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Originally Posted by Cherie

You just said he bragged he is getting on a bit and doesn't need the money, so step away then and give it to someone who does, someone who needs to pay their mortgage perhaps or bring up a family....he is such a do gooder after all its the least he could do...no?

He doesn't need to keep the platform to support himself and his family, so he's happy to speak his mind even if it means losing the platform, thus, he should immediately give up the platform and lose the ability to use that platform to speak his mind, which would have been the reason he might lose the platform?



Convoluted nonsense - you only expect him to give up the platform because you don't like what he has to say. If the world worked that way, NO ONE would be saying anything about anything, because there will always be some people who don't like it.

If this is an argument that the BBC and its supposed impartiality and the BBC license fee shouldn't exist at all then I am fully in favour of that. But it's the institution that's broken and the problem, not Gary Linekar "having thoughts about stuff". I get that you find him insufferable, I personally find his views to be well-meaning but not particularly well developed or nuanced, but he's fairly benign. Look at the hoard of puffy faced arseholes we're forced to endure Twitter/YouTube videos of DAILY on this site. Is Gary Linekar worse because his views come from a slightly more (not even very, but supposedly) left-leaning perspective?