Why is the media afraid of Gary Lineker? | LBC
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- After Gary Lineker was criticised for saying that the government's language around migration is similar to the language used in 1930s Germany, James O'Brien addresses the reasons behind the backlash.
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Also Gary Lineker is a football commentator that is broadly followed by the working class....Can't have the Working Class thinking for themselves.
.....he left the working class years ago....anyway when did he ever really work...?
Very true.
@@chatham43he never said he was working class 😂 keep reaching tho, you'll get it right one day.
@@wobblywally-0 Was going to say something similar, but you beat me to it.
Exactly
I remember the BBC allowing (possibly encouraging) Gary Lineker to open the World Cup 2022 broadcast talking about Qatar’s human rights abuses. The opening ceremony wasn’t shown and was replaced by a BBC employee giving his opinion on human rights abuses in Qatar live on the BBC, in what is the most watched televised event in the U.K. and the world. Now, is that ok because he was giving his opinion on political issues in far away places, and that these political issues he tweeted about are so much closer to home?
Exactly! Well said. The BBC are hypocrites, and so is Linekar.
He wasnt suspended for his political comments about the Qatar World Cup was he... before the games would start.
MOTD was better without them. Unfiltered info, not biased with commentary and opinion.
Wish the news and everything else on BBC was like that.
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none of them objected to getting paid oodles of cash for going out there and providing commentary. If they really had any ethics, they would have boycotted it, but they didn't.
Well, at least he's consistent. Qatar definitely deserved to be called out, just need to apply the same across the board.
@@AlienPsyTing1 steady on, your going to blow up the net with comments like that
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" - George Orwell.
Exactly... "Stop the boats"!
GREAT NEWS TODAY ABOUT LINEKER ,WE NEED TO CLEAR THE BBC SWAMP OF THESE WOKE WONDERS WHO PREACH TO US ON HOW AND WHAT WE THINK ,AND THE BONUS IS THE TAXPAYER SAVES 5 MILLION QUID ,TIME WE DE-FUND THE BBC THE IRONY IS THAT WHEN THE BBC TELLS LINEKER JUST WHAT HE CAN SAY AND THINK HE SAYS THAT IT'S NOT FAIR ,WOW ,THE HYPOCRISY,
He still has that right. He signed a multi million pound contract with a company that has impartiality clauses. Resign first or get sacked. He can afford to voice his opinion. Most people can't.
@@squirrel7t7 INDEED it is not just a mere company it is owned by the taxpayer who a lot of owners he thinks he can offend with no consequences
Ad infinitum...👍
I find it weird when people who aren't politicians or political journalists say things like "He should stick to talking about football" as though people are only allowed to express opinions on things they're directly employed to do and it isn't hypocritical to say he shouldn't express his opinion when they themselves are doing exactly that.
sure everyone has a right if it affects their society, that is why we have a democratic vote
He signed non-partisan contracts, he broke contracts. Morons.
The problem with people like Gary is the pontification about things they don't want in their backyard, like most celebrities.
Let all those boats come, let the people stay as long as they are put in middle-class and rich areas, problem solved.
But... but.. how dare he express that sort of an opinion? - After all, he's just a footballer. How dare he exercise his freedom of speech in this way!? How dare he... tell the truth
@@allnamesaretaken
Agreed. They're welcome in my neighbourhood.
In fact, I've got four bedrooms to spare.
No need for you to worry anymore.
Best wishes.
I have studied 1930s German media and Gary is 100% right, the language is comparable.
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....you must have missed out alot...😊
All my comments get removed on here. That's media control.
You obviously don't speak German. You need to spend more than three minutes studying the history; it might help.
How? - in that it's made up of 'words' perhaps? I'm no lover of the government or it's plan, but to compare this to the Nazis is an insult to all those who suffered at their hands.
It's important to keep the bigger picture in mind amidst this ongoing saga. While the government seems to be making a lot of noise about other issues, it's clear that they're trying to divert attention away from the leaked WhatsApp messages that are of real importance to the public.
We need the media to refocus on the content of those messages and shed light on just how incompetent this government truly is. Only by staying focused on what truly matters can we ensure that the government is held accountable for their actions.
Well worded... But.. What do you REALLY think?!?!
Yeah replacing the natives and shutting down the country for two years for flu are BOTH of importance Wolfy.
@@sansiveria578 yeah right "the Jews did it"
Considering that in 2019, Suella Braverman gave a speech at a rightwing thinktank event and said that the Conservative Party was "in a battle" against Jewish people, I think Gary is more on the money than he thinks. Very 1930s Germany.
Where can we view that?✌
@@chrisj9700 I find it hard to believe too but I also find her statements and policies towards asylum seekers hard to believe when you consider her heritage.
I think you mean the Labour Party don't you?. They were in a battle against their own Jewish MPs and members and were placed in special measures by the EHRC.
Mr.Lineker is fully entitled to Tweet his thoughts. He's a freelancer and not a BBC employee. As long as his comments are in his own time on his own Twitter account he can say what he likes and you know what, he's actually right in what he has said. The language used in Westminster is wrong. We need public figures to put the government in its place.
Well done Mr.Lineker, keep going. Conservatives can't handle the truth.
Equally then, the opposite opinion should be acceptable to tweet.
@@Make_Boxing_Great_Again
It is.
No one is stopping bigots from replying or refuting.
@@abegarfield7031 Yeh Garry is a bigot, no one is stopping him.
Exactly. And even if he was directly employed by the bbc what difference does it make. He’s not using MOTD as a platform to express his opinions.
@@Make_Boxing_Great_Again The opposite opinion is the opinion of the people in government, you big baby
Perfect synopsis of what’s actually going on here with Gary.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!
Ditto ! I often watch James online for a bit of sanity in the morass that British politics has become. Problem is that Gary Lineker referenced the sort of language that because it went unchallenged led to the greatest crime against Humanity in history, yet many of those who criticize him accuse him of cheapening the memory of that selfsame crime....
