Why Is Gary Lineker Above The Law At The BBC?

[@brelshar4968]

At this point i'm not as mad at the BBC as I am towards those that continue to pay the licence fee.

[@EgoChip]

That's how I feel when it comes to politics and people voting for the corrupt parties.

[@dps8435]

Yeah,enablers.

[@teachingpupswithmetz]

He is the BBC's mouthpiece...he says what they want to say but can't!

[@necropink9200]

He must have some dirt on the bbc. The last time someone was above the law at the bbc was Jimmy Sa(vile).

[@thedogsdiddies8421]

Nope no dirt, just vocal and expressing the establishment views. They protect their own and cancel/destroy anyone who speaks out against them. They tried to cancel GB News labelling it far right and disinformation before it even went on air!

[@MacTheRipper1]

Someone has to call these 💩 houses out on their lies & bias!!

[@fredo1070]

He has photos of various BBC top knobs in compromising positions, that's the only explanation. Gary brings nothing to the BBC that a younger and cheaper presenter can. A million and a half a year for a TV highlights show? Did Des Lynam or Jimmy Hill get paid so extravagantly?

[@macmachine]

Nah. If they lost him, rival - Sky or whatever -

[@englishciderlover7347]

@@macmachine If he did go to Sky, people would still watch MOTD. People tune in to watch the footie, not to hear Lineker and Co.

[@nonoyorbusness]

Samir Shah, head of the 'british' broadcasting corporation, says it all really.

[@martinlouden9005]

Will I feel this smug forever? I can't help patting myself on the back and telling everyone who's willing to listen, that I've cancelled my TV licence. It's been 6 months now and I can't stop smiling about it!

[@dc56789]

Blackmail! He must have photos of Tim Davie doing lines off Huw Edwards cheeks.

[@user-yl1xy5eg7b]

The BBC have lost their grip of everything substantial, disciplined and ethical. It is time to privatise them.

[@GlennPowell-ls3lg]

Did the late great Bobby Charlton use his fame as a footballer to become a soap box "fish wife" No and in the process remained intact in the media as a bloody good footballer and not some jumped up overpaid prick.

[@rich_edwards79]

I take it you're fine with the Govt wasting billions of our money on sending a couple of hundred immigrants to Rwanda and putting a few hundred more on a prison hulk as a poor substitute for a proper immigration system? It would cost far, far less to staff the Home Office with enough sufficiently trained officers to provide safe, legal routes and determine asylum cases in a timely manner, but they're not actually bothered about bringing down the numbers or improving the quality of those who.comenhere, just lazy, performative headline grabbing that satisfies the weird fetish that a lot of British people seem to have for being as nasty as possible to brown people. I can't stand Lineker and think he's grossly overpaid from money demanded with menaces from the poorest in our society, but he's right on this - aside from trashing our hard-earned internstional reputation as a bastion of fairness and human rights, Rwanda and Bibby Stockholm are appalling value for money and won't work. I wish people could see beyond their hatred of immigrants and understand this.

[@mykelevangelista6492]

People should be allowed to earn what other people value them at. Except when that pay comes from the public purse. Non-stick Lineker seems to be immune to that. Maybe he's a superhero and that's his super power!

[@carolkilpatrick6674]

I don’t want too be forced to pay the BBC licence fee. We really really need to be given the choice to go to subscription.

[@jenniriley482]

Haha when I saw this article I wondered how long it would take you to do this video! Lol. Hopefully this will be another step to people cancelling the licence. 👍👍

[@angelmessenger8240]

He probably has the goods on the people who would fire him.

[@andrewstafford-jones4291]

But Gary is the Director General of the BBC, didn't you get the memo? Gary can say whatever he wants without restriction unlike other BBC employees. He must be in charge - nobody would be paid £1.35 million just to comment on a football match every week - that would be insane. He is paid this vast sum to run the BBC. He will be given a knighthood very shortly and can be "Sir Gary" in recognition of his brilliance in running the BBC. (Into the ground, I might add.)

[@ianlister4729]

You overplay his role - he doesn't even commentate on the matches.

[@andrewstafford-jones4291]

So very true !!@@ianlister4729

[@englishciderlover7347]

@@ianlister4729 All he does is tell the viewers which game's coming up next and then asks his cronies for their opinions of what happened during the game. I don't remember hearing him giving an opinion on footie.

