Gary Lineker

I must say it fills my heart with joy seeing the progressives taking sides with rich whitey Lineker against that notorious Tory gammon Suella Braverman. I mean, what would that Tory bigot know about immigration with her background? Edifying Not.
 
Lineker is doing this because the HMRC are chasing him for £4.6m in tax he’s managed to dodge. Their view is he’s an employee of the BBC. He says he’s freelance. He’s offering a service to the BBC and he’s paid tax on some limited company he set up with his mum or somebody. If Lineker can get away with blatantly breaching the BBC’s impartiality rules it strengthens his position with the HMRC. You’ll notice the BBC news have started referring to him as freelance so he’s used his influence even there. All to avoid paying taxes like all good liberal hypocrites.

So there you have it. Saintly Lineker supported by some posters on here is currently avoiding £4.6m in taxes and being paid the equivalent of 11,000 license fees extorted from often poorly paid people with threats of violence. And amid all this he’s involved in a bun fight with a female minister who is the daughter of immigrants. Think about all that. I guess for everybody it’s time to take sides.
 
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Apparently he is suspended until he offers an apology so let’s see if he his true to his word and doesn’t regret what he said OR, will the temptation of a £1.2 million salary lure him back with a grovelling apology. A salary by the way that is paid for by mugs like us who pay our licence fee for someone who is no better than an average presenter who thinks he is a legend in his own mind.
He knows the rules so I have no sympathy for him.
Ian Wright, Alan Shearer and Alex Scott have all refused to appear on the programme in a show of solidarity.
Does anyone really give a monkey’s about all this and is it really worthy of headline news.
 
Tango1953 said:
Or you can just address the issues independently.
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What does that mean? Lineker or elected government. Is there some independent middle way? If so what is it? Braverman wearing a little bit of an SS uniform, the boots perhaps? With Lineker accepting he’s just a bit a of an overpaid **? To me the answer is pretty black and white.

The idea Britain, at any time in history let alone 2023, is comparable to Nazi Germany is utterly absurd. It’s a stupid thing to say. It’s ignorant and insults the victims of Nazi Germany’s many crimes. If it was why do people risk their lives to get here? Can Lineker tell us about one person who risked their lives to cross the channel to get to live in Nazi Germany? Its ridiculous. He’s abused his position to spout fake news and misinformation.
 
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1974seasider said:
What does that mean? Lineker or elected government. Is there some independent middle way? If so what is it?
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It means I can criticise any (alleged) evasion of paying tax, whilst also supporting his right to free speech.

It was in response to that post you made where you purposefully tried to muddy the two issues in an attempt to make some facile point about hypocrisy.
 
Tango1953 said:
It means I can criticise any (alleged) evasion of paying tax, whilst also supporting his right to free speech.

It was in response to that post you made where you purposefully tried to muddy the two issues in an attempt to make some facile point about hypocrisy.
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He has a right to free speech but not on my coin. I can’t avoid paying his salary so I powerless to stunt his specious opinions. And free speech doesn’t mean being able to talk shit and Lineker talked shit. We covered that with Trump.

Why did I muddy the waters? I explained why Lineker said what he said. It was part of an agenda to prove to the tax authorities he’s not an employee of the BBC in order to avoid paying his tax.
 
1974seasider said:
What does that mean? Lineker or elected government. Is there some independent middle way? If so what is it? Braverman wearing a little bit of an SS uniform, the boots perhaps? With Lineker accepting he’s just a bit a of an overpaid **? To me the answer is pretty black and white.

The idea Britain, at any time in history let alone 2023, is comparable to Nazi Germany is utterly absurd. It’s a stupid thing to say. It’s ignorant and insults the victims of Nazi Germany’s many crimes. If it was why do people risk their lives to get here? Can Lineker tell us about one person who risked their lives to cross the channel to get to live in Nazi Germany? Its ridiculous. He’s abused his position to spout fake news and misinformation.
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Spot on 👍🏻
 
1974seasider said:
I must say it fills my heart with joy seeing the progressives taking sides with rich whitey Lineker against that notorious Tory gammon Suella Braverman. I mean, what would that Tory bigot know about immigration with her background? Edifying Not.
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Cruella is despicable.

Her attitude seems to be I'm here but I'm not having any other buggers coming to this country.

What a hypocrite.
 
The Beeb have fucked up big time here, they are terrified by everything that rocks the WOKE cradle, The fact Shearer and Wright have stepped down and apparently more to follow, and the huge backlash against the BBC must mean their days are numbered as a non commercial company.

The hoohah about women's football this week about wanting equal pay as the men is ** laughable. They haven't got anything like the amount of money coming in as the EPL and the EFL and never will. No one can say anything because of the culture we live in, which is right and proper but is pushed way beyond reality.

When women's football is as popular as the man's game then they will be able to expect parity in an environment where pay and transfers are obscene. It's football today.

Going back to the original thread, he had a point in his tweet and the BBC don't want to upset a government who can't stand them, so they react like idiots. I'm not sure why I'm so bothered, I haven't watched MOTD since we were in the Pre!! 🤣 🤣
 
Home office pulling bbc strings .
Similar to Russia and China controlling the media?
Ok bit of exaggeration but so was Linekers tweet.
Not a massive fan Of Lineker (except as a player)
but I hope Starmar gives him a knighthood for his defence of freedom of speech.
I’ve been a conservative supporter all my life, come the next election it’s going to be a record landslide for labour.
 
tangerine.com said:
The BBC are paid to report on events home and abroad by licence fee payers. Lineker can pick and choose where he works. Nobody forced him to work in Qatar.
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On a sports programme? Seems the BBC give out mixed messages. They do consist to buckle to right wing political pressure though, that’s apparent.
Lineker contractually obliged?
 
Junior_BentsPlatformShoes said:
On a sports programme? Seems the BBC give out mixed messages. They do consist to buckle to right wing political pressure though, that’s apparent.
Lineker contractually obliged?
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If Lineker and his band of merry men boycotted the World Cup then we could have taken him more seriously but he didn't. He had plenty of time to campaign for human rights for the migrant workers who,incidently, made his life more comfortable when he worked out there.
 
tangerine.com said:
If Lineker and his band of merry men boycotted the World Cup then we could have taken him more seriously but he didn't. He had plenty of time to campaign for human rights for the migrant workers who,incidently, made his life more comfortable when he worked out there.
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Is he campaigning or expressing an opinion? Regardless of my thoughts on his ability as a tv presenter or his moral compass, the issue is he’s tweeted a personal opinion that hasn’t broken any laws and which the current incumbents in government don’t like so have put pressure on the BBC whilst also enjoying the political distraction it’s brought. All gamesmanship.
 
1974seasider said:
Lineker is doing this because the HMRC are chasing him for £4.6m in tax he’s managed to dodge. Their view is he’s an employee of the BBC. He says he’s freelance. He’s offering a service to the BBC and he’s paid tax on some limited company he set up with his mum or somebody. If Lineker can get away with blatantly breaching the BBC’s impartiality rules it strengthens his position with the HMRC. You’ll notice the BBC news have started referring to him as freelance so he’s used his influence even there. All to avoid paying taxes like all good liberal hypocrites.

So there you have it. Saintly Lineker supported by some posters on here is currently avoiding £4.6m in taxes and being paid the equivalent of 11,000 license fees extorted from often poorly paid people with threats of violence. And amid all this he’s involved in a bun fight with a female minister who is the daughter of immigrants. Think about all that. I guess for everybody it’s time to take sides.
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What a load of shit
 
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