Gary Lineker’s colleagues have downed tools and come out in solidarity after the BBC removed him as Match of the Day (MOTD) presenter following comments he made about the British government’s racist immigration policy.
The 62 year old host of the BBC’s flagship show announced in a Twitter post on Tuesday to his 8.7 million followers, that the language used by members of the UK government, and in particular Home Secretary Suella Braverman, toward asylum seekers, was similar to that used in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, several news platforms reported.
Braveman hit back in typical mud-slinging Tory style saying his comments were disrespectful of the millions who died in the Holocaust. A tactic the UK government used many times on former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for defending the plight of people in Palestine under the brutal apartheid regime of Israel….
