BBC is fine when their presenters publicly comment on Qatar and Russian human rights abuses but have a red line about commenting on UK human rights abuses??
The two women saying his job is football commentary and so that's all he should talk about it ridiculous. If what she means is that being on TV talking about football means he can't talk on other platforms about other topics, then that is still ridiculous. What if he was invited on to a radio show (not BBC) or a talk-show? How does this rule apply exactly? How can Andrew Neill write columns for right-wing papers and be a front for so-called 'imaprtial political' BBC TV shows? Typical vox pops with no real thought or reasoning behind the opinions expressed.
@@ChristianPatriarchy Gary condemned Qatar human rights issues and BBC was ok with that. But not ok when Gary highlighted another human rights issues in UK. Any clues why?
Channel 4: Okay, we need to find a member of the public who will speak against whats happened, who has no idea of British politics or sports and culture American: Hold my beer!
That’s right….get an American fan reaction telling us that he should be talking about what he’s paid to as a sport journalist! Does she realise that he’s allowed to talk about other things than sport when he’s on his personal Twitter account?!?
So if he said that all thieves should have their right hand cut off or all sexual criminals should have their gonads removed, that would be ok so long as he posted it on his own private Twitter account? Yes? No? But.....?
Is he indeed…not really…not when it effects his job as a public broadcasting company representative…different rules apply to him than to others. Twitter is a bullshit platform anyway..a place for morons to socialise
The Tories had zero issues when Lineker was attacking the previous labour leader but then many other BBC employes (emily m, Lord Sugar etc) were free to do so
And liebore had zero issues when they let in one million undocumented refugee's into the UK to boolster their votes. Funny how many left supporters buried their heads in their colons also when crime rates went up in some area's shortly after..Funny that ehh!
BBC is state propaganda. It's all just charades you're buying into! >80% of the Citizens of UK would vote on controls on Migration Policy if given yet apparently Linekar is the other 50% Pro-Migration. The facts don't stand up to scrutiny. He said, She said, "ABC" said is total smoke blowing. White Lives Matter banner employees were struck off their jobs... bear in mind.
Exactly. They'll word this as a free speech/media contract type affair, but it isn't. It's as usual a 'free speech to say things we like, no free speech to say things we don't like'/media contract issue.
1:54 wow she lives in a boring world, all she tweets about is her job? Seriously? Her family must be absolutely sick of it and hope she finds a life, I’m a musician and some times I tweet about my home construction, I hope I don’t lose my job
@@humanpotatoes4958 so you think the NHS should be staffed by illegal immigration, or legal immigration? Do you think there should be a meaningful distinction, and how can there be without effective enforcement? If there isn't why wouldn't numbers continue to rise? Do you think it's right that people misuse the word asylum on a grand scale, given the really dire circumstances it was set up for?
Imagine the brain dead people saying he can only talk about football because that's his job when he was at home not doing his job, I hope that Karen only talks about work when she's socialising too or on socials
The difference is all the voters who have ZERO VOICE while the privileged have the veneer of >50% Voice on Migration policy that has been kept off voting for decades and decades. It's all a political deception played out in the media-circus as a fire-wall to the above fact.
@@countfosco8535 Only an idiot would think it's the truth, he preaches to everyone else while taking Qatar filthy money, he's arrogant thinking the rules don't apply to him, just paying the 5 million he owes in tax and NI would help.
the bbc seemingly applied a very different set of standards to Andrew Neil when he was employed by the BBC as a chief political journalist at the same time as he was editor of the Telegraph, a right wing newspaper that, under his watch, published many highly inflammatory and controversial articles that Andrew retweeted on his personal twitter account. In regard to Mr Neil when questioned on impartiality they stated that any views he shared outside his on air capacity as a broadcast journalist were his own and had no impact on his employment by the BBC. But I guess being a football pundit employed to talk about football is a much more politically sensitive position with much greater potential impacts on the BBCs impartiality than head of the politics department of BBC news. Or maybe it's just that he never said anything that upset the tories and right wing media too much
@@darrenbellenger1 took apart??? Understatement much? Shapiro is well known for fast talking "truth" firing speeches and debates and he was obliterated...
Not to mention being the chairman of the far right publication The Spectator, and heavily endorsing The Iraq invasion. Political support of the government is fine by anyone it seems, even newsreaders and political commentators. The BBC should be ashamed by it's pretence to be impartial, and should instead acknowledge it's present role as state owned television, no different than Russian state owned TV.
@Darren Bellenger that was a very rare exception, and only because shapiro is too right wing for even the Conservative pundits of the UK, it representative of Andrews usual character and behaviour
In the vox pop a girl says he's paid for commenting on football and went on to imply he should ONLY ever talk about football as a consequence. Wow! My mind boggles! Do you think she's thought this through??
Other BBC employees like Andrew Neil are free to tweet. Also Alan Sugar. Both BBC contractors. GL calls out the govt on a policy which to be fair has been criticized by the United Nations. They don't like it and called on their mates in management to silence or sack him. Some may say its rank hypocrisy, others will say he just a sports broadcaster and shouldn't breach their code despite he didn't do it on BBC time. We're divided as a nation and I think it is what the government want. This is all a distraction.
there is no way i would ever support the bbc on this, one guy in the clip said it spot on, gary is allowed to have his views and as long as he doesnt do it while working for the bbc then he has done nothing wrong, it was on his personal time and on his own twitter account...and anyone who thinks he should be fired or suspended is just crazy.
Nice white lady had plenty to say. I'm sure she had reviewed Gary's contract IN FULL and was privy to the inner workings of BBC employment structure. After all, Clarkson wouldn't have said anything like as divisive, and the D.G is paragon of virtue, which she would know.
@Rando Alt If you're saying that you're too broke to think for yourself and that only "the powerful" can do so then your basically telling me that you are powerless, which is a terrible view to have of oneself. Sorry you feel so down, hang in there mate !
So as someone with an "IQ above 90" do you always feel a need to announce it and start a sentence with "lol" I cant help you with your self esteem. Made the rest not worth reading.
This is what the Tories ultimately want. Sell off the BBC to another right-wing authoritarian billionaire as another channel for fear and division while never looking at the powerful and corrupt.
You are angry at what happened and rightly so, but your anger is facing the wrong way. The problem here is not the BBC, but the Tory Party who have parachuted their chums and cronies into the top jobs at the BBC in an effort to control what the BBC can and cannot say. Make no mistake, the Tories are trying to make the BBC into their own propaganda machine. When Lineker talks about what happened in 1930's Germany he is not wrong. Not paying your licence fee will just throw the baby out with the bathwater. We need to fix our government, expel their political appointments from the BBC, and set the Beeb free.
I will stop paying my licence fee when pricks like Lineker keep accusing me of being a nazi because I am proud of my country and it's heritige, and do not want to see it invaded by sponging foreigners.
Unfortunately our Government don't understand the meaning of simple English words such as fairness, compassion, integrity and accountability. Or maybe you think it's fair to make Doctors and Nurses suffer while the rich get richer? Or it's compassionate to standby and do nothing when people are left to die while waiting for an ambulance? Or there is integrity in having parties when they forbid the people they are meant to serve to attend the funerals of their loved ones? Or accepting accountability is to to sow doubt on the conclusions of your own independant inquiry(despite having already been fined by the police) and always appoint blame elsewhere for all of your failings?
2:01 - "people do pay him to talk about football, like that is what your job is, and therefore you have a choice to make, if you want to keep your job then you need to talk about what your job is about." Understand her comments, but really didn't understand what her job is. She seemed to be commenting about something that wasn't related to her job, which can't be the case, as that is what she says isn't allowed, but I can't quite figure out her job from this interview.
She's a pleb with no voice you dummy just like 99.99% of everyone else. Linkekar is the top 0.01% who have a public platform and "Public Service" function with disproportionate proportional influence as a consequence hence the impartiality clauses in these roles/jobs... It's blindingly obvious most people have zero voice.
Remember the couple who hired that plane with the banner on it to fly over Manchester??? they both were fired from their jobs, for what they believed was right..
I guess freedom of speech doesn't exist in England. It is interesting that when discussing anti-semitism and the holocaust you can make these sorts of statements freely, but when discussing racial (based on skin color) and ethnic bigotry it is unacceptable. To me, that is the telling part of this.