Proof if needed we are living in clown world,
@@paardebergare you Jewish?
If only we could ship MP's off to Rwanda for the safety and security of the public.
I'll support that as long as it's Tory MP's.
Bit unfair on Rwanda that, maybe we should chuck them out of the plane on the way there.
Take James O'Brien with them too
@@karlnadin1554 Not a safe country at all many have been secretly interviewed who are terrified for their lives. Harassed, and hounded
Read up research!
@@karlnadin1554 OK If they are that needy, and it's such a safe country, why don't you emigrate there? And by your name, it sounds like that your family may have made their way to the UK in the not too distant past. Why should your family be allowed to stay?
The Guardian has reported today that Braverman’s husband is Jewish. Perhaps he needs to explain to her how the Nazis systematically went for the Jews in the 1930s and year by year stripped them of their rights not to mention demonised them. Given her colour you think she would have more understanding of minority groups.
Same with sunak or priti Patel.
She is one of a gruop of people of colour who have had the advantages of living in the UK, who now say "We're in, quick pull up the drawbridge. Can't have poor people with brown faces coming here". Hence a brown faced man standing behind a podium saying "Stop the Boats".
Or indeed her parents, if they are alive, could tell her how they emigrated to the UK in the 60's
....which you obviously do more than someone who is married to someone from the jewish faith.......
Reported
They're terrified because Gary's audience demographic, crosses over with their core base. The Tories core base hold someone like Gary in fond memory. That's why he's dangerous, he can get through to them.
I think you vastly overestimate Gary Lineker's popularity.
He hasn’t got though , what he said was a false analogy and trivialises the nazis and what they did and he is also way off the mark regarding the boat crossings , check the stats on whose crossing !
At the end of the day Lineker has had a cheap shot at Conservative policy based on his own political bias, therefore should be asked to leave the BBC; it is almost a guarantee that if he spoke out in support of the Government's 'Small boat policy', he would no longer be working for the BBC.
@@peterprice309 do you even live on planet earth? I've never seen a statement so Inaccurate that the truth is the exact opposite.
@@lawrencebolt3540 Are you referring to Lineker's employment position if he had spoken out in favour of the 'Small boats policy'? Because I think there is no doubt that Lineker would have been sacked by the BBC.
Andrew Neil spouted his views non stop each week on news night, in the daily mail, the spectator.. didn’t see him getting hassled to zip it… hypocritically frightening
Lineker implied that this policy was similar to the Nazis, dumbo.
Think you mean this week. He didn't feature on Newsnight. And on this week he interviewed both left and right. That is being impartial. Given he did it for so many years without being reprimanded or subject to ofcom sanction, maybe he did it right?
@@michaelsimpson4400 “impartial” you say, pull the other one, he’s a full rabid rightwinger.
@@lynnevenables7193 then give examples of when he was politically biased on the BBC or whilst working for them.
@@michaelsimpson4400 Are you related to homer?
Fascism is now fully established in the UK
....so why are you moaning....?
It has been ever since brexit bro. It’s given the tories complete power to do as they wish.
So maybe Starmer and Co. should get their act together.
@@chatham43 troll.
@@philipdurling1964 they will.
This is the most brilliant enunciation of the current situation that I have yet heard. Thank you, James and LBC.
LBC the left wing channel
Also check out John Barnes response on sky news. It was epic.
😂 .. nice peom
If MPs did their jobs it wouldn't need Marcus Rashford, Lewis Hamilton and now Gary linekar to speak out and do it for them...
They are trying to do what we asked them to when we voted for Brexit, stop illegal entry into our country, a person being paid £1.3m of our tax can keep his thoughts to himself, or quit the BBC.
you want the invasion but others have to pay for it .100 million pounds so far what could our nhs do with that
Here's a thought: none of them are intelligent and share no wisdom between them. The MPs are corrupt globalists (99% of ALL MPs), and the sports people are very protected from the real world, simplistic and their opinions worthless if they weren't famous for sports they wouldn't be renowned for their sharp political intellect. How about that realisation.
You mean stop the boats?
The people who think Gary should be silenced or sacked are often the same people who cry about free speech and cancel culture 😂
....do you mean you are against cancel culture?.....a little ambiguous here....or is that deliberate.......?
Do you have a million pounds £
@@chatham43 I’m merely pointing out the hypocrisy of many of his critics.
The right have been "cancelling" people for years. Just look at what happened to many left-leaning acedemics in the 50s and 60s.
What? You mean the very people that cancelled the Mash Report and Have I got News For You, two very popular TV shows, then picking on another popular BBC show and personality that's also anti this Govt, de-platforming or trying/succeeding in cancelling a dissenting voice in order to denigrate the BBC in order to then flog it off... Surely not!
In support of Gary. So embarrassed by this idiotic government.
You should be embarassed by yourself.
@@benitolazio8193 Well the DG apologised, Not embarrassed at all, very proud!
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" - George Orwell.
the Daily Mail love to get their teeth into this sort of stuff. see their campaign against Phil and Holly. A nothing story that went nowhere. But they wasted weeks tryiong to dig their grave. They have spent the same amount of time on Harry and Meghan. Hate. it's all they've got left.
Hate is all they've ever had.
The daily heil, they backed the nazis in ww2.
Yet people still buy it.
Hate, and pandering to hateful people, lest those people see the reality.
As Geoff said, hate IS their business..
Well I wouldn't use that paper as toilet roll let alone read it
Just like when they said Rashford should stick to football rather than bring up the plight of school meals!
Except Rashford didn't work for the public broadcaster. That's important point, not whether we agree with what he said or not.
@@muhammedg7864 Erm what you on about. The important point is that he is allowed to do as he wishes on his personal platforms...the BBC has no right to dictate what he can and can not say!!
@@muhammedg7864 False equivalence. Both Lineker & Rashford are perfectly within their rights to express their personal opinions regardless of who they are employed by.
