In an exclusive with Deadline, Ken Loach, director of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), Jimmy’s Hall (2014), and Sorry We Missed You (2019), spoke against the UK’s biggest film and television union. Loach warned that Prospect is at risk of failing its 150,000 members. He claims that the union’s interests aren’t
the action that had been taken by the action that had been taken by the bbc, and how they felt about what gary lineker has done. the other issue going forward is the editorial guidelines, they are crucial to how the organisation works, the bbc coverage is built around that book that sits in the offices. there is the issue about discipline and how you discipline staff and freelance members of staff. this is not the first time gary lineker has run into trouble. one of the trade jeans at the bbc, spoke today about how to deal with that issue in particular, the union, bectu. i really don t want to speculate, but it would be churlish of the bbc to take action against staff and less famous freelancers if they chose not to arrive today, but obviously, they would have to deal with that, should the situation arise. i think more of concern, really, for me, is that this situation has caused a lot of concern for people working across the bbc, in relation to how they respond
gary lineker having good discussions. whether gary lineker will having good discussions. whether gary lineker will say having good discussions. whether gary lineker will say they - having good discussions. whether gary lineker will say they are - gary lineker will say they are having good discussions or not we would have to ask him. he doesn t seem in any position to want to return to much of the day at the moment with this current situation with his twitter and the bbc have said he can t come back until that is resolved. it seems like every sportsman and woman on twitter is on his side, all going on saying i support gary lineker. none of them, it seemed, wanted to present much of the day, football focus, fighting talk on 5 live command football is such a big part of the bbc schedules at the weekend. it s been severely disrupted today, there is barely any on at all. you even had a league i, a minor club in the uk, saying they would not speak to bbcjournalists. it is a situation th