Like the other guy said if he said it on match of the day it’s a different story but he said it out of working hours and again there’s a thing called free speech
He didn’t tweet after a policy about banning people arriving illegally. He tweeted about the language being used by front bench ministers that tars all arrivals as illegal and using numbers that are intended to exaggerate fears.
the people arriving illegally cannot work and can claim a staggering 37.50 a week the neo-nazi home Secretary claimed 200 grand in expenses last year, the tory party have wheeled out witless tramp Peter hitchnes to claim that Hitler who was staunchly anti Christian, went to war with communists and once claimed that Jesus christ wasn't a Jewish but the offspring of a roman soldier and a prostitute was left wing
@@alex.crossley adolph Hitler ran a party the closest they ever came to socialism was via an antisemitic anticapitalist wing run by the strasser brothers who were mostly all killed during the night of the long knives because they were a threat.
It's ironic that Jeremy Clarkson is allowed back on the bc after what he said about American marco youth it about American marco and get Gary Lineker is practically trashed his career destroyed for standing up to fascism
Clarkson did and said things that caused offence or distress for years whilst working for the BBC, in the end they rid of him because he got handsy 🤜👨with a producer, over a cup of coffee no less I believe☕If Lineker had said what he said while he was actually working at the time then that would not be right. But as all he did was express his views on one of his personal accounts he can't be then criticised in any way, simple as. This is why the BBC are now facing the revolt that they have because what they've done by suspending him is completely unacceptable and there is absolutely no excuse for it. What could they possibly use to justify this, that Lineker isn't upholding the image that a BBC presenter is supposed to be projecting, by make a comment on a well known controversial issue? That of course wouldn't work because regardless if anyone thinks he went to far with what he said, you know comparing the latest government plan on how to tackle the migrant crisis to the mentally of the Nazi's, Lineker was entitled to say what he wants because he's within his rights to do, as long it's not offensive or illegal. Braverman saying she's hurt by what Lineker said as she felt what he said was offensive towards the holocaust survivors, because her husband's Jewish 😂, OH and since her children are half Jewish their direct descendants of the people who the Nazi's murdered she thinks she has the right to speak one their behalf. Their was nothing Lineker said that was anti-Semitic or offensive to the Jewish community at all, what meant with what he said was that he's comparing the cruelty displayed by the government, to that of the Nazi's. And this is government she's part of and where she's been able to make multiple offensive comments, and yet still been able to retain her job.
GL has been making political and social comments on and off air for quite some time without BBC censure so he naturally assumed he could continue doing so.
@@Curryking32000 It literally does, he didn't say it whilst working and it's not unlawful what he said. It would be a different story if he said it during Match of the Day. The Tories just wanted him gone, so they leaned on their puppets in the BBC.
@@S7Vmv He didn't break the rules. Th guidelines they're referring to apply to employees, not contracters such as Lineker. This was obviously a conscious decision to make an example of him. Also do you really not see how threatening someone with losing their job because they criticised a government policy could be seen as curtailing free speech? Really?
@dominic sadler Unless they've put him in jail, censored him or physically restrained him, his freedom of speech by its definition hasn't been impeded.
That's correct. BBC personnel are not allowed to express personal opinions even when they're not at work, and on their own. private social media accounts. ( I suppose they could if they did so under a pseudonym. )😎
That Yank spurs fan can get lost, says a lot that they couldn't find a single genuine Spurs fan to disagree with what he said. Also, are we really going to take the opinion of Americans seriously when it comes to preventing right wing authoritarianism?
She should of realised what she said was a huge reflection of the country she comes from, because she's a foreigner, by definition, and she voice her opinions, and stupid ones at that, on a national issue that's not to do with her nation. Did she even know what Football were even talking about? What she said was so ridiculous it isn't ignorable, and to make it worse there are no huge 'compensators' as an incentive to ignore what she said. By this I mean what she said was stereotypical as a dumb yank and this was what she displayed on the inside, yet SHE displays very little stereotypical features as a 'Blonde American' on the outside. She has Blonde hair , but no big bust😜, she's not wearing an excessive amount of make-up and she is very skinny for an American, so she's not dumb and fat which means her weight doesn't then coincide with how 'thick' she is, no pun intended!😏 When your abroad and you are asked to speak on a story to do with the people of that country your in, you are representing the country you come from with whatever viewpoint you decide to give on that subject, so what she said IS a representation of her country. To say she's displaying a bad representation for the whole of the US is a tad extensive, really by her country I mean the part she's from, her city, her town she born and raised in is what she represented and she's just embarrassed those there I'd say for sure, granted that Americans feel embarrassment🤔, I hope the people their give an absolute ear bashing 🤜👂when she goes back. I was originally going to comment to ask, 'What was she thinking' but she clearly hasn't any brain cells!🧠
So that woman thinks that if you have a job where you are paid to talk about something, that is the only thing you are allowed to talk about in any part of your life? So if I'm a chemistry teacher, I shouldn't be allowed to say anything in public about anything but chemistry? Lineker didn't express his views on the BBC. He expressed his views via his personal Twitter account. If no one with a job is allowed to have a political opinion, how is the country supposed to function politically?
She should of realised what she said was a huge reflection of the country she comes from, because she's a foreigner, by definition, and she voice her opinions, and stupid ones at that, on a national issue that's not to do with her nation. Did she even know what Football were even talking about? What she said was so ridiculous it isn't ignorable, and to make it worse there are no huge 'compensators' as an incentive to ignore what she said. By this I mean what she said was stereotypical as a dumb yank and this was what she displayed on the inside, yet SHE displays very little stereotypical features as a 'Blonde American' on the outside. She has Blonde hair , but no big bust😜, she's not wearing an excessive amount of make-up and she is very skinny for an American, so she's not dumb and fat which means her weight doesn't then coincide with how 'thick' she is, no pun intended!😏 When your abroad and you are asked to speak on a story to do with the people of that country your in, you are representing the country you come from with whatever viewpoint you decide to give on that subject, so what she said IS a representation of her country. To say she's displaying a bad representation for the whole of the US is a tad extensive, really by her country I mean the part she's from, her city, her town she born and raised in is what she represented and she's just embarrassed those there I'd say for sure, granted that Americans feel embarrassment🤔, I hope the people their give an absolute ear bashing 🤜👂when she goes back. I was originally going to comment to ask, 'What was she thinking' but she clearly hasn't any brain cells!🧠
How sad it is that everything is focused around Garry and about him expressing his opinion but not really about issue he disagrees which I think much more important than his tweet
At first glance I supported the BBC’s decision. Neutrality when it comes to journalists and commentators is important. But then you really see all the leniency they have towards conservatives and their talking points you have to wonder how this was the time to enforce journalistic standards. The BBC deserves this honestly.
This is more about the hypocrisy of the BBC going after a sports commentator for making a statement about politics when their director general is a Tory party doner and private bank to Boris Johnson .....soooo it's a bit more than just sport !
PM .... Not A Political Matter .... His Home Officer Minister Named Gary Linker In Parliament And Expressed Her Opinion....... The Government Made It Political........
It’s a shame the BBC does not address other forms of bias - such as excluding republicans from royal stories and politians from non-London based UK parties from the “national” news!
Plus shutting down any discussion on Covid vacs, net zero or Brexit unless you voted remain. The BBC like most of the MSM just report what THEY think we should see. With companies like Channel 4 you just switch over but the BBC you can switch over but you still paying via your licence fee.
If you work for who public pays wages too then unfortunately we don’t sack them they get a slightly lower paid job in the same building. If employed by businesses they 👍🏼💯 🥾
@@brentmeistergeneral6074 don't hire Them then, who listen to them really, they just tell you what you just watched, if they have such high morals, why did thay all go to quatar
Most likely due to curiosity. With all the hype the last few days then finding out garry has to step back people were curious to see what was going on.
@Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells and my comment has anything to do with human traffickers? Your ignorance is not surprising, I was pointing out a probability while you are, maybe assuming I side with the view differing from yours. I'm sick to the back teeth of the migrant situation. I'm angry at our taxes being spent on housing migrants before our own, but I've also had it with the ignorance of a nation that is being played by both sides. Left or right, both sides are out for themselves, creating hatred in the country and causing diversions while they all line their pockets. This left and right, us and them hated is bullsh*t, the country is f*"#ed and not a single party in the whole of the uk is fit to govern, nothings going to change though is it, especially when the country is full of individuals who like to leave smart arsed comments instead of constructive criticism or ideas for change.
