Gary Lineker And Right-Wing Hypocrisy
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
After Gary Lineker's attack on the Tories' despicable war on migrants and refugees, the British Right are demanding the BBC fire him. What a bunch of raging hypocrites. The same crew who constantly bleat about 'cancel culture' and the 'woke mob' attack on free speech, who said nothing when an actual flagship BBC political journalist - Andrew Neil - promoted right-wing ideas. This whole episode tells us so much about modern British society - and it is very, very ugly.
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| 0:00.0 | The current onslaught against Gary Linnaker tells you more than you need to know about the burning |
| 0:04.6 | skip that is modern British society. Now this country and the world in general is in a state of chaos. |
| 0:11.2 | There is a vicious wall taking place in Europe and unprecedented collapse in living standards |
| 0:16.1 | here and elsewhere for that matter. A climate emergency which threatens our future existence |
| 0:20.3 | kind of important and NHS that's in a state of collapse. The Tories are lurching from crisis to |
| 0:24.6 | scandal to crisis to scandal. We could go on. Now, guess, have a little guess. What was the |
| 0:29.8 | main story on the BBC 10 o'clock news last night? Yeah, that's right. Just to be clear, it was a |
| 0:35.7 | tweet, a tweet by a sports presenter. That's the main news apparently. That's the most important |
| 0:41.1 | thing going on in the world. According to the editors of the 10 o'clock news, they look at |
| 0:45.1 | everything happening. Everything happening. They went, do you know what? I think we should go on this |
| 0:49.1 | tweet by Gary Linnaker. Now, that tweet, which I'll talk about, which was criticising the |
| 0:55.6 | government's policy towards migrants and refugees, that a tweet criticising a government is a |
| 1:01.2 | bigger scandal than the government defying international law in its vicious crusade against |
| 1:06.3 | migrants and refugees pledging to kick out people wherever they form or whatever they fled, |
| 1:10.8 | like Afghanistan, where this country was engaged in our conflict for two decades. That fact |
| 1:16.0 | underlines just how messed up our democracy happens to be at this current juncture. |
| 1:21.1 | Now, some might go, oh, you're just back in Gary Linnaker because he's one of yours. You're like |
| 1:25.3 | mind-dead, etc, etc. Not true. I'm a socialist. Gary Linnaker isn't. He's essentially, and I say |
| 1:31.1 | this isn't an animosity, like a lot of people. I've got a fair bit of affection towards Gary Linnaker, |
| 1:37.1 | but he's basically a centrist dad, which I realise is a term when I use some actual centrist |
| 1:42.5 | dads think is some sort of slur. It isn't. It just is what it is. He's a centrist dad. Now, when |
| 1:47.1 | Linnaker treated bin Corbin, there was no massive hysteria about breaking objectivity and all the |
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