Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
He was completely within his rules and contract, as he was when he criticised the Qatar World Cup.
This is government asserting influence over the national public broadcaster.
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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)
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He was completely within his rules and contract, as he was when he criticised the Qatar World Cup.
This is government asserting influence over the national public broadcaster.
spurspinter1
Steve Carr
Braverman stating his tweet "diminishes the unspeakable tradegy of the Holocaust" is peak level gaslighting/ irrelevance to stir up anger from the angry, stupid masses who seem to vote for these clowns whatever they do / say.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Chris Waddle retweets Britain First gonads about 'muslim gangs' all the time. Maybe he's in line for a big BBC sport promotion?
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
she’s a fudging nazi
glasgowspur
Luka Modric
Well resign in protest, or does his salary come before his principals.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
he’s done nothing wrong here, he’s not complained or asked to be taken off the show, the bbc have removed him from tomorrow’s programme
Why would he resign and let them off the hook?
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
The whole aim of what they are doing is to infiltrate the organisation, defund it and close it down. It's better to try and fight that from within, especially with only a year or so to endure till the election, when hopefully some sense will prevail.
Robspur12
Nick Barmby
I saw a tweet that tickled me this week "Braverman is what you get when you feed Priti Patel after midnight"
monkeybarry
Jack Jull
Maybe his principles mean he'll stand up instead? As he is. why should he resign?!
monkeybarry
Jack Jull
No commentators now.
Will be using the World Service commentary.
My money is on the production team doing a retro theme.
thfcsteff
George Hunt
What did he say now? So sad when ex-pros show their lack of brains.
thfcsteff
George Hunt
The thing is mate, when he tweeted about Corbyn way back, no-one cared because, well, it was a citizen on twitter expressing a view. He is a contractor to the Beeb, so as such not bound by anything. They’ve twisted it to say his level of celebrity means he falls under their remit, but right now, the Beeb is twisting and turning in the wind more than Conte. They said nothing until the right-wing tossers claiming to be politicians for the people complained, thus the Beeb is now pandering to their editorial views? I think it’s brick.
Just for the general record (and not directly in response to your post mate) here are some political tweets from 2017. No-one said a thing. Rightly.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...bour-conservative_uk_5955494fe4b05c37bb7d0051
thfcsteff
George Hunt
Here, in fact, is a great VICE article from 2016. Lineker’s been tweeting about this for a long time. Until now, no-one appeared to have an issue. Even those tossers back then. This is cut and dried. It is disgusting pandering by the Beeb.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dp9kqz/gary-lineker-voice-of-the-left-twitter
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dp9kqz/gary-lineker-voice-of-the-left-twitter
MKSpur
Christian Ziege
I always wondered about gremlins, surely it's after midnight all day long?
Grays_1890
Chris Jones
MOTD going to be a highlights only show now with not presenters apparently
glasgowspur
Luka Modric
He's broken a well known rule of the bbc.
If, as many are claiming this is happening because one party are controlling the bbc, if he thinks that party are similar to the nazi party why is he still working for them?
He's working for a corporation in step with the nazi party.
glasgowspur
Luka Modric
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
that rule is for staff and political news reporters, he’s neither and not contractually bound by it
plenty of journalists out there who did leave the bbc because of it, Janes O’Brien and Emily Maitlis for example
glasgowspur
Luka Modric
I don't have a problem with what he says, even though generally i think he's a bit of a taco (i think about most of them tbf) i don't have any idea of his political beliefs and tbh i couldn't care less. They're his opinions and he is entitled to them.
If there hadn't been such a furore over the bbcs reaction this would most likely totally passed me by.
I have not seen the whole tweet and what i have seen i think the language is a tad strong, however i basically agree with his objections to the policy.
My problem is that he knows the bbc policy, he obviously thinks that is wrong, but still taked the tax payers money, or he thinks he is above it.
I'm sure sky, itv or bt would snap him up.
Glenda's Legs
Paul Walsh
The impartiality rule was mentioned on the Today programme on Wednesday morning, after his tweet and the initial Tory MP response and I think it was Nick Robinson who was saying that the BBC impartiality rules apply to news journalists but not everyone else. If it’s actually in his contract then fair enough but I doubt it is. Maybe something about not bringing the BBC into disrepute at most might be.