Lineker stood down…

[Mick Dempsey]

3 minutes ago, Dillinger86 said:

 

Who's supportive of it??

People who add 2 and 2 and make 5

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Nothing to do with HMRC, it’s to do with their rules on impartiality. 

£4.9million says HMRC think slightly differently, regardless of any rules on impartiality. 

[Squaredy]

What I find distasteful is that those BBC guidelines effectively say that any high profile person at the BBC must express no views on anything that could be considered party political.  

So for instance David Attenborough would be breaking the guidelines if he were to say that the uk were offshoring their carbon footprint.

 

 Or if Claire Balding expressed the view that the UK was not doing enough to challenge homophobia.

 

 So everyone who works for the BBC and criticises the state risks being sacked.  Mmmmm that sounds familiar.

[GarethM]

Does that include the Qatar money ?.

[Mark Bolam]

We’re saved!

BBC have seen sense at last.

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

I see the commentators aren’t going to do it now.

That is a bit risky from their pov, not multi millionaire ex footballers, so their living could be at stake.

The World feed commentators have a chance to show what they can do.

 

Ps. Bring back Adrian Chiles!

 

[5thelement]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Ps. Bring back Adrian Chiles!

He’s too ugly for BBC TV and can only do radio.

[coppice cutter]

14 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

People who add 2 and 2 and make 5

The illegal channel crossings are run by people traffickers, while they continue unabated, the people traffickers prosper.

 

You disapprove of moves to curb them, ergo you support the trafficking.

 

I don't think it's a difficult link to see, but sadly beyond some it would seem.

[openspaceman]

19 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

The illegal channel crossings are run by people traffickers, while they continue unabated, the people traffickers prosper.

 

You disapprove of moves to curb them, ergo you support the trafficking.

 

I don't think it's a difficult link to see, but sadly beyond some it would seem.

That's plainly a false cause and effect. Where there's a demand someone will fill it, legal or not.

 

The sad fact is people are moving from  low populated areas with poor governance to a densely populated country with better governance but in doing so straining the social fabric they seek economic security from.

[coppice cutter]

10 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

That's plainly a false cause and effect.

How?

 

If the boats are stopped, the people traffickers easy earnings stops.

 

It's not a complicated equation.