When Are These Celebrities Going To Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3852104/Gary-Lineker-sparks-Twitter-row-blasting-utterly-heartless-treatment-child-migrants-arriving-Calais.html

/// 'The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?' ///

But then Lineker has always been supportive of 'Walkers'. :0)

[-Talbot-]

Joining the debate, England's record goalscorer wrote on Twitter:


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Wayne Rooney didn't join the debate.

[Old_Geezer]

These celebs tend to seem to be hard of thinking, allowing their heart to rule their head and causing them to support those trying it on. No one objects to genuine lone vulnerable children being helped, although why here is another matter. It is that we ought not send out a message that regardless of our needs we will accept anyone who has found a loophole and can exploit it legally or otherwise.

[Everhelpful]

How many will this smug,egotistical millionaire be taking in?

[naomi24]

What child migrants? I've seen a bunch of young blokes arriving, but no children among them.

[Islay]

How do you know that he is not putting his money where his mouth is?

You do not know what he does with his money, after all I suspect it will be classed as a tax deduction too.

[agchristie]

Famously never booked in his playing career.Maybe,he could change that trend now and pick up a booking?

[mushroom25]

slightly off topic - the father of the 13 y/o who met Lily Allen was interviewed on Midlands Today last night, he lives in Alum Rock (Birmingham) and has done since he arrived from Afghanistan in 2005. interestingly he spoke through an interpreter, which I'd consider odd given that he's been living in the UK (and presumably integrating) for the best part of eleven years.

[naomi24]

//(and presumably integrating) //

Or possibly not.

[andy-hughes]

This incident underlines the downside of social media - everyone has an opinion, and now, everyone has a worldwide platform for that opinion.

I have no truck with Twitter, purely because I have no interest in the daily ramblings of strangers, and I fully expect them equally to have no interest in mine.

The problem occurs when someone with a high profile, a 'celebrity' for example, uses Twitter.

What years ago would have been a though voiced in the bar of the pub, or over dinner with friends, and rightly left there, now becomes available to the world of similarly garrulous keyboard monkeys who can't wait to shout down an opinion they think is wrong.

I would suggest that if you are going to climb on the social media bandwagon, you decide well in advance to be seriously selective about what you are going to enjoy, and maybe respond to - 1% of what you see, and ignore, or read and then ignore, the other 99%.

That will stop all this ludicrous nonsense once and for all.

[naomi24]

//I have no interest in the daily ramblings of strangers//

Except from us lot. ;o)

[ummmm]

Why do people spout such crap as 'will you take them in?'

[andy-hughes]

Naomi - ////I have no interest in the daily ramblings of strangers//

Except from us lot. ;o) //

Indeed!

I did think about that point as I posted, but as I have said before, I have been on here sixteen years now, and in my view 'social media' has grown up around the AB, rather than AB being a part of 'social media' - so I do view this site as something separate.

I am sure - although I cannot speak from experience - that the level of intellectual exchange of views and ideas on here is stratospherically higher than one would encounter of more 'common' outlets!

[Islay]

I wish there was a like button Ummmm

[andy-hughes]

ummmm - //Why do people spout such crap as 'will you take them in?' //

Because it is a knee-jerk reaction to think 'You've got millions and a big house, you take people in ...'.

Like most knee-jerk reactions, it is not logical or thought through.

Just because Mr Lineker has an eight-figure bank balance and a large home does not make him beholden to sort out an international refugee crisis simply because he has dared to express an opinion about it.

Mr Lineker pays his taxes (far more I suggest that his critics) to a government whose job it really is to do something about world issues.

If Mr Linekar was to spend his entire bank balance building shelters for refugees, it would not begin to scratch the surface of the issue, which is not of his making, or his to solve.

I would suggest that anyone in the country who has four walls around them - and a computer and broadband - is theoretically in a position to house a refugee.

If any of those who tweet about it were asked to do so - what would they say then?

[Baldric]

//keyboard monkeys who can't wait to shout down an opinion they think is wrong//

Pass the Irony Klaxon please!

[anotheoldgit]

mushroom25

Yes I saw that interview on BBC,interesting to note that the BBC in their wisdom decided to pixelate the faces of the other so called children.

[naomi24]

ummmm/Islay, //Why do people spout such crap as 'will you take them in?' //

People say that because the likes of Lily Allen, Bob Geldolf, and now Gary Lineker, are wealthy enough to live their lives removed from the real world and the problems that excessive immigration creates for ordinary people. Housing shortages, battling for jobs, overcrowded schools, strains on the health service, etc., etc. It doesn’t take a great deal of thought to understand why they say it. Idealistic altruism is wonderful – if it doesn’t impact upon you personally.

[andy-hughes]

Baldric - ////keyboard monkeys who can't wait to shout down an opinion they think is wrong//

Pass the Irony Klaxon please! //

I think you are confusing the keyboard monkeys of Twitter with the thoughtful erudite educated reasonable personable generally wonderful people who crop up on here.

Different species old man - very very different ....

[anotheoldgit]

Islay

/// I wish there was a like button Ummmm ///

You may like such vulgar language, but most of us don't.

[naomi24]

aog, what are you talking about?