Sports broadcaster Gary Lineker was suspended as presenter of BBC’s Match of the Day after criticising the UK government’s illegal migration bill, sparking a debate over free speech.
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Salute Gary.
Illegal immigration will never affect wealthy footballers lives
@Si London Most football payers playing in the Premier League are effectively economic migrants.
The only difference is that they turn up in a plane rather than a rubber dinghy.
@Si London Sadly that’s true. Those people who there should definitely be sent to Rwanda asap since they will be safe there. Why do they insist in going to the UK where most of them don’t even fit in culturally, linguistically , and in terms of religions ?
Didn’t the same British dogs advocate for freedom of speech and all that horseshit?
Its very sad a white British dont mind about immigrants coming to England, however son of indian immigrants trying to be so rude about immigration,.
It’s about illegal immigration
Long tradition in the Tory party. Before Rishi Sunak & Suella Braverman it was Priti Patel and before her Michael Portillo (his parents fled from Franco’s fascist Spain) and Michael Howard (né Hecht whose parents were refugees from Hungary).
freedom of speech, LMAO.
BBC – ?
He didn’t push their propaganda and now he’s suspended.
Yes because the BBC are really against open borders lmao
BBC allows other right wing broadcasters that espouse pro right wing talking points to be in its company but not left wing of gary Linaker?? hypocrisy.
Rishi Sunak is learning from Indian counterpart.
@Alex evergarden The British can decide which Party leads them and the party can decide who leads as PM.
@Alex evergarden there is no such thing as ‘pure british’, even the Royal family is 97% German.
@Gustav Meyrink where did you get that ? there fuxking is pure british and how would you know ?
@Alex evergarden The British Royal family has been German since Georgian times.
The Georges were born in Hanover, Germany and married German spouses. The first of those didn’t even speak English.
Queen Victoria herself of German blood married a German Albert of Saxon, Coburg und Gotha, a name they changed to Windsor during WW1 (the King, Czar and Kaiser in WW1 were all 1st cousins of each other) and she died in the arms of her favourite grandson a certain Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern.
Queen Elizabeth married her cousin Philip of Schleswig-Holstein, Sondernurg, Glücksburg, a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg.
@Alex evergarden Besides GB is made up of 3 nations so you might get a ‘pure’ Scottish, Welsh or English person but there is no such thing as ‘pure British’.
And I know that because from where I live I can see what used to be the Rover Longbridge plant which is now a Sainsbury’s and an M&S.
Rules for thee but not for me
Bbc propgenda 😂🤣
Its european freedom of speech😂
BBC impartial? Laughable
Europe for Europeans.
There was a time I saw the BBC could do no wrong. Not anymore. I’ve stopped viewing BBC broadcasts, it’s BS. Definitely not British Standard.
it’s a govt mouthpiece
I must admit, I’ve been a fervent supporter of the Licence Fee, however, I resent paying it these past couple of years mainly due to Gary Lineker being allowed to pontificate arrogantly and smugly on social media about politics while maintaining his high profile sports presentation. He is allowed to represent the BBC and is associating his political views with the Corporation by definition.
The BBC needs to be slimmed down and focus on quality over quantity and on providing only what commercial TV and radio cannot or will not. The Licence Fee should then be reduced and added to one of household utility bills as it is in Germany.
they still don’t understand
what does mean news, media….. in west
Refugees in UK coming from Middle East and North Africa are a big problem, but it should not mix with politics. Not just in UK but everywhere else.
Being one of the countries who have been supporting for the establishment of democracy in the Middle East, UK must face the consequences of being faced with refugee crisis coming from the very countries whose pro-democracy movement has ended up in failure and thus brought their country into a civil war.
Typical muslim response. U urself r responsible for ur problems
@FOURTH RIGHT
The Arab Spring was a pro-democracy movement. Democracy is a Western thing, unless you can show me where in the Quran or the Hadith where democracy is being promoted.
The Arab Spring is the main cause of the refugee crisis coming from the Middle East and the North Africa into Europe and other nations, the very pro-democracy movement that led the affected countries fell into a civil war.
I vaguely remember his name. Is he a football player? Anyway, BBC free speech bs.
Freedom of speech until it didn’t toe the regime’s line
BBC is centre of censorship and censure.
Why is Qatar not sharing the burden by taking syrian refugees? Why hasn’t Qatar signed yet the UN convention for refugees? Your arab brothers and sisters (Ummah) don’t have to take dangerous paths to reach Europe.
What is the freedom of speech in Qatar? If you criticize Islam, you will be put in prison
Can’t remember any Holocaust victims running gr00ming gangs or threatening natives for cartoons in Germany
In support of free speech they’re welcoming people who’re against free speech esp religion.
Its should represent the house view of the BBC. The BBC is a disgusting corrupt institution. Cancel your TV licence!!!!
BBC is not state-funded broadcaster they are very honest .lolz
This is all Tony Abbotts doing.