@@izacah85 They do. It's part of being the public broadcaster paid by the public purse. Erm, that's why the BBC had to act. Erm, that's what I'm on about.
@Muhammed G yet the chairman of the BBC can be a constant Tory donor and help Boris Johnson get loans to the tune of 800k. Soooo impartial isn't he?
I'm from Australia and I come past here every now & then for a bit of sanity.
I have genuine respect for James O'brien!
I did laugh at the Daily Mail headline about it like the BBC should fire him for this when Kunssburg is literally Boris Johnson PR and will act like Boris Johnson's appalling behaviour is some how fake news.
They're afraid of him because he's got a huge platform and says things that hit home.
The guy is a complete tool
@@timmyripkey2030 how so
On the one hand I appreciate the BBC trying to keep impartial; but when one of their presenters uses their own platform to make a point, surely they have the option, to just issue a statement stating, that his opinion is his own.
Expect him to be deplatformed if he continues to do that.
@@karlssmith92 He said it on Twitter you numpty.
If Lineker wasn't speaking the truth he would be laughed at and ignored. The vein bulging from the right tells you all you need to know.
It’s called trying to have a policy to deal with illegal immigration, and it’s something that every country on earth has. He made a lazy, over-used trope for something he didn’t like the sound of, breached his contract of employment, and has been temporarily suspended in line with that contract (presumably his colleagues have now breached their own contracts as well).
As with all other critics of the UK’s attempt to deal with illegal immigration, he did not offer any alternative.
''When Stephen Flynn asked Sunak directly if the new bill would mean that sx trafficked women would not be afforded protection at PMQs yesterday. All Sunak could do was offer bluster and avoided the question''
Comment on the Guardian
They're almost all saying he called the government Nazis or said their policy was something the Nazis would do.
That's not what he said at all. He said the language being used was reminiscent of 1930s Germany.
But if they twist what he said into something that others would object to, then they will have silenced his statement. Twisting reality seems to be a capability required for current UK government.
Yes but who was in power at that time..?
@@grimTales1 people demonising people, putting them in camps and lying to the population!
Indeed, and if memory serves 1930’s Germanys ruling regime were the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Well Tory government have created -concentration- ‘detainment’ camps, use of National Front language, and are planning to Torch the ECHR (The great 'Charter of Human Rights' Churchill had envisioned), at what point do we say they are Nazis? I guess when they start talking of the third realm etc?
i'm scared of what our government has become.
The lack of genuine opposition is heartbreaking.
cry
@@benitolazio8193 You don't know what you've got til it's gone.
Lineker is drawing similarities between the hatred of the other in 1930s Germany and today's Britain and you can't argue with that.
Yes because the Germans in the 30s welcomed boats of immigrants and housed them in four star hotels lol, it’s so similar. Liniker is also a Jew, what is his stance of Israel’s policy towards refugees?
I can and do. Grow up child.
But the comparison is ridiculous if you have even a basic grounding in German history
@@pauls7803 ridiculous is kind, it bears literally no comparison
OH YES YOU CAN LOON WHO STOPPED THE GERMANS ..AND WHO ARE WE THREATENING UM .HOW MANY DO YOU THINK 40 MILLION 100 MILLION 200 MILLION TILL WE ARE ALL FIGHTING OVER EVERYTHING HOW MANY..
If it wasn’t true it wouldn’t be “inappropriate”, it would be “slander” instead.
Well - it was neither true nor slander, it was just rhetoric.
@@paddymeboyhow do you know?
And according to English Common Law the ultimate defense against slander or libel is the truth, which as James so skillfully pointed out, is not in these people.
@@docmalthus Rich coming from James as he and his ilk all have a long history of pushing propaganda.
@@kizzagt So, what part of this particular video wasn't true? And what part of it was mere propaganda? Please enlighten us.
The government "We're not fascists!"
Also the government "Citizens should not be allowed to criticise us, it's not acceptable!"
Gary Lineker is entitled to state his opinion, he never said anything about Suella Braverman (despite her inferring that he did).
Freedom of expression is protected under the Human Rights Act 1998 which sets out the fundamental rights and freedoms that everyone in the UK is entitled to, that by definition includes Gary Lineker.
The BBC impartiality rules relate to it's output, Gary Lineker's personal Twitter account is not owned or operated by the BBC. It is therefore not BBC output.
With regards to social media the only reference in the BBC's impartiality rules are that "external activities and public comments... can also affect perceptions of the BBC’s impartiality" it does not state employees or freelancers do not have the right to make public comments, simply that they might affect perceptions.
If the BBC feels he has broken their rules and/or his contract of employment that's for them but that doesn't mean he doesn't still have his human rights and his right to expression, those are enshrined in UK law whether Suella Braverman likes it or not, perhaps the government, people that are paid to serve the British public, should worry more about fixing the nation rather than Gary Lineker's social media.
Tories calling for him to be paid less and sacked, trying to silence him also like 1930s Germany and currently Putin.
And Ukraine. Censorship is the new norm. Anyone talking about the Chinese spy balloon that wasn’t a spy balloon?
So here we have an 'illegal immigrant fan' and a Putin fan...all on the same page! Just another Reason why Britain is going to the Dogs!
@@brettreynolds6652 hi Brett. Get a life
NO THEY KILLED THEIR OPPONENTS AND THEN WERE THE GERMAN SOCIALIST PARTY THAT.S YOU AND JOB RIGHT NOW GO CHECK YOU LOONE,S,,
In 1930's Germany and under Putin, he would already have been silenced permanently. He is fortunate to be living in such a free country.
A previous Viscount Rothermere in 1934 posted a headline "Hooray for the Blackshirts" - I rest my case!
....posh Simon's back....and still room for improvement sadly........
why how many were there and how many turned on them and ousted them you gormless idiot..
