‘100% Support’ BBC’s Debunked Gaza Documentary Being Reinstated – Guido Fawkes

Lineker: ‘100% Support’ BBC’s Debunked Gaza Documentary Being Reinstated

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The head honcho BBC football pundit who unleashed regular attacks on the Tories such as slamming Suella Braverman’s migration policies as “immeasurably cruel” has given an exit interview (to the BBC) after quitting Match of the Day. Gary Lineker didn’t exactly row back from his activism, doubling down saying he was right to make political interventions despite his high-profile non-political taxpayer-funded job:

“I don’t regret saying them publicly, because I was right – what I said, it was accurate – so not at all in that sense. Would I, in hindsight, do it again? No I wouldn’t, because of all the nonsense that came with it… It was a ridiculous overreaction that was just a reply to someone that was being very rude. And I wasn’t particularly rude back.”

He also argued that the BBC’s debunked ‘Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone’ documentary should be reinstated to BBC iPlayer:

“I think you let people make their own minds up. We’re adults. We’re allowed to see things like that. It’s incredibly moving… I think [the BBC] just capitulated to lobbying that they get a lot.”

Co-conspirators don’t need to worry about Lineker’s trajectory now he’s quit: he didn’t leave the BBC before finalising a cushy deal for his own podcasts, which have “been picked up by BBC Sounds as part of a deal with the corporation.” He remains captain of team woke’s first eleven…