Yes, cruel, and probably true. Watch now, as more people are inspired by Gary’s courage, and start to express freely, the truths have we have allowed to be suppressed. Thank you Gary.
where is freedom of speech? UK is full of stools lollllllllllllllllllllllll
These people coming by boat are illegally here do you think I could just go to another country without my passport and papers nope I’d be sent back so what is different with these people just turning up on our shores not knowing anything about who they or where they are from that’s a security breach of our country and the safety of UK citizens
That’s karma…he is the guy who made the propaganda documentary on Modi….tried best to save his job…
Western hypocrites calling themselves as the champions of freedom and democracy lol..
Disgusting duhhh
What kind of freedom of speech is this smh…
Israel/US/EU are never gonna succeed in their conspiracy against Global South. period
BBC IS BS!
I am in support of gary liniker. BBC director needs to be ashamed of himself, what wrong did gary do? Is criticism of a govt policy is unacceptable for a org that claims to protector of free speech. This has disgraced the image of BBC.
BBC WANTS EVERYONE to be the Blind Booby Characters to continue the hypocrisy
Jeremy Corbyn was wronged too
BBC is a bullyyyyyyyyyy
Whoops, Western Free speech hypocrisy in full display 😂
Free speech 🤣🤣
Haha and this kind of freedom and democracy you are protecting?. Ukrainian 🤣🤣
BBC hates hindu
They are targeting us daily
As a diverse country we have some issues but we are trying to improve
Our government never target any media person working for foregin media they report all news freely.
Don’t mislead public. The so called legal immigration is not so legal .millions of students come to just settle. Dodgy work permits from sham companies for money .And look at last 10 years record . More people have settled in uk from India than rest of world. It’s same in Canada and Australia. Caste ,religious hatred corruption is hallmark in subcontinent. It will be western disease soon
They target india and pm because of their colonial mindset
India is developing very fastly , building good infrastructure and technology.
No way is the BBC Impartial. This was clearly shown in the 2019 general election. They are the voice of the government, and if you don’t agree with the government They don’t like you. The thing that brits can do is cancel your TV licence. This will show the bc that bc that the public do not agree with agree with what they are saying and doing to their presenters. The BBC should be showing all sides of the argument not just not just one side. Well done, Gary, for what he did.
Oh dear, what a pity, how sad, never mind 🤣
He is a failed footballer now he thinks he is important he is not.
The BBC isn’t neutral in reporting news…it’s a bow to the current government…
“ fierce champions of free speech “ since when
BBC being partial, lol…..
He has spoken the truth.. and that has hurt the policy makers
Hats off…hero
Well done Gary, stay true to yourself
You all realise that this is just a massive distraction from Matt Hancock and his leaked WhatsApp messages, don’t you?
If he gets away with it (i’m not with or against his comment) he will believe he’s untouchable, like Clarkeson until he really oversteps it next time, he’s big headed enough and well well over paid
Objectivity????!!!! Don’t make me laugh, what BBC ever did right now is spewing propaganda for ukranian for almost a year now and you called that objectivity. Typical western hypocricy if you ask me………..stil consider this news outlesmt as BBC Doha version so is the same.
Time to go shamanism style? Good with your injustice soul…
The UK condemnes Quatar and UAE for not paying immigrants enough, while at the same doing stuff like this. 100% hypocrisy.
It is an evil world: Christ is our only hope. Repent and believe the gospel.
Gary Lineker is absolutely right. The Brits were worse than the Nazis by having massacred over 35 million Indians by artificially creating the Bengal famines. The British continue to illegally occupy territories that don’t belong to them: Anguilla, Montserrat, Bermuda, Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Saint Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, Sandwich Islands, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, South Georgia, South Orkneys, South Shetlands. The UK holds 330 tons of gold and only 3.5 tons were mined in the UK in the last 1000 years. The rest is gold looted from across the globe. If the Brits return this wealth and the lands, then there is no need for migrants to flock to the UK.
They treat their great people`s views like that yet they want to defend their policies against human immigrations to their country. They are not free anymore. They hide the totalitarianism in all of their industries.
Lol..
They made documentary on Indian politics which was as partial as this one
You sound like an RSS goon. What do you do for an encore, rewrite history with your fellow mootr drinkers? It’s rotting your brains.
Freedom of speech is under pocket
Labour has compared Tory pressure on the BBC to suspend Gary Lineker to something akin to Vladimir Putin’s Russia – sparking a new row in the saga.
Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell accused Tory ministers and MPs of orchestrating a “cancel campaign” which saw the Match of the Day host pulled off air.
Despite the star’s reinstatement, the Labour MP said the saga had “exposed how susceptible the BBC leadership is to government pressure” and highlighted Tory hypocrisy on free speech.
*A BBC presenter has said 2022 witnessed “the death of shame” in politics.*
Kirsty Young, the former Desert Island Discs and Crimewatch presenter who also fronted BBC coverage of the Queen’s death this year, said the politicians should “scuttle off into the shadows” in a searing assessment of the year in UK politics.