the trouble with mia :baner:🐝 · @fkamiah17
1986 followers · 31221 posts · Server toot.walesBiased? Government mouthpiece? Surely not. 🤬
https://deadline.com/2023/06/bbc-gary-lineker-tim-davie-government-1235424960/
#BBCBias #UKPolitics #RefugeesWelcome #TeamLineker
#teamlineker #refugeeswelcome #ukpolitics #bbcbias
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1717 followers · 13433 posts · Server toot.walesAs always, the mighty Stewart Lee speaks the truth we all need to hear. A favourite passage:
" ... the BBC’s dancing Downing Street disinformation puppet Laura Kuenssberg ..."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/19/after-garygate-ive-shown-my-bbc-licence-fee-the-red-card
#DitchYourLicenceFee #BBCBias #FreeSpeech #Disinformation #TeamLineker #UKPolitics
#ukpolitics #teamlineker #disinformation #freespeech #bbcbias #ditchyourlicencefee
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1702 followers · 12592 posts · Server toot.wales
With thanks to @brianbilston
This seems even more relevant than usual at the moment. I hope you don't mind me posting it, Brian.
Before you all freak out, follow the instructions at the bottom of the poem.
#RefugeesWelcome #NoOneIsIllegal #AsylumIsNotACrime #FreeSpeech #TeamLineker #StopTheBill #FuckTheTories #UKPolitics #Quotes #Bookstodon #Poetry #HumanRights
#humanrights #poetry #bookstodon #quotes #ukpolitics #FuckTheTories #stopthebill #teamlineker #freespeech #asylumisnotacrime #nooneisillegal #refugeeswelcome
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
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the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
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the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1696 followers · 12485 posts · Server toot.walesSo, according to Paul Waugh of the i paper, during the UQ on #GaryLineker, Tory MPs have called him and his fellow presenters "smug, arrogant and avaricious" and "a privileged and overpaid elite", among other things.
Yes, you read that right - this criticism came from TORY MPs. Someone go out and buy a new irony meter, please.
#UKPolitics #FreeSpeech #FuckTheTories #TeamLineker #ToryGreed
#ToryGreed #teamlineker #FuckTheTories #freespeech #ukpolitics #garylineker
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1695 followers · 12481 posts · Server toot.walesCasually forgetting the letter that 36 MPs wrote to the BBC calling for his sacking. #FFS
"Lopez tells MPs there was 'no pressure applied to BBC by ministers' over Gary Lineker" - GPLB
#TeamLineker #FreeSpeech #FuckTheTories #SackRichardSharp #BBCBias
#bbcbias #sackrichardsharp #FuckTheTories #freespeech #teamlineker #ffs
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1690 followers · 12404 posts · Server toot.walesTime to find a spine, Sunak (from GPLB):
"BBC News now note that the corporation has no way of removing Richard Sharp – its chair – as he was appointed by the government."
#SackRichardSharp #FreeSpeech #BBCBias #FuckTheTories #RefugeesWelcome #TeamLineker #Cruella #NotIllegalHUMAN
#notillegalhuman #cruella #teamlineker #refugeeswelcome #FuckTheTories #bbcbias #freespeech #sackrichardsharp
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1689 followers · 12335 posts · Server toot.walesAnd now we're all supposed to forget that the BBC tried to *curb his right to free speech* until they got spanked for two days. No resignations.
"BBC director general apologises for 'potential confusion' causes by social media rules that led to Lineker's suspension and announces review"
#TeamLineker #Whitewash #SackRichardSharp #UKPolitics #FreeSpeech #BBC
#bbc #freespeech #ukpolitics #sackrichardsharp #whitewash #teamlineker
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1683 followers · 12263 posts · Server toot.walesPaging Rishi Sunak ...
"A box of chocolates and a card have been left on Gary Lineker’s doorstep, thanking him for his stance on refugees. The letter says: ‘Thank you for showing such leadership on a really important issue.’" Guardian
#TeamLineker #UKPolitics #RefugeesWelcome #AsylumIsNotACrime
#NoOneIsIllegal #FreeSpeech #FuckTheTories
#FuckTheTories #freespeech #nooneisillegal #asylumisnotacrime #refugeeswelcome #ukpolitics #teamlineker
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1682 followers · 12203 posts · Server toot.walesOh.
