General News Chat

[Basingstokered]

Do you think if he "paid [his] fair share the Govt [would] impose all the pie in the sky nonsense [he] suggest[s]"?

Do you his tax status is directly linked to free speech?

The Tories would like you to join one of their "Think tanks", if so.
You could go very far.

We will never know as Linkekar is someone who simply avoids taxes isn’t he. Astounding that the lefties who all want the Govt to spend money don’t mind when one of them avoids tax.

[Donanddusted]

Astounding that the lefties who all want the Govt to spend money don’t mind when one of them avoids tax.

I don't want that government to spend my taxes.
That's for another thread, however.

Free speech is just that.

[Basingstokered]

Free speech the policy for the company that employs him is not to make political statements. He can’t hide behind free speech where the hypocrisy of his statement is shown to him.

[stewarty27]

Free speech the policy for the company that employs him is not to make Humanitarian statements. He can’t hide behind free speech where the hypocrisy of his statement is shown to him.

Fix that for you.

[Basingstokered]

Your not getting this at all are you. There needs to be a judgement on his employment status before the proper tax levy can be levelled. HMRC think he should pay Lineker and his advisers think he shouldn't. Why would anyone pay more tax than they need to ? Would you ? we are talking the difference of 5M here. There is absolutely no tax avoidance here but purely a dispute. Either way you and his detractors are playing diverting game the issue at hand is can Lineker comment on humanitarian issues as an employee of the BBC and whether there is a huge hypocrisy issue.

I’m sure Lineker and his advisors claimed there was no tax avoidance when he had to pay unpaid taxes the last time. So Lineker can comment on humanitarian issues but never does only refugees and govt policy. If Lineker wants to dish it out he can take it

[Donanddusted]

He wasn't "representing the BBC" when making comments on his personal Twitter account.

Lots of MPs/MSPs spout an awful lot of shyte on their Twitter accounts but don't get held to account to this degree.

Feel free to criticise the smug arse but that's you and everyone else's right.
Don't conflate his job with his personal opinions.

[Basingstokered]

He wasn't "representing the BBC" when making comments on his personal Twitter account.

Lots of MPs/MSPs spout an awful lot of shyte on their Twitter accounts but don't get held to account to this degree.

Feel free to criticise the smug arse but that's you and everyone else's right.
Don't conflate his job with his personal opinions.

Your right it was his personal account however if a teacher, police officer, firefighter and the likes would he held accountable for anything they post then so can Gary. Of course Gary won’t agree he will just think they should pay their taxes whilst he shouldn’t have to.

[Donanddusted]

Anyone working in one of those professions would be entitled to criticise a government policy on their own Twitter account.
If they criticised their workplace that would almost certainly be an issue for their employer.
Your conflating the payment of taxes with free speech again.

We disagree about his stance but I'm fine with that as that's what free speech is about.


Now, when are we going to have a permanent manager in place?

[Basingstokered]

Anyone working in one of those professions would be entitled to criticise a government policy on their own Twitter account.
If they criticised their workplace that would almost certainly be an issue for their employer.
Your conflating the payment of taxes with free speech again.

We disagree about his stance but I'm fine with that as that's what free speech is about.


Now, when are we going to have a permanent manager in place?

Free speech the company policy is not to make political statements. He’s more than happy to accept the pay then he has to follow that policy.

Perhaps we could offer the managerial role to Gary we could probably entice him by telling him since Scotland has its own Govt we’re ab offshore heaven.

[InversneckieDob]

Free speech the company policy is not to make political statements. He’s more than happy to accept the pay then he has to follow that policy.

Perhaps we could offer the managerial role to Gary we could probably entice him by telling him since Scotland has its own Govt we’re ab offshore heaven.

Do you think the BBC's policy on humanitarian........sorry POLITICAL statements on social media has been applied even handedly?