It's funny when someone says the tory government has failed 🤣 on asylum, when it was there government that opened the borders of this country, i think thay where called new labor 🤔
I very clearly recall the FA not allowing political stances when some players were showing solidarity in the invasion of Palestine yet for Ukraine everyone was encouraged and applauded for it...I think that paints a very clear picture.
No. That is exactly what the Tories who put all of their lackeys into positions of power in the BBC want. What the country needs is a truly independent public broadcaster, one that allows the expression of all political opinions. Don't be taken in by the Tory playbook - they destroy public institutions, such as the NHS and the BBC, and then use the results of that destruction as a reason for proposing the permanent elimination of those public institutions.
@@brentmeistergeneral6074 Well they employed him didn't they. Oh, not employed, actually he has a "special arrangement" that allows him to tax dodge to the tune of £4.9million, at least that's how much the HMRC are chasing him for.
Good or bad, we all have a right to express ourselves, that’s why our ancestors fought SO hard for democracy, so WE have a choice as well as a voice. He wasn’t saying anything deliberately hurtful, or anything that could encourage others to do. I’m glad others have stood up with someone with the guts to speak their truth regardless.
I agree with you, but I’m pretty sure they are not defending free speech. They are defending him because they agree with him. Im sure they would be arranging a similar boycott and demanding he be sacked if he had expressed the opposite point of view. They’ve done that before (see Matt Le Tissier).
I love how working class sports men and women have more principles and are more willing to challenge nonsense than those middle class cronies in the media whose job is to challenge nonsense. Solidarity to my brothers and sisters
@@S7Vmv what are you rambling about? Half of this country are immigrants. Immigrants built this country. These sports people come from humble beginnings and as a result understand to speak to power when it oppresses those with nothing. Immigrants are not the issues so they shouldn't be scapegoated. Pure national socialist race baiting. If Immigrants were turned away and immigration wasnt a thing do you think there would be more housing? Or the NHS would be funded better? There wouldn't
Working class? Where was his principles in Qatar? Or when he was using a tax avoidance scheme? Some of us have no say on the amount of tax that gets taken from our hard earned wages,bare this in mind when you’ve all finished telling us who we should and shouldn’t be giving it away freely to!
@@S7Vmv He might be a millionaire. But he wasn't born one. His father was a greengrocer, so he has working class roots and you never forget that. So what if he has money? Does that mean he forfeits the right to speak for disadvantaged people? That would make virtually every politician, from all sides, redundant. 'Illegal immigration causes poverty and crime for all involved' - that is typical of the xenophobic language being promoted by this current government. These people, escaping from war and troubles that we have helped to cause, are housed in a single poorly run hotel room if they're lucky (if they're not lucky they're housed in barracks type hostel dorms and the women are picked off by traffickers) for years at a time, and not allowed to work or contribute to society. No wonder a small number of them are frustrated. Can you imagine if you did the same to a bunch of football fans from the UK? They'd be trashing the place inside of a week, never mind a year. People talk about illegal immigrants as if they are sub-human, conveniently forgetting the hundreds of thousand of brain dead British tourists who flock to other countries and act like Neanderthals. It's your opinion that's misinformed. Until the government starts to properly process immigrants and get them into work and society, this is always going to be a mess. Other countries have coped with millions of refugees. We can't cope with less than 50,000 illegals despite showing that we can spend billions on worthless PPE. And let's also state that they are only classed as 'illegal immigrants' because the government offers no pathway to become a legal immigrant (unless you're from Ukraine or Hong Kong) to most countries we've invaded, or helped to destabilise. To become a legal immigrant you must have the offer of a job before you get here or British born parents (even then, that comes with strict stipulations). The number of 'illegal immigrants' are dwarfed by legal Hong Kong immigrants, let alone Ukrainians. It shouldn't be that hard to process these people and get them contributing to the economy.
People are brain dead who say „his job is sport, don‘t talk about politics“. Politics is in everything and more not less people should participate. This girl is maybe a accountant or lawyer, why is she voicing her opinion on this political issue… maybe step in line with what you yourself said?
@S Impartial when carrying out their paid duties while in work. Anything outside of that is exercising freedom of speech in their own private time, which everybody is allowed to do
@@S7Vmv It's you who are clueless. Not to mention lacking the humanity which is now common to the West. He's actually homed refugees in his own house, so to say he doesn't live near any is probably the dumbest comment I've ever heard. And considering the UN has denounced the proposed bill as illegal and contrary to the Human Rights Act I suspect that no other civilised country enforces this type of law. So, yes, just like 1930's Germany.
@@S7Vmv No action taken against him? What do you call suspension from his duties with the BBC? Moron. Try using more than 1 of your braincells the next time you comment.
It's a hilarious situation really....Yet another example of the atrocious managerial & editorial decisions made by the BBC, & all over one of Lineker's clout-chasing tweets....
I agree with you but the fact is , if you sign a contract in return for an obscene salary then you are obligated to abide by the terms of that contract.
Comparing the fate of Jews and other victims of Nazism to that of young, healthy, iPhone-owning, TikTok-posting boat adventurers who travel from one of the safest and richest countries in the world to another is nothing to be proud of or respected for, mate
I expect if someone worked for Amazon or Tesco & said something online that caused the company to get negative publicity they would also be called into HR for a disciplinary or at least told to remove the post.
yep, I've had enough of overpaid, ageing footballers yakking on about a game of footie, absolute scandal paying these people so much money ! Cancels your licence now !
I credit Gary et al for the stance, being socially active and highlighting the hypocrisy and corruption which is the BBC of Tories, funded by us, by coercion and tax, and more importantly supporting a hard right ideology,. See Brexit a further dark mark in British political shenanigans!! Well dun Gaz
Instead of focusing on whether Lineker was out of line or not, the UK public need to reflect on what he said. The sentiment is key here. Many people both within and outside the UK are of the opinion that the UK is incrementally losing its democracy. This is the real issue that needs to be brought to the table.
Right to protest on the way out. Free speech is OK as long as it is government approved. Selective application of broad police powers and vague laws. All steps on the slippery slope to fascism.
And the BBC have every right to ask him to confirm to their social media standards and apologise, or not host their show. You can't act surprised if the one who pays your checks take issue when you pull them into a national controversy.
Think the BBC should replace Lineker with a Lineker impersonator voiceover, that would be fun.... As to the left wing luvvies have had things all their way for a good few years . If they don't like it, maybe they can all find employment elsewhere.
No, Keir. At the heart of this is trying to shift the focus from 13 years of disastrous Tory governance with the aid of BBC Chairperson Richard Sharp, a Tory donor & former advisor to Johnson's appalling Tory Government.
Imagine being more upset about a tweet than that appalling policy they're trying to churn out, but hey, most racists are too thick to realise they are racist.
I find it patently pathetic that players take a knee against racism while several Black players give the Black power salute Im so sick of the double standards folks like yourself are constantly endorsing.
Linekar is the furthest thing from the average bloke. Wtf are you on about ? He is the upper class and the top 1% of this country, telling the rest of us what's right and wrong
Funny, the only people critical of Lineker in this segment are middle aged white women with an American accent… Pretty sure wearing a MAGA shirt under that coat….
This goes beyond politics - it is about human rights, I applaud Gary ad all those who are protesting the steady erosion of human rights, workers' protections and the massive disinformation peddled by the Tories. It is an insidious process that is being implemented via the unnecessary replacement of the previously negotiated legislation in alignment with the EU after Brexit.
The woman saying his job is to talk about football. Should be sacked from her job for her opinion on Gary Lineker then and then she may understand the situation he is in. When he's doing "his job" he talks about football. When he isn't he can talk about what ever he wants. Unless ofcourse she's implying because he is a TV producer hes sacrificed the ability to be an individual human being and therefore is just a living breathing machine that can only think what he's told lol. He tweeted an opinion on his personal twitter. Very much doubt she would like being sacked from her work place because her job is to sell bread in a bakery.
@@charlielynes Don't be so vague, more detail needed to find it, more than just saying Hansard WTF. how about a date so that I can go straight to it ? thanks.
@Gigabyte If you are so interested all you have to do is read the minutes of select committees, filter "Patel" in Hansard, and read the words. The reliance on being spoon-fed information is the reason we get into these political cluster-fudges. If you do not pay attention, very quickly we will be exactly where Gary is correctly warning us we are heading. Don't take this personally, I'm not attacking you, just what we have allowed ourselves to become.
