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AmexRuislip
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Fair play to him.
Normally criticized for his Twitter interventions etc.....
Setting a presidence for all the rich spoilt b@stards
Normally criticized for his Twitter interventions etc.....
Setting a presidence for all the rich spoilt b@stards
Yep. Can't wait to see what all the people who get outraged at him having opinions they don't like will find next as a reason to try and claim his opinion doesn't matter.
Producer: "Gary, I appreciate you wanted to bring along your new house-mate to the studios to see what you do on MoTD but we can't let him on the set looking like that. Plus nobody can understand a word he says."
Lineker: "That's Robbie Savage."
Lineker: "That's Robbie Savage."
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portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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Fair play to him.
Normally criticized for his Twitter interventions etc.....
Setting a presidence for all the rich spoilt b@stards
Yep, I with you Sir AR, generally he’s irritating. Occasionally a force for good.
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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He’s only doing it because he constantly bleats on about how refugees should be let in, so half of twitter said why doesn’t he put his ‘money where his mouth is’ so to speak, he makes like 3 million a year alone from BBC doesn’t he? Surely he could quite easily just pay for accommodation and other issues they face.
Seems like a publicity stunt to me, I know the migrant/refugee issue is a controversial and difficult one, and I myself am torn between believing these people need and deserve help and the unfortunate fact that if you allow a few, where do you draw the line? Lineker should stick to shitting on the floor
Seems like a publicity stunt to me, I know the migrant/refugee issue is a controversial and difficult one, and I myself am torn between believing these people need and deserve help and the unfortunate fact that if you allow a few, where do you draw the line? Lineker should stick to shitting on the floor
Wellesley
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portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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Pepsico (walkers) own 18 of the top selling crisp/snack brands. You’ve got to stop eating crisps per say really to avoid filling their coffers.
I’m on Day 3
(diet!)
AmexRuislip
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portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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He’s only doing it because he constantly bleats on about how refugees should be let in, so half of twitter said why doesn’t he put his ‘money where his mouth is’ so to speak, he makes like 3 million a year alone from BBC doesn’t he? Surely he could quite easily just pay for accommodation and other issues they face.
Seems like a publicity stunt to me, I know the migrant/refugee issue is a controversial and difficult one, and I myself am torn between believing these people need and deserve help and the unfortunate fact that if you allow a few, where do you draw the line? Lineker should stick to shitting on the floor
Bit harsh. But case to be argued it’s backfired in so far as it shows how out of touch rich liberal elite are with the mainstream perhaps by doing this. Trouble is, he needs to find room for 700+ per week (PER WEEK!) to make a difference. Good luck with that Gary!
Even if those figures are correct, it's really not that many is it.
People getting their knickers in a twist over a few hundred desperate people trying to save their lives. Why?
Most of them will end up in detention centres as they were sold the lie that the streets here are paved with gold, when they aren't.
The lucky ones who get asylum will receive basically **** all until they manage to get a job. Which is difficult when you're living in a hovel with barely enough money to eat.
My Mrs works at the college here, in admissions. She's sees the reality of these poor ******** lives. Just trying to make a life here and better themselves but with the odds stacked against them.
There are plenty of things to get angry about at the moment. I'd start with the government paying £150m to a dodgy company for PPE which didn't work. That's one hundred and fifty million pounds, pissed up the wall, or rather scammed from the country.
While the Mail and the Sun ramp up hatred against people with nothing, the real criminals are in charge, fleecing us for everything they can get.
Oh and fair play to Gary. At least he's backing up his words with actions. I think he's a decent bloke.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
He’s only doing it because he constantly bleats on about how refugees should be let in, so half of twitter said why doesn’t he put his ‘money where his mouth is’ so to speak, he makes like 3 million a year alone from BBC doesn’t he? Surely he could quite easily just pay for accommodation and other issues they face.
Seems like a publicity stunt to me, I know the migrant/refugee issue is a controversial and difficult one, and I myself am torn between believing these people need and deserve help and the unfortunate fact that if you allow a few, where do you draw the line? Lineker should stick to shitting on the floor
These people? That’s the problem with lumping them altogether. Some are good and some are bad. Some get settled status and some get deported.
Razan Alsous & her family fled Syria. She was a pharmacist there. When they arrived they had nothing but she realised that people loved cheese and she could make very good haloumi cheese. With a sense of humour she marketed it on a local market stall as Yorkshire Sqeaky Cheese. She now employs 12 people.
Hassan also fled Syria, who had been an English teacher. He now works as a hospital cleaner.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/21/syrian-refugee-video-white-cliffs-dover-13158545/
Everyone has a different story. We have to trust the Immigration services to weed out the true refugees, and they will get some wrong, notably the Lebanese refugees whose sons were the Ariana Grande bombers.
Sorry if this comes across as lecturing but it upsets me when they are labelled.
highflyer
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- Jan 21, 2016
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Useful in that it shuts up all those idiots who think they've won the argument when they say 'if you care so much why don't you let someone stay with you eh'
Shame though that such stupid, vacuous, levels of argument are being pandered to.
I don't think reponsible governments around the world generally seek to manage their obligations to people moving across borders (which has always happened, will always happen and has been a key part in the building of human civilizations across history) by asking people to voluntarily put them up in their houses.
The answer of course is to tax people like Lineker properly. And (amongst many other things we need to improve through taxation) pay for a humane, well managed and fair system to cope with the (relatively low) numbers of people that arrive on our shores seeking refuge, security, opportunity, better lives for their families etc.
Shame though that such stupid, vacuous, levels of argument are being pandered to.
I don't think reponsible governments around the world generally seek to manage their obligations to people moving across borders (which has always happened, will always happen and has been a key part in the building of human civilizations across history) by asking people to voluntarily put them up in their houses.
The answer of course is to tax people like Lineker properly. And (amongst many other things we need to improve through taxation) pay for a humane, well managed and fair system to cope with the (relatively low) numbers of people that arrive on our shores seeking refuge, security, opportunity, better lives for their families etc.
Indeed. Although even taxing the super rich properly won't solve anything when the government itself has its grubby hands in the till.
highflyer
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- Jan 21, 2016
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Any line drawn between 'this government' and the 'super rich' is a very fuzzy one indeed...