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40,068 posts

197 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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popeyewhite said:
Firstly, a football pundit/crisp salesman buying housing for refugees IS somewhat over the top generous and not really normal behaviour
Something to be admired IMHO (and weird that it seems to upset so many people).

Gweeds

7,954 posts

53 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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popeyewhite said:
It's not at all, for two reasons. Firstly, a football pundit/crisp salesman buying housing for refugees IS somewhat over the top generous and not really normal behaviour unless you can point to anyone other like Lineker whose done the same, secondly the word "perojative" doesn't exist. As shouldn't this thread anymore. Gosh Gary is so divisive.
Oh bless. Did a little typo throw you?

crankedup5

9,692 posts

36 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Gary will be chuffed to know that he has a few people supporting him in PH. laugh
Meanwhile back the real World our Home Secretary gets on with the work required and promises the Rwanda policy will be up and running by this Summer. We shall see soon enough.

Gweeds

7,954 posts

53 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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So it is the fact that he’s spent his own money housing refugees that bothers you. It’s *always* the ones you expect.

You and Braverman deserve each other. By ‘real work’ I assume you mean a pointless taxpayer funded photo op trip to Rwanda with carefully selected media like GB News to chuck morons more red meat.

How. Sweet.

monthou

4,636 posts

51 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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crankedup5 said:
Gary will be chuffed to know that he has a few people supporting him in PH. laugh
Meanwhile back the real World our Home Secretary gets on with the work required and promises the Rwanda policy will be up and running by this Summer. We shall see soon enough.
Suella will be chuffed to know she has a few people supporting her in PH.
With her approval ratings she'll be glad of anyone.

SWoll

18,567 posts

259 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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What's this about him buying homes for refugees? I thought he'd just given up one of his many spare bedrooms to a well vetted Pakistani law student for <3 weeks as a publicity stunt at some point in 2020?






bitchstewie

51,682 posts

211 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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I don't think anyone has said he bought homes for refugees have they?

He has housed a couple.

monthou

4,636 posts

51 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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bhstewie said:
I don't think anyone has said he bought homes for refugees have they?

He has housed a couple.
popeyewhite said it on the last page.
He seems a bit confused though.

bitchstewie

51,682 posts

211 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Angry at the bloke for something he didn't even do.

I guess confused is one word for it laugh

crankedup5

9,692 posts

36 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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bhstewie said:
I don't think anyone has said he bought homes for refugees have they?

He has housed a couple.
I mentioned the issue of lineker buying houses for migrants a couple of pages back, but can’t find the link to that snippet. That seemed to bring out some handwringing from people who seem to idolise the bloke, reasons best known to themselves. It may be that I mixed up in my mind that lineker offered a room to a couple of migrants a few years ago, not purchased a couple of houses.
Either way his contribution seems to be vocal rather then practical.


bitchstewie

51,682 posts

211 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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crankedup5 said:
I mentioned the issue of lineker buying houses for migrants a couple of pages back, but can’t find the link to that snippet. That seemed to bring out some handwringing from people who seem to idolise the bloke, reasons best known to themselves. It may be that I mixed up in my mind that lineker offered a room to a couple of migrants a few years ago, not purchased a couple of houses.
Either way his contribution seems to be vocal rather then practical.
I don't idolise him.

You do realise you've literally just written that he's housed a couple of migrants and then in the next sentence said that his contribution seems to be vocal rather than practical.

Think about that for a second scratchchin

Ashfordian

2,057 posts

90 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Seventy said:
Ashfordian said:
Interesting, but not surprising, to see the reaction from many to this and how the same people reacted differently to the Andrew Bridgen tweet!

From my reading of both tweets, Gary Lineker compared a subject to that of Nazi Germany, while Andrew Bridgen quoted someone who said this is the worst decision since the Holocaust.

The cognitive dissonance on display wobble
My god you’re thick.

You seem to have no idea about what Lineker said nor what that idiot Bridgen said.