Calling anyone who has concerns with thousands of unknown young men being secretly dumped into our communities far right is disgusting and nobody in positions of power should make these vile statements. What Gary Lineker has done is go to the next level and call most people in the UK Nazis because it is the majority of people that have been calling the government to take this kind of action on illegal immigration. Yes he can say what he likes but not while taking money from our national broadcaster who must be impartial by their rules.
The people need to take back what's ours. The BBC belongs to the nation, not a political party and the tories need to be removed and the celebrities reinstated. If he said what he said on Match of the day he should be sacked. He didn't and he should be allowed to air his views that's called free speech. I'm not even sure I agree with what he said but my god he should be allowed to say it.
Language / words. If you try and convince people that there’s invasion while dehumanising people, then there’s good reason to suggest this sort of language has horrible undertones and can be compared.
BBC is fine when their presenters publicly comment on Qatar and Russian human rights abuses but have a red line about commenting on UK human rights abuses??
Excellent comment
Agreed 👍
True. Gary did condemned Qatar and yet BBC didn't say a word or banned him...and now it's not ok ?
Mind you they managed to sidestep the Manchester bombings enquiries quickly
Guilty
The two women saying his job is football commentary and so that's all he should talk about it ridiculous. If what she means is that being on TV talking about football means he can't talk on other platforms about other topics, then that is still ridiculous. What if he was invited on to a radio show (not BBC) or a talk-show? How does this rule apply exactly? How can Andrew Neill write columns for right-wing papers and be a front for so-called 'imaprtial political' BBC TV shows? Typical vox pops with no real thought or reasoning behind the opinions expressed.
@@ChristianPatriarchy 🤡
Everyone ie entitled to an Opinion , whether you like it or NOT !
@@ChristianPatriarchy Gary condemned Qatar human rights issues and BBC was ok with that. But not ok when Gary highlighted another human rights issues in UK. Any clues why?
@@ChristianPatriarchy don't judge football fans by your own, very low, standards
Channel 4: Okay, we need to find a member of the public who will speak against whats happened, who has no idea of British politics or sports and culture
American: Hold my beer!
Yup thought the same! She was struggling to put a sentence together. 🤣
A blonde American female who is against the rights of immigrants. Sounds like someone we know.
Does this American lady's job description include commenting on other people's job descriptions? 🤔
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They are probably trumplings which would explain why they came across as morons.
That’s right….get an American fan reaction telling us that he should be talking about what he’s paid to as a sport journalist! Does she realise that he’s allowed to talk about other things than sport when he’s on his personal Twitter account?!?
So if he said that all thieves should have their right hand cut off or all sexual criminals should have their gonads removed, that would be ok so long as he posted it on his own private Twitter account? Yes? No? But.....?
@@robertclark2998 Pointless post.
Is he indeed…not really…not when it effects his job as a public broadcasting company representative…different rules apply to him than to others. Twitter is a bullshit platform anyway..a place for morons to socialise
@@TheWunder Lineker recently tweeted it was awful a Hamas terrorist was killed (as he was a footballer).
My apologies for those idiot blond Americans. Not all Americans are as dumb as them, (but damn we have a lot of them…mostly right wing)
Good riddance get rid of the lot of these opinionated hosts bring in new staff!
The woman who said he had a choice
has she lost her job now for speaking
about a non-job issue on her own time?
Her own comments imply she should.
Exactly
Incredible observation
Well she's clearly an American so probably yeah,
Can't blame her she picked two struggles, a Yank and a Spud!
Depends, did she sign a contract which includes impartiality?
The Tories had zero issues when Lineker was attacking the previous labour leader but then many other BBC employes (emily m, Lord Sugar etc) were free to do so
And liebore had zero issues when they let in one million undocumented refugee's into the UK to boolster their votes. Funny how many left supporters buried their heads in their colons also when crime rates went up in some area's shortly after..Funny that ehh!
BBC is state propaganda. It's all just charades you're buying into!
>80% of the Citizens of UK would vote on controls on Migration Policy if given yet apparently Linekar is the other 50% Pro-Migration. The facts don't stand up to scrutiny.
He said, She said, "ABC" said is total smoke blowing.
White Lives Matter banner employees were struck off their jobs... bear in mind.
Exactly. They'll word this as a free speech/media contract type affair, but it isn't. It's as usual a 'free speech to say things we like, no free speech to say things we don't like'/media contract issue.
What did he say about 'the previous labour leader'?
@@hetrodoxly1203 He tweeted telling folk to not to vote for corbyn the day before the 2017 election, as one example.
1:54 wow she lives in a boring world, all she tweets about is her job? Seriously? Her family must be absolutely sick of it and hope she finds a life, I’m a musician and some times I tweet about my home construction, I hope I don’t lose my job
Tony Haven, I hope you do!
Americans lol
Have to find an American tourist for anyone who has any disagreement with what Lineker has sed
She's probably a Trump supporter
@̐ the Nigerians and Albanians (and LOADS of other ethnicities) are delivering the NHS, dumb dumb! 😆
@@humanpotatoes4958 so you think the NHS should be staffed by illegal immigration, or legal immigration? Do you think there should be a meaningful distinction, and how can there be without effective enforcement? If there isn't why wouldn't numbers continue to rise?
Do you think it's right that people misuse the word asylum on a grand scale, given the really dire circumstances it was set up for?
Try checking your spelling Bater- james.
@@williambunter3311 get a life
Imagine the brain dead people saying he can only talk about football because that's his job when he was at home not doing his job, I hope that Karen only talks about work when she's socialising too or on socials
I doubt she has a impartiality clause in her contract.
The difference is all the voters who have ZERO VOICE while the privileged have the veneer of >50% Voice on Migration policy that has been kept off voting for decades and decades.
It's all a political deception played out in the media-circus as a fire-wall to the above fact.
Well aren't you the clever one? I doubt it very much. Just a guy who wants to troll women hey lad?
Mister. Trolling women, me thinks you might be irritated that you aren’t as astute as our correspondent Michael Smart! 😉
Correct decision to sack him
The double standards at the BBC need to be called out. Entertainment by commitee is going to be the death of it.
Very true, now the arrogant Lineker has gone, they might get someone with diversity of opinion.
Good, the quicker it dies the better.
@@hetrodoxly1203 What is arrogant about the truth? We, the UK, used to be a decent country.
@@countfosco8535 No we didn't. It was never great, just rich.
@@countfosco8535 Only an idiot would think it's the truth, he preaches to everyone else while taking Qatar filthy money, he's arrogant thinking the rules don't apply to him, just paying the 5 million he owes in tax and NI would help.
the bbc seemingly applied a very different set of standards to Andrew Neil when he was employed by the BBC as a chief political journalist at the same time as he was editor of the Telegraph, a right wing newspaper that, under his watch, published many highly inflammatory and controversial articles that Andrew retweeted on his personal twitter account. In regard to Mr Neil when questioned on impartiality they stated that any views he shared outside his on air capacity as a broadcast journalist were his own and had no impact on his employment by the BBC. But I guess being a football pundit employed to talk about football is a much more politically sensitive position with much greater potential impacts on the BBCs impartiality than head of the politics department of BBC news. Or maybe it's just that he never said anything that upset the tories and right wing media too much
Andrew Neil applies critique to a subject - he once took apart Ben Shapiro (who the last time I looked wasn't left-wing)
@@darrenbellenger1 took apart???
Understatement much? Shapiro is well known for fast talking "truth" firing speeches and debates and he was obliterated...
Not to mention being the chairman of the far right publication The Spectator, and heavily endorsing The Iraq invasion. Political support of the government is fine by anyone it seems, even newsreaders and political commentators. The BBC should be ashamed by it's pretence to be impartial, and should instead acknowledge it's present role as state owned television, no different than Russian state owned TV.
@Darren Bellenger that was a very rare exception, and only because shapiro is too right wing for even the Conservative pundits of the UK, it representative of Andrews usual character and behaviour
No they didn’t you snow flake.
I hope all these pundits who support Liniker like Wright, all walk.
I find it funny that BBC isn't covering this on their channel.
They are. Watched a Beeb bulletin about it a couple of hours ago.
They have to look impartial 😂
I find it funny that you continue to talk shyte. They are covering it!
They are, and it's embarrassing for them. 😀
BBC présenter
"Tonight gary li...."
BBC headquarters
"You're fired"
"Bye bye bye bye...bye bye bye bye!"
