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Ermm, paid to them under threat of fines and/or imprisonment by us. Even you can see the irony there, myopic as your views are.
P.S. Ever heard of breach of contract terms? Might be just a little more basic than you would like to believe.
BBC can now clear out the dead wood and replace them with Mataface etc. who can actually talk without umming and aaahing every 10 seconds. Could work out quite well. I remember you getting offended when I compared your outbursts to Lord Haw-Haw. Yet not a word from you when some IQ-deficient BBC drone compares stopping criminal trespassers with the mechanised murder of millions by the Nazis. I do love your hypocrisy and disingenuity. Makes you the person you are.
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Could be a very short show...MOTD to be 'Highlights only'
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Actually I think this new partnership for motd would work for me
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I was just about to say the same. Bliss has arrived. Football highlights with no punditry, just the games. No heat maps, pointless stats, debates about whether a penalty was a penalty - as Clough used to say, "It WAS as penalty because the ref said it was.." No padding it out with pointless inquiries about every decision. True socialism and equality has arrived at MoTD....MOTD to be 'Highlights only'
Why not just do that all the time, and save themselves around £2m p/a on their luvvie presenters?
No smarmy wannabe Lenin earning a nurse's annual salary for each one day of work a week to make 1 hour or so of late night TV.
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Mind you, he could pay for 150 nurses for a year if he loses his tax avoidance case with the HMRC, as one of many 'self employed' celebrities who have used the 'freelance' tax-avoidance scheme.
The Match of The Day host has been told by HMRC that he is not a freelancer but rather an employee of the BBC and BT Sports and could face a tax liability of £4.9 million.
"Amongst other celebrity broadcasters, Gary Lineker has been listed to be investigated by HMRC to which the matter will move on to a full hearing. HMRC is now pursuing him for £4.9 million that should have been paid on income between the period of 2013 and 2018 comprising of £3,621,735.90 in income tax and a further £1,307,160.46 in NI contributions. Gary insists that all taxes were paid on the income via a partnership Gary Lineker Media (GLM) in the sum of around £600,000 and the company is appealing against the assessments. This meaning that the star can avoid paying employers national insurance contributions but would be liable to pay the same if the appeal is unsuccessful."
As HMRC are going to classify that his extensive work for BT Sport and BBC should make him an employee for tax purposes, this would mean that the HMRC would need to prove the two sports entertainment companies had control over him or he had editorial independence.
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He posted on Twitter, not on the BBC. If he sat down in his MOTD chair and started with the political stuff then yes, that's a problem, but he kept it entirely on Twitter.
Lineker was telling the truth, the language coming out of some branches of the Tory Party at the moment is reminiscent of early 1930s Germany, he's not going straight for the 'Nazi' parallel, simply making an accurate observation about the language being used - and the snowflakes can't tolerate a football pundit telling them the truth.
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Ermm, paid to them under threat of fines and/or imprisonment by us. Even you can see the irony there, myopic as your views are.
P.S. Ever heard of breach of contract terms? Might be just a little more basic than you would like to believe.
BBC can now clear out the dead wood and replace them with Mataface etc. who can actually talk without umming and aaahing every 10 seconds. Could work out quite well. I remember you getting offended when I compared your outbursts to Lord Haw-Haw. Yet not a word from you when some IQ-deficient BBC drone compares stopping criminal trespassers with the mechanised murder of millions by the Nazis. I do love your hypocrisy and disingenuity. Makes you the person you are.
That's absolutely not the comparison he made, like, literally, those aren't even remotely the words he used or the point he was making.
Also I know you like to rewrite history when it suits, so here's me getting 'offended' about your Haw-Haw remark - UK Conservative Party Leadership Election - Page 6 - Casinomeister Forum
All the while whilst employed by the BBC, knowing full well that he shouldn't, and the very reasons many of the other BBC staff don't. He's like a law unto himself, and I think I've seen some observers remark that he is MOTD - a sure-fire sign that Lineker likely thinks he's bigger than any show, institution or things called 'rules'
Fact is, like I and others have mentioned, freedom of speech is just that, Lineker can opine on all manner of topics 'til the cows come home, that's his right of expression; some will agree, some disagree.
