Fergus Finlay: Decency needs people like Lineker to stand up and be counted

Football pundit chose to stand up against a vicious and uncivilised proposal on immigration policy

Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker who had to ‘step back’ from the programme after his criticism of Tory emigration policy proposals.

So, Gary Lineker was suspended because he wasn’t impartial. He wasn’t impartial about an obscene and grotesque proposal by the Tory government. His decision not to be impartial, but to speak his mind instead, was an offence, apparently, requiring disciplinary action.

I’m puzzled. How is it possible to be ‘impartial’ about a proposed abuse of internationally recognised human rights? Surely the real offence is to stay silent?