@chatham43 seriously my grand parents were both at Cable Street fighting against the Blackshirts you 'know nothing'
It’s not just the language of 30s Germany, it’s the language of 1930s Britain and Oswald Mosley. I know probably for the a similar reason lineker (who played for Tottenham in the 80s) does: people with blue numbers tattooed on their wrists told him their story. Moreover my father told me what he went through growing up in 1930s Britain, and I hear the same words spat at me now. So don’t go thinking it’s a just a German thing, google’the battle of cable street’.
The Battle of Cable Street did not lead to the cattle trucks, the barbed wire and the chimneys. Lineker's hyperbolic comments distort the truth.
@@kumasenlac5504 which words did you find hyperbolic? I would say his choice of words was very mild. And sure, the result was different for many reasons but the rhetoric which stoked the fires of hate was the same. They just picked a fight with the wrong ghetto.
What Gary has done is .... he has reminded people that, if it looks like duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck then it's a friggin duck!
amen and typical right wing tactics to then try to shift the conversation onto whether or not GL is allowed to speak on politics or not, thus successfully obfuscating the original point GL made.
I wish you were correct, but you are in fact, deluded.
Yep… the tories are ultra right wing and their reaction to his tweet is underlining this fact.
reflects her goal scoring career perhaps/
or if the govt does what the people want it to do . they are nazis .......what a genius you are😂😂😂😂
i just find it strange how everyone is so upset now yet when Matt Le Tissier expressed his views and was sacked by Sky Sports where was the solidarity? I recall Gary Lineker was particularly brutal and championed the loss of his role
Le Tissier was spewing hateful rhetoric against Ukrainians and spreading dangerous misinformation that could have either killed people or gotten them very sick. Le Tissier was allowed to state his opinion, no one stopped him, but his words have consequences.
Lineker on the other hand was suspended primarily because of the BBC's partisanship. Lineker said something that went against the Tories, and got hounded for it. He bashed Corbyn a few years back and he wasn't suspended then.
It’s a tragedy that this is what our country has become! 😢❤
Indeed, thousands of years of history and culture and so many just happy to hand it away, so sad 🥲
yeah letting anybody in under fake pretence
Sociopaths see themselves as Superior Beings , not bound by the rules of the rest of the population, about whom they care not one whit. . There are many of them who have come to power and influence in the western world now. It is as if their best role models are Trump and Putin. Lie to the public; any lie that will give you power and money is what they do. It is an automatic reflex action. Lie and take the money, lie and take the money Refute any sane argument about what it is you are actually doing. (ripping off the public and lying about it) . It never ends well. If we do not hold these people accountable- and some of them should be in jail-; in a few years time we may end up with our own version of Russian television and our own version of Putin. We laundered all Russian oligarchs money for them in the London laundromat.; Where was Sue Bravermans outrage, where was any of the tory party's?. They were too busy partying on oligarchs yachts These people have no morals and no conscience.
You mean woke?
@@hattmancock6396 the Tories are doing their best to destroy the things you've mentioned, and blame their demise on the have-nots, with their 'don't look at us, look at them' malarkey. Totally see-through and factually inaccurate.
Ghandi said, ‘ even if you’re in the minority of ONE …THE TRUTH IS STILL THE TRUTH. ‘. WELL DONE GARY 💜💜💜💜
That’s an opinion
How many millionaires are in the Labour Party? How many labour people send their children to private schools , how many labour mps have 2 houses , how many labour mps have homes abroad ….how many labour mps have children who are criminals ?
Who Gary works for is irrelevant,how much money he has is irrelevant. He's a British citizen a British voter who has the democratic right to criticise like everybody else.
and we have the right to criticize him.
@@claretblue2509 Of course you can you can disagree with his views but you cannot criticise him for exercising his right.
@@paulgrattan3885 that’s what everybody is doing nobody has de platformed him other than himself.
Dead right and we should all,be very concerned by the government trying to censure him and using the supposed neutral BBC to do so. This is a deeply troubling move.
The most worrying thing to me is not the dystopian policies of the UK right but the support they have from John Average Brit.
John average little englander
Morons are lappin it up as per usual. It’s embarrassing I’m beginning to despise this country
Mohammed average little englander
@@annemoncrieff3875 We need millions of people to come here , look at all that spare land, empty fields we aren't populated enough probably could do with another say 50 million
@@annemoncrieff3875
Little Englander is better than being a little illegal immigrant, you don't see people from England trying to escape little England illegally to go elsewhere, there is a reason for that
Absolutely spot on, I agree with everything you said!!
Stay down under you are already on your knees Neilly boy.
@@dee106ful 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Purely on the question of GL's Tweets, he isn't a BBC employee, his Twitter account banner doesn't mention the BBC or MOTD and they were not about football so why does the Beeb have to have words with him? He's somehow not allowed to voice an opinion on a plaftorm that has f-all to do with the Beeb?!
Yes, the BBC doesn't own Gary Lineker 24/7.
It's a bit like government telling teachers they aren't allowed to visit a pub at the weekend because it sets a bad example to children.
perhaps he's technically self employed when he is on BBC for tax reasons
They thought they had bought him ...
@@redf7209 Don't think he's a tory so that's not likely.
@@kerryburns6041 Clearly they thought wrong
What Lineker said is objectively correct. So of course Tories will hate him for it
The Tory’s don’t care what Lineker thinks. Wake up
@@nick1065 They care what the majority of the public thinks and he's a significant influencer
@@jimmyrecard5056 🤥
OK, if objectively correct. Give an example
@@nick1065 Duh - they obviously do else why are the tory rags and bots up in arms?
Yòu are loved, never stop seeking the truth. Your open honesty is refreshing. Respect to you always.
Gary, was an honest footballer, an honest person and nailed it with his tweet. Gary, have you thought of becoming a politician??? Please!!!
....that would mean leaving the beeb and reading another book...you haven't thought this through have you?
@@chatham43 you sure you thought it through with your post?
