Buckle up for Gary Lineker at his insufferable worst — and bear in mind, you pay his wages.
Lineker, the epitome of an out-of-touch, multimillionaire luvvie leftie with luxury beliefs, got into hot water when he claimed the government's "Stop the Boats" messaging echoed the language of 1930s Germany. He was briefly suspended from the BBC but of course, he’s now doubled down.
Last night he said on the BBC: "Do I regret saying those things publicly? No, I don’t, because I was right. What I said was accurate. Would I do it again, in hindsight? No, because of all the nonsense that came with it."
Nonsense? Really? A ridiculous overreaction to what he calls just a reply to someone being rude?
Patrick Christys shared his opinion on the latest interview from Lineker
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Lineker reportedly lives in a £4million luxury home in London and is paid £1.35m a year from the BBC — that’s your licence fee money.
He loves to bang on about welcoming refugees into his own home. Fine. But those are heavily vetted asylum seekers — not the same as having 300 unknown Middle Eastern men suddenly housed in your local hotel, like in Altrincham.
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And what about people like Ahmed Ali, who murdered a pensioner in cold blood outside asylum accommodation in Hartlepool after travelling through 13 different safe countries to get here? Or Abdul Aziz, who doused a woman and child in acid? Or Abdul Rahman, who blew himself up outside Liverpool Maternity Hospital? Or the Badruddin brothers, who formed a grooming gang that raped and abused girls in Newcastle?
Ironically, the BBC was accused of doing PR for some of these individuals in a Newsnight segment called To Hell and Back, which documented their “struggles” to get on in the UK.
The BBC may not have known they’d go on to be charged with a string of sex crimes, but why did it air an unchallenged accusation that a 14-year-old girl was racist and had fabricated a sexual assault?
Lineker seems to have a rose-tinted view of the migrant crisis — one only someone in his position can afford to have.
How many times do he or the women in his family get on public transport and are confronted by an illegal migrant sex predator?
Do you remember when the BBC ran a documentary called Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone? Turns out the narrator was the son of a Hamas minister, and one of the girls featured was the daughter of a Hamas enforcer. Who could have seen that coming?
There are legitimate questions about whether taxpayer money ended up in the hands of Hamas. Yet Lineker signed a letter demanding the BBC reinstate the documentary. And, yes — he’s doubled down on that too.
He even suggested the documentary should be put back on iPlayer. A lot of people — especially in the Jewish community have picked up on Lineker’s use of the word “lobbying”, raising concerns over whether he’s echoing anti-Semitic tropes about Jewish people being involved in shadowy lobbying efforts behind the scenes. Maybe he didn’t mean that but it raises serious questions.
More shockingly, he appears to suggest that the October 7 Hamas massacre needs “more context”. The Israeli position is clear: what is happening in Gaza is a direct response to the slaughter and capture of innocent Israelis on October 7 an attack carried out by Hamas, which is officially designated as a terrorist organisation by the UK, US, EU, and others.
Grief. For someone so obsessed with Nazi Germany rhetoric, he doesn’t seem to recognise another group Hamas that openly wants to wipe Jews off the face of the earth.
Gary Lineker will be leaving BBC Match of the Day at the end of the seasonBBCThe only thing Lineker might have gotten right was this: "I’ve done this for a long time. It’s been brilliant. I don’t need to leave… but maybe they want me to.”
Yes, we do. Many of us do.
So let’s be clear: Gary Lineker is still employed by the BBC. He used a BBC platform to say the BBC shouldn’t have suspended him. He stands by comparing immigration policy to Nazi Germany. He seems to think the October 7 attacks require "context." And he wants the Hamas-linked documentary put back on iPlayer.
Why should BBC licence fee payers fund this? Why should he be allowed to front the BBC’s 2026 World Cup coverage?
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