Predictable. Director General Tim Davie should resign and a replacement found, with a spine. In a tweet from Lineker:

I have been presenting sport on the BBC for almost 3 decades and am immeasurably proud to work with the best and fairest broadcaster in the world.

I enjoyed this:

Tory MP Philip Davies told MailOnline: ‘This pathetic capitulation by the BBC is the start of the end for the licence fee.

‘The BBC can no longer credibly claim that it believes in political impartiality and – more importantly – it has proved that it doesn’t have the stomach to enforce it.

‘It is now a free for all at the BBC as they cannot have their highest paid and best known presenter saying what he likes and firing other people who work there for similar breaches. ‘This is a terrible day for the BBC, but a very good day for those who want to see the back of the licence fee.

‘Gary Lineker has done more for that campaign than anyone and I thank him for that.

‘His epitaph will read ‘Gary Lineker – the man who destroyed the BBC licence fee’ – I am not sure that was intention but he is so wrapped up in his self-important left-wing virtue signalling that he no doubt cannot see it. This is a watershed moment. It is now inevitable that the licence fee will end – and it will end sooner than would otherwise have been the case because of Gary Lineker and his left-wing friends at the BBC. And for that we can rejoice.’

Amen to that.

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