@@chatham43 Better to remain silent and be thought a fool...
GARY SAID NO MR CREEPY
The best bit is they have put Gary's message around the world 10 times over. The fools think they are hurting him but really they have got more people talking about how disgusting the policy is 😂
The Policy isn't Disgusting enough.! ALL Boats should be turned back by the Army..and all immigrants offloaded back onto the Beaches in France! Any Leftie woke' Traiters...gladly join them!
Nobody is talking about how disgusting the policy is it's only crazy leftists that think the world is all sunshine and rainbows that are saying it's bad
@@campbell3711 and should you not wish for the world to be a better place for people? And if able, you should try to help people who need it... Like the bible says and many right wing people claim to be important?
From Portugal, totally supporting Great Gary Lineker 👏👏👏
I've drawn attention to the similarity of 1930s Germany to the current climate. Full credit to Lineker for saying what so many of us are thinking.
👍Hear! Hear!
...if you are thinking this you need to catch up on some reading before you comment again on this subject....
Absolutely! It's only a tiny step away from the holocaust of the 1940s when millions of Jews were gassed
@@chatham43 how ironic - GL is entitled to express his own personal opinion regardless of what you think of it.
I wonder why Gary wasn’t targeted by the Tories or their media partners when he questioned Qatar at the start of the World Cup.
They want to cancel Lineker, Clarkson & anyone who has the right to voice their opinions.
Hypocrites!!
I don’t think Clarksons opinions align with linekers
Please 🙏 don't mention Clarkson in the same line as Lineker.
@@royboy1901 the only overlap in a venn diagram would be 🥔 🙄
@@royboy1901 True. Though the point about different sectors of the populace/establishment wanting to silence each is valid. Though I think Clarkson does also do it as a deliberate ploy to get a reaction.
Its standard practice for tyrants of any political view to attack anyone who criticises, they learnt it from Russia
Whatever you think of his opinion. Unacceptable that in a free country someone should lose his job because of such a political statement . That belongs to dictatorships not a democracy. Every citizen in a democracy has every right to speak out on (party) political issues in his free time. Hopefully democratic forces will blow the whistle back on the BBC.
It is absolutely correct that the language and policies of this current conservative government are reminiscent of early 30's Germany.
Before the Nazis decided upon their final solution for the Jewish people, and initiated the holocaust, they looked at deporting them to Madagascar.
Adolph Eichmann conducted a full study into the feasibility into how this deportation might be undertaken, and concluded that it was too expensive, and not practical.
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Braverman
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The question is of illegal inward migration, not deporting residents with citizenship. Idiot. Pick up a book some day and learn.
The Nazis murdered some 30K cognitively and physically disabled as well as mentally ill people in the late 1930s. The notion of murdering European Jewry was only formally discussed as late as July 1941.
I'm no admirer of this government, but this is quite possibly the most idiotic thing I've read for quite some time. Hyperbole and ignorant hyperbole at that.. .
When all you can do is abuse the messenger, you know the message is right.
.....perverse logic...but you got the desired thumbs up....guess it made your day....😊
@@chatham43 bruhh you need a hobby or something. Posting the same waffle under every comment.
How to tory feet taste? Answer my question 😑
Works both ways then doesn't it ? 😁
@@chatham43 Just pointing out the reality of the discourse to you. If I'm wrong then please explain how I'm wrong. Always happy to be corrected. (Cue silence...)
...it's an unreal reality when it's based on perverse logic......you can do better than this.....
No surprise Lineker is getting hammered on GB News for expressing his own opinion on his own Twitter account. That's what it is, nothing more. Yet the very same GB News recently criticised the censoring of Dahl's and Fleming's works. So something of a huge contradiction here. Maybe they just don't like Lineker's opinion on this subject.
He quoted the great French poet, Eric Cantona. Quality stuff
is lineker the jeffrey epstein of the bbc? why is everyone walking out? for example, has he said if you don't do it i'll release your messages to me?
Poet? I thought Cantona was a French philospoher, not a poet. Whatever, Cantona remains the world's greatest Frenchman.
@dale baker Or it's quite obviously shined a light on the BBC being a Conservative run mouthpiece and has lost all impartiality?
@@dalebaker5030 I expect because they agree with and support him - why are you trying to make it weird?
@@Will-hg6zs where was the same for le tissier and the 2 others?
Gee man you took the words right out of my mouth.
10 years service in commando forces, 40 years in an engineering factory.
I am so passionate about the workers.
They pay, they need attention.
And I promise every person on this small fragile planet, I will do everything in my power, to help, to protect, to promote OUR fragile democracy.
Thanks James, I really do have your back.
I salute you my friend.
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If you really cared about the workers you wouldn't promote a flooding of the market in an ever increasing automated world
Well done to you, had a job, and worked. What a hero you are.
@@justinhitchcock6130 We have 1.3 million job vacancies, how is that a flooded market?
@@gordonstrong5232 then how come there are 1.3 million unemployed and ridiculous amounts on zero hour contracrs
Absolutely spot-on. Well said and thank you for your sane commentary James!
Well don't ring up and disagree with him on any subject or you will be made an example of and put on TH-cam!
@@nigelskipping7941 I rarely disagree, he always speaks total sense to me. From what I've observed, the people he makes examples of are people who can't make a proper argument because they are bigoted or small-minded.
@@LizJones0 Ok Liz, do you think they need to be made an example of by being put on TH-cam for the rest of time if they do disagree with him? LBC is supposed to lead conversation, not show you up if you disagree with him! Look at the way he holds himself when he's in the studio, the epitome of arrogance because he thinks he is 100 percent right on any subject! He lives in a bubble and is as idealistic as a student leaving uni! He doesn't live like the rest of us common people who live in the real world and it shows!
Scary stuff. Hope you guys on the island find your marbles soon, before it is too late.
scary a rich guy lives miles from any one big fence locked gates say he surrenders err no don,t see it..
