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The support for Gary Lineker should worry ministers – politicalbetting.com
The support for Gary Lineker should worry ministers – politicalbetting.com
YouGov on the Lineker comments on the government immigration policies pic.twitter.com/895avkr3w5
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Too many tweets...
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2023-03/nordstream-2-ukraine-anschlag
Specifically, according to information from ARD-Hauptstadtstudio,Kontraste, SWR and ZEIT, the investigators have succeeded in identifying the boat that was allegedly used for the secret operation. It is said to be a yacht that was rented by a company based in Poland, which apparently belongs to two Ukrainians. According to the investigation, the secret operation at sea is said to have been carried out by a team of six people. It is said to have been five men and one woman. According to this, the group consisted of a captain, two divers, two diving assistants and a doctor
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The yacht was subsequently returned to the owner in uncleaned condition. According to the research, the investigators were able to detect traces of explosives on the table in the cabin.
If he was paid £100k a year I'm not sure it would be as big an issue.
Also it seems to be the people who claim to care most about free speech and cancel culture that want to stop free speech from someone at the UKs biggest cultural asset.
To take someone with different political views, I also had no issue with Clarkson writing newspaper columns while also on Top Gear (assuming he was doing so at the same time?).
And now the government seems to think he's in their pocket!
However, they aren't - he knew the rules when he signed his contract and therefore questions of freedom of speech don't apply; he's willingly sold his freedom of speech to the Corporation for the duration of his contract.
I don't much like the policy nor the current Home Secretary but they are delivering what the people have told them they want delivered.
There is no short term magic wand to wave to make it go away so the govt is left with having to go crass.
It is the language that, like Gary, I object to and, @WillG, it absolutely is the language of the 1930s talking about aliens and traitors who don't support the proposed action. They seem to be actively casting those who want a different approach to the asylum seeking problem as agitating against the country and unpatriotic.
That is 1930s all over.
Edit: not delivering, announcing that they want to deliver...
Politics is not relevant to his job. Any more than it is relevant to Mr Rashford's day job.
And he knows how to use it.
By the way, the Edinburgh by-election is hardly an “SNP defence” when we came a very poor second last time around:
Liberal Democrats 49.8%
SNP 18.7%
Con 16%
Lab 7.8%
Grn 6.9%
Family 0.8%
Nailed on SLD win, meaning they’ll have all three councillors in the ward.
But... I like tits (I refer to blue, great, coal and long-tailed, obviously).
Perhaps we'd do better to try communicating in grunts?
- demanded "full transparency" on Forbes' views on abortion
- said she would have to think long and hard about serving in her Gov
https://twitter.com/paulhutcheon/status/1633485235500326913
They’ll probably hit it lucky some time in the high four figures.
I care that the licence fee I have to pay to watch other live TV is used to make an ultra rich ex footballer, even richer. Time for fresh talent. He's been out the game, what, 20 years? What does he know of the modern footballers life?
Emmanuel Macron is seeking a major increase in British funding to stop migrants leaving the French coast.
British and French officials are negotiating a longer-term deal to pay for beach patrols, surveillance and police action to smash the people smuggling gangs ahead of an Anglo-French summit in Paris between the Prime Minister and the French president.
Sources from the Elysee Palace said that officials were trying to agree a “multi-annual financing framework” that would allow them to “better plan our actions” and increase officers, equipment and asylum accommodation for migrants.
“We are ready to do more,” said one French government official.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/08/emmanuel-macron-demands-money-uk-stop-migrants-leaving-france/?utm_content=telegraph
https://www.bbc.com/editorialguidelines/guidance/social-media/#expressionsofopiniononsocialmedia
They should not:
state or reveal publicly how they vote or express support for any political party
express a view for or against any policy which is a matter of current party political debate
advocate any particular position on a matter of public policy, political or industrial controversy, or any other ‘controversial subject’
Board of Deputies say they have ‘significant concerns’ over government’s Migration Bill. Good statement
https://twitter.com/lmharpin/status/1633491596019740674
He can cite an estoppel by convention on this.
A more egregious use of a split infinitive I have yet to see today.
Individuals involved in the production or presentation of any output in News or other factual areas that regularly deal with a range of public policy issues have a particular responsibility to avoid damaging the BBC’s impartiality.
Nothing should appear on their social media accounts which undermines the integrity or impartiality of the BBC.
The bit you pasted then follows. Lineker is not involved in News output, and it's a stretch to argue football is 'factual'.
You have to pay for the BBC, even if you don't watch it, on threat of imprisonment if you don't.
That can be called many things, but market force is not one of them.
Individuals involved in the production or presentation of any output in News or other factual areas that regularly deal with a range of public policy issues have a particular responsibility to avoid damaging the BBC’s impartiality.
