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Goodness me ALBF. What has Gary Linekar ever done to you? Did you once nearly choke on a Walkers crisp or something.

She's referring to the huge number of young Albanian men coming across in boats from France, they've been recruited by the drug gangs that have taken over the supply of hard drugs in the UK.

Lineker has been vocal about the plight of migrants for some time and has housed people arriving from Ukraine so this is not some 'stunt'.

YES the BBC has scored an own goal (to coin a phrase!) I bend towards what DB and some others have said. GL is a freelancer (NOT employed by the BBC) and does presentations on other channels too. He did not say the government was acting like the Nazis, he objected to the language used by Braverman. He did NOT say any of this on TV or on his programme. He tweeted this on his own account. What Braverman (for Braverman read the government) wants is for us to see the migrants not as individuals with families and problems and fears and worries but as "floods", "hoards", "masses", "thousands"....faceless and "not our problem". I believe that in the past, this was called depersonalisation. Just give them a number, even one tattooed on an arm....reminds you of something? Actually, but for some twist of fate, one of us could very well have ended up as one of the boat migrants.

The UK government spends £7 million a day keeping asylum seekers in hotels etc because the asylum processing system is an absolute mess with over 150K waiting for their cases to be dealt with, do you think that's a good use of taxpayers money? Lineker made a comment about the language used by the government over the 'small boats' issue and likened that to what was being said in Germany in the 1930's, he is spot on and millions agree with him in the UK.

Except 15 hours previous, you didn't seem to know anything about it. LOL. Bless you ALBF, you never change. You have pretty much perfected the art of tunnel vision.