As a personal protest I will not watch MOTD tomorrow evening, that will really shake the BBC.

Unless Palace beat Man City of course.

Looks like I had better find something else to do.

Ian Wright is stepping down from Match of the Day in "solidarity" with Lineker.

As already mentioned, it'll probably be Alex Scott appearing on the show. She's another virtue signaller. At the World Cup she smugly wore the rainbow armband after the captains of various teams were banned from wearing them.

It is just froth. As a career move, probably ideal for him and part of me does wonder if he maybe engineered this by way of the publicity?

Never quite understood why he justified the salary he did but that could be sent with entire swathes of people employed by the BBC.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Isn't Wrighty just going to miss tomorrow's programme? Oh, well, Arsenal aren't playing so he won't miss much.

Oh, I am.

It's the laughable double standards that amuse me.
The same people, your like minds, who want to shut down all opposing views are now bleating about Lineker being shut down.

It's just comedy gold.

And the same people who deplore ‘cancel culture’ are celebrating this as a win.

The real double standards would be if say, Alan Sugar was tweeting against Corbyn and Mick Lynch and faced absolutely no consequences, but someone who works for the same employer is critical of government policy and is treated differently. We could all agree that’s a double standard.

But remember, the BBC hate the right.

I tend to agree but I wonder if Gary’s problem was relating his comments to the Nazi period. If he’d just said he didn’t agree with what the Government were proposing without reference to anything in history, perhaps the issue would never have arisen. Likewise, Clarkson got pilloried for his comments, so what’s the difference and are they being treated equally?

hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing.

Shearer pulled out as well.

Gary Lineker has made the wrong analogy to Germany in the 1930's.

But we must not censor people in this way, it is shameful of the BBC.

If anything, they are making his case.

If Lineker had said he dreamt of seeing Braverman made to parade naked through the streets to shouts of ‘shame!’ then they could be seen as equivalent comments.

Clarkson is a good example though - I think he had a weekly newspaper column whilst he was hosting Top Gear - no issues with anything he ever said. Amazing.

That’s moving the goalposts - you said “ As the BBC is impartial ( ha ha) they cannot be seen to be allowing an employee to be so politically biased”

I’m providing a clear example of an employee doing exactly that (of which there are many) and now it’s not about being politically biased, just that they have to mention Nazis?