{"id":122496,"date":"2023-12-17T10:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T10:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=122496"},"modified":"2023-12-17T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T10:10:59","slug":"doomster-gary-lineker-told-he-should-stop-talking-this-country-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/doomster-gary-lineker-told-he-should-stop-talking-this-country-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomster Gary Lineker told he should stop talking this country down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver Dowden says people should swim in their own lane<\/h3>\n

Gary Lineker has become the centre of another spat with the Conservative Party after an apparent swipe at the controversial BBC presenter by Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden.<\/p>\n

In his interview this morning with Sir Trevor Philips on Sky News, Dowden was asked to explain an article he had penned for a Sunday newspaper where he had made a reference to the Match of the Day presenter.<\/p>\n

Philips asked: “Can I just ask you?You\u2019ve written an article this morning in which you have attacked \u2018doomsters\u2019 and you have referred to \u2018amateur BBC pundits who can offer as much insight as you can on football tactics\u2019. Do you want to state who you had in mind there?\u201d<\/p>\n

Dowden appeared to squirm and responded: “I think it\u2019s fairly obvious some of the people who have been spewing their thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Philips pressed on: \u201cCould the words Gary Lineker be floating in this conversation?\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong> Gary Lineker blasted by ex BBC presenter for airing political views<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dowden retorted: “Well I think people should swim in their own lane. I know nothing about football punditry I can assure you of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wider point is that there are a lot of people talking this country down but actually I see a country where we have a manufacturing sector now larger than France\u2019s, we are dominating in Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many reasons to be optimistic about this country and yet this doomster scenario they are constantly predicting doesn\u2019t actually happen because the real strength in our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The words came after Lineker waded into the Rwanda Bill debate and was even criticised by the incoming BBC chairman for the way he attacked Tory MPs personally including Stoke North’s Jonathan Gullis on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n

Lineker has regular been accused of abusing his position as the BBC’s top paid presenter and once compared the government to the Nazis over its attempt to control illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

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