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Muffinthegoat said:
But it is in breach of the impartiality of the BBC and he’s been told this. He either works within the same rules that apply to everyone else at the BBC or he doesn’t work there. I’ve no issue with what he said, he has every right to say it, but when he says it while employed at the BBC he jeopardises their impartiality. If he’s so intent on offering his opinion he should leave, as Andrew Marr did.
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But it's ok for Karen Brady to donate to the Tory party . ?
 
Edelman said:
But it's ok for Karen Brady to donate to the Tory party . ?
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Is Karen Brady a BBC employee? She can do what she wants in her own time. As Lineker should be able to do if he wants to donate to the Labour Party.
 
Muffinthegoat said:
But the cutting out of anti government voices have been going on whatever the government of the day is. The BBC is supposed to be impartial and that particularly applies to its highest paid presenter. If Lineker doesn’t like the constraints of his contract he should decline to accept its money, but being a total hypocrite he won’t have the moral decency to do so.
Being impartial is the bedrock of the BBC, for its star presenter to compare government policy to 1930’s Germany is a blatant breach. If he called a Labour policy as being akin to 1930’s Stalin he would be just as guilty. I’ve no problem with his tweets, I’m occasionally sympathetic to his views, but he can’t expect to so blatantly break the rules and still expect the BBC to pay him.
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He didn't break the rules at all. The guidelines specifically cite the example of a sports presenter talking about politics as an example of something that is unlikely to be mistaken for the views of the BBC, and which therefore shouldn't be an issue.

In reality it isn't about the guidelines though. It's just that recent governments have put their people at the top of the BBC and now they're using them to dictate the narrative, as was obviously the plan from the moment they were installed in those positions.

Which, just like the original policy Lineker was tweeting about, was another tactic used in 1930s Germany.
 
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Edelman said:
Listen to Nazis . The road to power on BBC sounds.
You might learn something .
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If you had read all my posts on this matter you wouldn’t be trying to lecture me. I’ve never said his concern is wrong, or he can’t have a voice, my issue is with him taking money from the BBC while being told he’s in breach of their impartiality guidelines. If he doesn’t like the terms of his contract he should walk away. And I’m fully aware of how the Nazis came to power, thank you.
 
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Muffinthegoat said:
If you had read all my posts on this matter you wouldn’t be trying to lecture me. I’ve never said his concern is wrong, or he can’t have a voice, my issue is with him taking money from the BBC while being told he’s in breach of their impartiality guidelines. If he doesn’t like the terms of his contract he should walk away. And I’m fully aware of how the Nazis came to power, thank you.
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He's freelance and not bound by the BTC corporation .
 
Muffinthegoat said:
If you had read all my posts on this matter you wouldn’t be trying to lecture me. I’ve never said his concern is wrong, or he can’t have a voice, my issue is with him taking money from the BBC while being told he’s in breach of their impartiality guidelines. If he doesn’t like the terms of his contract he should walk away. And I’m fully aware of how the Nazis came to power, thank you.
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Yes I thought I was well versed in them but it turns out I knew a lot less than I thought.
 
PLT said:
He didn't break the rules at all. The guidelines specifically cite the example of a sports presenter talking about politics as an example of something that is unlikely to be mistaken for the views of the BBC, and which therefore shouldn't be an issue.

In reality it isn't about the guidelines though. It's just that recent governments have put their people at the top of the BBC and now they're using them to dictate the narrative, as was obviously the plan from the moment they were installed in those positions.

Which, just like the original policy Lineker was tweeting about, was another tactic used in 1930s Germany.
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It was a tactic used in the communist USSR before the 1930s. Why didn’t he quote that?
 
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