Yet like with most things, if one starts airing controversial views on Social Media, it'll inevitably reflect on one's employers, who'll back you to the hilt, or run for the hills and disavow ever having known you. And in Lineker's case, he knows as part of his BBC contract that that's a big no-no.
I get it, he felt compelled to breach those terms and be a voice for the disaffected, and subsequently double-down because he's on the right side of history. Yet unfortunately for him, that's not how his employers see it, and have rightfully taken him to task over it (somewhat surprisingly though, given all they've turned a blind eye to prior).....
I think most can attest to watching MOTD and other sports shows to get away from politics and suchlike, and seeing uncle Gary start open BBC's World Cup coverage with a sermonizing segment about Dubai (whilst of course going to attend the event, along with all the aggrieved crew.....instead of boycotting the entire thing) tells you that he has no qualms about shoehorning politics into sport.
Although it must be said, the Beeb clearly had no beef with him doing that in November, as it's unlikely to have been him that compiled the human rights video that kicked off the show. If anyone's truly being suspect in their judgement, it's the BBC, who have pretty much enabled him for the longest time now
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Let's be honest with ourselves though goaty, if Lineker had Tweeted about how he approved of the government's policy on small boats and refugees, he'd still be presenting MOTD tonight - we all know it.
It's not speaking out politically that's led to the BBC taking action on Lineker, it's what he said and about whom.
That's the thing with the right wing, it loves free speech until it's about them.
And let's just remind ourselves of what Lineker actually said, that has caused so much clutching of pearls and behaviour that would be derided as 'snowflakey' if the boot had been on the other foot.
Ahhh cancel culture eh?
OK for some though.....
It's not speaking out politically that's led to the BBC taking action on Lineker, it's what he said and about whom.
That's the thing with the right wing, it loves free speech until it's about them.
And let's just remind ourselves of what Lineker actually said, that has caused so much clutching of pearls and behaviour that would be derided as 'snowflakey' if the boot had been on the other foot.
Ahhh cancel culture eh?
OK for some though.....
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This was how the BBC replied to a complaint about Andrew Neil in 2020.
Getting a bit awkward, isn't it?....
Getting a bit awkward, isn't it?....
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Line-cur - pay your fucking taxes (I wonder if @ChopleyIOM 's mates at PE will mention that one? Naaaahh....)
Line-cur - spend some of your cash (after tax) and buy a refugee hotel at your expense.
Line-cur - save us license payers 29k a week.
Line-cur - then fuck-offand become a politician or a 'uman rites, innit lawyer, then accept your honorary doctorates from various universities and lecture students, not us tax payers.
Just remember folks - BBC pundits didn't have a problem picking up a cheque whilst commenting on matches in a regime that uses slaves and throws gay people off buildings and daily stoning. Nevermind eh?
And where was the 'solidarity' when Matt LeTissier was booted from Sky Sports for doing the same as Line-cur?
Line-cur - spend some of your cash (after tax) and buy a refugee hotel at your expense.
Line-cur - save us license payers 29k a week.
Line-cur - then fuck-offand become a politician or a 'uman rites, innit lawyer, then accept your honorary doctorates from various universities and lecture students, not us tax payers.
Just remember folks - BBC pundits didn't have a problem picking up a cheque whilst commenting on matches in a regime that uses slaves and throws gay people off buildings and daily stoning. Nevermind eh?
And where was the 'solidarity' when Matt LeTissier was booted from Sky Sports for doing the same as Line-cur?
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Oh dear, this isn't great....
There is literally nothing that Boris Johnson touches that doesn't turn to shit. He parachuted a multi-millionaire Tory donor, who also personally sorted out an £800K loan for him, into the top job at the BBC, a job he clearly isn't fit for.
There is literally nothing that Boris Johnson touches that doesn't turn to shit. He parachuted a multi-millionaire Tory donor, who also personally sorted out an £800K loan for him, into the top job at the BBC, a job he clearly isn't fit for.
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Line-cur - pay your fucking taxes (I wonder if @ChopleyIOM 's mates at PE will mention that one? Naaaahh....)
