It’s quite evident that while the Tories hate “cancel culture” they’ll quite happily purge (AKA cancel) any views that dissent.
This was most evident during the leadership campaign last year when Suella’s campaign manager was interviewed. Paraphrasing here he said
“Suella’s main aim is to end this woke nonsense and cancel culture whilst ensuring that there is party unity in the message we give. Even if this means purging people from the party.”
It’s almost like the party most outraged about cancelling is the one doing the most cancelling.
I don’t envy Starmer on PMQs, where on earth do you start? Cost of living crisis, their budget, the strikes, the under investment of the NHS, renewable energy, and our infrastructure, them constantly making promises but never delivering, the corruption, the PPE scandal, booting us out of the EU without any solid plans in place, the stripping of worker’s and human rights, Boris lying to the government and the Royals about the lockdown parties, the lack of subsidies promised to farmers, and so on and so on.
I could go on. The Tories are a disaster. I can’t wait for the new t election.
I can’t stand this style of tabloid language. I get what he’s trying to do in using their own words against them, but it comes off like he’s lowering himself to their level.
Did he not have an alternative budget to present yesterday?
Another example of leftists cherry picking when free speech is a good thing. Gary Lineker can say whatever he likes, but the BBC can’t have an opinionated employee who compares everything he doesn’t like to Nazi Germany and the license fee – one of them has to go.
This situation could be a slam-dunk for a more competent Labour leader.
All Starmer has to do is pledge to purge politics from the BBC and require all leadership to follow stringent rules on impartiality, so no directors giving £800k donations to the Tories.
He’d gain huge popular support.
But we all know he won’t because he low-key wants the BBC to be a government propaganda machine when he’s in charge.
What influence does the Conservative party have over what the BBC does with Lineker?
Were they involved in the decision at all?
Is this the same Keir Starmer who banned Labour party members from criticising NATO?
The Tories say that they hate “cancel culture”.
What could be a better encapsulation of “cancel culture” than someone being fired for their job for disagreeing with the government in their own personal capacity rather than as part of their job?
Especially when the treatment of Lineker is supposed to be a warning to those who *don’t* have his wealth, fame and power. “If we can do this to him, just imagine what we can do to you if you criticise the government”.
In reality, both Tory MPs and Tory supporters seem to be fine with the suggestion that someone can lose their job for pointing out that a particular government policy is cruel.
But if someone gets called racist/homophobic/bigoted because they’ve said something which people think is racist/homophobic/bigoted, that’s cancel culture. And their reaction there is *also* to silence the people who want to call out the racist/homophobe/bigot.
This is already becoming redundant to disparage anybody.
The Tories will do whatever it takes to distract the working class from talking about the massive economic inequality that exists.
Starmer needs to apologise for calling this fantastic government Putins Russia.
Suddenly someone in favour of silencing people stating things that were subsequently proven true about Covid cares about free speech…
Pot, meet kettle.
All a set of hypocrites that take they’re turns in pretending to be offended about somebody’s words, so that they can score personal points on the politician career ladder.
It is a bit of a stretch to call the Lineker thing a free speech issue.
Anyone who is a high-profile public face of a large organisation will most likely have to use a bit of judgement over what they say on Twitter. This would generally include not accusing others of being Nazis.
The BBC are meant to be improving their guidance, but I expect that they will loosen up on a few trivial things while clarifying that you should definitely avoid comparing anyone to Hitler.
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In fairness this isn’t the worst attack line.
It’s quite evident that while the Tories hate “cancel culture” they’ll quite happily purge (AKA cancel) any views that dissent.
This was most evident during the leadership campaign last year when Suella’s campaign manager was interviewed. Paraphrasing here he said
“Suella’s main aim is to end this woke nonsense and cancel culture whilst ensuring that there is party unity in the message we give. Even if this means purging people from the party.”
It’s almost like the party most outraged about cancelling is the one doing the most cancelling.
I don’t envy Starmer on PMQs, where on earth do you start? Cost of living crisis, their budget, the strikes, the under investment of the NHS, renewable energy, and our infrastructure, them constantly making promises but never delivering, the corruption, the PPE scandal, booting us out of the EU without any solid plans in place, the stripping of worker’s and human rights, Boris lying to the government and the Royals about the lockdown parties, the lack of subsidies promised to farmers, and so on and so on.
I could go on. The Tories are a disaster. I can’t wait for the new t election.
I can’t stand this style of tabloid language. I get what he’s trying to do in using their own words against them, but it comes off like he’s lowering himself to their level.
Did he not have an alternative budget to present yesterday?
Another example of leftists cherry picking when free speech is a good thing. Gary Lineker can say whatever he likes, but the BBC can’t have an opinionated employee who compares everything he doesn’t like to Nazi Germany and the license fee – one of them has to go.
This situation could be a slam-dunk for a more competent Labour leader.
All Starmer has to do is pledge to purge politics from the BBC and require all leadership to follow stringent rules on impartiality, so no directors giving £800k donations to the Tories.
He’d gain huge popular support.
But we all know he won’t because he low-key wants the BBC to be a government propaganda machine when he’s in charge.
What influence does the Conservative party have over what the BBC does with Lineker?
Were they involved in the decision at all?
Is this the same Keir Starmer who banned Labour party members from criticising NATO?
The Tories say that they hate “cancel culture”.
What could be a better encapsulation of “cancel culture” than someone being fired for their job for disagreeing with the government in their own personal capacity rather than as part of their job?
Especially when the treatment of Lineker is supposed to be a warning to those who *don’t* have his wealth, fame and power. “If we can do this to him, just imagine what we can do to you if you criticise the government”.
In reality, both Tory MPs and Tory supporters seem to be fine with the suggestion that someone can lose their job for pointing out that a particular government policy is cruel.
But if someone gets called racist/homophobic/bigoted because they’ve said something which people think is racist/homophobic/bigoted, that’s cancel culture. And their reaction there is *also* to silence the people who want to call out the racist/homophobe/bigot.
This is already becoming redundant to disparage anybody.
The Tories will do whatever it takes to distract the working class from talking about the massive economic inequality that exists.
Starmer needs to apologise for calling this fantastic government Putins Russia.
Suddenly someone in favour of silencing people stating things that were subsequently proven true about Covid cares about free speech…
Pot, meet kettle.
All a set of hypocrites that take they’re turns in pretending to be offended about somebody’s words, so that they can score personal points on the politician career ladder.
It is a bit of a stretch to call the Lineker thing a free speech issue.
Anyone who is a high-profile public face of a large organisation will most likely have to use a bit of judgement over what they say on Twitter. This would generally include not accusing others of being Nazis.
The BBC are meant to be improving their guidance, but I expect that they will loosen up on a few trivial things while clarifying that you should definitely avoid comparing anyone to Hitler.