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originallambrettaman said:
Gary Lineker is not a BBC employee, he’s a freelancer that does some work for the BBC and what he posts in his personal Twitter feed is his own business.

The BBC are suggesting that he’s so high profile, that he should be subject to higher standards than other presenters that do BBC work, even though he’s not a news and current affairs presenter.

I’m not sure why this particular tweet has caused so much hissy-fitting, I follow him and he’s been tweeting predominantly political comments for years.

What ever you think about Lineker, I think we can all agree the BBC have handled this whole thing appallingly.

PS - We can do without all the Nazi stuff, he never suggested the government were gassing people.
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He said they were using the same language as was used innGermany in the 1930s. Which was stupid and incorrect.
 
Also he never explicitly said the government were Nazis. He said the rhetoric around refugees in the UK by the government is similar to the rhetoric in Germany in the 30s, which it is. There weren’t death camps yet in the 1930s in Germany but there was still a lot of rhetoric about certain groups being fifth columns and threats to society.
 
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petersaxton said:
We've had the expense of covid and now we are funding the lifestyles of illegal immigrants which arrive in their thousands
Of course it is a major concern
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We have a no politics rule on here, which has been well and truly exceeded by many posters on two threads now.

Either jack it in, or we’ll have to remove posters or close the threads, thanks.
 
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Kalman said:
Also he never explicitly said the government were Nazis. He said the rhetoric around refugees in the UK by the government is similar to the rhetoric in Germany in the 30s, which it is. There weren’t death camps yet in the 1930s in Germany but there was still a lot of rhetoric about certain groups being fifth columns and threats to society.
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Similar to the rhetoric in the Soviet Union in the 1930s when show trials saw thousands executed or dispatched to the gulags as enemies of the state. Why notbuse as an example?
 
Cityzen said:
Similar to the rhetoric in the Soviet Union in the 1930s when show trials saw thousands executed or dispatched to the gulags as enemies of the state. Why notbuse as an example?
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Lineker could’ve easily used that as a comparison as well and I don’t think it would’ve justified him losing his job either. What’s your point? Or is it just another case of whataboutism from Captain Whataboutery again?
 
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Kalman said:
Lineker could’ve easily used that as a comparison as well and I don’t think it would’ve justified him losing his job either. What’s your point? Or is it just another case of whataboutism from Captain Whataboutery again?
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obergruppenführer cityzen reporting for duty
 
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Kalman said:
Lineker could’ve easily used that as a comparison as well and I don’t think it would’ve justified him losing his job either. What’s your point? Or is it just another case of whataboutism from Captain Whataboutery again?
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The point is a lot of the people defending Lineker would be criticising him if he had. And vice versa.
 
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TwoWrights said:
How the effin' 'ell couldn't it get political?
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You'd hope that people would have ability to discuss if someone should be free to post personal opinions while working for the BBC, without the need to bang on about people in boats, the quality of life in Albania and when Nazi's starting gassing people.

Sadly, it seems they can't help themselves.
 
Alex Scott isn't going to get many goals easier than that.

Harry Cornick sends a cross into the box from the right and it's a total defensive howler from Blackpool who go to clear the ball and pass it straight into the feet of Scott.

Bloody Alex Scott gets everywhere eh Castro?
 
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