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The BBC
Mar 10, 2023 18:30:40 GMT
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Mar 10, 2023 18:30:40 GMT
Alan fucking Sugar can bait union leader Mick Lynch on twitter- no action.
BBC chairman has donated £400k to the Tories and arranged an £800k loan for the prime minister before that same prime minister made him chairman of the BBC. That's perfectly fine.
Fiona Bruce presents the BBC's flagship political discussion show. Her husband Nigel Sharrocks is the CEO of Carat Global Management Ltd, an advertising company that received £3.9m from the tory government to advertise tory policies. He is reputed to have donated a total of £800k to the Tories (although I couldn't find corroboration for this). Nothing to see here.
Gary Lineker presents match of the day. He tweeted that some of the language used by the tory government in their condemnation of desperate refugees wouldn't have looked out of place in 1930s Germany. The tweet was factually accurate. SUSPENDED FOR BREACHING BBC IMPARTIALITY RULES.
Fuck me. Imagine being accused of fascism and then proving it by silencing your critics.
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Mar 10, 2023 19:39:28 GMT
Johnson's BBC. No surprises its a shitshow of hypocrisy.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Mar 10, 2023 21:00:50 GMT
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The BBC
Mar 10, 2023 21:46:31 GMT
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Mar 10, 2023 21:46:31 GMT
Apparently the BBC have released a statement saying that MoTD will go ahead tomorrow without studio presentation or punditry. Fuck me. Pretty sure Gary Glitter needs the work.
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Post by beefus on Mar 11, 2023 6:33:52 GMT
If there’s a rule that BBC employees are not allowed to make statements such as Linekars, and it’s in their contracts, then it should be applied across the board. I just hope that when Labour are elected (highly likely) that the same people criticising the refugee policy now, that they remain consistent when bugger all changes, because I very much doubt that things will change. None of the main parties has a clue how to fix this.
Criminal gangs are making a ton of cash and they’re not going to stop just because Sunak and Macron had a bromance and built a detention centre in France.
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Post by mekon on Mar 11, 2023 7:45:56 GMT
Lineker is a massive hypocrite on so many levels. Doesn't he live in a 99% white area? This guy is so far up the tree he'll never see what's going on at ground level.
It's a bit like the FIA thing though. If he's using the BBC as a platform then sack him. If it's his own personal account then I think he should be able to say what he wants.
The FIA are trying to control driver politics but unless they are doing it during a race weekend I don't see what it's got to do with the FIA. If Hamilton wants to wear dog bumming T-shirts on the podium then yes, he shouldn't be allowed. If he wants to do so on his Twitter or web page then it's outside of work.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Mar 11, 2023 15:32:48 GMT
If there’s a rule that BBC employees are not allowed to make statements such as Linekars, and it’s in their contracts, then it should be applied across the board. I just hope that when Labour are elected (highly likely) that the same people criticising the refugee policy now, that they remain consistent when bugger all changes, because I very much doubt that things will change. None of the main parties has a clue how to fix this. The policy is illegal and will fail unless we Join Russia and Belarus in leaving the ECHR. It's also abhorrent and Lineker was absolutely correct in calling it out. Unless the narrative switches from "Stop The Boats" to "Help The Refugees" nothing will change. The Tories are throwing red meat to the knuckle draggers because they have no other support left. The BBC have handled this badly. More presenters and pundits have now withdrawn their services and sports shows have now been pulled. The bottom line is that they need Lineker more than he needs them. How much would Sky, ITV, BT be prepared to pay for him? If he's sacked, who would be prepared to take the gig? How many viewers would they lose? This will get worse for the BBC before it gets better. Sadly, if he had tweeted support for the policy then it's likely that nothing would have happened. The BBC's impartiality guidelines only kick in if you're critical of the government and if you want evidence of that then you only need to read some of Alan Sugar puff face's tweets. |
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The BBC
Mar 12, 2023 8:24:01 GMT
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Post by mekon on Mar 12, 2023 8:24:01 GMT
Lineker has a massive whole in his virtue signalling argument......the world cup. Despite people literally dying so that world cup could happen he wasnt principled enough to give it a swerve.
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Post by beefus on Mar 12, 2023 9:10:27 GMT
Not surprising that you reap what you sow...as I've mentioned previously, getting involved in endless forever wars will result in human displacement.
"UN data on where refugees predominantly come from underscores the scope of the problem. Five countries – Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine, Afghanistan and South Sudan – accounted for seven in 10 of all refugees last year. These outcomes reflect systemic geopolitical failures. In Syria, it’s a 12-year civil war that western democracies now largely ignore. In Afghanistan, it’s the fallout from the shameful decision by the US and UK to abandon the country to the Taliban. What has happened in Ukraine needs no elaboration here, except to say that it was wholly avoidable"
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Mar 12, 2023 10:05:43 GMT
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