@@stephenisom6089 Imagine having an issue with Lineker and not say Boris? Or Rees-Mogg for dodging tax?
@@blazzz13 they are on the side of the british people gary or this prat is not
@@carlt9265 AND WHAT //
@@carlt9265 So Rees-Mogg rinsing over £30m a year tax free through Ireland is on the side of the British working people? How patriotic. You read too much shaite in the Mail and Express don't you
The language of Thirties Germany was surprisingly popular with British royalty and aristocracy at the time. It still is.
All Gary was doing is saying what Keir Starmer should have been saying, well done to Gary for standing his ground and to his colleagues who backed him up. personally, I don't get what the controversy is about, facts are facts whether you like them or not.
Gary Lineker is also respected, he is a cleancut icon that does not have the baggage of the likes of Clarkson.
He's a conceited rich loud mouth prat. I'd like to see him trying to get a medical appointment and finding out he can't because ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS are first in the queue and first for getting accommodation while we have british people living in hovels or on the streets
Clean cut, he doesn’t pay his taxes
Lineker is an idiot who should really be ignored.
@@ruthbashford3176 then ignore him, but you cannot and this watch random videos on TH-cam about Lineker and go out of your way to comment on them.... Gary lives rent free in your head.
Did anyone see that goon Richard Madeley on GMB the other say? Positively foaming at the mouth over the tweet by GL. It was truly terrifying.
Gammon Assh**e would have been my response
....so why are you here foaming at the mouth....couldn't make it up.....
🙏 Gary Pleeeaaase don't Back Down🙏
I think they're afraid of Lineker because he has things that no Tory MP will ever have. Trustworthiness, honesty, likeability. They rely on people being as despicable as them, because then they can point at them and claim the other side is just as bad. But trying to make out Lineker to be dishonest would be laughable on its face.
You certainly have hit the nail mate.
Hes a massive hypocrit.
Book your wife into a migrant hotel for a few nights as a treat. See how that works out.
@@jimmy2minutes
How so?
*It's 'hypocrite', by the way.
which political party invented the "spin" in politics... the fancy word for saying professional dishonesty? go on please do tell me
Shoot the messenger - because they don't like the message!!! No matter how much I would want to send the same message out - I'm scared shirtless!!! We should start a new nation wide group of such like minded people - and take on this Government. With the truth - they seem to be scared of that!
I wish Starmer would show the same backbone and passion.
He just told the truth, the final solution was not oven ready, the notion and the horror evolved through time and prejudice
They are worried about what gary lineker has said because it's true.
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@@nick1065are you gonna troll me forever?
@@ThomasKing19933 You betcha. You’re more of an influencer than Lineker!
@@nick1065 you don't agree with anything i say so why waste your time?
@@ThomasKing19933 Look up the meaning of sarcasm when you get a mo.
As someone who is recently chronically ill , and awaiting diagnoses for over 2 years on my ailments , i am deeply afraid of being ill in the uk and feel as though im in one of the worst places , that have no regard for my wellbeing at all.
And you are right to be… I was already in 2012 and it got worse
Yeah tax payer funded medical care you no doubt haven't paid enough tax to cover... what a nightmare... maybe try cuba or Venezuela, they are Socialist paradises after all... see how you get on
Just rock up in a dinghy you'll get 5 star lodging & a dedicated doctor at the hotel . Simples
@@garyk1334 love me some satire
@@RelvazPvP Where's the satire, we have 3 hotels in Reading packed full of Pakistani economic refugees pretending to be from Syria
Not a Lineker fan but this time he is 100% correct! He's saying what sain people think!
He absolutely isn’t!
He saying what liberal lefty's think that don't go out and deal with these jobs
Mate don't no what your smoking he is a leftie like this james o'brien and there mates a pair of lefties who want the boats to come
@@wolves1980 that’s pretty obvious but I just want to understand there level of indoctrination! I’m baffled how much nonsense is spouted! Do these freaks actually believe the majority want this!
He’s saying what the woke leftist do-gooders want the public to believe. I think you’ll find 90% of people disagree and want these boats stopped!
Im not that fussed on Lineker,but boy,has he gone up in my estimation,keep going Gary and thankyou.
Well said, James.
Gary Lineker is spot on. He is showing that he is humane, thoughtful, caring for others and is prepared to say it.
Great values.
Something which Braverman, Johnson, Truss, Sunak etc do not understand or if they do...have no interest in such sentiments.
Such feelings are completely alien to them.
The vast, vast majority of the British public don't want mass immigration forced onto them.
It's not about what Gary wants or what politicians want, it's what the public want, and politicians are representative to the people who vote for them.
The home secretary is acting on what the public want !!
@@user-xc7gb8gj6r Roughly ten times more folk emigrated from UK than came in last year.
Let them into your house, around your children. This country us our home, not a immigrant dumping ground.
@@user-xc7gb8gj6r
People in dinghies is mass immigration?
@@user-xc7gb8gj6r You haven’t a clue what the vast majority of the British public think or want. You don’t speak for me , just yourself. You’re not in the pub now.
Spot On JAmes👍👍 The Truth Destroyes all Lies and exposes the Liars as the Vermins that they are.
Gary Linekar, a successful footballer of his time and now succesful businessman, issues a tweet speaking out the truth and the press go nuts. Only in Britain, U.S. and Australlia does the press have so much vested interest not to report the truth. There's something wrong in all three countries and his name begins Mu.....
What Truth are you talking about Pal.! The only truth is that we have Mass uncontroled single unacompanies Men..playing the Asylum system..while at the same time the government saying there is No housing, NO doctors appointments, No NHS dentists, and the cost of living pricing me out of my job and life while these so called 'poor refugees pay £Thousands to come across the to the UK and live in Hotels on FREE Food at a cost of £10 Million a week! I'll tell you this for nothing...Pal...people are gonna get Killed over this if it carries on!