Bridgen quoted nobody. They were his words. The ‘biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust’.
In case you’ve forgotten.
Don’t be sidelined by the ‘ a consultant cardiologist told me’ bks.

Lineker likened the language of the government to the language of the 1930’s German government.
He did not compare policies.


‘The worst decision since the Holocaust’

Did you really write that??
InterestingDisgusting Tweet by Steve Bray this afternoon (yes that Remoaner loony). Seems he interpreted Gary Lineker's comments as many others did, despite many like yourself trying to give GL comments a free pass...

NB What strange bedfellows remoaners keep? Had it been someone like Farage making the same comparison, PH would have blow up, but I'm guessing because of Steve Bray's politics, he gets a free pass!

As I said in my original post, the cognitive dissonance on display wobble

Edited by Ashfordian on Sunday 19th March 18:48

S600BSB

4,901 posts

107 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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What a top bloke Lineker is. Surely time his OBE was upgraded. Sir Gary Lineker?

bitchstewie

51,682 posts

211 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Ashfordian said:
InterestingDisgusting Tweet by Steve Bray this afternoon (yes that Remoaner loony). Seems he interpreted Gary Lineker's comments as many others did, despite many like yourself trying to give GL comments a free pass...

NB What strange bedfellows remoaners keep? Had it been someone like Farage making the same comparison, PH would have blow up, but I'm guessing because of Steve Bray's politics, he gets a free pass!

As I said in my original post, the cognitive dissonance on display wobble

Edited by Ashfordian on Sunday 19th March 18:48
I'm guessing most people don't follow Steve Bray on Twitter because they don't care what he has to say.

I know I don't.

Just took a look and assuming it's the tweet of Braverman photoshopped in front of the gates to Auschwitz yes it's disgusting and completely unacceptable.

monthou

4,636 posts

51 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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S600BSB said:
What a top bloke Lineker is. Surely time his OBE was upgraded. Sir Gary Lineker?
He does come across as a good bloke. I suspect he'll have to wait at least a couple of years for an upgrade though.

frisbee

4,995 posts

111 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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crankedup5 said:
Gary will be chuffed to know that he has a few people supporting him in PH. laugh
Meanwhile back the real World our Home Secretary gets on with the work required and promises the Rwanda policy will be up and running by this Summer. We shall see soon enough.
The rancid cow should stay in Rwanda and claim she deported herself. That's the best chance of her idiotic policy showing any success before the Tories are shat out at the next election.

S600BSB

4,901 posts

107 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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bhstewie said:
I'm guessing most people don't follow Steve Bray on Twitter because they don't care what he has to say.

I know I don't.

Just took a look and assuming it's the tweet of Braverman photoshopped in front of the gates to Auschwitz yes it's disgusting and completely unacceptable.
Who the fk is Steve Bray? Never heard of him.

HM-2

12,467 posts

170 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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crankedup5 said:
That seemed to bring out some handwringing from people who seem to idolise the bloke
I know you have a slightly fantastical perspective on literally everything, especially where that conflicts with your long held biases, but given the actual content of the posts made in this thread, this is totally ridiculous.

bitchstewie

51,682 posts

211 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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S600BSB said:
Who the fk is Steve Bray? Never heard of him.
The bloke with the megaphone on Parliament Square who you can hear in the background if they do interviews there.

Fancy voting remain and not knowing exactly who he is and what he's said hehe

Ashfordian

2,057 posts

90 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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E63eeeeee... said:
So, just so I understand your position, are you saying that because Steve Bray was right about Brexit, that means he must be right about Gary Lineker's tweet? Or is it possible for him to be right about one thing and wrong about something else?

You don't half pick some fking weird angles of attack, but you'll have to go some way to beat describing the holocaust as a bad decision. I vote you keep trying though.
Unless you can link to where I have said this your next post will contain a retraction and an apology (along with correcting your original post), and I won't take this any further.