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“We have housing shortages as it is , the NHs has massive waiting lists, you got a dentist. the schools have class sizes with such numbers the teachers can not give proper education, people are using food banks in greater numbers than ever.”
Do you not think the government should be fixing those problems?

which goes back to my point about all this is to make people forget how useless this government actually is. I bet you nothing gets done on refugees i bet you.
im sorry to tell you but removing 50,000 refugees will not fix those problems. Neither would stopping all migration. Most are on temporary 6-9 month work visas (i know this as i work with them)

“and to say tax the rich, is not the answer

The taxation on the richest today is the lowest it has ever been in recorded history. That is a fact. Trickle down economics is a smoke screen for the rich to hoard wealth. Its gotten to a point now where the economy is suffering due to a lack of disposable income at the bottom.

so you think refugees and migrants are causing this countries woes (which is the exact same playbook from 1930s germany…) but you employed a genuine illegal immigrant? Im sorry but I don't believe you thats some cognitive dissonance of the highest magnitude!

I work with economic migrants every day, very nice very knowledgeable and not workshy at all.

 

If you look back on this thread you'll find that this is definitely not the case. There are people on here who would stop all asylum seekers coming here, regardless of how much danger/actual persecution they are exposed to. The phrase 'tough shit' was used by one.

Many people on the right don't give a flying one about how much danger people are in. Everything is about impact on us, however marginal it actually is. Issues like compassion, fairness, accepting any responsibility for the UK's historic role in creating the conditions for current conflicts etc simply don't come into it. They don't care.

 

Will Jamie Raynor be allowed into the press briefing if Lineker is not given his £1.9 million a year job back? How far are Hughes/Sparks going to go with this?

 

I usually watch it either way but a quicker, sleeker highlights package without the "analysis" after every game would definitely appeal to me as I usually just fast forward through it all anyway.

 

Youtube is your friend. They have been available on there from about 5pm every Saturday for the last 3 seasons anyhow.

 

The Director General of the BBC has apologised and Gary Lineker will be back on air for the FA Cup this weekend.

That's going to boil some piss based on some comments.

 

What a missed opportunity to get rid of the smarmy git, he'll now only get worse ..

 

Any sense of impartiality was lost when the BBC Chairman was selected on the basis of helping Boris Johnson get an £800k loan, having previously donated £400k to the Tory party.

It's not been impartial for years and all this has done is shown many BBC staff have been expressing their political opinion over the years, but based on what they said and who they attacked (Corbyn for example) they were simply overlooked.

 

Funny how both the right and the left have been claiming for decades that the BBC is biased against them.
The BBC put Farage on Question Time every other week when his party was at 4% in the polls and membership of the EU was tenth in the list of things that the electorate thought was most important. The BBC basically facilitated a Brexit movement out of nothing in the name of 'balance' and 'impartiality'.

 

I certainly haven’t seen any bias on the editorial of the BBC but the suspension over freedom of speech was definitely politicaly motivated

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/14/bbc-editors-asked-journalists-to-avoid-using-lockdown-at-start-of-pandemic?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Several more examples here of the BBC bowing to pressure from the government, just like they did with Lineker.

 

Notice MOTD had more viewers than normal on Satday night when no one was presenting it.

 

No need to rehire as they'll lose the PL rights anyway.

 

The BBC said no further action, but the plank formally know as Lineker decided he would put his two fingers up. He said not only would he not apologise but would say what he wants. Rather tied their hands didn’t he. No employer is going put up with that.

 

I disagree he has brought the BBC impartiality rules into disrepute. The Council contract is about behaviour when you are not working, your behaviour must not fall below the standards the Council decree.
I have no idea about Andrew Neil and his contract and what was agreed.
Of course he hasn’t broken the Law and he is entitled to his view but not while working for the BBC.

 

Eh you this should be in the jokes thread along with mine, the mods will be after you.

 

Will they apply the same rule to others then?

i.e.

Alan sugar
Andrew Neil
David Attenborough