That "Mu" has a great deal to answer for when the judging is done.
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Surely has to go down as one of the most evil humans to have existed. Hasn't even posted his final high score yet.
Nigel I'll tell y the truth and uts not linkers truth the vast majority of people in this country don't like thousands of people coming over the channel y are outvoted
Greetings from Germany. In the meantime we are not far away from the media conformity of the 1930s again. I have long been ashamed of that and it is only small consolation that things are not better in England.
To be fair, the same UK media was supporting 1930's Germany and calling for restrictions on immigration. They will be spouting eugenics next.
different Germany got 50% more refuges than UK, UK is the lower Europe country to accept refugees
@jenny hubbock they only tell you what they want you to know,the truth is not told,the facts are distorted.and in effect they are a mouth piece for those dark shadows who are trying to control everything.
@jenny hubbock News outlets controlled by the government.
@jenny hubbock I can guess what they're trying to say, but ultimately it's just atypical online virtue signalling.
Strange there are twenty thumbs up, seemingly, endorsing the publication of meaningless comment.
It certainly leads me to: Just Think.
Well meaning, hence the virtue signalling, but woefully ignorant if their inference is to be taken seriously.
As liberal westerners, plant yellow and blue flags from their homes, we see how heavy an impact this 'media conformity' really has.
"SUPPORT LINEKER, SUPPORT THE TRUTH"
Hokey-dokey
They are frightened of Gary Lineker because a) he is a trusted voice with a reputation for honesty and plain speaking b) he is wealthy enough not to need their bribes or be worried by threats c) Braverman does indeed sound like a Goebbels double - along with the vast majority of the Conservative MPs and ministers.
he flat out lies and you think he is honest lol
@@James_36 Explain how he's lying.....take your time.
@@johnsmith8906 you’ll have a very long wait
Oh. He's like Goebbles is he? Have you translated his speeches then? Use these sorts of comparison with care or expose your ignorance, as you just have done. Just like Gary!
@Dog boy I have nailed my colours to the mast, a navy veteran who is vehemently anti Brexit. You, on the other hand, are just D for Dog. Sad, isn't it?
An observation that has been made was that when Lineker was criticising Corbyn nobody batted an eyelid. They were perfectly happy for him to espouse his views when they were targeted at the opposition (which is arguably more biased than what he has done now) but the second he criticises a tory policy…….
you mean he is a rich sh// stirrer ..
He’s also had his views on Israel which the powerful few also don’t like especially as his tweet can be taken as trivialising the holocaust in their eyes.
It’s not that , it’s pretty offensive and false and he doesn’t know the facts regarding small boat crossings
@@PoldarkGodzilla he knows that the UK is breaking international law by making it difficult for (perfectly legal) people to arrive in port or the airport and claim refugee status. The UK can then decide who's legitimate.
@@eamonreidy9534 Post the international law the Uk is supposidly breaking. I know you can't because the UK IS NOT Breaking a law. ou saying they do doesn't make it true.
Best way to scare a Tory is to read and get rich.
It's why they don't have financial literacy on the curriculum.
Not sure on that, My parents are Tories and the reason the liked them originally was they were all about bettering yourselves, certainly in the 90's and they felt Labour was all about whining and blaming others for holding you back and you not going on to be successful. Now I'm not affiliated to either as I think they're both inept and we need change, but I'd say talking to other friends who do support one or the other I'd say thats still about correct today.
@@babylon_bob (((it’s a song lyric))))
Dunno about you but my mother worked 17 hours 7 days a week
@Neil with a successful propaganda campaign behind them too, only fools and horses and other programs were fundamental to that massive nudge on the population. Most ppl would rather think its all organic, than face the reality its all manufactured
He's not frightened. Gary is unafraid. Very encouraging. He's not hinting and cringeing and a55licking around Royal circles for a Knighthood or whatever either.... unlike some others 😉.... Great footballer, absolutely decent man.
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Stunning and brave from the millionaire that lives in 70% white Barnes!
@@benitolazio8193 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The vital word spoken here is "refugees," Where are all the woman refugees and children? All I see are men of a fighting age? Boats filled with men in their 20s and 30s?
Fleeing France... That war ravaged country.
Freedom of speech (the right to express a view) is the privilege of EVERY resident of this country regardless of wealth or status, whether you agree with them or not. Personally I have more respect for Gary Lineker than just about every politician that has the gall to have been elected to parliament.
Kevin and don’t forget to mention most of the BBC journalists
Tory politicians. Don't believe u can say this about snp.
Do you have any idea what was said in Germany in the 1930s and the lead up to the Holocaust? To compare the two is absolutely disgusting
The Conservatives like Suella Bravermans of this world , from Afghanistan, Britain,Iran, Israel ,the United States and in other parts of the world are the same.
They are devoid of any Conscience, Compassion or Empathy the most important attributes that set fully fledged decent human beings apart from the rest of the animals.They are not fully fledged decent human beings but SUB-HUMANS.
These Conservatives are crooked, decietful , self-centered , self-asorbed and totally apathetic to people's suffering.
Humans have evoleved not only biologically but are also evolving CONSCIOUSLY, with greater degree of awareness, deeper levels of insight and higher levels of intuition. People like Gary Lineker, James O'Brien and other millions of humanitarins with higher state of CONSCIOUNESS belong to this category. These are the "Woke" people the Conservative sub-humans refer to.
WELL THEN YOUR EASILY LEAD .AND AS SHALLOW AS JOB..
Kudos to Gary, don't apologize for the truth or what you believe brother.
Couple of points 1) Lineker should be able to say whatever he wants - I don't agree with him but we have freedom of speech he can say whatever he wants. 2) The language is nowhere near comparable to 1930's Germany - not in the same league - but Lineker absolutely has right to his opinion
Gary Neville has a similar degree of influence when it comes to stating the truth, and I'm a Liverpool FC fan 👊🏾✊🏾
Both took Qatari money, rank hypocrites
@@hattmancock6396 Yep, do as I say, not as I do...