"The former Tory chancellor George Osborne has backed Gary Lineker, criticising the rhetoric around asylum policy by some in his party." Guardian
#TeamLineker #FreeSpeech #UKPolitics #RefugeesWelcome #NoOneIsIllegal
#nooneisillegal #refugeeswelcome #ukpolitics #freespeech #teamlineker
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1677 followers · 12164 posts · Server toot.walesFor those of you missing #TheWeekInTory as much as me, Russ has done a thread about #SmallBoats. It's just as good as you'd expect.
https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1634652801497198593
#TeamLineker #UKPolitics #RefugeesWelcome #AsylumIsNotACrime #FreeSpeech #JustTheFacts #FuckTheTories
#FuckTheTories #Justthefacts #freespeech #asylumisnotacrime #refugeeswelcome #ukpolitics #teamlineker #SmallBoats #theweekintory
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1677 followers · 12163 posts · Server toot.walesFrom Adam Bienkov on the dark side:
"BBC interviewer: "If Gary Lineker had said to Suella Braverman, 'I support your migrant policy. I back it. It is brilliant.' Would you have removed him from air for that?"
BBC Director General Tim Davie: "I'm not going to get into hypotheticals..."
#TeamLineker #FreeSpeech #BBCBias #UKPolitics
#ukpolitics #bbcbias #freespeech #teamlineker
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1677 followers · 12162 posts · Server toot.wales
The latest creature to crawl out of the sewers - John Redwood, who claims to watch football. Just for one show though. He's not human or anything. See below. #FreeMarketBullshit #BrexitBrokeBritain #UKPolitics #FuckTheTories #Football #TeamLineker #FreeSpeech
#freespeech #teamlineker #football #FuckTheTories #ukpolitics #BrexitBrokeBritain #freemarketbullshit
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1677 followers · 12160 posts · Server toot.walesGary.
Fucking.
Lineker.
Read this tweet. Have some tissues ready.
https://twitter.com/JustMissEmma/status/1634262665445908488
#TeamLineker #FreeSpeech
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1677 followers · 12145 posts · Server toot.walesI'm not watching it because, well, you can guess why, but Tory Laura's show is an absolute travesty of "balance": two Tories, two Labour, two *senior BBC staff, including DG* and ... a triathlete. Sake.
#BBCBias #ToryLaura #UKPolitics #TeamLineker #FreeSpeech
#freespeech #teamlineker #ukpolitics #ToryLaura #bbcbias
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1676 followers · 12142 posts · Server toot.walesOh #FFS. Dark world Penfold is hard of thinking bombshell:
"Tory MP doesn't like cancel culture. [Kuennsberg asks] former levelling up secretary Simon Clarke why the Tory party has taken such an issue with Lineker's comments." (BBC Live blog)
#TeamLineker #UKPolitics #FreeSpeech #FuckTheTories #RefugeesWelcome
#refugeeswelcome #FuckTheTories #freespeech #ukpolitics #teamlineker #ffs
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1676 followers · 12140 posts · Server toot.walesGet the fence out of your crack, Jeremy (from Guardian Live blog):
"Jeremy Hunt: 'People’s confidence in the impartiality of the BBC should be restored'
#RefugeesWelcome #TeamLineker #FuckTheTories #UKPolitics #FreeSpeech
#freespeech #ukpolitics #FuckTheTories #teamlineker #refugeeswelcome
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1675 followers · 12139 posts · Server toot.walesGo back to sleep, peasants.
"Calm down, ignore the papers - [former BBC Director General Mark] Thompson on Lineker fallout". Fuck you mate.
#BBCBias #UKPolitics #TeamLineker #RefugeesWelcome
#refugeeswelcome #teamlineker #ukpolitics #bbcbias
the trouble with mia · @fkamiah17
1674 followers · 12123 posts · Server toot.walesFor once the Torygraph isn't misrepresenting the figures (from a YouGov poll on Lineker):
"The data finds that just over a quarter (27 per cent) think the broadcaster was right to suspend him "
#BBCBias #DavieOut #SharpOut #TeamLineker #UKPolitics #Football
#football #ukpolitics #teamlineker #sharpout #davieout #bbcbias