[@gammawolf4955]

I believe he has something on them that they don't want out

[@davidpilling1623]

I can understand your frustration, why has he not been sacked?

[@robertdorsett9167]

Why is Samir Shah a boss at the BBC while he is a member of the Conservative party? People in glass houses....

[@anonnemo2504]

A classic case of one rule for the many and another for the few. This has been happening since time immemorial, and always will. My reaction to Lineker's latest "tweet" was the same as it is for those from all "celebrities", i.e. why should anyone care what they think, simply because they are in the public eye?

[@grannytakesatrip1128]

The British Biased Corporation need Lineker more than Lineker needs them. He will continue to voice his lefty leanings on SM and the spineless British Biased Corporation will turn a blind eye to it, as they always do. I seem to recall when the brilliant Kenny Everett had his radio show on the British Biased Corporation he said something on air, which they didn't like. The British Biased Corporation's response - he was sacked with immediate effect. Double standards indeed, Lineker can say what he likes with impunity.

[@volt8684]

If he was sacked tomorrow would never need to work again. Sport is no longer for me because of the likes of him an dfootballers /tennis players/ racing drivers salaries that could save the homeless etc

[@gherkamum]

Lineker is biased, and should not voice his opinion, BBC need a backbone….

[@waynestockton8953]

The same way the BBC are supposed to follow product placement guide lines. Why is Lineker going to follow the rules when the BBC don't

[@gherkamum]

BBC love his comments......

[@JohnWalker-rt6ue]

They insist that Lineker isn’t a BBC employee, he’s independently contracted for a negotiated fee.

[@englishciderlover7347]

Although he's a freelancer, he's on TV so often that he can be considered one of the main faces and voices of the BBC, and a 'representative' of the corporation. His contract should have included a clause to prevent him from commenting on anything that isn't connected to sports.

[@ianlister4729]

So why is he named by them in their guidelines?

[@freespeechforever]

Corruption. He'll come unstuck one day and perhaps end up behind barzs

[@lukewilmot3864]

When you get old enough to understand… you’re going to hate HIGNFY

[@philippedley5073]

I think he want's the BBC to sack him and then they will have to honour his contract in full as was agreed when he negotiated his new contract not long ago when he took that pay cut. He knows he can earn a lot more money elsewhere.

[@andycap6786]

So, Linker's comments 'seem to breach BBC guidelines'. Seeing how he is named in the list of presenters of the BBC's 'flagship programs' why the vague response from them? I have said elsewhere previously, is Linker in a very senior position in an organisation?

[@MJWPub]

Wow, a pundit open his mouth! Why are you surprised? Go Gary! A man with intelligence expressing himself vs I'm celebrity. The BBC should tear up it's guidelines or just so the test card from here on!

[@user-vp9hb2di5z]

King of the works😅

[@stevetaylor8698]

These guidelines only apply to "far right" commentators, ie anyone to the right of Labour.

[@englishciderlover7347]

Unfortunately, 'guidelines' are not hard-and-fast rules. The word 'guidelines' gives Lineker a lot of wiggle room, and he takes full advantage of the fact.

[@rich_edwards79]

If the UK is such a right-wing country (as I am constantly being told that it is, that the 'silent majority' / the 'real working class' support ever harsher clampdowns on immigration, welfare, trans issues, protest etc), then how are Labour so far ahead in the polls? Something not adding up here.

[@englishciderlover7347]

@@rich_edwards79 It's more a case of people switching back to Labour without thinking of the consequences for the working class of more immigration and so on. For the most part, people vote the way they and their ancestors have voted for generations. The parties, especially Labour, take advantage of that blind loyalty.

[@aryonllewellyn]

I believe that the BBC keeps Gary Lineker, because he keeps up their viewing figures. They are afraid that if they fired him, they would lose the majority of their current viewers.

[@englishciderlover7347]

Are they really telling us that people watch MOTD just to see Lineker? When I watched, I wanted to see the footie.

[@RonaldShea5680]

Millions of British households no longer pay the bbc poll tax, why not join them?

[@weareevil6912]

I’m sure another bbc employee who’s been up to no good

[@HiddenCreaturesHQ]

Because he is blowing the execs.

