Gary Neville has caused controversy with comments comparing striking UK workers with migrant labourers in Qatar during ITV’s coverage of the World Cup final yesterday afternoon.
Neville told viewers pundit that British ministers were “demonising” public sector staff and claimed the conditions for striking nurses and railway workers were like those faced by Qatar’s huge foreign labour force. “It shouldn’t happen here [in Qatar] … with the wealth that exists” he said, “but it shouldn’t happen with the nurses in our country either”.
People were quick to take to social media to criticise the former Manchester United defender
“Gary Neville took a fat pay check from a Qatari broadcaster – a country where gays have no rights and migrant workers killed – and here he is moaning about our government! The utter cheek of the rabid virtue signalling hypocrite” said one comment
While former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said
“Gary Neville is taking the biscuit here. I thought he was paid by ITV to do football punditry?”
