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!

Really? You seriously think elections are won by parties supporting suppression of freedom of speech? It seems Lineker was even more accurate than l thought.

No to

So - do explain if I’ve misunderstood - the proposed ‘safe route’ is giving a British visa to anyone who asks for one, for any reason, as long as they claim to be a refugee?

They have to pass criteria.

Currently more than 80% of those crossing the channel.in small boats are approved as genuine refugees and granted asylum.

You might like to believe cropped photos and lies but the truth is most of these people are desperate and they deserve sage routes to apply for asylum.

Judging by your replies I don't expect you to ever understand or care. I guess I'm replying to inform bystanders with humanity.

Ahhhh ‘treat people with humanity’ the ‘Brexit means Brexit’ of this argument.

How am I suggesting we dont treat people with humanity?

And why does nobody ever answer my posts about my concern over unchecked men from very patriarchal countries turning up and what this means for women here?

Of the people who Labour need to vote for them to win an election, Lineker gets up the noses of more of them than he appeals to. The people who Lineker appeals to generally live in very safe Labour seats. He is not popular at all in blue-collar working-class areas that Labour used to win easily in but now struggle.

Yep, can’t imagine why anyone thinks this guy is either an incel or a racist. Total mystery 🤷‍♀️

Also, Lineker pocketed £1.6 million from Qatar’s state media.

Hypocrite much?

I don’t think the tories are ‘very right wing’, but that will go down like a lead balloon here
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moonicorn you should take up comedy!

Or read a politics or history book and actually learn something

Paid troll or dumb I can't decide
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Lineker openly opposed quatar. On air. On the BBC. Politically. And he was allowed to.

Thanks for bringing that up.

Meanwhile Alan Sugar openly opposes Labour, unions and literally tweeted that we must vote Boris.

Still does the Apprentice on BBC.

No suspension

why

Happy to defend myself if you ask an intelligent question 😊

You're not though are you.

You're just here to be today.

Night

He did, and then pocketed the £1.6 million 🤷🏼‍♀️You’d thinking someone of such strong conviction would turn it down, wouldn’t you?

Really? There’s been a scientific poll of approval for Lineker broken down by parliamentary constituency? Can I have a link to it, please?

Goady not today.

Shakes fist at autocorrect

Night!

Hahaaaaa I’m not surprised you think such a poll exists…

Woah yes sounds like you need some sleep, night 👋🏻

There's no poll. It's just my opinion. It will go the same way as Brexit. And the same people will be up in arms afterwards saying "How can people be so STUPID?", and then they'll do the same thing again, and again, and again. And somehow they're unable to figure out why they keep losing.

meet you back here in 2024 and we'll find out.

I really cannot believe the outrageous way that the BBC behaved in suspending @Gary Lineker
Few things piss me off😪 and horrify me But this has. I support him and his opinions.
I really have no words.
Are we really human beings??
Fuck the Tories and the BBC

So many posters on here seem utterly detached from the real world don’t they! They seem genuinely amazed that after 13(?) years of Tory government and Brexit, the public aren’t seeing and appreciating Lineker for the rich white Left Wing icon that he is 😆

(With kindness) How is that different to the scheme I mentioned in the first post of mine that I asked you to read? 😉

As you very correctly also said, the government could do this now, and potentially more cheaply than the Rwanda scheme and French detention scheme. Why don’t they?

They know this new plan won’t work. This isn’t even the first time they’ve paid France for detention centers or border security and it hasn’t worked any of those multiple times. And despite that, they’re spending more money this time. Money that would be better put to use in the UK, desperately needed by lots of communities. So, I agree with your question. And I’d add in, why do they choose policies that actively harm women and children? Whether it’s a lack of safe routes, meaning women and children are left in war zones and under the Taliban, or (the new bill’s) refusal to protect victims of modern slavery (which will include women trafficked to work in forced prostitution).

Might be worth asking your MP brocade I have no clue why they’re choosing to do this.

@BewareTheLibrarians I don’t know why they don’t, I’m not a Tory voter nor mouthpiece 🤷🏼‍♀️

It wouldn’t solve the boat issue anyway as men told they can’t apply for asylum in the U.K. would then try to enter illegally, again 🤷🏼‍♀️

Night Moonicorn Tory troll and god bless. You'll need it. Try focussing time on helping those in need of the cost of living crisis instead of spouting inflammatory nonsense and i might listen to you. Full day at the food bank on my day off today for me so forgive my tiredness..night I mean it this time because your overlords have made my life so exhausting.. you really repulse m.

It’s too late for flattery, Vanderlay.