What's the difference?

[finnbear270]

The difference in circumstances is that Lineker is a BBC employee, and Packham is a contractor apparently. Only those with knowledge of the wording of their respective contracts (duly checked by legal teams and agents before being signed I have no doubt) would know how this could affect the Corporations' dealings with each.

What I do know from what little I have seen of Lineker on the news these last few days is that he seems to be the sort of guy that would have found himself being thumped quite a lot had he attended my old school.

 

[Pete1774]

The difference in circumstances is that Lineker is a BBC employee, and Packham is a contractor apparently. Only those with knowledge of the wording of their respective contracts (duly checked by legal teams and agents before being signed I have no doubt) would know how this could affect the Corporations' dealings with each.

What I do know from what little I have seen of Lineker on the news these last few days is that he seems to be the sort of guy that would have found himself being thumped quite a lot had he attended my old school.

Lineker works for the BBC in a Freelance capacity according the the BBC news website.

Gary Lineker: Why his comments present a problem for the BBC

How the presenter's remarks, comparing UK asylum policy to 1930s Germany, place the BBC in a pickle.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[norcan]

What a bunch of snowflakes. How is this factual statement even a problem?

 

[enfieldspares]

What I do know from what little I have seen of Lineker on the news these last few days is that he seems to be the sort of guy that would have found himself being thumped quite a lot had he attended my old school.

Gary Lineker went to school on one of the schools that served the Braunstone Estate in Leicester. I don't think anyone would have been very wise to have thumped him. He would have given back just as well as he got. My friend of now fifty years (since we were both fifteen) was a neighbour of the Linekers as a kid so I know well enough of Mr Lineker in his youth.

 

[norcan]

I hope the other becomes unemployable.

Why?

 

[kenbro]

Packham & Lineker?

 

[kenbro]

Ken.

 

[User00036]

And the head of the BBC donates £400000 to the Tory Party, amid cries of impartiality for the BBC from the Tories over the Lineker Debacle. May they rot in their own cesspools.

 

[potshotpat]

Why?

Not my quote, but received a text today which read. Shame they ( football commentators) didn't take a stand against human rights in Qatar 2022. But they ( football commentators) took their 30 pieces of silver.

 

[Longstrider]

Happy to stand corrected on their contracts. My misunderstanding.