Finally Lineker can go forth and multiply

[HKOwen]

“He will be able to speak without the shackles of the non-partisan BBC, and has already had a lot of TV offers to mull over.

Can someone explain how one can be shackled by non-partisanship

At least the jew hating champagne socialist goes in disgrace

 

[DanH]

“He will be able to speak without the shackles of the non-partisan BBC, and has already had a lot of TV offers to mull over.

Can someone explain how one can be shackled by non-partisanship

At least the jew hating champagne socialist goes in disgrace

I see cancel culture has finally got him.

Want to ram any more right wing cliches into this btw? Almost ticked off house on my bingo card.

 

[DanH]

You’re a very angry man Owen, aren’t you?

Just watch the highlights again and chill out son. I think we might have won the cup yesterday.

 

[HKOwen]

The rat icon used by Lineker is from Nazi propaganda and not confused with anything else by anyone with a functioning brain.

The Nazis were generally considered to be Jew haters.

Anyone who is ok with Linekers rat tweet is ok with Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews

Cancel culture got them in the end though

 

[Badger11]

Smarmy Lineker loved to tweak the noses of his BBC bosses by making political statements and then claiming he wasn't covered by BBC impartiality rules. This dropped the BBC right in it and they had to change the rules because of him, I doubt that went down too well.

Anyway he still continued to walk a very narrow line and I think the BBC rightly had enough of his "I'm bigger than the BBC" attitude.

This last tweet was the straw that broke the camels back. I do think it was a genuine mistake by him but previously he had lectured the public that it should know the history (referring to Israel and Palestine). Now of course he had to apologise because he didn't know about the symbolism of the Rat so not so smart or smarmy after all.

As for the free speech argument and being cancelled I agree but all the while the BBC takes taxpayers money they have to have these rules.

I expect Lineker will show up on LBC or some form of talk radio free to spout his political beliefs and probably like Lawrence Fox will discover that straying outside your area of expertise can make you look very foolish indeed.

Supposedly lots of TV companies are queuing up for his service, perhaps in the football world. He had a go as a game show host on ITV and failed mainly because the public thought he was very uninteresting.

It's a big leap from sports presenter to light entertainer.

 

[Badger11]

Ncuti Gatwa is another person who will not be flavour of the month at the BBC.

He pulled out of the Eurovision at the last moment rumoured because Israel had qualified and he is pro Palestinian.

That will not have gone down well at the beeb, why did he not decline the offer in the first place. He is hardly flavour of the month with Doctor Who shortly to be cancelled by Disney because of poor ratings.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Smarmy Lineker loved to tweak the noses of his BBC bosses by making political statements and then claiming he wasn't covered by BBC impartiality rules. This dropped the BBC right in it and they had to change the rules because of him, I doubt that went down too well.

Anyway he still continued to walk a very narrow line and I think the BBC rightly had enough of his "I'm bigger than the BBC" attitude.

This last tweet was the straw that broke the camels back. I do think it was a genuine mistake by him but previously he had lectured the public that it should know the history (referring to Israel and Palestine). Now of course he had to apologise because he didn't know about the symbolism of the Rat so not so smart or smarmy after all.

As for the free speech argument and being cancelled I agree but all the while the BBC takes taxpayers money they have to have these rules.

I expect Lineker will show up on LBC or some form of talk radio free to spout his political beliefs and probably like Lawrence Fox will discover that straying outside your area of expertise can make you look very foolish indeed.

Supposedly lots of TV companies are queuing up for his service, perhaps in the football world. He had a go as a game show host on ITV and failed mainly because the public thought he was very uninteresting.

It's a big leap from sports presenter to light entertainer.

Said it before but there's always been a whiff of Monty Python to footballers pontificating like he does.
And now over to Nobby Stiles for his view on the Exchange Rate Mechanism and Peter Shilton to talk about Britain coming off the Gold Standard.

 

[Midlands Eagle]

The rat icon used by Lineker is from Nazi propaganda and not confused with anything else by anyone with a functioning brain.

The Nazis were generally considered to be Jew haters.

