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whelk

whelk

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24 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

All this does is further reinforce my point though. Farage - the poster boy of right wing politics - is a contrarian gobshite who usually revels in spouting controversial opinions for publicity. If even he isn't going to stick up for Fox then it demonstrates just how low he has stooped.

You left out being one of the ugliest cunts on the planet

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whelk

whelk

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1 hour ago, Turkish said:

:lol: Of course they dont. I've never seen anyone from the left on this forum desperate to criticise an individual whatever they do. 

Do you have a log book where you rate posters in terms of left and right?

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Tamesaint

Tamesaint

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2 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I think it's as simple as anyone who doesn't agree with soggy is a right wing,  racist, baby killing, nazi cunt.

Nice to see that you have good self awareness. 😁😁😁

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Turkish

Turkish

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38 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Sorry if my post wasn't clear.

I meant Fox must have stooped low when even Farage agrees with the mainstream (which he rarely does) and condemns him.

fair enough, i thought you meant Farage was stooping low to not support a colleague given he is, as you say a contrarian gobshite.

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Turkish

Turkish

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27 minutes ago, whelk said:

Do you have a log book where you rate posters in terms of left and right?

no but i've got a bellend curve. 

Talking of bellends i see Soggy is back to laughing at every post against me after he went quiet for a week when he got his botty smacked the other day.

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sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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56 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

I think it's as simple as anyone who doesn't agree with soggy is a right wing,  racist, baby killing, nazi cunt.

This is the problem though Weston, you don’t think. If you did you wouldn’t respond with so much drivel.

It sounds like Sunak has nicked Labour’s plan to bring in an anti smoking policy.

Just heard Penny Mordaunt’s speech from the conference. For someone trying to position herself as less barking mad than the rest of her colleagues she took a massive step backwards. Maybe all that sword bearing at the coronation has addled her brain? What is is with all the stand up and fight rhetoric? 

(Wrong thread 😩)
 


 

 

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Weston Super Saint

Weston Super Saint

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59 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

This is the problem though Weston, you don’t think. If you did you wouldn’t respond with so much drivel.

It sounds like Sunak has nicked Labour’s plan to bring in an anti smoking policy.

Just heard Penny Mordaunt’s speech from the conference. For someone trying to position herself as less barking mad than the rest of her colleagues she took a massive step backwards. Maybe all that sword bearing at the coronation has addled her brain? What is is with all the stand up and fight rhetoric? 

(Wrong thread 😩)
 


 

 

So you don't agree that you call people right wing / Tommy Robinson supporters if they don't agree with your opinions?

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Weston Super Saint

Weston Super Saint

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18 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

This is the problem though Weston, you don’t think. If you did you wouldn’t respond with so much drivel.

 

Go for it then, list a couple of examples of the 'drivel'.  There should be loads for you to choose from.  I'm not even expecting it to pass the burden of proof to stand up in court, just some examples....

 

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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They’re whining about OFCOM investigating Tory ministers and MPs presenting news shows. No-one wants to watch Fox News B String or BNP TV - hence £71m of murky non-dom losses in year one https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66086560

I don’t want to watch Lib Dem TV or Canary TV either. Sky, C4, BBC and ITV do a more than good enough, and impartial job. The partisan shit can fuck off back over the Atlantic. Murdoch has gotten the message and making Talk TV online only.

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whelk

whelk

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53 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:They’re whining about OFCOM investigating Tory ministers and MPs presenting news shows. No-one wants to watch Fox News B String or BNP TV - hence £71m of murky non-dom losses in year one https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66086560

I don’t want to watch Lib Dem TV or Canary TV either. Sky, C4, BBC and ITV do a more than good enough, and impartial job. The partisan shit can fuck off back over the Atlantic. Murdoch has gotten the message and making Talk TV online only.

I assume those that watch GB News and complain are those with an agenda? No fan of it obviously but wouldn’t ever watch  it. Those that do have runny brains and lap up the bias shite so wouldn’t think they would be the types to complain to Ofcom.

