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I too hope! Not that I dislike Lineker - or have much interest in the recent furore. Just that it would be good for the BBC to get him off the pay roll and replace him with an equally likeable and competant presenter, but one without such an eye-watering remuneration (self-employed or otherwise)!

Maybe because it's all about Gary Lineker, politics, the Government, immigrarion and Germany in the 30s? :wink: Thanks for your concern, but it's not affecting me. I'm happy to leave others to keep it going ..................... and I dare say they will! :)

Oh dear. The Mary Whitehouse gambit. Desperate!

Not yet. Give it time. And it won't be mssed.

No problem. :) It's as good a contribution as many of the collection of outrage on one side, and virtue signalling on the other, posts which make up a good proportion of posts on a thread which goes political like this.

Can't understand why this thread is still classified as 'football' (if indeed it ever should have been). Hopefully soon in the Bear Pit - Bozza's Albion only filter is a good idea, but there are interesting threads on other topics too. Still, I can just carry on ignoring this thread, as I have...

Pretty much, yep - well, ideally basically option b). without any need to mention Nazis at all (and yes, we all know he didn't use the word 'Nazi' - but equally we all know that 'Germany in the 1930s' wasn't referencing the price of fish).

Abslutely. Criticsing the government is fine, an absolute human right. Perhaps Gary needed a history lesson to realise what 'Germany in the 1930's' was actually all about before making comparisons. Lord knows where we go from here, both sides having implacably painted themselves into a corner!

It doesn't bother me enough to get onvolved in pointless arguments, no. It does amuse me to come on here occasionally and read that in Lineker's defence he never mentioned the Nazis - just 'Germany in the 1930s'. Presumably just referencing the price of fish......... There you go. Enough...

You haven't missed much! Ten or so posts would have given you the whole story .......... I could precis it for you, but it wouldn't go down well on here! :wink:

Not so. "I really can't see why" is a statement of fact - he can't see why and that is a true statement (unless he's lying, which in context seems highly unlikely).

Really? Oh dear ..............

Gawd! - as one who relies on radio to follow the Albion on matchdays, I really hope Johnny and Warren haven't caught the bug!

Take the knee for Gary? :facepalm: Irony alert.........irony alert.......irony alert....

On my goodness - we're abolishing anti-slavery laws now, are we?? :facepalm: Pffft! Yeh right. In that case, I've got a couple of £1K in my piggy bank, so ...... where do I go to buy a reasonably pretty female one? Answer?* You're talking through your arse. * And just for the record, no I...

Hmmm ............ I can read the room as well as anyone, and I realise that the Government is the devil incarnate on NSC (actually it's just fairly shit) and any criticism of it has to be defended to the last defiant breath. It's a hill that many on here would choose as a hill to die on, no...

No, the introduction of Nazi Germany into the debate was the witch hunt (Braveman being the witch, of course). Objecting to the proposals was fine - adding the Nazi Germany bit was just silly and unnecessary, and did nothing to enhance his arguement. In fact, as results have shown, it has...

From the BBC - "compared the language used by the government to set out its plan to "that used by Germany in the 30s". Splitting hairs really.:shrug:

Nothing against Gary Lineker expressing disapproval of the Government's policy - that's absolutely fair enough - but as we're not, AFAIK, rounding up Jews, black people, brown people, homosexuals, mentally ill patients, communists, etc. and shoving them into gas chambers or forced labour death...