Line-cur - spend some of your cash (after tax) and buy a refugee hotel at your expense.
Line-cur - save us license payers 29k a week.
Line-cur - then fuck-offand become a politician or a 'uman rites, innit lawyer, then accept your honorary doctorates from various universities and lecture students, not us tax payers.
Just remember folks - BBC pundits didn't have a problem picking up a cheque whilst commenting on matches in a regime that uses slaves and throws gay people off buildings and daily stoning. Nevermind eh?
And where was the 'solidarity' when Matt LeTissier was booted from Sky Sports for doing the same as Line-cur?
Flurble blurble blather bluster - straight into the dunover collection of rambling nonsense posts that say nothing and just shout at the clouds, it'll sit nicely alongside your bizarre extended rant about how leaving the EU had gifted the UK the ability to fart whenever it wanted without fear of the EU telling it off.
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Jeremy Clarkson saying public sector workers on strike should be executed in front of their families, and I'm not even exaggerating for effect, those are his exact words.
Worked for the BBC for another five years after this, until they finally sacked him after he physically assaulted one of his staff for not getting him a hot meal.
Gary Lineker on the other hand, see, he was on the wrong side of the debate.
Worked for the BBC for another five years after this, until they finally sacked him after he physically assaulted one of his staff for not getting him a hot meal.
Gary Lineker on the other hand, see, he was on the wrong side of the debate.
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Nice to see a woketard like yourself sucking up to a multimillionaire tax-avoider, the kind so deserving of mentions in PE but who is somehow omitted due to his woke views..... A man who collects a nurse's annual salary for a day's work a week, from us (do you pay a TV license fee as it is supposed to be paid in the IoM, like elsewhere?) under threat of fine and/or imprisonment.
So let's pro-rata that up a bit. His 1 day a week at £1.35m pa. So then with the PM doing 5 days a week, also with a long summer off (like the MoTD staff get as there's a 2-3 month close-season) should therefore get a £7.2m salary off us taxpayers? Could you imagine it? Let's sell that one to the public employees....
'More rambling nonsense from dunover' when you have no answer to my valid points of course.
When the inconvenient truth smacks you in the face and exposes your hypocrisy, yet again.FTR:
1. Wealthy tax dodgers are OK as long as they profess the 'correct' woke opinions in @ChopleyIOM world.
2. I repeat my sentence from before - BBC pundits didn't have a problem picking up a cheque whilst commenting on matches in a regime that uses slaves and throws gay people off buildings and daily stoning. Nevermind eh?
Perhaps you, like Mr. Smug, need a history lesson regarding 1930's statements from the Nazi regime, culminating in Kristallnacht when 'real Germans' were encouraged to smash windows of homes and destroy businesses of 'undesirables' as a final warning it would be a good idea to leave while you can....
I await such a statement from the present government with bated breath.
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Finally your time to shine and outdo all those overpaid commentators from the Beeb.
"Haaland shoots aaaaaaaaand he misses."
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Anyway, I can imagine the Premier League won't be very happy with this format of presenting the highlights.
Was there really not 1 tory at BBC Sport wanting to do some voice-over at least?
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Nice to see a woketard like yourself sucking up to a multimillionaire tax-avoider, the kind so deserving of mentions in PE but who is somehow omitted due to his woke views..... A man who collects a nurse's annual salary for a day's work a week, from us (do you pay a TV license fee as it is supposed to be paid in the IoM, like elsewhere?) under threat of fine and/or imprisonment.
So let's pro-rata that up a bit. His 1 day a week at £1.35m pa. So then with the PM doing 5 days a week, also with a long summer off (like the MoTD staff get as there's a 2-3 month close-season) should therefore get a £7.2m salary off us taxpayers? Could you imagine it? Let's sell that one to the public employees....
'More rambling nonsense from dunover' when you have no answer to my valid points of course.
FTR:
1. Wealthy tax dodgers are OK as long as they profess the 'correct' woke opinions in @ChopleyIOM world.
2. I repeat my sentence from before - BBC pundits didn't have a problem picking up a cheque whilst commenting on matches in a regime that uses slaves and throws gay people off buildings and daily stoning. Nevermind eh?