[@davemedlar40]

The only way to stop this is to stop paying the license fee, I stopped a few years ago because of there biased and double standards

[@Ztandard32]

A point of clarification. You do not have to have a TV licence and you can watch 100% of the stuff you love. I don't love any BBC content and don't miss it at all, not even 1%.

[@danemb3300]

Pointless really making any comment on here about the BBC because they just do as they please it's a tried and tested methode that all big corporations and Governments use; ignoring the public is what puts money in their pockets.

[@RonaldShea5680]

The sickening greed of the bbc and it's employees is truly nauseating.

[@markopazlo]

Lineker should've supported the tory shite then nobody would be outraged. Shows what a joke all these rules are. Either apply for everyone or get rid.

[@themole1944]

Don't give a dam i don't pay the licence fee so it's not my money or problem

[@macmachine]

If BBC lost him, Sky or ITV would take him on at double his salary.

[@thedogsdiddies8421]

Would they?! I'd take BBC viewing figures with a pinch of salt! All their polls seem to show a huge majority that the BBC is value for money, yet 3rd polls show the opposite!

[@scotspaul]

What we do at work has NOTHING to do what we do away from work like social media etc. Employers do NOT control your social life

[@englishciderlover7347]

The BBC has a duty to be impartial and to BE SEEN to be impartial. That applies (or ought to apply) to its employees. I know Lineker's technically a freelancer, but he's on TV so often that he's a 'representative' of the BBC.

[@thedogsdiddies8421]

They do when you SIGN a contract with them. Also if you are in the creative sector or educational sectors, any ideas or products you come up with, are owned by the company employing you! Some jobs even have clauses in them that prevent you working on the same type of work for a number of years, even after your employment is terminated with the company. There are also non disclosure agreements preventing you from talking about what you do for work.

[@stuartb4525]

Not strictly true. Whoever you work for have social media guide lines. Meaning anything you say or do which brings your company into disrepute, is misconduct. Technically Big ears represents the BBC so should fall under their rules.

[@andyb6120]

I hope he continues & gets even worse as it will make more people be against the BBC & stop paying the License Fee. Lets hope he gets promoted & takes over from Tim Davey!

[@MrNickGreen]

Rule one don’t pay the tv licence. Rule two don’t watch the bbc.

[@Larry1000]

But Gary's a superstar 😂😂😂😂😂 anyway Rwanda's is just a way to give ' refugees a holiday while the UK government sorts their British passport out😅😅

[@joefifa8415]

WHEN ARE WE GETTING NEW GOON VISIT VIDEOS

[@linuxforpunks]

I think the video title implies the video is going to answer the question. We can ask it ourselves without being talked through it. Also the BBC's policies aren't "law". Being "above the law" at the BBC would be things like if the police were letting him get away with hate speech offences.

[@northwaleslife4844]

He needs to be sacked

[@sgsuper1150]

Is Gary employed by his production company and not directly a bbc employee

[@englishciderlover7347]

@@FortescueGimlet If you're a BBC presenter, you should be employed directly by the BBC, not via your own production company. That should mean being on PAYE, not having you company paying corporation tax instead.

[@elainepace7726]

He needs to keep quiet, his opinions should stay just that....his opinions. He's an overpaid waste of space. You were a good footballer but that's it. You were

[@tuffty203]

Your complaining about the press publishing this crap and yet You are doing the same.... No one likes the guy and want him sacked so why keep giving him any air time. I'm sure you have some great videos to show us instead of dicussing this muppet.

[@AlfieDoug]

Not sure why this turned up in my recommended I can only guess it's because Gary Lineker is well known as I've never heard of you, try spelling his name right if you are going to make a boring video about him.

[@bampitony6108]

You must be a relative of Gary Rasta Linekers.. 😎👆

[@danielholmes-nj5nq]

Seems you can't spell Lineker either.

[@AlfieDoug]

​​@@danielholmes-nj5nqyep you are right I will correct it, I am not a seasoned you tuber and rarely comment, when,I do my sausage fingers often mistype words using my phone.

[@tomlamb1693]

Hello Gary - - - is that you ?@@AlfieDoug

[@geoffreywilliams4266]

Ths twst is oe of the reasons I cancelled my tv lience