Channel 4 should stop saying illegal immigrants. Funny how the Americans agree with right wingers
In the vox pop a girl says he's paid for commenting on football and went on to imply he should ONLY ever talk about football as a consequence. Wow! My mind boggles! Do you think she's thought this through??
Her opinion is ridiculous
Other BBC employees like Andrew Neil are free to tweet. Also Alan Sugar. Both BBC contractors. GL calls out the govt on a policy which to be fair has been criticized by the United Nations. They don't like it and called on their mates in management to silence or sack him. Some may say its rank hypocrisy, others will say he just a sports broadcaster and shouldn't breach their code despite he didn't do it on BBC time. We're divided as a nation and I think it is what the government want. This is all a distraction.
Some random Yank who came to watch the Spuds for the day.
She probably hasn't thought past her latest nail appointment.
She's a yank, what do you expect.
there is no way i would ever support the bbc on this, one guy in the clip said it spot on, gary is allowed to have his views and as long as he doesnt do it while working for the bbc then he has done nothing wrong, it was on his personal time and on his own twitter account...and anyone who thinks he should be fired or suspended is just crazy.
@STRIVE FOR SUCCESS Funny I'm sure he still went to Qatar - Hypocrite
Shame they never taken the same stance against the poor treatment of individuals in Qatar at the world cup
You obviously didn’t watch the World Cup because they did
@@christophermoore9755
Before or after they took the money?
@@problemofcommons775 well if you watched it you would know wouldn't you! FFS 😂
Techno samurai ffs have a day off pal
@@shahjaa4944 Lol
Don't agree with him but that is his personal twitter account. He should be free to state his opinions. You cannot police thoughts.
Yes this is exactly right. He can say what he wants. The guy is a sports presenter. We need free speech for all
Look at the Americans bringing their racism here
How the fu*k is she being racist loser?
Nice white lady had plenty to say. I'm sure she had reviewed Gary's contract IN FULL and was privy to the inner workings of BBC employment structure. After all, Clarkson wouldn't have said anything like as divisive, and the D.G is paragon of virtue, which she would know.
Had you ? 😂👍
Thats what solidarity and boycotting can do, its an illusion that people dont have the power.
I hope every last one of them loses their slot as pundits its time to refresh the stale old cast anyway get some new blood in there.
True talk 👊🏾
@@derektejan-sie5736 👊🏼
@Rando Alt If you're saying that you're too broke to think for yourself and that only "the powerful" can do so then your basically telling me that you are powerless, which is a terrible view to have of oneself. Sorry you feel so down, hang in there mate !
So as someone with an "IQ above 90" do you always feel a need to announce it and start a sentence with "lol" I cant help you with your self esteem. Made the rest not worth reading.
Looks like the bbc just shat on its own doorstep ...Again re: Jeremy Clarkson Stop paying your license fee!
This is what the Tories ultimately want. Sell off the BBC to another right-wing authoritarian billionaire as another channel for fear and division while never looking at the powerful and corrupt.
You are angry at what happened and rightly so, but your anger is facing the wrong way.
The problem here is not the BBC, but the Tory Party who have parachuted their chums and cronies into the top jobs at the BBC in an effort to control what the BBC can and cannot say.
Make no mistake, the Tories are trying to make the BBC into their own propaganda machine. When Lineker talks about what happened in 1930's Germany he is not wrong.
Not paying your licence fee will just throw the baby out with the bathwater. We need to fix our government, expel their political appointments from the BBC, and set the Beeb free.
The Tories shat on the BBCs doorstep.
I will stop paying my licence fee when pricks like Lineker keep accusing me of being a nazi because I am proud of my country and it's heritige, and do not want to see it invaded by sponging foreigners.
£150 for nothing makes no difference if you don’t pay it😊
Unfortunately our Government don't understand the meaning of simple English words such as fairness, compassion, integrity and accountability. Or maybe you think it's fair to make Doctors and Nurses suffer while the rich get richer? Or it's compassionate to standby and do nothing when people are left to die while waiting for an ambulance? Or there is integrity in having parties when they forbid the people they are meant to serve to attend the funerals of their loved ones? Or accepting accountability is to to sow doubt on the conclusions of your own independant inquiry(despite having already been fined by the police) and always appoint blame elsewhere for all of your failings?
You're correct, they are all over the place. But the undercurrent is fascist attitude that has been allowed air by the likes of Farage and co.
I think you are barking up the wrong tree here mate. What he said was about the Holocaust not covid
@@chrispennington9652 So right chris should not be surprised proffessor claptrap is a Quisling or even LIneker in drag
@@robertsmith9810 thanks for that. Just what we need!!!!
Doctors aren't rich in England?
Love the stink Gary has made at the BBC with one tweet
I know ,,, you’d think that young chap that was butchered by an illegal a few weeks ago would get a mention
The BBC stank already , time to defund it .
@@davepangolin4996 He's put the boot right into the Savile protecting BBC with a single comment and i am loving it
@@davepangolin4996 Exactly….and spare a thought for Sarah Everard who was murdered by a serving Police Officer ….you do remember that don’t you ?
Attempting to whitewash Nazism like Gary did is indeed like letting a giant, loud fart in public space
Some strange Leicester accents there, very representative
They interviewed fans of Tottenham here
2:01 - "people do pay him to talk about football, like that is what your job is, and therefore you have a choice to make, if you want to keep your job then you need to talk about what your job is about." Understand her comments, but really didn't understand what her job is. She seemed to be commenting about something that wasn't related to her job, which can't be the case, as that is what she says isn't allowed, but I can't quite figure out her job from this interview.
That depends if her contract had a impartiality clause I guess.
She's a pleb with no voice you dummy just like 99.99% of everyone else. Linkekar is the top 0.01% who have a public platform and "Public Service" function with disproportionate proportional influence as a consequence hence the impartiality clauses in these roles/jobs...
It's blindingly obvious most people have zero voice.
She was talking utter dribble and I’m pretty sure she had not much of idea what she was being asked either
Remember the couple who hired that plane with the banner on it to fly over Manchester??? they both were fired from their jobs, for what they believed was right..
ha. spot on 😂🤪
I guess freedom of speech doesn't exist in England.
It is interesting that when discussing anti-semitism and the holocaust you can make these sorts of statements freely, but when discussing racial (based on skin color) and ethnic bigotry it is unacceptable. To me, that is the telling part of this.
The Jewish Board of Deputies support him.
Like the other guy said if he said it on match of the day it’s a different story but he said it out of working hours and again there’s a thing called free speech
@@Vegelen really?
What bravery these guys are showing.
He didn’t tweet after a policy about banning people arriving illegally. He tweeted about the language being used by front bench ministers that tars all arrivals as illegal and using numbers that are intended to exaggerate fears.
the people arriving illegally cannot work and can claim a staggering 37.50 a week the neo-nazi home Secretary claimed 200 grand in expenses last year, the tory party have wheeled out witless tramp Peter hitchnes to claim that Hitler who was staunchly anti Christian, went to war with communists and once claimed that Jesus christ wasn't a Jewish but the offspring of a roman soldier and a prostitute was left wing
Maybe he did, but he commentates on football, and gets aid million to do it.
@@jeremysmith8035 I quite admire PH and don’t think he’s a Tory stooge. I don’t agree with half of PHs views, but he is on the mark at times.
So does Sugar. What’s your point?
@@alex.crossley adolph Hitler ran a party the closest they ever came to socialism was via an antisemitic anticapitalist wing run by the strasser brothers who were mostly all killed during the night of the long knives because they were a threat.
It's ironic that Jeremy Clarkson is allowed back on the bc after what he said about American marco youth it about American marco and get Gary Lineker is practically trashed his career destroyed for standing up to fascism
Clarkson did and said things that caused offence or distress for years whilst working for the BBC, in the end they rid of him because he got handsy 🤜👨with a producer, over a cup of coffee no less I believe☕If Lineker had said what he said while he was actually working at the time then that would not be right. But as all he did was express his views on one of his personal accounts he can't be then criticised in any way, simple as. This is why the BBC are now facing the revolt that they have because what they've done by suspending him is completely unacceptable and there is absolutely no excuse for it. What could they possibly use to justify this, that Lineker isn't upholding the image that a BBC presenter is supposed to be projecting, by make a comment on a well known controversial issue?
