13-03-2023, 21:07
Just got back from the UK after spending a week watching all this Lineker stuff play out and I have decided that the vast majority of Brits are so mentally confused when it comes to issues. I haven't spent anytime reading what he wrote or spending much time reading what the new immigration policy means but I did spend the week defending him, not for his views but for his right to have those views. The BBC tried to silence him at the behest of the Tory party and the ex-Tories who now run the Beeb, one MP was even asked what he would have said had Lineker tweeted that he agreed with the policy and he said he would have said nothing and that would have been the Labour Party's problem - that says it all for me!! This wasn't about the fact he said something, it's about the fact he said something against the Tories and they didn't like it!!
We have the right to free speech, irrespective of what side you take on any issue and the BBC are trying to stop freelance staff having anything but a RW view.
I know people who are fervent Brexiteers who instead of using critical thinking, go after Lineker instead of questioning the Tory party as to why after 6 years of being out we still don't control immigration like the leave campaign said we would? That in itself was a blatant and proven lie, we have always controlled our own immigration and yet neither of the two main parties have ever really done anything about it. Where is the criticism of other EU countries who let these people waltz through their country knowing full well they are heading for Calais?
Where are the protests about the 350m pounds per week that was supposed to go back into the NHS once we are out of the EU?? The NHS is a mess, Covid for sure didn't help but the Tories again don't give a crap about it and the more it fails the easier it will be for them to turn it into a US style system. Trust me you do not want that unless you are loaded!!
The UK's inflation is higher than every other Western economy and the growth in the economy is at the bottom!! Why are people still not realising that this is the effect of Brexit that was plastered over by the Covid pandemic? Just about every claim that the leave campaign put out there has been debunked or proven to be an outright lie, yet the RW press and the Beeb don't seem to report on that, in fact I think I see more of that news over here!!
I heard some people blaming the Labour party for the current mess the country is experiencing, yet they haven't been in power for nearly 13 years!! Someone suggested that this was all Tony Blair's fault, yet its been 16 years since he was PM. Its like when Labour supporters still blame Margaret Thatcher for something happening today when there have been a ton of left and right wing governments who could have put things right but chose not to!!
I don't understand why the Tories are not hammered for most of their policies that clearly are designed to shaft the average person to make them and their cronies richer. I don't understand why the Labour party are not shouting from the rooftops about these measures, where is the opposition to the shit the UK is in??
All this focus on immigration when in reality its a fairly minor thing compared to inflation, the economy, interest rates and the energy crisis, but yet again the extreme RW seem to be driving the message on immigration, is this deliberate to take the focus off a country in the shitter who cannot even buy tomatoes at the moment!!
To me this is just a mirror image of the RW Trump tactics over here we had to put up with!! Lets build a wall to keep them out, yet in reality there is already one along the whole length of the border, in the meantime lets pass new tax reductions on those at the top of the earning tree while maintaining a $7.25 minimum wage in 23 states and start an immigration war so no one notices!! Old style Conservatives have gone, they have been replaced by RW fanatics who don't give a crap about you or I, they make Thatcher look like a socialist and people are still backing them!!
We have the right to free speech, irrespective of what side you take on any issue and the BBC are trying to stop freelance staff having anything but a RW view.
I know people who are fervent Brexiteers who instead of using critical thinking, go after Lineker instead of questioning the Tory party as to why after 6 years of being out we still don't control immigration like the leave campaign said we would? That in itself was a blatant and proven lie, we have always controlled our own immigration and yet neither of the two main parties have ever really done anything about it. Where is the criticism of other EU countries who let these people waltz through their country knowing full well they are heading for Calais?
Where are the protests about the 350m pounds per week that was supposed to go back into the NHS once we are out of the EU?? The NHS is a mess, Covid for sure didn't help but the Tories again don't give a crap about it and the more it fails the easier it will be for them to turn it into a US style system. Trust me you do not want that unless you are loaded!!
The UK's inflation is higher than every other Western economy and the growth in the economy is at the bottom!! Why are people still not realising that this is the effect of Brexit that was plastered over by the Covid pandemic? Just about every claim that the leave campaign put out there has been debunked or proven to be an outright lie, yet the RW press and the Beeb don't seem to report on that, in fact I think I see more of that news over here!!
I heard some people blaming the Labour party for the current mess the country is experiencing, yet they haven't been in power for nearly 13 years!! Someone suggested that this was all Tony Blair's fault, yet its been 16 years since he was PM. Its like when Labour supporters still blame Margaret Thatcher for something happening today when there have been a ton of left and right wing governments who could have put things right but chose not to!!
I don't understand why the Tories are not hammered for most of their policies that clearly are designed to shaft the average person to make them and their cronies richer. I don't understand why the Labour party are not shouting from the rooftops about these measures, where is the opposition to the shit the UK is in??
All this focus on immigration when in reality its a fairly minor thing compared to inflation, the economy, interest rates and the energy crisis, but yet again the extreme RW seem to be driving the message on immigration, is this deliberate to take the focus off a country in the shitter who cannot even buy tomatoes at the moment!!
To me this is just a mirror image of the RW Trump tactics over here we had to put up with!! Lets build a wall to keep them out, yet in reality there is already one along the whole length of the border, in the meantime lets pass new tax reductions on those at the top of the earning tree while maintaining a $7.25 minimum wage in 23 states and start an immigration war so no one notices!! Old style Conservatives have gone, they have been replaced by RW fanatics who don't give a crap about you or I, they make Thatcher look like a socialist and people are still backing them!!