Andrew Neil worked for the BBC for years, whilst routinely expressing strong right wing opinions on Twitter and being the editor of The Spectator, a hard right wing publication. And of course he was a political journalist at the BBC, so far more of a conflict of interest than a sports commentator making a personal political comment on Twitter.
Did you see all us lefty liberal snowflakes getting up in arms about that? I knew full well Andrew Neil was very right wing (and very vocally so) but he seemed to keep it away from his job at the BBC and always gave politicians of any stripe a decent grilling when he was interviewing them, no big deal.
Lineker himself Tweeted 'Bin Corbyn' back in 2017, again, no fuss over that from all us woketards.
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And yet now we have the Daily Mail and a load of right-wingers losing their absolute shit over a relatively innocuous Tweet by a sports personality, the same Daily Mail that bangs on about cancel culture and how you can't say anything nowadays without the WOKE MOB trying to shut you down.
It's a crystal clear case of blatant double standards, Lineker was targeted because of what he said, and about whom.
For the record I don't think it was a particularly useful thing to Tweet, going near '1930s Germany' in this kind of debate never tends to end well, even though what he was saying was essentially factually accurate. For my money he'd have been better off talking about the language of 1930s England, when the Daily Mail (who else....) was saying 'Hurrah for the Blackshirts'.