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[idunnosomename]

i wish we could just teleport dan wooton and stanley johnson into the sun. wouldn't change much but it would be funny

[Bigfella]

Rachel Johnson was just on Good Morning Britain with Susanna Reid and whoever today's guy is.  When pushed for an opinion about something she expressed concern that she might seem like a 'GB News wingnut.'  Surely she must know that her and Boris's dad Stanley was the star of the show on GBN last night?  Somd slap in the face!

[George Oscar Bluth II]

How has this shit cost them £60m. Mind boggling.

[Glebe]

How has this shit cost them £60m. Mind boggling.

Large part of the budget blown on fixing Neil Oliver's teeth.

[idunnosomename]

andrew neill sat on the money and all the money sunk up into his great big arse

[Glebe]

andrew neill sat on the money and all the money sunk up into his great big arse

That reminds me... I still haven't revealed my bum... stay tuned!

[Fambo Number Mive]

Good response in Byline Times to the bullshit from the Culture War Secretary:

...Which part of this do you, as Secretary of State, plan to forbid? Will you ban Stop Funding Hate (and by extension anyone else) from listing companies that advertise with particular media? Will you ban it from describing what some media publish as hate speech? Will you ban it from telling customers of those companies that they may write letters? Will you ban the customers from writing those letters? Or will you ban the advertisers from withdrawing their ads?

I am hoping that you are beginning to see the problems with your position. It is not just that it would be hard for your civil servants to draft legislation that would achieve what you think is your objective; it's that you would very obviously be attacking what you say you are defending: freedom of expression. 

But, but, you may be thinking, Stop Funding Hate is bullying; it is "piling on the pressure on advertisers". Companies are not acting from choice; they are being forced to bow to threats from people who say they will withdraw their custom.

I know it's hard Oliver, but think. Customers have a right to choose with whom they do business. That's actually a Conservative thing. You really won't be able to change that. And companies in turn are supposed to be responsive to their markets. That's Conservative too. What's more, some companies reject the calls from customers and carry on as before, so the forcing? Not so much...

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/06/21/free-speech-a-beginners-guide-for-oliver-dowden/

[Bazooka]

But, but, you may be thinking, Stop Funding Hate is bullying; it is "piling on the pressure on advertisers". Companies are not acting from choice; they are being forced to bow to threats from people who say they will withdraw their custom.

The author is unaware of hypocritical virtue.

[bgmnts]

That's sort of how it works isn't it? That's capitalism.

[BlodwynPig]

Business aids as i call it

[Blue Jam]

Rachel Johnson was just on Good Morning Britain with Susanna Reid and whoever today's guy is.  When pushed for an opinion about something she expressed concern that she might seem like a 'GB News wingnut.'  Surely she must know that her and Boris's dad Stanley was the star of the show on GBN last night?  Somd slap in the face!

Knowing her, that's precisely why she said it.

[Fambo Number Mive]

The author is unaware of hypocritical virtue.

They are claiming that is the argument Dowden is making, they arent agreeing with the quoted statement.

[Bazooka]

That's quite clear, and the author doesn't understand how companies such as IKEA think.

[Dr Rock]

I saw my first clip as it was on YouTube. They were discussing/agreeing that freedom of speech was under attack from the Woke Brigade. So predictable.

[Ambient Sheep]

Amusing write-up of the channel's first week here in The Independent:

A bonanza of f**k-ups and trolling: What I learnt from being glued to GB News for a week

[Icehaven]

I've got to a point now with my Mum when she attempts to raise the subjects of Brexit, immigration, BLM, Harry and Meghan and MeToo I pretend I've never heard of any of them and have no idea what she's on about so I don't have an opinion. I'm hoping she never finds out this channel exists or we might never have another actual conversation.

I have done my Mum a considerable disservice. Just spoke to her and she said she'd seen a news report earlier about white children saying they hadn't got any culture, thought "this doesn't seem like the normal news" and realised she was watching GB News, and her opinion is it's total bobbins. Sorry Mum.