Perhaps you, like Mr. Smug, need a history lesson regarding 1930's statements from the Nazi regime, culminating in Kristallnacht when 'real Germans' were encouraged to smash windows of homes and destroy businesses of 'undesirables' as a final warning it would be a good idea to leave while you can....
I await such a statement from the present government with bated breath.
I honestly have no idea what your point even is. You seem to think Lineker's tax efficiency scheme is some sort of slam dunk auto-win button when it's got absolutely cock all to do with the issue at hand. It's something wealthy people do, it sucks, but it's legal and very common. If he loses his case against HMRC he'll have to pay a load of overdue tax and quite right too. Lord Rothermere - (owner of the Daily Mail, which I see is going for Lineker big time, today's issue was on sale in Shoprite when I did some shopping this morning) - isn't even resident in the UK for tax purposes, preferring instead to be a non-dom who lives in France (that's how much he loves the UK), and owns the parent company of the Daily Mail through a load of tax-dodging companies in Bermuda.
As for the Qatari world cup, I made my feelings on that clear at the time (here in the CM thread), you could argue they should have refused to cover it at all, but they had nothing to do with the decision of where to host it (we have FIFA's utterly mind-boggling corruption to thank for that), and commentary was made about Qatar's human rights record, which I felt was appropriate.
As for Lineker's pay, again, what does that have to do with his right (or not) to express a personal political view on Twitter? What he earns is agreed between himself and the BBC, he's amongst their top talent and hosts their flagship sports show, so he gets well paid. And yes we do pay the licence fee here on the IOM, we have a TV Licence for our house and have done for decades, I'm not entirely happy with how the BBC spends all its money (their news output at the moment is shameful, they are so badly cowed by the Tories), a mate of mine has boycotted Radio 4 because he can't tolerate its obvious political timidity and kow-towing to the government - but overall they produce a lot of good stuff. (I'd probably pay the licence fee just for Radio 6 TBH.)
Anyway, all of that is white noise around the core issue here, in that Lineker was singled out for expressing a political opinion that's critical of the government, as I said yesterday, if he'd Tweeted in support of the government's refugee policy, we all know he'd have been presenting MOTD as usual last night.
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Do you believe if he'd used the same level of rhetoric but in the opposite political direction it wouldn't have caused a shitstorm?
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Well let's imagine what that might look like, in fact all we need to do is use the government's own language.
So yeah, I think he'd still have been presenting MOTD.
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Good to see our government taking the strong action required to stop the invasion of illegal asylum seekers across the English Channel, we know most of these are healthy Albanian men with no legitimate claim to be here, and in many cases they have criminal backgrounds, I support Rishi and Suella in clamping down on this modern slavery system.
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Not sure that is in quite the same ballpark as the rhetoric he used, but even this milquetoast interpretation would have labour and immigration supporters up in arms to the bbc.
I wonder if any of his colleagues and friends now standing up for him over this, actually endorsed his view at the time enough to retweet it, I bet there were none
The bbc have provided him with a national platform, yes he was well known as a footballer but without the weekly reminder [and earlier tv work] he would've probably faded to Teddy Sheringham levels of public fame and interest by now.
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Interesting...
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No, he hasn't been singled out for expressing a contrary opinion, he's been singled out because he's in breach of his contract. Not for the first time. Notwithstanding his erroneous and ignorant blurb comparing a rational action by an elected govt. to prevent illegal entants with the intent of those running the Third Reich, considered very offensive by some.
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No, but he seems to have a point, as viewing figures were UP 20%:
(From BBC News) "Viewing figures were up by almost half a million to 2.58m."
People don't watch MoTD to see Captain Smarm, Shearer, Wright, Micah Michelin-Mann, Scott or whatever selection of clowns they overpay for their hour's work, but the FOOTBALL!
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I suspect there was a lot of rubbernecking to see what was going to happen, let's see what transpires next week.
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Why wait - there's another tonight.
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Not sure that is in quite the same ballpark as the rhetoric he used, but even this milquetoast interpretation would have labour and immigration supporters up in arms to the bbc.