Nothing should appear on their social media accounts which undermines the integrity or impartiality of the BBC.
News and public policy.
Not football. As we all know, football is far more important.
And to be honest, given you were a vocal supporter of Jeremy Corbyn and Ken Livingstone, you don't make a very credible voice on discussions of anti-Semitism.
But Mr Lineker is not a BBC employee.
Any price is what two people agree it is.
and 'tit' is a mild word compared to how they view him. One relative in particular only put up with him because she was close friends with his wife, and she (my relative) found him quite unbearable.
In 1930’s Germany, the authorities used such terms as vermin, plague rats, bacilli, poisonous fungus etc. to demonise their enemies. Such language has not been used by the current government.
“This criminal race has the two million dead of the (First) World War on their conscience, and now hundreds of thousands. Let no one say to me: we cannot send them into the mire. Who concerns themselves about our men? It is good if preceding us is the terror that we are exterminating the Jews."
Go on then. Give me the Braverman quote that is equivalent.
Gary Linkekar is not a BBC employee, so it is far from clear that he is bound by the impartiality rules. We would need to see his specific contract to know what he agreed to.
P.S. I can't say I find either of them a particularly worthwhile use of licence-payers' money, but that's probably just me.
https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1633362816613642240?s=46
“This criminal race has the two million dead of the (First) World War on their conscience, and now hundreds of thousands. Let no one say to me: we cannot send them into the mire. Who concerns themselves about our men? It is good if preceding us is the terror that we are exterminating the Jews."
Go on then. Give me the Braverman quote that is equivalent.
Conclusion: you can't.
1. Forbes
2. Regan
3. Yousaf
hehe
The 32-year-old, who played for England at the World Cup in Qatar last year, was videoed allegedly exposing himself twice while in a bar in Manchester on Sunday evening.
The full back arrived at the bar at about 5.20pm, a day after he had played against Newcastle United, in City’s 2-0 victory at the Etihad Stadium. Security camera footage, obtained by The Sun, shows Walker arriving at the bar wearing a puffer jacket and cap.
The footballer began kissing one of the women he arrived with. Shortly afterwards he appeared to expose himself by dropping his trousers in front of two women before speaking to them.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kyle-walker-england-defender-exposed-himself-in-bar-khskh9h93
I'm sorry - childish really wasn't a strong enough word for this kind of nonsense.
Your view as previously stated however was that human rights were too important to leave purely to voters which implies this supranational body you envisage is not democratically accountable in the least
(You didn't turn down the champagne?)
There is a tax tribunal where Gary's argument is that he was an employee so the BBC are responsible for the tax on the payments they paid to the partnership through which he works.
There's then a separate section on disrepute.
It is not ok for Gary Lineker to be actively anti-government
But it is ok for the BBC Chairman and the BBC Director General to be actively pro-government
Because, as far as I’m aware, our license fees pay the wages of all of these people…
https://twitter.com/marinapurkiss/status/1633430325631041536?s=46
https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1633515605486895104?t=ucCpC_htpcdsolYHu5VKhA&s=19
What odds the LibDems take the seat tomorrow with my help?
LibDems didn't stand last time in 2022.
The results were:
What odds?
https://twitter.com/maitlis/status/1633444646482223106?s=46
Holyrood Constituency VI (2-5 March):
SNP 40% (-8)
Labour 29% (+7)
Conservatives 20% (-2)
Lib Dems 7% (–)
Green Party 2% (+1)
Reform UK 2% (+2)
Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 2021 Scottish Election
SNP leads Labour by 3% in regional VI for a Scottish parliamentary election.
Holyrood Regional List VI (2-5 March):
SNP 29% (-11)
Labour 26% (+8)
Conservatives 20% (-3)
Lib Dems 11% (+6)
Green Party 10% (+2)
Reform UK 1% (+1)
Other 3% (-2)
Changes +/- 2021 Scottish Election
https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1633515605486895104?t=ucCpC_htpcdsolYHu5VKhA&s=19
What I suspect Lineker isn't getting is that people assume the problem is going to get worse. And whilst other European countries take more migrants it is hardly uncontroversial elsewhere too.
If it become a subscription that I could choose then I would have no beef with the employment of Lineker (other than that I think he is not worth the money). I would be choosing to subscribe. Right now I cannot opt out and legally watch other channels.
That’d be fun 😂
Which creates the challenge.
We’ve been in government for sixteen (yes, 16) years. And we’re still largest party. Whereas you Tory toe rags…
But, they are both playing to different galleries.
Scotland Independence Referendum Voting Intention (2-5 March):
No, against Independence: 51% (+6)
Yes, for Independence: 42% (-7)
Don't Know: 8% (+3)
Changes +/- 26-27 November
https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1633512910445228033
Market forces would apply if the revenue he was being paid from was raised in the market . . . It is not though.