 

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Turkish

Turkish

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38 minutes ago, whelk said:

I assume those that watch GB News and complain are those with an agenda? No fan of it obviously but wouldn’t ever watch  it. Those that do have runny brains and lap up the bias shite so wouldn’t think they would be the types to complain to Ofcom.

 

Its pretty odd to watch something you are fundamentally going to disagree with then be outraged because what was on there was something you disagree with. 

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Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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I must admit the only time I’ve ever seen it was watching a play back of the infamous Laurence Fox and Dan Wooton segment.

If that’s representative of their usual output then I’d rather ‘watch’ QVC frankly. I wouldn’t want to watch a channel produced by say the trade unions for Labour either. Not that they’d have the funding to do something like that, even Rupert Murdoch has cut his losses on Talk TV. 

The Private Eye figure of them losing £71m last year did lead me to look into who exactly was throwing bad money after even worse and why https://news.sky.com/story/broadcaster-gb-news-in-talks-to-raise-30m-from-investors-13026128 and https://www.thenational.scot/news/24139814.paul-marshall-gb-news-co-owner-centre-hope-not-hate/

When the DT calls you unfit to own them you’ve got serious problems https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/03/08/andrew-neil-opposed-uae-telegraph-claims-refused-job/ and https://deadline.com/2024/03/jeff-zucker-andrew-neil-gb-news-paul-marshall-the-telegraph-redbird-imi-1235850004/

Was surprised to see he was one of the Lib Dem’s biggest backers before 2015 but radicalised since by Brexit.

Paul Marshall might as well have bought SFC if he wanted to throw away £100m. At least Dragan got a training ground, 32000 seat stadium and a brand for it!

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Fan The Flames

Fan The Flames

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9 hours ago, Turkish said:

Its pretty odd to watch something you are fundamentally going to disagree with then be outraged because what was on there was something you disagree with. 

Probably because most people who complain didn't watched it live, but heard about it through social media.

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hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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14 hours ago, Fan The Flames said:

Probably because most people who complain didn't watched it live, but heard about it through social media.

Absolutely. I haven't watched a second of it but it's pretty pathetic to do a mass reporting campaign because you've seen a clip you don't like on twitter. You'd think they would have better things to do. 

Fan The Flames

Fan The Flames

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1 minute ago, hypochondriac said:

Absolutely. I haven't watched a second of it but it's pretty pathetic to do a mass reporting campaign because you've seen a clip you don't like on twitter. You'd think they would have better things to do. 

No, I think it's perfectly fine for non viewer to want our 'news' coverage to be better. The sooner GB News goes bust the better. And if it doesn't go bust you'd have to ask why.

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sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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It is a propaganda channel for the far right masquerading as a news channel, pure and simple. Ofcom have finally got around to doing something about it thankfully. If it wants to broadcast as a proper news channel then it should abide by the rules. If it wants to continue as it is then it should rebrand itself as the Gammon Broadcasting Company so no one is in any doubt about what they are getting.

Ofcom have said that they hold news programmes on the BBC and Channel 4 to a higher standard because they are bigger. Absolutely ridiculous. All news outlets should be held to the same standards.

Oh, and for those making excuses for its existence, you don’t have to tune in to be flooded by its content. It’s propaganda appears all over news feeds too.

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whelk

whelk

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45 minutes ago, hypochondriac said:

I bet soggy is penning daily emails to Ofcom. 

And if they aren’t at least 5 paragraphs, mentioning Tommy Robinson I will be amazed.

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sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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26 minutes ago, Fan The Flames said:

I love the bitching about freedom of speech by a news station that wants to ban anti war marches and wants the head of the V&A sacked because one exhibit is horrible about Thatcher.

Don’t worry, I expect it will eventually go the way of Talk TV, especially if the bloke bankrolling it ends up buying the Telegraph (and turns it into another Daily Mail/Sun, not that it is very different nowadays).

Patrick Bateman

Patrick Bateman

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20 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

It is a propaganda channel for the far right masquerading as a news channel, pure and simple. Ofcom have finally got around to doing something about it thankfully. If it wants to broadcast as a proper news channel then it should abide by the rules. If it wants to continue as it is then it should rebrand itself as the Gammon Broadcasting Company so no one is in any doubt about what they are getting.

