Gary Lineker

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  1. Brush

    Brush Well-Known Member

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    Brush, Mar 8, 2023
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    Thought his response was fairly measured.
     
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    I've always liked him as a player, and as a pundit. I like most of his tweets too. And he's spot on when he comes to refugees imo.
     
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    Only reason he gets stick is because we live in a brainwashed maniac infested country. In any decent society his views wouldn't be that "newsworthy".

    Compassion and decency is now deemed strange and uncomfortably eccentric.
     
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    Whilst agreeing with him, he doesn't seem to espouse the same principles when working for beIN.
     
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    He'll probably end up losing his BBC job over this which is nuts. The world has gone crazy. I can't believe what the government is doing, it is like something out of a BNP manifesto.

    I'm ashamed to be British at the moment.
     
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    Director general of the BBC is an arch Tory, so this’ll go down well. Gary is right though.
     
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    'He should go back to flogging crisps' Lee Anderson 2023.
     
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    That image of Sunak standing at a lectern with three words on. STOP THE BOATS.

    That’s a call to action aimed at every racist and bigot to do just that. The government is blatantly inciting violence.

    At the next protests they’ll be out with banners bearing those 3 words and claiming - justifiably - that they’re following government orders.

    Lineker is absolutely right.
     
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    I think it's called "dog whistling" nowadays.
     
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    STOP THE BOATS is a direct command that's more than 'dog whistling'.

    Anyway 'dog whistling' like so many fashionable words disguises the true meaning. Dog whistling = inciting violence.

    Maybe we could launch a 'special military operation' against refugees.
     
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    It's amazing how certain people are happy spouting hateful rhetoric then get all precious and faux-outraged when called out for it.
     
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    I’ve always liked the bloke & he’s spot on with this. This isn’t the Tories dropping another bollock, it’s plain hate speech designed to stir up support from the far right for an election they are expecting to lose. It’s desperate & dangerous..:mad:
     
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    It's amazing how these people call others "snowflakes" then get all triggered by such innocuous numbers like:
    Rainbows
    Gammon
    Free internet
    Gary Lineker
    A Swedish schoolgirl
     
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    So dose honesty,integrity,morals and a few other things with this Government !!!
     
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    If he tweeted supporting them, the BBC wouldn't have to censure him.
     
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    He doesnt need to do that though as they get all the support they need from the likes of Fiona Bruce and Laura Kuenesberg

    I thought all these right wing types keep claiming their right to free speech is being cancelled, so I wonder if they can see the contradiction in calling for a sportsman to deprived of his job because he made a tweet critical of Government policy on his personal account .

    Also dont these calls for him to be silenced seem to rather support his stance that there are similarities with 1930's Germany
     
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    In the very unlikely event that the new policy gets through Parliament, the Lords and the various courts and actually works, those people that are out there cheering it on will be demanding that Mr Sunak, Mrs Braverman, Mrs Patel and the rest are then put on a boat and deported. It never stops until people start dying.
     
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    Never even heard of beIN mate. Till I looked it up. What makes you offer up that point. ?
     
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    He must like flicking the beIN.
     
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