4918)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Ten Hag Bald is Best Ball at its Facking Finest (U17054)
posted 6 seconds ago
“Labour is even more authoritarian in this and were under Blair and Brown.”


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ID cards?
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Did you get yours yet? Hated it when they forced that on us in their authoritarian way.

Imagine saying that then citing something that didn’t happen