That of course wouldn't work because regardless if anyone thinks he went to far with what he said, you know comparing the latest government plan on how to tackle the migrant crisis to the mentally of the Nazi's, Lineker was entitled to say what he wants because he's within his rights to do, as long it's not offensive or illegal. Braverman saying she's hurt by what Lineker said as she felt what he said was offensive towards the holocaust survivors, because her husband's Jewish 😂, OH and since her children are half Jewish their direct descendants of the people who the Nazi's murdered she thinks she has the right to speak one their behalf. Their was nothing Lineker said that was anti-Semitic or offensive to the Jewish community at all, what meant with what he said was that he's comparing the cruelty displayed by the government, to that of the Nazi's. And this is government she's part of and where she's been able to make multiple offensive comments, and yet still been able to retain her job.
I don't recall voting for unfettered, Illegal Immigration...I don't recall voting for Gary Lineker!
I also dont recall voting for Truss or Sunak but there you go. Its called a parliamentary democracy however flawed.
Gary Lineker is Richard Madeley doing an impression of Alan Partridge.
GL has been making political and social comments on and off air for quite some time without BBC censure so he naturally assumed he could continue doing so.
Free Speech is Free Speech NOT Dictatorship ! ☮️
free speech doesn't apply to this
@@Curryking32000 It literally does, he didn't say it whilst working and it's not unlawful what he said. It would be a different story if he said it during Match of the Day. The Tories just wanted him gone, so they leaned on their puppets in the BBC.
I expect most of the people preaching free speech will be the ones emailing Ofcom every week trying to get TalkTV & GB News taken off air.
@@S7Vmv He didn't break the rules. Th guidelines they're referring to apply to employees, not contracters such as Lineker. This was obviously a conscious decision to make an example of him. Also do you really not see how threatening someone with losing their job because they criticised a government policy could be seen as curtailing free speech? Really?
@dominic sadler Unless they've put him in jail, censored him or physically restrained him, his freedom of speech by its definition hasn't been impeded.
According to the woman at Spurs if you work for the BBC you are never allowed to express your own opinion outside off the job
That's correct. BBC personnel are not allowed to express personal opinions even when they're not at work, and on their own. private social media accounts. ( I suppose they could if they did so under a pseudonym. )😎
Well welcome to 1984…..if you’re stupid enough to believe tripe.
@@adrianjohnson7920 liar
@Adrian Johnson they can publicly express personal opinions, but not on government policy.
Specifically, BBC employees can't "express a personal opinion on matters of public policy, politics, or controversial subjects”.
That Yank spurs fan can get lost, says a lot that they couldn't find a single genuine Spurs fan to disagree with what he said. Also, are we really going to take the opinion of Americans seriously when it comes to preventing right wing authoritarianism?
She should of realised what she said was a huge reflection of the country she comes from, because she's a foreigner, by definition, and she voice her opinions, and stupid ones at that, on a national issue that's not to do with her nation. Did she even know what Football were even talking about? What she said was so ridiculous it isn't ignorable, and to make it worse there are no huge 'compensators' as an incentive to ignore what she said. By this I mean what she said was stereotypical as a dumb yank and this was what she displayed on the inside, yet SHE displays very little stereotypical features as a 'Blonde American' on the outside.
She has Blonde hair , but no big bust😜, she's not wearing an excessive amount of make-up and she is very skinny for an American, so she's not dumb and fat which means her weight doesn't then coincide with how 'thick' she is, no pun intended!😏
When your abroad and you are asked to speak on a story to do with the people of that country your in, you are representing the country you come from with whatever viewpoint you decide to give on that subject, so what she said IS a representation of her country. To say she's displaying a bad representation for the whole of the US is a tad extensive, really by her country I mean the part she's from, her city, her town she born and raised in is what she represented and she's just embarrassed those there I'd say for sure, granted that Americans feel embarrassment🤔, I hope the people their give an absolute ear bashing 🤜👂when she goes back. I was originally going to comment to ask, 'What was she thinking' but she clearly hasn't any brain cells!🧠
Freedom of speech 👍🏻
Gary linekar 1 BBC 0
Undocumented migrant murders 6 United Kingdom 0
Match of day is on but for 20 minutes so BBC 1 Gary Lineker 0
@@davepangolin4996 liar
@@ChristianPatriarchy clown and a bot.
BBC own goal.
So that woman thinks that if you have a job where you are paid to talk about something, that is the only thing you are allowed to talk about in any part of your life? So if I'm a chemistry teacher, I shouldn't be allowed to say anything in public about anything but chemistry? Lineker didn't express his views on the BBC. He expressed his views via his personal Twitter account. If no one with a job is allowed to have a political opinion, how is the country supposed to function politically?
She should of realised what she said was a huge reflection of the country she comes from, because she's a foreigner, by definition, and she voice her opinions, and stupid ones at that, on a national issue that's not to do with her nation. Did she even know what Football were even talking about? What she said was so ridiculous it isn't ignorable, and to make it worse there are no huge 'compensators' as an incentive to ignore what she said. By this I mean what she said was stereotypical as a dumb yank and this was what she displayed on the inside, yet SHE displays very little stereotypical features as a 'Blonde American' on the outside.
She has Blonde hair , but no big bust😜, she's not wearing an excessive amount of make-up and she is very skinny for an American, so she's not dumb and fat which means her weight doesn't then coincide with how 'thick' she is, no pun intended!😏
When your abroad and you are asked to speak on a story to do with the people of that country your in, you are representing the country you come from with whatever viewpoint you decide to give on that subject, so what she said IS a representation of her country. To say she's displaying a bad representation for the whole of the US is a tad extensive, really by her country I mean the part she's from, her city, her town she born and raised in is what she represented and she's just embarrassed those there I'd say for sure, granted that Americans feel embarrassment🤔, I hope the people their give an absolute ear bashing 🤜👂when she goes back. I was originally going to comment to ask, 'What was she thinking' but she clearly hasn't any brain cells!🧠
God…that woman who said “if you wanna keep your job you gotta stick to talking about what your job is.” Absolute melt. I bet she’s fun at parties…
Funny right. American immigrant ignoring the topic and the crux of the conversation which is immigration
Her accent sounded American, from the '' land of the free '' 🤣🤣🤣
i have opinions on Jehovah witnesses knocking on my door, doesn’t mean i have to be one, to tell them what i think.. 🤪👍
She clearly wasn't the sharpest tool in the box. You could literally see her face reacting to the words coming out of her mouth live.
I apologize for our American woman. Obviously she’s a Trumper
I for one will not be paying my licence fee going forward the BBC is a disgrace
Yes agreed, paying that idiot £1.3 million of tv licence payers money to talk about a piece of leather being kicked around a field is a disgrace !
How sad it is that everything is focused around Garry and about him expressing his opinion but not really about issue he disagrees which I think much more important than his tweet
This just underlines the tweet Gary made. The Tories put pressure on the BBC to censure free speech. We should all be worried about this.
That is the real truth of the matter…….you got it spot on 👍.
How is he free to compare Tory rhetoric with national socialist germany? the BBC have a charter.
Left wing biased bbc
@@johnou.k.3780 Demonstrably not.
Most of the BBC governors are Conservative Party members. Still, that makes them left wing according to some.
At first glance I supported the BBC’s decision. Neutrality when it comes to journalists and commentators is important. But then you really see all the leniency they have towards conservatives and their talking points you have to wonder how this was the time to enforce journalistic standards.
The BBC deserves this honestly.
I think you really need to take another look
Hold on, not the matter for the government? I thought the members of his government inflamed the whole thing, this is throwing BBc under the bus...
How will we cope without Gary of match of the day? How will the world go on? What a joke. It's hardly a crisis.
Because its not about that. Its about free speech
World copes fine. But the BBC is looking less independent by the day. and this government ever more like regimes which claim to despise.
This is more about the hypocrisy of the BBC going after a sports commentator for making a statement about politics when their director general is a Tory party doner and private bank to Boris Johnson .....soooo it's a bit more than just sport !
@@denz180 where were the protests when a child got interviewed by the cops and death threats for dropping a Koran.
@@stevenicol1 yep, where were the protests for the grooming gangs, or the school teacher from Batley.
PM .... Not A Political Matter .... His Home Officer Minister Named Gary Linker In Parliament And Expressed Her Opinion....... The Government Made It Political........
It’s a shame the BBC does not address other forms of bias - such as excluding republicans from royal stories and politians from non-London based UK parties from the “national” news!
Plus shutting down any discussion on Covid vacs, net zero or Brexit unless you voted remain. The BBC like most of the MSM just report what THEY think we should see. With companies like Channel 4 you just switch over but the BBC you can switch over but you still paying via your licence fee.