Ofcom have said that they hold news programmes on the BBC and Channel 4 to a higher standard because they are bigger. Absolutely ridiculous. All news outlets should be held to the same standards.

Oh, and for those making excuses for its existence, you don’t have to tune in to be flooded by its content. It’s propaganda appears all over news feeds too.

"far right"

 

Don't be a helmet.

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whelk

whelk

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1 hour ago, Patrick Bateman said:

"far right"

 

Don't be a helmet.

Boris Johnson is far right in SOG’s eyes. Doesn’t leave him anywhere to go when actually something/someone is far right. The boy that cried wolf

Gloucester Saint

Gloucester Saint

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Although Paul Marshall’s social media activity indicated some extremist activity, I don’t think GB News is far right per se from what I can gather. There’s some very wealthy people who want to sell certain policies and ideologies to a very, very small band of viewers who require partisan spoon-feeding.

99.9% of UK adults with joined up writing skills are quite happy to take their own views from the five terrestrial high quality TV news services we have. No need for a Fox News or The Momentum new channel - as the thumping losses by GB News and Talk TV show.

The response from the next government is straightforward - don’t ban it if non doms are stupid enough to fritter hundreds of millions on 100 viewers, include it in the Tory Party donors envelope, and put the Tory Party tree logo in the top corner when it’s on air. Everybody knows full well what it is, but if they are going to have current politicians (soon to be shadow ministers) talking about the news then the label is fair. 

Lord Duckhunter

Lord Duckhunter

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23 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

It is a propaganda channel for the far right masquerading as a news channel, pure and simple. Ofcom have finally got around to doing something about it thankfully. If it wants to broadcast as a proper news channel then it should abide by the rules. If it wants to continue as it is then it should rebrand itself as the Gammon Broadcasting Company so no one is in any doubt about what they are getting.

Ofcom have said that they hold news programmes on the BBC and Channel 4 to a higher standard because they are bigger. Absolutely ridiculous. All news outlets should be held to the same standards.

Oh, and for those making excuses for its existence, you don’t have to tune in to be flooded by its content. Its propaganda appears all over news feeds too.

Fuck me man, “ofcom”,  how about “off fucking switch”.  
 

If the “far right” or the “far left” even, want to broadcast their version of the news, what’s the big deal? Provided I don’t have to pay for it directly, who gives a shiny shite. It’s not compulsory to watch it . Pinkos have their own news network & threaten to chuck people in jail to fund it, what’s wrong with other opinions being aired. 

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Weston Super Saint

Weston Super Saint

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10 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Yet another opinion piece by a far left journalist passed off by SOG as FACT, LOL. 


GIven the accusations of sexual harassment he's faced it's no wonder you support him though.  Did you know he's of Jewish heritage? Guess that maybe changes things. 

Would that be the 'Pro Israel' Nick Cohen?

I have a suspicion he will be losing a subscriber pretty soon!

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Turkish

Turkish

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Just now, Weston Super Saint said:

Would that be the 'Pro Israel' Nick Cohen?

I have a suspicion he will be losing a subscriber pretty soon!

In a 2006 press release, the Muslim Council of Britain suggested Cohen and four other journalists were "part of a circle of pernicious Islamophobic commentators".[27]

 

Wow, SOG supporting Islamaphobes now. What next?

whelk

whelk

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1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Although Paul Marshall’s social media activity indicated some extremist activity, I don’t think GB News is far right per se from what I can gather. There’s some very wealthy people who want to sell certain policies and ideologies to a very, very small band of viewers who require partisan spoon-feeding.

99.9% of UK adults with joined up writing skills are quite happy to take their own views from the five terrestrial high quality TV news services we have. No need for a Fox News or The Momentum new channel - as the thumping losses by GB News and Talk TV show.

