New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

Or people they needed from day 1 and tried to cheap out on, hence the comical 'standards'.

Farage, Widdecombe, Hoey etc would be regarded as far right in most countries in Europe (alongside Le Pen, Wilders, AfD, Orban etc). The Brexit guys think 'far right' refers only to extreme right groups like the EDL, Combat 18, the National Front, Britain First etc.

They also suspended Guto Harri who exercised his free speech on air (something which is supposedly a core tenement of the station) in order to placate members of their audience who complained about it because the station wasn't leaning enough to the right.

I'm not saying they're fascists, but they clearly showed they're more willing to lean further to the right because that's where their audience is, even though they initially positioned themselves as being somewhat centrist (or more so just "anti-woke") and proponents of free speech.

Free speech is allowed on GB News once it supports the narrative they are trying to spin.

Taking the knee annoys their viewers...not allowed.

Neil Oliver's monologue about the hard fought freedoms won through WWII being eroded due to Covid...GB News gold.

I saw an article on Twitter last week suggesting that their internet platform figures were likely influenced by fake accounts.

I tried to find the story yesterday but couldn't. Didn't dig too deep though.

Met a friend for lunch today in Liverpools Albert docks, The R.N.L.I had a stall out and Seeing as Farage is such a big fan of theirs I felt it only right to buy a small compass/bottle opener as a donation.

Oh dear, I know at least one poster who won't be happy to hear this. Get set to be attacked for posting "fake news".

I see nice good and sensible Deborah Meaden of Dragon Den fame is getting a lot of push back for her Neil Oliver twitter comment. I think I did mention the tactic of demonizing people on this thread earlier didn't I. If she were any way decent she might have instead said what she disagreed with so I or might have the first clue what she was on about if noting else.

https://twitter.com/JonathanPieNews/status/1422540613283614724

I see Deborah meaden got over 7k likes and seems that equates for far more likes than comments.

Silent majority strikes again......

It's not really though . Oliver's clever spam. He's using the war as a time when people had freedom and had free will .yet there was government enforced rations , black outs, travel . I mean it's complete bullshit to be frank. But it's this level of bullshit that people like yourself rely on the pretend life was better back when..when the simple fact is it's all made up nonsense. The whole point of it is to lie to people and tell them they are being victimised. Reality is they , and you have never had it so good.

Sigh, in todays edition of 'Accuse others of that which you are guilty' Eskimohunt bemoans the fact that Deborah Meaden fails to interact with people with opposing views (which he determined simply from the fact that she said she didn't like someone).

Some background to my point, Carol Cadwalladr is an award winning journalist who did trojan work on disclosing the shenanigans going on around Vote Leave, Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and many other organisations and individuals.

In response to her efforts, aside from winning awards for doing so; Andrew Neil, him of GB News, set his Twitter followers on her by referring to her as 'Crazy cat Lady' and various plays on the same theme.

And Nigel Farage, also of GB News refused to talk to her on his radio show.

Eskimohunt, do you even stop for a second and think about what you post and whether or not it is true or reflective of real life events before you click send?

I would take Eskimohunt a bit more seriously if he actually acknowledged that his beloved Andrew Neil and Nigel Farage are equally as culpable in being nasty to people that they disagree with.

However he won't actually engage with anything that doesn't suit the spin he wants to put on his narrative. He will ignore posts and articles that disprove the nonsense that he spouts.

Case in point being the updated BARB figures and social media hits. He argued extensively about how the early figures showed the success of GB News. The latest figures and the possibility of an orchestrated social media campaign...no interest in any debate about it.

Hard to decipher yet for me. But in fairness, it's an understandable issue, given he is on the fifth week of his holidays (with no sign of a return as of yet) after two weeks of broadcasting.

While not doubting the last three words, he invested a lot of time, energy and a fair chunk of reputation in it. Ultimately, he looks like a bitter hypocrit who spent two weeks taking people how great Britain was or could be and then decided France was better anyway.

The difference is that GB News and other media is that GB goes not apart to actually BE making any money.

To be fair to Andrew Neil, his work may be more background than on-screen. As such, he may have put in massive effort in the lead-up to the launch, and then took a holiday while the broadcasting bedded in. Slightly odd decision, but you can sort of understand it too maybe?