Yes indeed & BBC noted cover ups for Jimmy Saville Rolf Harris Gary Glitter among others.
If they don't turn up for work, sack them
If you work for who public pays wages too then unfortunately we don’t sack them they get a slightly lower paid job in the same building.
If employed by businesses they 👍🏼💯 🥾
Thank you for your input
he and other sports pundits are not employees. they can't be sacked.
What? Sack the Free Lance, non-employees?
@@brentmeistergeneral6074 don't hire Them then, who listen to them really, they just tell you what you just watched, if they have such high morals, why did thay all go to quatar
Just watched his latest Walkers crisps advert, he was munching on Wokey Bacon
salt and virtue signaller
Bargain hunt, isn't that cockney rhyming slang for the head of the BBC..
The distraction is Lineker owes the British taxpayer 4.5 million pounds.
Nahhh a lot more,he’s a typical British scammer
Excellent news......about time the BBC had some leveling up.......haven't liked being lectured to for a long time
That's right, leave the poor Nazis alone!
The funny thing is that the revised schedule apparently got higher ratings than the football used to get 😂
Most likely due to curiosity. With all the hype the last few days then finding out garry has to step back people were curious to see what was going on.
@Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells and my comment has anything to do with human traffickers? Your ignorance is not surprising, I was pointing out a probability while you are, maybe assuming I side with the view differing from yours.
I'm sick to the back teeth of the migrant situation. I'm angry at our taxes being spent on housing migrants before our own, but I've also had it with the ignorance of a nation that is being played by both sides. Left or right, both sides are out for themselves, creating hatred in the country and causing diversions while they all line their pockets. This left and right, us and them hated is bullsh*t, the country is f*"#ed and not a single party in the whole of the uk is fit to govern, nothings going to change though is it, especially when the country is full of individuals who like to leave smart arsed comments instead of constructive criticism or ideas for change.
It's funny when someone says the tory government has failed 🤣 on asylum, when it was there government that opened the borders of this country, i think thay where called new labor 🤔
I very clearly recall the FA not allowing political stances when some players were showing solidarity in the invasion of Palestine yet for Ukraine everyone was encouraged and applauded for it...I think that paints a very clear picture.
Gary Lineker is just one more excellent reason, for defunding the BBC.
Just cancel your TV licence.
Because he showed how bad, unethical and hypocritical they are? Agreed!
No. That is exactly what the Tories who put all of their lackeys into positions of power in the BBC want. What the country needs is a truly independent public broadcaster, one that allows the expression of all political opinions. Don't be taken in by the Tory playbook - they destroy public institutions, such as the NHS and the BBC, and then use the results of that destruction as a reason for proposing the permanent elimination of those public institutions.
@@brentmeistergeneral6074 Well they employed him didn't they. Oh, not employed, actually he has a "special arrangement" that allows him to tax dodge to the tune of £4.9million, at least that's how much the HMRC are chasing him for.
sell your telly and read a book instead
If they bring him back. All licence holders will want their money back.
Good or bad, we all have a right to express ourselves, that’s why our ancestors fought SO hard for democracy, so WE have a choice as well as a voice.
He wasn’t saying anything deliberately hurtful, or anything that could encourage others to do.
I’m glad others have stood up with someone with the guts to speak their truth regardless.
I agree with you, but I’m pretty sure they are not defending free speech. They are defending him because they agree with him. Im sure they would be arranging a similar boycott and demanding he be sacked if he had expressed the opposite point of view. They’ve done that before (see Matt Le Tissier).
Good chance to clear out the over paid idiots
I love how working class sports men and women have more principles and are more willing to challenge nonsense than those middle class cronies in the media whose job is to challenge nonsense. Solidarity to my brothers and sisters
@@S7Vmv - hard facts within the comments. Thanks 👍
@@S7Vmv what are you rambling about? Half of this country are immigrants. Immigrants built this country. These sports people come from humble beginnings and as a result understand to speak to power when it oppresses those with nothing. Immigrants are not the issues so they shouldn't be scapegoated. Pure national socialist race baiting. If Immigrants were turned away and immigration wasnt a thing do you think there would be more housing? Or the NHS would be funded better? There wouldn't
The Nazis were Socialists, now wonder you are in support of this numbskull... well done
Working class?
Where was his principles in Qatar? Or when he was using a tax avoidance scheme?
Some of us have no say on the amount of tax that gets taken from our hard earned wages,bare this in mind when you’ve all finished telling us who we should and shouldn’t be giving it away freely to!
@@S7Vmv He might be a millionaire. But he wasn't born one. His father was a greengrocer, so he has working class roots and you never forget that. So what if he has money? Does that mean he forfeits the right to speak for disadvantaged people? That would make virtually every politician, from all sides, redundant.
'Illegal immigration causes poverty and crime for all involved' - that is typical of the xenophobic language being promoted by this current government. These people, escaping from war and troubles that we have helped to cause, are housed in a single poorly run hotel room if they're lucky (if they're not lucky they're housed in barracks type hostel dorms and the women are picked off by traffickers) for years at a time, and not allowed to work or contribute to society. No wonder a small number of them are frustrated. Can you imagine if you did the same to a bunch of football fans from the UK? They'd be trashing the place inside of a week, never mind a year. People talk about illegal immigrants as if they are sub-human, conveniently forgetting the hundreds of thousand of brain dead British tourists who flock to other countries and act like Neanderthals.
It's your opinion that's misinformed. Until the government starts to properly process immigrants and get them into work and society, this is always going to be a mess. Other countries have coped with millions of refugees. We can't cope with less than 50,000 illegals despite showing that we can spend billions on worthless PPE. And let's also state that they are only classed as 'illegal immigrants' because the government offers no pathway to become a legal immigrant (unless you're from Ukraine or Hong Kong) to most countries we've invaded, or helped to destabilise. To become a legal immigrant you must have the offer of a job before you get here or British born parents (even then, that comes with strict stipulations). The number of 'illegal immigrants' are dwarfed by legal Hong Kong immigrants, let alone Ukrainians. It shouldn't be that hard to process these people and get them contributing to the economy.
Hopefully this will be good riddance to Lineker and that MOTD will finally be watchable once he's gone.
People are brain dead who say „his job is sport, don‘t talk about politics“.
Politics is in everything and more not less people should participate. This girl is maybe a accountant or lawyer, why is she voicing her opinion on this political issue… maybe step in line with what you yourself said?
@@S7Vmv is Lineker a news reporter?
@S Impartial when carrying out their paid duties while in work. Anything outside of that is exercising freedom of speech in their own private time, which everybody is allowed to do
@@S7Vmv The only thing that is likely to be illegal , and the government have already admitted , it is the so-called law they are trying to pass
@@S7Vmv It's you who are clueless. Not to mention lacking the humanity which is now common to the West. He's actually homed refugees in his own house, so to say he doesn't live near any is probably the dumbest comment I've ever heard. And considering the UN has denounced the proposed bill as illegal and contrary to the Human Rights Act I suspect that no other civilised country enforces this type of law. So, yes, just like 1930's Germany.
@@S7Vmv No action taken against him? What do you call suspension from his duties with the BBC? Moron. Try using more than 1 of your braincells the next time you comment.
People who support the Tories and the BBC, I know how you'd vote in Germany 1933.
It's a hilarious situation really....Yet another example of the atrocious managerial & editorial decisions made by the BBC, & all over one of Lineker's clout-chasing tweets....
Well with a Tory in charge of it, corruption and mismanagement is to be expected!
clout chasing?🤔
didn’t he take in a family of refugees, when the government tried to get the public to fund the housing shortage? Think you’ll find he did.. did you?
Gary Lineker doesn't have to deal with the chaos to this country's economy and infrastructure that mass illegal immigration causes....
On a slightly different topic, What is peoples view of Bargain Hunt?
Buy three things for a pound each and always refuse the expert's bonus buy. You might not make any money but you will always win.
@@stephenwalker2924 Yeah, the "experts" always seem to get it wrong lol. I dont see it much though
Everyone has a right to there opinion and fair fucks Gary is standing by his statement much respect
Totally agree dude:))))
I agree with you but the fact is , if you sign a contract in return for an obscene salary then you are obligated to abide by the terms of that contract.
Comparing the fate of Jews and other victims of Nazism to that of young, healthy, iPhone-owning, TikTok-posting boat adventurers who travel from one of the safest and richest countries in the world to another is nothing to be proud of or respected for, mate
@@hammertic Have you seen his contract ? No you haven’t, so you’re just spaffing nonsense.
