Richard Madeley has been chastised for ‘totally missing the point’ about Gary Lineker’s BBC scandal.
The 62-year-old analyst was asked to’step aside’ from the Line of Duty programme after criticising the UK government’s new migrant policy on Twitter.
‘Good heavens, this is beyond awful,’ he wrote in response to Suella Braverman’s bill.
‘There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries.
‘This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I’m out of order?’
The former Leicester City footballer garnered tremendous support for his words and for refusing to back down, even after he was fired as a Match of the Day presenter.
https://twitter.com/cher_l12/status/1660910301607329793
Now that Gary Lineker has *directly* corrected Richard Madeley @richardm56, just maybe he can now stop misrepresenting what Gary said?#GMB
— Adem (@AdemAari) May 23, 2023
Unsurprisingly Richard completely missing the point, that’s not what Lineker said, he said some of the language is *similar* to that used in the war! #gmb #goodmorningbritain
— 🐈🪴🍄✨Pickle✨🍄🪴🐈 (@FlopsyPickle) May 23, 2023
Richard Madeley omg misrepresenting what Gary Lineker said time & time again! What an awful presenter Madeley is! @gmb
— Philip Binns (@Binnsphilip) May 23, 2023
#GMB
Richard Madeley, you really are a squirmy presenter. You kept repeating the “Nazi” word about what Garry Lineker NEVER mentioned in his tweet. It didn’t work for you this time, you dope.— Lionel Peck (@_Lionelpeck) May 23, 2023
Lineker eventually returned to BBC television and faced no disciplinary discipline from the national network.
The former striker came on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday to promote his ITV game show Sitting on a Fortune, when host Richard Madeley, 67, quizzed him about the incident.
In a heated conversation concerning the initial post, Madeley was chastised for repeatedly’misrepresenting’ Lineker.
Madeley had questioned Lineker if ‘comparing the administration to the Nazis’ was a ‘fair analogy.’
Lineker immediately corrected him and said he had ‘already misrepresented what I said’, pointing out that he had not directly compared the government to Nazi Germany, but instead had said that ‘some of the language was not dissimilar.’
However, Madeley persisted in making the parallel, with Gary remaining calm and stating that he was ‘again’ attempting to erroneously link his remarks with Nazism.
Lineker informed Madeley that he did not use the term Nazi Germany in his initial tweet and that he was referring to the terminology used, stating that phrases like’swarm and invasion’ used by the administration were ‘not unlike’ to those used in 1930s Germany.
One fan remarked: ‘Unsurprisingly Richard completely missing the point, that’s not what Lineker said, he said some of the language is *similar* to that used in the war! #gmb #goodmorningbritain.’
‘Richard Madeley omg misrepresenting what Gary Lineker said time & time again! What an awful presenter Madeley is!’ another commented.
A third added: ‘Gary Lineker schooling Richard Madeley is exactly what I needed this morning #GMB.’
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV from 6am.