I wonder if any of his colleagues and friends now standing up for him over this, actually endorsed his view at the time enough to retweet it, I bet there were none
The bbc have provided him with a national platform, yes he was well known as a footballer but without the weekly reminder [and earlier tv work] he would've probably faded to Teddy Sheringham levels of public fame and interest by now.
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.
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'.
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I never watch it anyway, can't stand football. Utterly and completely corrupted by billionaires.
Mate of mine is big into it though, whilst also accepting it has been corrupted beyond any possible redemption. He was watching that Liverpool/Man Utd match the other week.
Lineker looking positively circumspect whilst walking his pooch this morrow, stating simply "I can't say anything at the moment"
Now imagine he'd just done that from the outset!
Yet surely either reflective of protecting his golden contract, a dressing down or two (whilst watching the BBC 'Rome' itself into oblivion), or him waiting to announce something far bigger, akin to "F*** y'all, I've mutually terminated my BBC contract and am joining BT Sports, bitches"
Now imagine he'd just done that from the outset!
Yet surely either reflective of protecting his golden contract, a dressing down or two (whilst watching the BBC 'Rome' itself into oblivion), or him waiting to announce something far bigger, akin to "F*** y'all, I've mutually terminated my BBC contract and am joining BT Sports, bitches"
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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'.
I see Andrew Neil as more a blairite murdochian creature, similar to piers morgan, people of the left see them as 'right wingers'; the bbc probably gave him a job to deflect accusations of political bias, and to try to balance their overriding liberal/left viewpoint.
Look at many other former bbc presenters, they've all suddenly gone to work for lbc, home of woketard irritant James o'b. Maybe it's because the bbc wants to appear more impartial [to protect its licence fee/survival] and these folk know they can't hold their silence on twitter, and lbc is okay with that.
I get the feeling Gary's political knowledge is very limited, along with his perception of priorities and common sense of what is is in the general public's interest i.e. not these boat people turning up annually in their thousands.
Edit: Apparently AN is now doing a news show for channel 4, he can't be right wing if that's the case.
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Andrew Neil not right wing? Come on mack, let's at least stay connected to the plane of reality! There's a whole lifetime of his work to point at! Yes he's now got a show on Channel 4 but how does that mean he can't be right wing? Michael Portillo did a whole series of shows for the BBC, you know, the massive Thatcher supporter who served in her cabinet. Is he not right wing either because he worked for the 'woke' BBC?
To be clear, I think Andrew Neil is an astute journalist and an excellent interrogator of politicians, and it seemed to me he never let his personal politics clash with his job at the BBC, but to claim he isn't and/or can't be right wing is pure nonsense.
I know it would be convenient to have Andrew Neil not be vocally right wing because it would neuter the massive hypocrisy at play with the Lineker situation, but he is a right winger - that's just an observable fact that can easily be evidenced.
To be clear, I think Andrew Neil is an astute journalist and an excellent interrogator of politicians, and it seemed to me he never let his personal politics clash with his job at the BBC, but to claim he isn't and/or can't be right wing is pure nonsense.
I know it would be convenient to have Andrew Neil not be vocally right wing because it would neuter the massive hypocrisy at play with the Lineker situation, but he is a right winger - that's just an observable fact that can easily be evidenced.
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And here we have a former Conservative politician recently employed by the BBC criticising a BBC colleague for having political opinions. A BBC which has Conservative Party members on its board and leadership team.
You can watch one of his BBC programmes on the iPlayer right now,
You can watch one of his BBC programmes on the iPlayer right now,
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Yeah they're just opinion polls, but it's always interesting to see how these things split out.
It's not exactly emphatic when it comes to Tory voters either, which literally just limps over the 50% line when it comes to 'it was wrong to suspend Gary Lineker'.
(I'd absolutely love to see the age demographic of that 51%, I'd bet anyone a million pounds it's predominantly old people.)
It's not exactly emphatic when it comes to Tory voters either, which literally just limps over the 50% line when it comes to 'it was wrong to suspend Gary Lineker'.
(I'd absolutely love to see the age demographic of that 51%, I'd bet anyone a million pounds it's predominantly old people.)
