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I think there something missing from your time line, on Thursday the BBC said no action would be taken, at which point pressure has been applied by somebody(s) and on Friday he's suspended.
As I understand it he's got a similar contract to Andrew Neil, which allowed him to air his hard right views outside of BBC time with out any issue.
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You've got to wonder what the back story to how this all played out was.
My understanding is that:
I can understand that in between 1. and 2. there is some reflexive response from someone - person A gets a call from B who says "yo, have you seen Liniker's tweet? Tell him to wind his neck in". So person A asks for the tweet to be removed.
But between 3. and 4. you'd have thought that person A would have checked how strong their position was, right? I mean he's a big name not a budding weather presenter on the One Show trying to climb the slippery stick. You'd want to know what your next couple of moves are surely.
So without getting too 4d chess about it, there must have been a strategy to this. So I wonder what the aim was?