I expect if someone worked for Amazon or Tesco & said something online that caused the company to get negative publicity they would also be called into HR for a disciplinary or at least told to remove the post.
Viewers, Stop paying BBC's licence.
yep, I've had enough of overpaid, ageing footballers yakking on about a game of footie, absolute scandal paying these people so much money ! Cancels your licence now !
Nadine Dorries and Rupert Murdoch will be delighted.
I credit Gary et al for the stance, being socially active and highlighting the hypocrisy and corruption which is the BBC of Tories, funded by us, by coercion and tax, and more importantly supporting a hard right ideology,. See Brexit a further dark mark in British political shenanigans!! Well dun Gaz
2 gone for the price of 1. great news.
nodding dog
Instead of focusing on whether Lineker was out of line or not, the UK public need to reflect on what he said. The sentiment is key here. Many people both within and outside the UK are of the opinion that the UK is incrementally losing its democracy. This is the real issue that needs to be brought to the table.
What did Gary say which you agreed with?
I think you need more migrant 😂
No where is there an indication that what he tweeted was wrong, So the UK is on that 'slippery' downward path !!!!!
UK was never democratic. Representational democracy is fake democracy.
Right to protest on the way out. Free speech is OK as long as it is government approved. Selective application of broad police powers and vague laws. All steps on the slippery slope to fascism.
He has every right to speak the truth on his own Twitter account. And people accuse the BBC of left wing bias...
And the BBC have every right to ask him to confirm to their social media standards and apologise, or not host their show. You can't act surprised if the one who pays your checks take issue when you pull them into a national controversy.
@@Woodzta I think he may resign. They need him more than he needs them.
@@wisteela Why ? You think they switch on to watch him ?
@@illgetmecoat1066 I wouldn't know. I'm not into football.
Think the BBC should replace Lineker with a Lineker impersonator voiceover, that would be fun.... As to the left wing luvvies have had things all their way for a good few years . If they don't like it, maybe they can all find employment elsewhere.
No, Keir.
At the heart of this is trying to shift the focus from 13 years of disastrous Tory governance with the aid of BBC Chairperson Richard Sharp, a Tory donor & former advisor to Johnson's appalling Tory Government.
Imagine being more upset about a tweet than that appalling policy they're trying to churn out, but hey, most racists are too thick to realise they are racist.
I find it patently pathetic that players take a knee against racism while several Black players give the Black power salute Im so sick of the double standards folks like yourself are constantly endorsing.
Absolutely so . Can we have some English Heritage Home Secretaries at Westminster
'than that appalling policy'
Yes, I'm not sure you'd be a good person to write any impartiality guidelines.
@@artgreen6915 Not that you would be able to get your tiny mins around the policy clauses .
Moron
@@artgreen6915 I rest my case.
Players refusing to speak with the press? WOW, what a hardship that is for them to endure.
They have to pay a fine
It's a contractual obligation, avoidance of which puts them in trouble, and they DON'T CARE.
NOTHING like hard work eh!!!🤣🤣🤣
He’s an everyday lads lad he knows what’s right and wrong
I love that he’s honest and loyal to any human
Linekar is the furthest thing from the average bloke. Wtf are you on about ?
He is the upper class and the top 1% of this country, telling the rest of us what's right and wrong
Cook my sock you sheep
not my pundit LOL
He is one decent human being a lot more than one could say about that pox Tory cabinet & the real derilla sulla who seems to deny her own DNA
He's a leftist woke ponce
Funny, the only people critical of Lineker in this segment are middle aged white women with an American accent… Pretty sure wearing a MAGA shirt under that coat….
No he is been sacked gross miss conduct.
This goes beyond politics - it is about human rights, I applaud Gary ad all those who are protesting the steady erosion of human rights, workers' protections and the massive disinformation peddled by the Tories. It is an insidious process that is being implemented via the unnecessary replacement of the previously negotiated legislation in alignment with the EU after Brexit.
What a tragedy if all these has-been football players decide - in a surfeit of solidarity - to leave the BBC. How will we survive?
Unfortunately, we have a "surfeit" of assholes who don't seem or want to understand why this is important.
"Has been" you no nothing about football 🤦
Who says we will? Might be the end.
@@garagenigel Yes he WAS a footballer a has-been ! Keep up.
Paul nodding dog
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing.
@@ChristianPatriarchy 🤡
@@ChristianPatriarchy
EVIL is goons like you not allowing others in a so called Democratic Nation to have Free speech ! 😭
@@ChristianPatriarchy the fact that you need to ask, says everything about you.
@@ChristianPatriarchy the fact that you're unable to add anything of value calmly, even over text ,tells me you should seek a psychiatrist 😄
@@kerbyy_ pot - kettle - black
He is entitled to give his opinion regardless what your job is, in my opinion his is being punished by the establishment !!!!!
The woman saying his job is to talk about football. Should be sacked from her job for her opinion on Gary Lineker then and then she may understand the situation he is in.
When he's doing "his job" he talks about football. When he isn't he can talk about what ever he wants.
Unless ofcourse she's implying because he is a TV producer hes sacrificed the ability to be an individual human being and therefore is just a living breathing machine that can only think what he's told lol.
He tweeted an opinion on his personal twitter. Very much doubt she would like being sacked from her work place because her job is to sell bread in a bakery.
In the mean time riski gives the french more of our money and nothing said all eyes else where
The exact same deal that Mrs May could have had until PP & BJ called it "unworkable".
Now it's back at more than 3x the cost.
@@charlielynes Link please !
@@gigabyte2573
Hansard
@@charlielynes Don't be so vague, more detail needed to find it, more than just saying Hansard WTF. how about a date so that I can go straight to it ? thanks.
@Gigabyte
If you are so interested all you have to do is read the minutes of select committees, filter "Patel" in Hansard, and read the words.
The reliance on being spoon-fed information is the reason we get into these political cluster-fudges.
If you do not pay attention, very quickly we will be exactly where Gary is correctly warning us we are heading.
Don't take this personally, I'm not attacking you, just what we have allowed ourselves to become.
Gary was not wrong
MATCH OF THE DAY ON GB NEWS AT 10PM
Ian Bentley - I have no interest in football, but I'll be watching match of the day at GB News tonight. Wouldn't miss it
@@DeezilOyl ha ha good girl.
It was kind of interesting, and amusing to be fair !
@@gigabyte2573 thougjt Patrick eating the walkers crisps was hilarious
Calling anyone who has concerns with thousands of unknown young men being secretly dumped into our communities far right is disgusting and nobody in positions of power should make these vile statements.
What Gary Lineker has done is go to the next level and call most people in the UK Nazis because it is the majority of people that have been calling the government to take this kind of action on illegal immigration. Yes he can say what he likes but not while taking money from our national broadcaster who must be impartial by their rules.
The people need to take back what's ours. The BBC belongs to the nation, not a political party and the tories need to be removed and the celebrities reinstated. If he said what he said on Match of the day he should be sacked. He didn't and he should be allowed to air his views that's called free speech. I'm not even sure I agree with what he said but my god he should be allowed to say it.
The issue wasn't him criticising the government boat scheme, it was suggesting that their behaviour was similar to that of 1930's Germany....
Well it is exactly like that. Their language is deliberately and cynically exactly like the 1930s Nazi Germany.
Language / words. If you try and convince people that there’s invasion while dehumanising people, then there’s good reason to suggest this sort of language has horrible undertones and can be compared.
But why is that an issu? What about free speech?
I actually like Mr Linekar, he's saved me from buying a tv licence for a few yrs And i no longer eat walkers crisps... seabrooke are better.
I agree about your crisps and I agree about his Club. Mine walloped them 3-1 today, but his comments on the savage Cruella Goebbels are very accurate.
@@ArtyFactual_Intelligence no they aren't, kick 'em out.
Gary Linekar likes Qatar Crisps with the little blue bag inside. Sultan Sheikh.
@@captricharddee3634 🤣🤣
M&S are the finest crisps on the market!
Watching match of the day without commentary was quite refreshing .
No. But it looks like The BBC will have to untwist its knickers sooner rather than later.
Nice to see a bit of togetherness for a change instead of another presenter, looking to take over.
Lineker was happy to go Qatar and pick up his BBC wages.
It’s called speaking truth to power
Especially to Richard Sharp, Johnsons money man.