The response from the next government is straightforward - don’t ban it if non doms are stupid enough to fritter hundreds of millions on 100 viewers, include it in the Tory Party donors envelope, and put the Tory Party tree logo in the top corner when it’s on air. Everybody knows full well what it is, but if they are going to have current politicians (soon to be shadow ministers) talking about the news then the label is fair. 

Yes, not something I get worked up about although if we have these Watchdogs they shouldn’t be toothless and need to hold to account.

UK often follow the US but seems some are unaware of the different characters of the nation so cannot just simply replicate what works in US. Can never see us being a Fox News nation but also can’t be complacent 

Weston Super Saint

Weston Super Saint

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8 minutes ago, Turkish said:

In a 2006 press release, the Muslim Council of Britain suggested Cohen and four other journalists were "part of a circle of pernicious Islamophobic commentators".[27]

 

Wow, SOG supporting Islamaphobes now. What next?

Lol.

Seems like Nick Cohen doesn't even know who the fuck Nick Cohen is!!

Disclaimer - I know nothing about rationalwiki!!

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This suggests that he fails to grasp the difference between what is and what ought to be.

 

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every so often he publishes a newspaper article in which he rediscovers his Jewish roots.[1][7] He is naturally attacked by anti-semites.[8] As his attitude to the Palestinian question shows, he is strongly pro-Israel, or perhaps more accurately anti-Palestinian.

 

pingpong

pingpong

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2 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Although Paul Marshall’s social media activity indicated some extremist activity, I don’t think GB News is far right per se from what I can gather. There’s some very wealthy people who want to sell certain policies and ideologies to a very, very small band of viewers who require partisan spoon-feeding.

99.9% of UK adults with joined up writing skills are quite happy to take their own views from the five terrestrial high quality TV news services we have. No need for a Fox News or The Momentum new channel - as the thumping losses by GB News and Talk TV show.

The response from the next government is straightforward - don’t ban it if non doms are stupid enough to fritter hundreds of millions on 100 viewers, include it in the Tory Party donors envelope, and put the Tory Party tree logo in the top corner when it’s on air. Everybody knows full well what it is, but if they are going to have current politicians (soon to be shadow ministers) talking about the news then the label is fair. 

Genuine question, does terrestrial tv still exist?

Weston Super Saint

Weston Super Saint

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1 minute ago, pingpong said:

Genuine question, does terrestrial tv still exist?

Sorry, are you asking if free to air BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 exist?

There are a number of other over the air stations that also broadcast, they exist as well.

badgerx16

badgerx16

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I used to enjoy watching RT and Al Jazeera on occasion, knowing they were heavily biased but it does give you a glimpse of how other people are informed of world affairs.

whelk

whelk

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18 minutes ago, pingpong said:

Genuine question, does terrestrial tv still exist?

Genuine question, do you know how the internet works?

badgerx16

badgerx16

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19 minutes ago, pingpong said:

Genuine question, does terrestrial tv still exist?

It's called FREEVIEW.

Now, if you had asked "Does analogue TV still exist?"'.…..

sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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1 hour ago, Patrick Bateman said:

What's the random opinion piece by a random journalist got to do with your incorrect statement that GB News is 'far right'? 

You're just plain wrong with your original statement. 

Many political commentators are of the opinion that this current Tory Party are “far right”.

GB News is very skewed in it support of the Tory Party.

Many of the people who are employed by GB News carry views which many would consider to be “far right” in political parlance.

The items that flood news feeds from the GB News platform are invariable well right of whatever normal people would consider Tory centre right politics.

Nigel Farage, one of the most obvious cheerleaders for far right policies is one of the major poster boys of GB News.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck…

I would also imagine that the people it appeals to  take to social media to call any who dare to call it out for what it is a “helmet”.

By the way, I referred to it as “far right” to differentiate it from any kind of connection to more reasonable kind of Conservatism. I know it is hard to remember what centre right Tories were like as they seem to have disappeared and been replaced by the Lee Anderson, Rees-Mogg, Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch ultra nationalist, immigrant hating flag shaggers.

Didn’t they employ that notorious wokey hater 😂 Lawrence Fox too for a while? No “far right” vibes there either eh?