[Psybro]

Some of my relatives who are the core audience had this on the other day for about five minutes before getting bored and switching to Sky News.

I don't think trolling the academic Twitter Left has the mainstream entertainment value they imagined.

[steveh]

Ratings have been dropping steadily. Several sources quoting figures of 30-60K which is some way behind the BBC and Sky news channels.

Skimming Twitter there seem to be a load of disgruntled people on the right who think the channel is too metropolitan and establishment...

[An tSaoi]

Skimming Twitter there seem to be a load of disgruntled people on the right who think the channel is too metropolitan and establishment...

As soon as I saw would-be fans complaining about too many women and ethnics in the publicity photos, I knew the channel wouldn't fly with the hardcore brexiteers. I think some people were hoping for a proper white-nationalist, PJW, Molyneux type show, a sort of British Rebel Media. You just can't have something like that on real telly – you can barely have it on YouTube – so they're hamstrung from the start. There needs to be a veneer of borderline respectability which you don't need on the right-wing internet. It's still awful of course, but not half as "strong" as the prospective supporters would like.

[Dr Rock]

Wootton interviewing some no-name TERF who got banned from Twitter for agreeing with JK Rowling and tweeting there are only two sexes. I don't think this is red meat for the base.

[An tSaoi]

Nothing less than Andrew Neil chanting SENT THEM BACK KEEP THEM OUT while Coast Man snipes migrants from atop the cliffs of Dover would satisfy the base.

[Paul Calf]

Another eight years of far-right Tory rule and that'll look tame.

[Fry]

Had it on for another 5 minutes today before I couldn't stand any more.

Their whole "speaking up for the unheard" thing is literally spawned from the fact that twitter tends towards younger, more left wing people. The entire channel is basically a twitter feed where they choose whats trending, they get to do the dunks and they can never be banned. Its an insane reason to start a channel, and also another reason it will fail. Same reason Gab failed. For the culture wars to work, the fun has to be in the ruck. There are no mentally ill teenagers for you to belittle and antagonise in the GB news studio.

[buttgammon]

Nothing less than Andrew Neil chanting SENT THEM BACK KEEP THEM OUT while Coast Man snipes migrants from atop the cliffs of Dover would satisfy the base.

Too many Scotch people. WHY COULDN'T AN ENGLISH BROADCASTER BE THE SNIPER??

[An tSaoi]

Oh no I went too woke! This is harder than it seems.

[Glebe]

Decade-old news and they misspelt 'chekky', but this is just another example of Alastair Stewart's feckless disregard for his fellow humans:

Newsreader Alastair Stewart has cheeky cigarette near no-smoking sign.

[Jack Shaftoe]

It's not mad enough, it needs to be properly Alex Jones levels of 'lol this is mentals but every now and then there's something I can nod at', and I don't know if that can work in this country to that extent. I mean, I hope not. I'm sure they'll soon crank it up to find out though.

[olliebean]

"Speaking up for the unheard?" Speaking up for the all too often heard, more like. It's boring as hell because they've got absolutely nothing to say that we haven't already heard many times, largely from people who claim they're somehow being prevented from saying it.

[SpiderChrist]

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/06/23/india-willoughby-quits-gb-news-trans-transphobia-dan-wootton/

"It's a monster," she said. "It's an absolute nightmare... For people like me, it's opened the gates of hell."

[jobotic]

She'd be familiar with the gates of hell with what she has said about refugees. Why would she think that other right-wing cunts would spare her?

This month, record numbers of people crossing the Channel in small boats and dinghies have been reported.

When asked her opinion on the situation, India exclaimed, "Thank God for Nigel Farage! I'll say it. The fact the French are escorting them over is awful. We've got Brexit and we're leaving the EU."

Sharing her thoughts on what should be done in light of the growing numbers, "We should take control. I think it's £100million we've spent on this problem. I'd go down the Trump route.

"Why not have a nice spikey barbed wire fence somewhere on the channel? Instead of using the English channel, they should use the legal channel.