You would say that...If your Black!
@@brettreynolds6652 you're
@@hattmancock6396 and The BBC, ITV et al paid Qatar for the broadcasting rights that support the regime. You're better off taking money out of the regime than putting it in to support it, methinks 😉
Dude has crisps money. Everyone loves crisps. Therefore he has everyones money. You don't mess with the guy whose holding your money. That's language the tories can understand. So rightfully they're terrified.
I hate crisps.
I love crisps but don't buy them anymore because they are horribly overpriced.
That was the most stupidest thing anybody has said today. Congrats. 🎉
Well it’s not your money if you hand it over you dunce
@@jjefferyworboys8138 Then you're free of Gary's control! Go now! Flee! Don't worry about the rest of us
You hit the nail on the head...
fear is the key to control.
Thanks for your excellent thoughts- they are scared. We must rid ourselves of all the corruption, hatred and lies.
....bye bye then.....😊
@@chatham43 typical troll, either 14 or embarrassing a 47 year old who thinks anyone who looks different to them should be exterminated
Lineker, one of the few in the BBC with a working moral compass.
Howard, what should happen all those who want asylums seekers should havetheur taxation raised... lets see then those put there money where there mouth is
REALLY ONE COMMENT AND HE IS SAINT BALL KICKER HOW EASILY LEAD YOU ARE ..
@@stephenisom6089 Capitals, really? "Say you're a gammon without saying you're a gammon!"😒
@@leonhughes9014 Let's just tax the rich, they've stolen the money from us in the first place.
@@howarddavies3744 gammon than woke anyday of the week.
Sorry but why does the Board of British Jews have any particular bearing on how we should all think about anything?
I'm no football fan, but Lineker makes me feel proud to be from the same city as him.
Ahh your an antisemit too
Yes does he still live in that same city ?
@@Tad1945 he's at the Leicester ground watching the game right now 😂
Despicable government.
How dare a government protect its borders 😂
why how many is to many 20 million 50 million how many you never answer,,
Despicable radio presenter
The truth can't be destroyed. Hats off too the stars standing up to the elitism, an not backing down, to save there career.
But but ... Suella Braverman said she was 'personally offended' by what Lineker said.
Poor baby.
We can only hope she’s offended lol honestly she’s horrible
@@chocolatesugar4434 Not a nice person like you eh?
I looked at the Mirror channel yesterday, wall to wall comments baying for Lineker’s blood. Zero dissent, it was all about crisp and wage packets. The same on most news media channels. GBNews took it to a new level with guests frothing at the mouth in what looked like a deliberate attempt to wind everyone up. Scary. I defended him and got called a “Dangerous idiot”, which I guess is a small taste of what Lineker gets.
We’re not going to be swamped by people in dinghies, and if the threat of death doesn’t deter someone then a free flight to Rwanda isn’t going to make a difference. Either I’ve got to believe the policy maker is dumb, or the intention is something else.
I don't get why stopping human trafficking is seen as 'like Germany in the 30s'. Legal immigration is fine. Stop encouraging people (mostly young men) paying human traffickers to cross the channel and risk their lives.
Thanks James. Gary is fully entitled to say what he feels and tough that the government don't like it. The language and fake news about the 100 million refugees coming to Britain is appalling.
.....what's wrong with a hundred million people arriving here....these people are desperate and we should support every single one....a typical tory......
@@chatham43 keep running from the truth.
You’re hiding from me 🫤
@chatham43 is being a Tory troll a full time job?
100 Million.! what planet or newspapers do you read! You sound like one of those Russian TH-cam channels that claim NATO and Ukraine..attacked them! scavengers and single unacompanies men from Albania..! What Refugees.!?
@@b62boom1 being a "Tory Troll" suggest that he is antagonising Tories. Is that what you meant?
Braverman's response was very interesting as she related Lineker's twitter comment to the Holocast, thereby demonstrating the complete lack of knowledge about what happened in Germany in the 30's and 40's! It was the political language of the 30's Lineker talked about. The Holocast happened towards the end of the 30's but mainly in the 40's!
They're aware, they just inflaming the situation to get the crazies on board
@@matt01506 Lineker was absolutely on the money, that's why they are so stung by his carefully chosen words. Your assessment only demonstrates your lack of objectivity. Braverman was wrong to twist his words.
Ahh everyone forgets the first part of the Holocaust..
T4
.. strange those victims aren't given the same rights of 'a name '
Spot on pal but how would she know being an immigrant and being born 40rs after the event.
First remove the "useless eaters"... the disabled and not economically active, then silence your political opponents, repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.
I am a bit anti football. Up until this week I considered the Walkers adverts to be the best thing Lineker has ever done. This week I have become a fan of his.
You're a fan of hate speech?
SAD FOR YOU SHALLOW LIVES NO REALITY YOU MAY GET OVER IT//
@@JfK--OBJECTivEhate speech is what this government is spewing when it calls people a swarm and talks of an invasion, dehumanizing people
@@JfK--OBJECTivE No a fan of someone speaking truth to power. anyway I thought hate speech is just speech you disagree with so I'm told by many on the right.
You're a fan of resorting to Godwin's Law because you're not intelligent enough to make an argument?
If what he said in his tweet wasn't true then they could have just responded with how it wasn't. Now they're getting mad about the fact that he said it. So they just admitted he is right and they are in denial.
Anyone who thinks any UK government is comparable to 1930s Germany is just an idiot
I think Gary makes a fair point, it’s not actually that dissimilar at all, history repeats, The nazis where extremely efficient in shutting up anyone who threatened their ideology, rising power, this is evidenced, let’s hope this nonsense in 2023 stops, it’s embarrassing to watch politicians, the wealthy influences in media, corporate personnel etc, etc, shocking state of leadership in my opinion if I’m allowed to have one.