News Forum - Tories gang up on Gary Linekar for calling out Nazi policy

[Thaiger]

Tories gang up on sports presenter Gary Lineker after he likening the Conservative Party’s asylum policy as “not dissimilar to that used by (Nazi) Germany in the (19)30s.” Far-right Tory MPs reckon the popular BBC presenter should be sacked. The Match of the Day presenter took to Twitter to remark on a video posted by …

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[Marble-eye]

Gary Lineker another impartial BBC presenter.

[Smiler]

The whole of the BBC are a disgrace they are supposed to be impartial but constantly spew out their left wing ideology and Gary sitting in his ivory tower is probably the worst and that’s saying something. 

[Pinetree]

living in Thailand I can avoid everything to do with the BBC.  I never read or watch their news, which is inevitably out of date and well behind, say, Sky News.  I never watch their i player , or have to pay their ludicrous licence fee. Its a hot bed of lefty luvvies and communist sympathizers and as for the idiot Linekar, well, I don't have to watch him either. 

[Grumpish]

1 hour ago, Smiler said:

The whole of the BBC are a disgrace they are supposed to be impartial but constantly spew out their left wing ideology and Gary sitting in his ivory tower is probably the worst and that’s saying something. 

I actually find the BBC news to be fairly neutral - that they regularly get called out for being biased by both the left and the right suggests to me that they are mainly finding a good middle ground. As for Gary Lineker - he may have been a great footballer, but since retiring he has rather reinforced the popular caricature of most professional sports people being none too bright. 

[Marble-eye]

3 minutes ago, Grumpish said:

I actually find the BBC news to be fairly neutral - that they regularly get called out for being biased by both the left and the right suggests to me that they are mainly finding a good middle ground. As for Gary Lineker - he may have been a great footballer, but since retiring he has rather reinforced the popular caricature of most professional sports people being none too bright. 

This is a BBC News Reader reacting to Boris Johnson pulling out of the leadership contest and I cannot name one that isn't biased.