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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Brian Reade

'Right-wingers wielding red card over Gary Lineker's migration tweet is deeply ironic'

I wish Gary Lineker would get the hang of this Twitter lark.

If he decides he wants to carry on presenting Match of the Day after stepping back from it, then he needs to realise it’s not the subjects he tweets about that matter, it’s the way that he tweets them.

This week, instead of calling Suella Braverman’s attempt to criminalise asylum seekers an “immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people, in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s,” Lineker should have called it “a brilliant policy aimed at delivering The Final Solution to subhuman vermin who come here to steal all of our wealth”.

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