Lineker’s outpouring beginning of the end
DESPITE the fact that new, more hardline methods of stopping the daily landings of immigrants on our shores organised by ruthless criminals has been supported 2:1 by the population at large, Gary Lineker seems to have been beatified.
The Twitter-sphere, dominated by young white middle-class progressives, celebs, and the man himself, continues to virtue-signal by publicising their compassion for the trans-Channel immigrants from on high in their comfortable ivory towers.
From their gated mansions, insulated from the harsh realities of life at the bottom of the social strata, they pontificate about the hardships facing the immigrants who they claim are fleeing from war and oppression.
Even the most ardent Francophobe wouldn’t describe France in such terms.
Immigration has overall positive outcomes for the UK, which indicates there are elements of negativity too.
This comes in the form of a huge strain on local authorities, social services, education and rising crime.
This affects those at the bottom of the pile in the inner cities, creating housing shortages and overwhelming social services.
Gazza and his champagne socialist acolytes are protected from such inconveniences, cocooned as they are in their rarified woke world, sending their children and grandkids to public or the most select state schools.
Their offspring won’t be in schools with over 50% free school meals and in classes where half of their fellow impoverished pupils can’t speak English.
The positive effect from Lineker’s smug outpourings on Twitter is that he has generated support for freedom of speech from the very people previously engaged in attempting to remove freedom of expression as part of their woke groupthink ideology.
This could herald the beginning of the end of cancel culture.
This could also be the beginning of the end for the BBC, now so tarnished by the recent influence of the London suburban elite after being a bastion of the free world for a hundred years.
Dennis Coughlin Llandaff, Cardiff