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Have to hand it to the Government, if it was their intention to increase division, they've played a blinder with this. Even if not, it's win win for them.

Sounds like this Colin Murray fella should be suspended too then?

In that case everyone in your local boozer, apart from at least one person, is completely getting the wrong end of the stick. It doesn't matter if Lineker is an overpaid twat or an underpaid genius, he is being told he can't voice his opinion outside of the BBC, despite it seemingly being the...

He said it independently on Twitter, it's his content, or possibly Twitter's, it's certainly not the BBC's. I guess his contact could,in theory, have something in it effectively staying all his published content on 3rd party platforms should adhere to the BBC guidelines, if so, case closed...

I am assuming these are the guidelines that are being referred to. https://www.bbc.com/editorialguidelines/guidelines This says: What Lineker has done is release his own content/opinion, it's not the BBC's.

Is doesn't matter if it was entirely bat shit crazy or entirely prescient. He has said something, outside of the BBC, that isn't illegal to say, and now he can't present on the BBC.

Why, is there actually a reason for this? I get that the BBC has to be impartial, but he isn't voicing the BBC's opinion, he is voicing his own, from outside the BBC, privately. The fact he may have a massive ego, that we don't need to hear from him, and we never here from Des, is neither here...

I could understand if he was getting on his soapbox during MotD, but he isn't. He isn't allowed to privately tweet about politics and present on the BBC, crazy IMO.