Solidarity with Gary Lineker!

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So Gary Lineker dared to voice his political opinion on Twitter this week, saying he's against the U.K. government's proposed immigration Bill which is in breech of International Law and in contravention of the EU's Human Right's Convention and he threw in a few migration facts to boot....

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And the BBC suspended him from presenting Match of the Day, one of its flagship programmes.

Or rather it didn't even have the guts to suspend him: it put out a Tweet saying Lineker had agreed to step back from the show temporarily, which apparently was the first he'd heard about it.

Unfortunately the Beeb had forgotten about friendship networks and a bizarre situation ensued in which apparently Gary was texting his news broadcaster friend Dan Walker live on air and let the public know in real time that he hadn't agreed to step back but that the BBC were in fact were forcibly banning him from the show.

And so then his two co-presenters Ian Write and Alan Shearer and a whole load of other people pulled out of MOTD in solidarity leaving the BBC in a mess of a situation where they're struggling to find anyone to step in. I mean, who wants to touch this now?!?

The biased BBC

The Beed claim they are doing this because of impartiality, but clearly this is nonsense. Gary touched a nerve in his private and personal capacity and the head of Corporation have direct friendship links with government - The BBC Chairman helped Boris Johnson secure a loan of almost £1M recently so they are possibly being selective in who they choose to silence - those who criticise the government.

I mean I don't remember them ever hassling people like Jeremy Clarkson who has been vocal in his politics in the past, it took actual physical abuse for him to get sacked.

And Alan Sugar and a whole load of other people express their political views on Twitter, it is just Gary it seems.

NB interesting you wouldn't know there is MASS support for Gary Lineker from The Sun Newspaper... the headline gives you the impression everyone is against him, which they are not, just the right wing government and press pursuing their narrow 'let's try and solve global problems by shutting the gates' agenda - blinkers on - no wonder they're trying to shut down vocal criticism which tries to suggest more open (and in fairness difficult) solutions to global problems...

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I really miss Des Lynam and Greavsie, that was good Saturday football coverage back in the day.

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Hilarious, I'm watching Match of the Day later, not for the football.. but the format!

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Actually I never watch it - what time's it even on?!

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10.20pm I think, they shortened it due to lack of pundits.

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Honestly, what an absolute shit show, now it's time to focus the shit back on that Braverman bitch!

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Oh and another thing... stop the poor immigrants from coming to the UK in the meantime I'm 100% certain Rishi is hatching a plan with his father in law in India to set up a CBDC which will be used to monitor and control our finances! So desperate people flows in - no, financial surveillance flows in - yes.

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This has really blown up and makes the BBC look bad. I expect some politicians quite enjoy this, but a Tory supporter is in charge there. I think celebrities can say what they like on social media as they can have opinions. This has nothing to do with his presenting job. Seems he said Corbyn was bad news a while ago and that caused no fuss. Good to see so many have supported him.

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I don't remember the thing about Corbyn, turns out he's a freelancer too, he's not even directly employed by the BBC, we need to remember to keep the issue focused on Braverman and the evil Tory rhetoric against the global poor.

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I don't agree with Linekers views but he's entitled to his opinions.
BBC can absolutely do one though.

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100% with that and he shouldn't be suspended for airing them!

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i love it. Go Gary Go!
Maybe more celebrities will follow his lead and speak up about things luke this that need to be said (imo.).

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I have a love hate relationship with mainstream news, I have to keep up with it for my main sociology blog, but I analyse the content rather than using it for info!

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It's a farce.
As a major celebrity his voice has weiht and he should be fully entitled to have an opinion on what is going on in the country.

I read as well that there was a signed letter to the BBC from about 30 government officials complaining about his tweets and looking for a retraction and an apology.

Whether that is true or not there was obvious government pressure on the BBC to take action and its a bad look for them by bowing down to them and trying to silence their employees. I'm delighted to see the support for him just on the basis of free speech alone.

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There's a lot to say about this - certainly the BBC are coming out badly, but I'm also trying to stay focused on Braverman and her policy... that's the real target, it's appalling. She is an appalling human being.

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