Anyone who is ok with Linekers rat tweet is ok with Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews

I've always thought of myself as having a functioning brain and I'm not a big fan of Gary Lineker but like him I was unaware of the rat connotation

 

[mezzer]

I've always thought of myself as having a functioning brain and I'm not a big fan of Gary Lineker but like him I was unaware of the rat connotation

Lineker leaving the BBC should have its own rats leaving a sinking ship emoji

 

[ASCPFC]

I've always thought of myself as having a functioning brain and I'm not a big fan of Gary Lineker but like him I was unaware of the rat connotation

Propaganda films would show actors dressed as stereotypical Jews and then cut/fade to a whole load of rats - and back again. "Jew rat" was a normal enough insult to Jews at the time. In German obviously. It was also on several posters. It has also been brought up recently enough - in the last decade.
If you consider it, you may remember seeing it in historical documentaries. It was only after Lineker's tweet that I remembered it. So thanks to Lineker for bringing it up.

 

[Badger11]

I've always thought of myself as having a functioning brain and I'm not a big fan of Gary Lineker but like him I was unaware of the rat connotation

I don't think Lineker did know but that doesn't fit with a previous post when he lectured people about knowing their history i.e "I'm smart and you are idiots".

Hoisted by his own Petard

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

No matter what Lineker said or did, the BBC were never going to sack him. The BBC never even sacked Sir Jimmy Savile, or Huw Edwards, so the were never going to sack Lineker
" Accordingly, we have agreed he will step back from further presenting after this season."

He'll slip away with his £millions , although i can see him taking guest spots on sports shows, once the dust has settled, maybe in time for the World Cup

 

[beak]

I see cancel culture has finally got him.

Want to ram any more right wing cliches into this btw? Almost ticked off house on my bingo card.

My blood pressure has gone down since I pushed the ignore button on that ejit, also my P.M.s are at a manageable level.

 

[nhp61]

Bye bye Lineker, you can now pontificate and lecture us as much as you want and hopefully drift off to obscurity.

 

[CPFCSaturn]

I think it's some reflection of our society that so many are far more impassioned and outraged about Gary Lineker than they are about the slaughters of tens of thousands of civilians by our military ally.

 

[ASCPFC]

I think it's some reflection of our society that so many are far more impassioned and outraged about Gary Lineker than they are about the slaughters of tens of thousands of civilians by our military ally.

I'm not seeing constant protests in Trafalgar Square about Lineker's tweets. Are you?
You can think both things are wrong. Again, you're thinking everyone is entrenched on one side or another.

 

[Nutmegyeti]

Poor old Gary.

Representative of the "smug elite" who feel the need to school everyone.

Also I don't like him as he has used marketed tax avoidance. Ignore the IR35 case - but he invested in Ingenious Media - and more than once.

If you are taking the view that the Government should do more for everyone, then pay the rates of tax that us mere mortals have to pay.

Sadly though it appears his cognitive grasp of fundamental anatomical distinctions is so alarmingly deficient that, were he now called upon to legally attest under oath to the difference between his gluteal region and his olecranon process, he would perjure himself.

 

[CPFCSaturn]

I'm not seeing constant protests in Trafalgar Square about Lineker's tweets. Are you?
You can think both things are wrong. Again, you're thinking everyone is entrenched on one side or another.

No, but I am seeing nationwide frothing as there always is about Lineker.

You're once again accusing me of being entrenched, despite not remotely offering an opinion on Lineker - I have just made an observation.

 

[Badger11]

I think it's some reflection of our society that so many are far more impassioned and outraged about Gary Lineker than they are about the slaughters of tens of thousands of civilians by our military ally.

It's the cult of the celebrity I'm afraid.

When celebs use their public status to push agendas it can be for the greater good. It can also be bloody annoying to the public depending on what it is. For instance Emma Thompson flying first class from LA to London to lecture the UK about climate change.

Anyway it goes with the territory that when these celebs hit a wrong note people pile on.

In the great scheme of things you are correct however twas ever thus. Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde used to really rile the public.

 

[CPFCSaturn]

It's the cult of the celebrity I'm afraid.

When celebs use their public status to push agendas it can be for the greater good. It can also be bloody annoying to the public depending on what it is. For instance Emma Thompson flying first class from LA to London to lecture the UK about climate change.

Anyway it goes with the territory that when these celebs hit a wrong note people pile on.

In the great scheme of things you are correct however twas ever thus. Lord Byron and Oscar Wilde used to really rile the public.

A fair summary... I just find it a bit mad.