It will be interesting to see what kind of coverage (promotion) GB News gives to Reform in the forthcoming election. 

It bases itself on Fox News so that should be a giveaway. If you still aren’t convinced it was too much even for Andrew Neil!!
 

 

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Turkish

Turkish

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1 hour ago, sadoldgit said:

Many political commentators are of the opinion that this current Tory Party are “far right”.

GB News is very skewed in it support of the Tory Party.

Many of the people who are employed by GB News carry views which many would consider to be “far right” in political parlance.

The items that flood news feeds from the GB News platform are invariable well right of whatever normal people would consider Tory centre right politics.

Nigel Farage, one of the most obvious cheerleaders for far right policies is one of the major poster boys of GB News.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck…

I would also imagine that the people it appeals to  take to social media to call any who dare to call it out for what it is a “helmet”.

By the way, I referred to it as “far right” to differentiate it from any kind of connection to more reasonable kind of Conservatism. I know it is hard to remember what centre right Tories were like as they seem to have disappeared and been replaced by the Lee Anderson, Rees-Mogg, Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch ultra nationalist, immigrant hating flag shaggers.

Didn’t they employ that notorious wokey hater 😂 Lawrence Fox too for a while? No “far right” vibes there either eh?

It will be interesting to see what kind of coverage (promotion) GB News gives to Reform in the forthcoming election. 

It bases itself on Fox News so that should be a giveaway. If you still aren’t convinced it was too much even for Andrew Neil!!
 

 

I'd expect nothing else from a far left Owen Jones fan boy extremist like yourself. 

AlexLaw76

AlexLaw76

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2 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

Many political commentators are of the opinion that this current Tory Party are “far right”.

GB News is very skewed in it support of the Tory Party.

Many of the people who are employed by GB News carry views which many would consider to be “far right” in political parlance.

The items that flood news feeds from the GB News platform are invariable well right of whatever normal people would consider Tory centre right politics.

Nigel Farage, one of the most obvious cheerleaders for far right policies is one of the major poster boys of GB News.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck…

I would also imagine that the people it appeals to  take to social media to call any who dare to call it out for what it is a “helmet”.

By the way, I referred to it as “far right” to differentiate it from any kind of connection to more reasonable kind of Conservatism. I know it is hard to remember what centre right Tories were like as they seem to have disappeared and been replaced by the Lee Anderson, Rees-Mogg, Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch ultra nationalist, immigrant hating flag shaggers.

Didn’t they employ that notorious wokey hater 😂 Lawrence Fox too for a while? No “far right” vibes there either eh?

It will be interesting to see what kind of coverage (promotion) GB News gives to Reform in the forthcoming election. 

It bases itself on Fox News so that should be a giveaway. If you still aren’t convinced it was too much even for Andrew Neil!!
 

 

Has it ever occured to you that YOU are a hard left extremist?

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badgerx16

badgerx16

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3 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

Many political commentators are of the opinion that this current Tory Party are “far right”.

GB News is very skewed in it support of the Tory Party.

Many of the people who are employed by GB News carry views which many would consider to be “far right” in political parlance.

The items that flood news feeds from the GB News platform are invariable well right of whatever normal people would consider Tory centre right politics.

Nigel Farage, one of the most obvious cheerleaders for far right policies is one of the major poster boys of GB News.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck…

I would also imagine that the people it appeals to  take to social media to call any who dare to call it out for what it is a “helmet”.

By the way, I referred to it as “far right” to differentiate it from any kind of connection to more reasonable kind of Conservatism. I know it is hard to remember what centre right Tories were like as they seem to have disappeared and been replaced by the Lee Anderson, Rees-Mogg, Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch ultra nationalist, immigrant hating flag shaggers.

Didn’t they employ that notorious wokey hater 😂 Lawrence Fox too for a while? No “far right” vibes there either eh?

It will be interesting to see what kind of coverage (promotion) GB News gives to Reform in the forthcoming election. 

It bases itself on Fox News so that should be a giveaway. If you still aren’t convinced it was too much even for Andrew Neil!!
 

 

Does any of this matter if nobody watches it ?

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