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The BBC confirming the revolution will not, in fact, be televised
@DreadShips Weirdly, the BBC's own news dept is doing a good job of covering everything! It just all reads insanely, like 'The BBC crisis deepened today, as the BBC came under increasing pressure from the BBC, the BBC reports'
Did they send a correspondent to stand outside their own building to use as a backdrop?
@ajc418 @DreadShips Wouldn't surprise me! That is, if they still have anyone willing to appear on camera for them...
@frankpodmore @DreadShips
Of course one thing notably lacking from BBC coverage is fact checking #Lineker's tweet. They did a documentary on "The Rise of the Nazis" not too long ago. Why not ask the historians what the Nazis did back in the 1930 and how it compares to current Tory policies on asylum seekers?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00084td
@ajc418 @DreadShips Yeah, his focus was on the language used and I don't think he was really wrong:
Describing refugees as an invading force
Smearing refugees as criminals
Suggesting refugees are taking advantage of us/our charity/our freedoms...
... And that they should therefore have those freedoms removed
Saying that people who want to help refugees are, at best, suckers and, at worst, actual traitors
@ajc418 @frankpodmore @DreadShips in a flak jacket
@ajc418 @frankpodmore @DreadShips And more to the point, did that reporter fill out a travel expenses and lunch chitty for doing so? I would've.
@ajc418 @frankpodmore @DreadShips Will they provide Gary Lineker with a Russian hat and a picture of the Kremlin as a backdrop?
@ajc418 @frankpodmore @DreadShips
This sounds like it would be right at home in a Monty Python bit
People are still boosting this, so I'm glad you're all enjoying it! If you want to help refugees, who this whole story is really about, you can donate to the Refugee Council here: https://refugeecouncil.org.uk/
@frankpodmore @DreadShips BBCivil war lmao
@frankpodmore @DreadShips
Not the usual BBC News line "Nobody at the BBC was available to comment"?
@Abandofan 'They were available, but refused to give a comment to themselves, in solidarity with themselves'
@frankpodmore @DreadShips it makes the point very well that BBC News is not the BBC.
BY THE WAY, if you're enjoying my posts and admiring the stand taken by BECTU, the PFA, etc., why not also join a union, so that you too can one day make your bosses look like the morons they are through class solidarity?
OH AND ALSO: there's a pretty hefty petition to bring back Lineker here:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/reinstate-gary-lineker-to-match-of-the-day
And you can complain directly to the BBC here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint
Finally, I believe the hashtag is #ImWithGary
@frankpodmore @DreadShips
Except that the BBC are making the story to be about Gary Lineker.
The real story is about Suella Braverman and her appalling immigration policy, and intent to break international law.
Aided and abetted by Rishi Sunak, of course.
#SuellaBraverman #Immigration
@tpuddle @frankpodmore @DreadShips absolutely true scapegoating/smoke & mirrors common political tools, simply distractions the biggest being social media. Must have been a quiet day for #'s.
@Herefordrob @tpuddle @frankpodmore @DreadShips
Yep. The Tories have leapt on this as a wonderful distraction. @mattgreencomedy nails it here:
https://youtu.be/VHG97vJDI0s
@ClaireCopperman @tpuddle @frankpodmore @DreadShips @mattgreencomedy
This is one case of many by continuing governments of all shades.
Why do we keep expecting the elite to admit they manipulate & lie to us. Even if they did and there was agreed evidence it wouldn't change them.
The system is broken let's focus on the real challenge of the majority taking back control and how we will do it.#Love #Unity #Equality
@tpuddle @frankpodmore @DreadShips #IStandWithGaryLineker another distraction it's definately not about a 
pundit, it's about the decline of #Justice on a global scale. twitter.com/herefordrob/st…
Safe to say mainstream media will not b promoting any progress towards #Equality #Equity #Education or #Unity. @AssociationofW1
@DreadShips The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised
Will not be televised, will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live - Gil Scott-Heron
@DreadShips what was the post they made? or is this just the general behaviour over the past week re: david attenborough and lineker
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@DreadShips you aren't welcome to the world of the plastic beach
@DreadShips I think they will televise it but without any commentary or punditry
@DreadShips Bravo, sir, Bravo
@DreadShips it's pretty sad
@DreadShips I think that makes a higher point in nots not being aired
@DreadShips @annajayne Only the subjugation :(
@DreadShips Sky News are doing a pretty good job of not appearing smug #skynews #LIneker #bbc
@DreadShips
Toot of the week.
@DreadShips If anyone is not familiar with this reference (Gil Scott Heron's great song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" from the 1970s) it's never a bad time to listen to it.
His spoken word- music pieces are one of the main precursors of hip hop, and also funny.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0
@taoish @DreadShips
Outstanding piece of word music. Have loved it for years. Genius.
@taoish @DreadShips thanks, always wondered where this phrase came from
@taoish @DreadShips To add to this, if as a white listener this doesn't make you uncomfortable - which is the point, it should - this is more to the point.
@DreadShips depends on who you ask.
@DreadShips well, it will, but without analysis or punditry…
@DreadShips nor the extinction
@DreadShips
They have officially gone full Pravda. It will be interesting to see what the football chants are today.
@DreadShips
It will, just not by the BBC.
Except on their web sites, if those still exist by then.
@DreadShips said this to my old dad last night - he cracked up! But seriously this should put the fear of something into #Sunak and #Braverman because once they’ve lost the boomers, they’ve lost for good...and that is why they have ensured the BBC is the Tories private propaganda machine...but now the scales are falling for all to see. Bring it on!
@DreadShips "The revolution is too political"
@DreadShips it may be worth listening more closely to more of Gil Scott-Herons words. His music made several points very relevant today, not only to #bbc . That 36 MP’s want an unreserved apology from #lineker further attempts to shut down #freedomofspeech . Whilst distracting from #tory disastrous policies. #scottishindependence cant come soon enough. #SuellaBraverman #Sunak
@ellapple @DreadShips The revolution will not be televised?
@davebyrne @DreadShips title of one of his songs. Great writer if from some years ago. Try B Movie. Old but makes me smile. Oh I forgot tho- I’m also old :)
@DreadShips the lack of television will be revolutionised