Rishi Sunak's United Kingdom

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Now for something different.

A popular sports broadcaster (Gary Lineker) was pulled from the air by BBC on Friday due to his criticism of the Sunak governments new policy on asylum seekers on social media (twitter).

The BEEBs argument is that it interfered with their mandate to be non-partisan, even though the comment did not come on a BBC platform, did not air, nor is he in the News division.

Well, Mr.Lineker is a popular fellow and this move managed to royally tick off his fellow sports presenters, who all summarily refused to work on Saturday (today) causing BBC to axe most of its sports coverage all day.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/bbc-lineker-britain-migrants-1.6776069

I don't know what to make of it. There was an Iranian refugee child who was put on tv to say he had the right to emigrate to the UK, even tho his parents paid people smugglers to get them thru 8 other countries before they illegally crossed the channel into England. The family has medical issues that will be treated on the NHS. I'm conflicted because clearly the family did NOT meet the criteria for refugee status - they were in other safe countries and they paid criminal gangs to move them around. I'm glad to hear his colleagues have stood up for him.

 

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What makes this more interesting is that the Conservatives recently appointed a major donor, and chum of the PM as Chairman of the BBC. It is apparently ok for him to have political views but a free-lance sports commentator (who is highest paid BBC person) can't.

 

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I don't know what to make of it. There was an Iranian refugee child who was put on tv to say he had the right to emigrate to the UK, even tho his parents paid people smugglers to get them thru 8 other countries before they illegally crossed the channel into England. The family has medical issues that will be treated on the NHS. I'm conflicted because clearly the family did NOT meet the criteria for refugee status - they were in other safe countries and they paid criminal gangs to move them around. I'm glad to hear his colleagues have stood up for him.

I can find no reputable reports if this. Source?

 

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I can find no reputable reports if this. Source?

the clip is on Sky news (hold on! lol), Keir Starmer (labour leader) was taking questions and this kid came up on the feed, Friday 10 March

 

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I found this survey in Economist today quite interesting; I suspect there might be a similar split along party lines here too.