Gary Lineker - he really had to go and a warning t against virtue signalling

Why did you think he was off the BBC? I've seen him on other things as well. The ROHOG is probably on iPlayer. Very funny.

And saying that trans people are the most oppressed people in the world. I would say that’s women in Afghanistan but he was silent when England hosted Afghanistan in cricket.

And Jimmy Carr of Holocaust joke fame gets to host an Israeli reception in London. Go figure....

Israel bombed Gaza for 3 days a week before Oct 7. Over 30 Palestinian children were killed by Israel that year prior to Oct 7 and 100s of adults. Multiple pogroms happened by terrorist settlers under the protection of the IDF in the West Bank in 2023 prior to Oct 7. Children were being tortured and sexually assaulted in Israeli prisons prior to Oct 7. It's a myth that there was a ceasefire on Oct 7. If people think Israelis being raped and murdered would constitute breaking a ceasefire then they must surely agree that Israel broke whatever ceasefire they thought existed first by raping and murdering.

There are still hostages because Israel decided not to move onto the next phase of the ceasefire agreement and broke the ceasefire with mass killings in March. Hamas, the terrorists, aren't giving Israel the only thing stopping them from completely decimating Gaza without a ceasefire agreement. Have you not been following this at all?

You were right.

I loathe him but may be influenced by football loyalty.

I loathe him even more for his casual comment that men playing in women's sport won't really be a problem.

Not your rights to give away Gary

I know that there are many Jewish people who are also horrified by the genocide and who emphatically do not support Netanyahu. It was their voices I was referring to.

It will be a shame if people can’t take a joke!

Damn I missed that but then I don't watch the BBC or any tele and don't have a licence. I shall seek him out. First saw him at the Comedy Store where he was MC back in 1980 and have been a fan ever since.

The smear campaign has begun. As Steve Bannon once said of Trump’s strategy: “Flood the zone with shit - create so much noise and misinformation that people no longer know what to believe. Next, they’ll be comparing him to Goebbels. That’s how these tactics work.

Off the BBC? He was recently on Richard Osman's House of Games.

@GeorgianaM I am not confident that your post will remain up long….

It's actually been quite nice for a controversial thread that no-one has got rude and personal.
So apology accepted.
Let's move on.

It’s funny, isn’t it, how people somehow manage to campaign against the genocide of the Uigher people without drawing racist cartoons of Chinese people or using crude racist stereotypes when talking about the perpetrators?

Oh I beg your pardon maybe you just didn’t read the post properly

Since you ask - another true national treasure now sadly off the BBC but one of the finest comedians of his generation and never knowingly unfunny.

How rude. No need for that.

You conveniently left out the sentence that followed but unfortunately for you some of us can read.

Evidently Lineker’s morals did not extend to environmental concerns, including all the landfill from Walker’s crisp packets (PepsiCo).

Funny that.

Who lies?...politicians, the media?

Blaming everything on Hamas is a convenient way to absolve a state with vastly superior power and resources from responsibility for its own actions. The deaths of thousands of children isn't a “consequence” it’s the direct result of choices made by those dropping the bombs.

@CurlewKate - "where are all the Jewish voices?"
What? Why should Jewish people be put under pressure to speak out? Would you expect Muslim people to speak out on any events occuring in Islamist regimes? After 9/11?
No. It's not their responsibility. Don't have that expectation of Jews, or worse, criticise them for not speaking out.

I was listening to 5Live today when a BBC presenter was talking about how well respected the Corporation is around the World. He cited the programme Top Gear. I mean what bubble do these people live in?
Obviously my message didn't get read out in the interest of BBC impartiality but I asked if he had seen the Disney plus documentary following Andrew Flintoff?
They mark their own homework.

@IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken Could you expand on what makes him a knob?