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Motd commentators now in discussion about boycotting as well. Sleepless night for some in the beeb hierarchy.

PFA coming out saying they will support players who don't complete media obligations in solidarity, keeps snowballing

Macron to spend £250m on big boats

Also top lolz from the trouser guy

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That's a shameful thing to say, what a ridiculous take

I don't know why people get so angry at the troll. We can either have an echo chamber talking about how the Tories are cunts or we can have our own emissary from the Daily Mail proving they are. He provides a valuable service.

Anyway, the Tory-led Beeb cancelling Gary Lineker and David Attenborough on the same day for the crimes of (checks notes) being nice to people and nature is pretty spectacular.

if the government want an apolitical bbc maybe they shouldn't be appointing the chairman.............. and asking him to sort out £800,000 loans

On the same day they had to apologise for not challenging Nads when she was spouting bollocks. Not a great look.

I am mainly disappointed to not see this meme format applied to the situation yet but guess we still don't know the end point

Incredible that with all the evil things the Tories have done/plan to do and got away with, it's suspending Gary Lineker that has gotten everyone up in arms. And football is somehow the good side. What a time to be alive!

Impartial journalism was the whole point of the BBC.
Tories thinking they have the right to edit the news shows they don’t want objectivity.

People pulling out on 5 live too. Fighting talk not on and Mark Chapman not doing the sports this afternoon either.

Just turned on for sports and got crappy podcast. I wonder if they asked the guys doing the podcast if they were happy to be scabs?

ooooooofffffffff

I think they are old podcasts? Like you said, wonder if the presenters were asked, all the same?

Tax avoiding football.

Enemy of my enemy I guess

I'm not very good at embedding links, but I hear a reasonable amount of sense here:

https://twitter.com/SkyKaveh/status/1634288030658842641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1634288030658842641%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=file%3A%2F%2F%2Fdata%2Fdata%2Fcom.guardian%2Ffiles%2Fmedia%2Flive%2F2023%2Fmar%2F11%2Fbbc-gary-lineker-match-of-the-day-alex-scott-latest-reaction-news

I think we need to listen to both sides of the discussion in these circumstances in the interest of impartiality.

From the BBC news website

Someone who has come out in support of the BBC is billionaire and philanthropist John Caudwell.

He is well known as the founder of former retailer Phones 4U, and is a major donor to the Conservative party - he gave the Tories £500,000 ahead of the 2019 general election.

Writing on Twitter, Caudwell says the "circus" around Lineker "distracts from the real issues with refugees".

"It's fine to have an opinion and express it in a fair way," he says.

"But as British taxpayers pay his salary, he should be promoting Britain not comparing the country to Nazi Germany.

"That’s unpatriotic and damaging to Britain's image!"

Haha, the Tories fucked that years ago mate 😂

Also talking of Tory bbc plants, on question time this week Fiona Bruce made the very important intervention to point out that Stanley Johnson only broke his wife’s nose once.

Making a stand for anti-corruption and women's rights. Good for you Fiona.