To applaud Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Ian Wright, and think Suella Braverman is looking like a fool for not even understanding the comment

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Lineker called the immigration policy cruel, and compared the language and attitude of the government to 1930s Germany.

I hundred percent agree with him

Braverman started denying that anything that is happening in UK is comparable to the holocaust

She is spectacularly missing the point. The holocaust didn't happen in the 1930s

What happened in the 1930s was the slow and steady build up of racism and aggression and hate, that resulted in the holocaust in the 1940s

And the noises coming out of the government are very much like 1930s nazis

For those of you that don't have any interest in Match of the Day, Gary Lineker, the main presenter, has been suspended, in spite of being a sports commentator, and NOT a news reader or involved in current affairs programming, and NOT bound by the impartiality clause, and his two top fellow presenters have refused to appear without him

So either the BBC bosses (tory appointees) have scored a spectacular own goal,(unintended pun) in trying to supress Lineker's opinions, and turning them into world wide headlines,

OR!

Maybe they are secretly working against the government by choosing a course of action that will actually make the tories look like complete fools, while pretending to support them!

The Nazi Party certainly viewed them as not German - ditto Roma people - being born in a country doesn;t protect you from fascists

@Yulelogs I really think we must be watching different BBCs. And I'm saying that as someone who is naturally right of centre rather than left. I just don't see the BBC being at all critical of Brexit. If we look at the state of the economy, so much is caused by Brexit and yet the BBC just aren't giving it any publicity.

I don't disagree that the comments and coverage from both sides during the Brexit campaigning were negative and derogatory. I also agree we need to have a debate on immigration. But I think it needs to be fact based an unemotional.

I also agree that political reporters on the BBC should be impartial.

But I simply do not see the BBC as having left wing presenters. And what I do see is

1. The top levels being populated by people with overtly right wing backgrounds
2. A worrying silencing of someone

Very misjudged by the BBC in my opinion. They look like Tory shills and it all just looks dishonest. This will backfire on them for sure.

Shame BBC didn’t tell Jimmy Saville, Stuart Hall and Rolf Harris to “step back.”

They used dehumanising language to describe other people who they saw as ‘the other’ or not like them-irrespective of where they lived. They blamed a section of society for society’s problems. So not unlike today.

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He is referring to the use of language with regards to refugees.

Total solidarity with Lineker and Wright. And so pleased to see that they are standing together, doing exactly the right morally truthful thing. I think the BBC have been so attacked and undermined by this government that their top management have been cowed and ceased to be impartial about what impartiality actually is.

Every human rights group and religious group that’s commented finds this effective ending of legal asylum to the UK disgusting. I’m very happy to see that such high profile figures are speaking up about it. of course they should be able to. Otherwise it’s just government appeasement that BBC management are demanding, which is definitely not written into Lineker’s contract.

no, I didn't say migrants

I said refugees.

Refugees.

why would you quote me asking if I meant something different to what I said?

Ridiculous comment. Do you support our offer of help to people from Ukraine? If so, have you offered a place for them in your home?

Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Ian Wright
Well done all three.

“asylum seekers have no recourse to public funds and don't get benefits”

Until they get an NI number …. 🤷🏼‍♀️ all comes out of different pots of money. They get housed, fed and looked after until then. There’s loads of support.

Absolutely agree. Firstly because he’s right and it’s a disgusting policy but also, because his view has no impact on his abilities to fulfil his job!

Thanks for that, I’ve seen that bit but I’m trying to find the original comments he is talking about so I can see for myself what meaning I take from them.

@Rosula I think it’s called sarcasm

he didn't say anything on the BBC

This is what he is responding to

It is really quite frightening how the far left are trying to shut down debate in this country and this has been driven by the BBC imo especially with their brexit coverage.

No, love, the people doing the silencing are those on the right.

Read the thread. Try and keep up.

He has a contract that says he will bide by BBC rules. Tim Davie introduced new rules in 2020.

People don't lose their job for having political opinions. They lose their job for expressing them in a manner that the company they work for says they can't.

Missed the point.

Completely agree with you Nimbo.

Well said.

BigRed98

What a load of BS.

People don’t get their first school of choice across the country, it’s nothing to do with immigration. To blame immigrants for that is disgraceful.

This journalist sums up brilliantly the issue twitter.com/lallylangford/status/1634279868606173194?s=61&t=WHCVHBX9QTe3g6CufqQV6Q

It's a Twitter post of Sky news.