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Description says it all, John Barnes is brilliant here.
I'm increasingly convinced the government really, really picked the wrong side on this one.
'Don't pick fights with people who are far more popular than you are' - a lesson the Tory government might do well to learn.
I'm increasingly convinced the government really, really picked the wrong side on this one.
'Don't pick fights with people who are far more popular than you are' - a lesson the Tory government might do well to learn.
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Are these the same Britons that many remainers were branding as 'thick' and/or racist when they voted for Brexit?Yeah they're just opinion polls, but it's always interesting to see how these things split out.
It's not exactly emphatic when it comes to Tory voters either, which literally just limps over the 50% line when it comes to 'it was wrong to suspend Gary Lineker'.
(I'd absolutely love to see the age demographic of that 51%, I'd bet anyone a million pounds it's predominantly old people.)
Suddenly become more insightful on current affairs in your book now have they?
You'd expect Labour supporters to at least have a rudimentary grasp of how employment contracts work, considering they traditionally have been the ones that fought for them...
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People are allowed to change their mind, that's the essence of democracy, the referendum was back in 2016 and a lot of people now understand they were duped into voting for something that was against their own best interests.
I have no rancour in me for anyone who voted for Brexit, my dad - (who I love profoundly and deeply, he's the most magnificent man I've ever known, I'd be dead ten times over if it weren't for him) - voted for Brexit, based on a false prospectus of lies and nonsense. Really good people can make mistakes sometimes, and it's not necessarily their fault.
Contempt for the conmen, compassion for the conned.
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I'm not Bri'ish (so my viewership isn't counted) but I watched MOTD last night just for the novelty. Never watch it otherwise. I strongly suspect there were about 500k of those in Britain last night that did exactly the same.
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Mr Rajan also pointed out that, in 1997, Mr Neil argued the republican side in a debate and asked whether he still held republican views.
While on BBC Radio 4's 'The Media Show', Mr Neil replied: "Not really.
“I am not a cheerleading monarchist, I can see the strength of a republic.
“My main objection to the Royal Family at that time was basically Marxist.
"It behaved like it was the pinnacle of a class system, and they were the top ones.
“My Sunday Times was devoted to breaking up Britain's class system, and I thought it would be (im?)possible to have a Royal Family separate from the class system."
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Alas it looks like the smarmy drip will be back on MoTD next week. BBC missed a great opportunity to refresh the show, save some cash and get rid of the stale dead wood. I was hoping we could have Klinnsman presenting it, an international player who actually won something. Or Fiona Bruce who specializes in antiques. If not, Prince Harry and Megan, slightly less annoying than the existing on-strike crew?
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I think I just died of cognitive dissonance.
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The Daily Express, often referred to with good reason as "The Daily Basket Case"
I am inclined to disagree with 80% or so of what Gary Lineker tweets, however, quietening the dissenting voice is very worrying, especially as the right wing press and sections of the Tory Party have been leaning heavily on the BBC.
Glad to see they have back tracked and Lineker will now be back on MOTD next Saturday.
That said, this whole sorry saga reinforces my view that the licence fee is an outdated model and in 2023 the State ie us, should no longer fund the BBC
BTW @ChopleyIOM love your avatar
I am inclined to disagree with 80% or so of what Gary Lineker tweets, however, quietening the dissenting voice is very worrying, especially as the right wing press and sections of the Tory Party have been leaning heavily on the BBC.
Glad to see they have back tracked and Lineker will now be back on MOTD next Saturday.
That said, this whole sorry saga reinforces my view that the licence fee is an outdated model and in 2023 the State ie us, should no longer fund the BBC
BTW @ChopleyIOM love your avatar
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Quite, who is going to win in a popularity contest, a government that has sailed the country into an iceberg of Titanic sinking proportions, or a former England Captain who scored 48 times for his country?
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You do not have to be Albert Einstein to have realised that the number of people viewing MOTD on Saturday night was going to be significantly up as a result. What with no commentary, presenters, pundits or interviews, people were going to be intrigued as to what it would be like. We even caught up with it last night on iPlayer. LOL
