Off Topic The Politics Thread

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So he tweeted that the Government policy is similar to that of 1930's Germany. Is that right?

On the one hand, he's got the right to tweet whatever he wants. On the other hand, read the room Gary. He must have known many would jump on the bandwagon of being offended/upset by what he said and push to get him out of the public eye.

Offensive, not in my book, it was, however, very unwise.
 
:emoticon-0102-bigsm Getting all upset over that idiot Lineker. Of course he has freedom of speech, but when you enter a contract with a publicly funded broadcaster - he was on something around £2 million pa - you have either to temper it or resign and work for a purely commercial outfit.

He's had enough warnings

He clearly knows nothing about the Third Reich...
 
So he tweeted that the Government policy is similar to that of 1930's Germany. Is that right?

On the one hand, he's got the right to tweet whatever he wants. On the other hand, read the room Gary. He must have known many would jump on the bandwagon of being offended/upset by what he said and push to get him out of the public eye.

Offensive, not in my book, it was, however, very unwise.
No he didn't tweet that. He said the policy was cruel and that the language used was similar to that of 1930 Germany.
 
:emoticon-0102-bigsm Getting all upset over that idiot Lineker. Of course he has freedom of speech, but when you enter a contract with a publicly funded broadcaster - he was on something around £2 million pa - you have either to temper it or resign and work for a purely commercial outfit.

He's had enough warnings

He clearly knows nothing about the Third Reich...
Why does he have to temper it or resign?
It's quite pathetic really. I really do wonder if he would have to temper it or resign if he had said the policy was good and the language used was fine. I somehow doubt it, but since he's gone against the Tory BBC then that's like blasphemy!
 
:emoticon-0102-bigsm Getting all upset over that idiot Lineker. Of course he has freedom of speech, but when you enter a contract with a publicly funded broadcaster - he was on something around £2 million pa - you have either to temper it or resign and work for a purely commercial outfit.

He's had enough warnings

He clearly knows nothing about the Third Reich...

Whereas you’d have been right at home.
 
Sugar also publicly supported Boris Johnson at the last election. Anyone can say what they like as long as it suits the Tory agenda.

Control the media, control the masses.

I doubt they'd be a problem if Lineker had tweeted his support for Labour. It's clear and he's not a current affairs journalist. But saying the government sounded like the Nazis, and then challenging BBC management, was just ****ing dumb.

He'll probably be back next week.