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harshy - harshy - 11-03-2023

(11-03-2023, 12:15 PM)James2001 Wrote:  ITV need to bring back Elton Welsby for one day Wink

Let’s get Desmond Lynam for one day too :-)

RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - The_IT_Technician - 11-03-2023

How about if the BBC replace the football with the David Attenborough film that is to be iplayer only ... May as well see what the hoohah is.. :-) ;-)

RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - UTVLifer - 11-03-2023

https://twitter.com/colinmurray/status/1634519405097889796?s=61&t=9PSUu8dUPDOGotmQBtN_ig 

RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - lhx1985 - 11-03-2023

(11-03-2023, 12:41 PM)Stockland Hillman Wrote:  
(11-03-2023, 11:58 AM)orange Wrote:  It’s hard to imagine how Davie (and co.) can survive this now. This is just snowballing and snowballing - there’s now a massive mistrust in the BBC and it’s not just going to go away if they cover their eyes and ears.

There's not 'massive mistrust' anymore than usual.  The BBC isn't trusted by a significant number of people in the UK at any one time, the only difference is its a different side this time; the one that's usually sneering at people who protest the BBC

Tim Davie just needs to put Lineker on IR35, to clear up his tax status and obligation issue.  Everyone who's breached an agreement to perform a service should be dropped if they're freelance or put into disciplinary if staff.

Do you really think Tim Davie enjoys sufficient power to 'just' do anything right now?

Because as it stands, the vast majority of the sports department's on air team, across TV and radio, are unwilling to work for him.

RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Steve in Pudsey - 11-03-2023

It will be interesting to see what happens with local radio, where most of the commentators are staff so not able to take what amounts to strike action without going through due process. But I see an unusual lack of tweets from my local station's sports team on a match day.

RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Adsales - 11-03-2023

(11-03-2023, 12:41 PM)Stockland Hillman Wrote:  
(11-03-2023, 11:58 AM)orange Wrote:  It’s hard to imagine how Davie (and co.) can survive this now. This is just snowballing and snowballing - there’s now a massive mistrust in the BBC and it’s not just going to go away if they cover their eyes and ears.

There's not 'massive mistrust' anymore than usual.  The BBC isn't trusted by a significant number of people in the UK at any one time, the only difference is its a different side this time; the one that's usually sneering at people who protest the BBC

Tim Davie just needs to put Lineker on IR35, to clear up his tax status and obligation issue.  Everyone who's breached an agreement to perform a service should be dropped if they're freelance or put into disciplinary if staff.

Its utterly insane to defend someone who costs 10,000 peoples TV licences -the highest paid- yet doesn't have tax arrangements to pay his pair share in the same way as other BBC  workers have been forced to.
Not that anyone other than the courts can determine IR35 status, GL is fighting HMRC’s assessment of his status and should he be found to be inside IR35 then it would not only cost him but also the BBC which is why it is extremely unlikely for them to say anything other than he is outside IR35.

If he loses then they’re liable to pay years’ worth of national insurance contributions for GL and he would in fact be entitled to several years worth of holiday pay and other benefits provided to BBC staff.

So careful what you wish for.

RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Keith - 11-03-2023

Safe to say this has blown up in the BBC's face. I doubt the management envisaged yesterday that other football programming would be affected by suspending Lineker.

RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - aaron_scotland - 11-03-2023

The BBC will be hoping this just blows over, and it might if all these people refusing to do their shows continue to do so next week but I doubt they will do it a 2nd time.

RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - Toby brown - 11-03-2023

No sport at all on 5 live at the moment not just football

RE: Gary Lineker/BBC Asylum Controversy - harshy - 11-03-2023

Maybe this is Tim’s master plan to get rid of the expensive bbc sports division where the pundits and presenters must be freelance, with all that money saved, plough it back into the broken news channel, then he can say looked I saved the bbc news channel.