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Mar 10 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Anyone who supports free speech - & everyone should support it - should be apoplectic.

If ALL @BBC presenters are to be BANNED from saying ANYTHING political - and almost everything IS political on @Twitter - then almost every presenter will be silenced.

news.sky.com/story/amp/gary…
Ffs.
The highly selective outrage from the @BBC, from the "pro-free speech" @Conservatives, & from their "pro-free speech" billionaire-owned right-wing press & media, reveals them as the pathetic, intolerant, anti-free-speech hypocrites they really are.

This is authoritarianism.

The polarising @Conservatives & the divisive right-wing press & broadcast media deliberately make EVERYTHING a political controversy.

Right-wing @BBC stooges Richard Sharp & Tim Davie were installed by the Tories to silence criticism of the Government.
Oh the fucking irony.
#IStandWithGary
@GaryLineker, @IanWright0, & @alanshearer - top blokes, each one worth more than a thousand Tory cabinets.
#IStandWithGary

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Mar 11
#THREAD

Well spotted @CatLaw75!

The @BBC in 2020, & again in 2021, confirmed the personal @Twitter accounts of freelancers (eg Lineker, Packham, & Andrew Neil) are "unrelated to" the BBC, & "the BBC is not responsible for its content".

#MOTD #IStandWithGaryLineker #GaryGate ImageImage
Davie's new (October 2020) social media guidelines stated @BBC staff should, on their own personal social media accounts, 'avoid expressing personal views on current issues of political controversy', which as a right-winger he described using the pejorative 'virtue signalling'. Image
However, the response to a complaint about Chris Packham, which came in September 2021 - almost a year after Tim Davie had set out his new social media guidelines for '@BBC staff' in October 2020 - stated Chris's "personal social media account has no connection to the @BBC." 🤔 Image
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Mar 11
I've written before about the uncanny parallels between the rise of the Boris Johnson regime & the rise of the Nazi regime, both ushered in by a third of the electorate.

Imho, if anything, Gary Lineker was too restrained in his tweet about Govt rhetoric.

When Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, the Nazis controlled less than 3% of Germany’s newspapers.

In contemporary Britain, the overwhelming majority of national newspapers exist to neutralize any threat from the Left to corporate interests, which includes defending a failed Govt. ImageImageImage
In early 1933, the Nazi regime deployed radio, press, & newsreels to stoke fears of a pending “Communist uprising” - a sort of ideological “invasion” from within - then channeled popular anxieties into political measures that eradicated civil liberties.

hrw.org/news/2022/03/0…
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Mar 10
#THREAD

The @BBC will not broadcast an episode of David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife #WildIsles because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians & the billionaire-owned press.

theguardian.com/media/2023/mar…
This is symptomatic of something terrible happening to Britain - a rapid slide away from a relatively open, unified, welcoming, forward-looking mature democracy, toward an insular, unwelcoming, backward-looking, polarised, infantilising authoritarian oligarchy.
The decision has angered the programme-makers & some insiders at the @BBC, who fear the corporation has bowed to pressure from lobbying groups with “dinosaurian ways”.

The latest row focuses on #WildIsles, narrated by David Attenborough, which is likely to be extremely popular.
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Mar 10
#THREAD

That time Rishi Sunak distanced himself from Suella Braverman’s inflammatory claim the UK was facing an “invasion”, after far-right terrorist Andrew Leak firebombed an immigration processing centre & Robert Jenrick warned Ministers to choose their words more carefully.
Braverman said: “the British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the INVASION on our southern coast”. Shortly after, Sunak claimed the UK would always be a “compassionate, welcoming country”, & No. 10 emphasised her words had not been cleared with No. 10.
Lord Dubs, who came to the UK as a child refugee in 1939, said about Braverman’s comments “It [language] is very important because it influences public opinion. It influences the way people see refugees. It shows hostility to people who are fleeing for safety.”
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Mar 9
But curiously not by Jacob Rees-Mogg accusing Tory Jews of being "illuminati", nor by Boris Johnson's book saying 'Jews control media', nor by Bridgen comparing vaccines to the actual #Holocaust, nor by his wife's use of the antisemitic conspiracy theory of 'Cultural Marxism'.
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Mar 9
On @bbcquestiontime tonight, the Govt's Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick, who - like his boss & UK PM, Rishi Sunak - in November distanced himself from Suella Braverman's disgusting "invasion" rhetoric.

Here's a #THREAD of important contextual factors about Jenrick.

#bbcqt
The far-right attacked Robert Jenrick after he rejected Braverman's rhetoric, accusing him on the right-wing Traditional Britain Group Telegram channel of “treason”, & referring to his Jewish faith alongside the alt-right image of Pepe the Frog.

#bbcqt
theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
On #bbcqt in April 2022, Jenrick INSISTED that #Rwanda was "a safe country".

Bullshit.

The truth is, Rwanda is one of the most autocratic, authoritarian, & repressive regimes ON EARTH, ranked 150th out of 179 countries on the Index of Liberal Democracy.

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