Tuesday, 2 December 2025
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Lineker says BBC has 'tied itself up in knots' over impartiality rules
Asked whether he sympathised with the BBC over its handling of the Trump saga, Lineker told the London Standard: “The BBC is still the most trusted and respected media organisation on the planet.
“I don’t know what led them to do what they did. They didn’t even need to. I suspect it was just some kind of error. I can’t imagine anyone thinking, ‘If we put that there it makes him look worse.’”
Members of the jury, this is not a complex case, it may be summed up via two comparatively simple lines of evidence.
You have heard the defence prove without a shadow of doubt that the prosecution evidence was fabricated and the defendant Mr Donald Trump did not say the words the prosecution alleges he said. This falsified evidence is the whole basis of prosecution case, without that it falls to the ground.
You, members of the jury may think this conclusive and the defendant has no case to answer. However, the prosecution has received a late claim by Mr Gary Lineker, a former footballer and for may years a sporting celebrity employed by the prosecution to give his opinions on football matches.
This additional prosecution evidence is that Mr Lineker does not like Mr Trump.
Therefore members of the jury, it is clear that you must weigh the balance of evidence. On the one hand the incontrovertible evidence that the prosecution case rests on falsified evidence, on the other hand the equally incontrovertible evidence that Mr Gary Lineker does not like Mr Trump the defendant.
Members of the jury, it is for you to weigh that evidence
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7 comments:
There is no jury to give their verdict. Thanks to mastermind Lammy, this matter will be decided by a single magistrate/judge who, despite his membership of the same club as Starmer, will give his totally impartial judgement that both the BBC and Mr Gary Lineker are paragons of virtue and ethics and that the said Donad J Trump is, indeed, a nasty man.
Penseivat
Penseivat - and anyone who says otherwise goes to jail with no jury to say no.
So Mr Lineker thinks that careful, expert and malicious piece of work was an error? Yesterday I broke a coffee mug into a thousand pieces and it reassembled itself perfectly.
Tammly - yes, he a ridiculous oaf.
For those of you who don't watch the Beeb football highlights at the weekend: they've been much better in the absence of Mr Lineker, just as they improved in the absence of his mucker Mr Wright. If only the Beeb would dump the third of the old bore centre-forwards - Alan "elbows" Shearer - all would be sweetness and light.
I also bring surprising (perhaps) but joyful news. The Beeb has discovered two retired goalies who can say interesting things about football - Mr Rob Green and Mr Joe Hart. Who'd have thunk it?
Verdict of the Jury:
" We find the BBC guilty. We also wish to add the rider that we find Mr. Gary Liniker guilty of lying to this court and recconmend that he is charged with Contempt of Court."
dearieme - I haven't watched it for years, but I always saw Alan "elbows" Shearer as even worse than Lineker. Alan Hansen was good I thought, keep him and replace Lineker and Shearer would have been my preference at the time.
DAD - a sound verdict, the court sentences the BBC to be sold and Mr Lineker to five years of media silence.
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