GB News: a thread so you never have to watch it

[two sheds]

This surprises me.

Major brands including Ikea and Nivea withdraw adverts from GB News within 48 hours of launch

The opinion-led news channel has drawn comparisons to right-wing US TV platform Fox News

inews.co.uk

Just complained to complaints@co-operativebank.co.uk

"Our Ethical Policy sets out who we will and won’t provide banking services to. If a company won’t abide by our Ethical Policy, we won’t finance them. It’s as simple as that."

If they're paying right wing twats for advertising, they're financing them. It's as simple as that.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Has it done very much that's highly objectional (compared to other news providers) yet, beyond being rubbish?

Yes, in particular that dangerous twat, Dan Wootton.

And, let's not forget it was the various co-operative societies, that now own the 'co-operative group', that founded the co-operative party, which are in an electoral pact with the Labour party.

 

[existentialist]

It's just occurred to me that the still I posted in Ugly Mugs probably demonstrates a standard of video production that GBNews could only aspire to.

Joking apart, anyone who's spent much time online over lockdowns will have become keenly aware of how important reasonable sound management is, eg. when someone's microphone is much hotter than everyone else's. And, for that matter, you start to realise that a microphone isn't just a microphone - they come in a wide and diverse range of shitnesses

Clearly whoever's in charge of GBNews' broadcast stream has had no such realisations. Or at least the person allocating the budget...

 

[Calamity1971]

The Co-Op is not a shadow of what it was.

I worked for them for a very short time. Would not recommend. Got a phone call to say I needed to be in Wales as my dad wouldn't make it the night (Wednesday) was asked can you make it back for your shift on Friday. No, fuck off and there I was gone.

 

[existentialist]

I worked for them for a very short time. Would not recommend. Got a phone call to say I needed to be in Wales as my dad wouldn't make it the night (Wednesday) was asked can you make it back for your shift on Friday. No, fuck off and there I was gone.

I've had a few clients who were employed by them. Sometimes, work issues came into the conversation, and their description was very similar to yours. Supermarkets staffed by two people, no management support, no help to deal with gangs, trouble, shoplifters.

They closed their previous store here, and opened up in a purpose-built shop a bit further along Main Street. I went in there a couple of times to find that their prices had been massively hiked, presumably to reflect their new nature as a "convenience store". And I decided, in view of all that, not to bother shopping there any more.

Back in my IT days, I was commuting to Manchester to work in the Co-Op's IT operation - they'd decided to contract it out (remember "Facilities Management"?), announced it 9 months early, and after a few months had haemorrhaged the cream of their IT team. During the brief time I was there as a contractor, I saw nothing to suggest that they had any right to remain in business - the whole thing seemed cack-handed, particular around people management.

So I could well be unsurprised if their approach to this is similarly clunky and tone-deaf.

 

[NoXion]

Has it done very much that's highly objectional (compared to other news providers) yet, beyond being rubbish?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for defunding it, but then I'd defund nearly everything if it was up to me.

I wonder if they plan on slipping that kind of stuff in later.

 

[two sheds]

How have they been on covid and masks and lockdown?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Just complained to complaints@co-operativebank.co.uk

"Our Ethical Policy sets out who we will and won’t provide banking services to. If a company won’t abide by our Ethical Policy, we won’t finance them. It’s as simple as that."

If they're paying right wing twats for advertising, they're financing them. It's as simple as that.

The Co-operative Group, which is advertising on GB News, has no connection with the Co-operative Bank, which isn't advertising with them.

The investors also agreed to add £100 million over 10 years to the bank's pension fund and provide over £200 million of collateral to assist in separating the bank's pension from that of the Co-operative Group. The group was due to own 1 per cent of the bank, with the bank retaining its name and ethical policy. These arrangements were implemented in September 2017 and the final 1% stake held by the group was sold shortly afterwards for £5 million, ending the group's ownership of the bank entirely

The Co-operative Bank - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[two sheds]

Ah
Ta

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Had the telly on anyway, so sampling a bit of Andrew Neil's own show. The actual content isn't too bad ( ), but it looks and sounds shoddy as hell.

Although have to turn off at Woke Watch.

 

[moochedit]

How have they been on covid and masks and lockdown?

Dan wooten is anti lockdown from bits i have seen but I haven't watched enough of his show (or channel generally) to say if he is the full piers corbin though.

 

[brogdale]

The boycott defeats are getting to the thick tory lobby fodder.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Just to add, it's wrong to refer to the Co-op as 'them', as if it's one big company, it's not, the 'Co-op Group' remains an umbrella group for 22 different co-operative societies, the group does operate some stores itself, but not all.

Here in Worthing, we have two different co-operative societies running local shops, 'the co-op group', and the 'southern co-op', they share the branding & are supplied by the wholesale side of the group, but otherwise operate independently, in such matters as employment contracts, etc.

 

[Calamity1971]

My dad worked for the co-op after retiring from engineering and he got a discount card with them. Certain areas of Britain didn't recognise it. He could use it in the north west but not some places near me in Durham. I've forgotten the names they used to use for regional variations and now it's going to drive me mad.

 

[cupid_stunt]

And, the reason why I know that, is the co-op group took over some other retailer, and ended-up with a shop right next-door and in direct competition to a southern co-op one, causing bemusement beyond just me, before they came to some arrangement to combine them into one big store, about a year or two later.

 

[MickiQ]

Watched a few minutes of Dewbs & Co whilst having my tea, She had two women on discussing vaccinating kids, Woman A) I don't think kids should be vaccinated for CoVID (stressed that she supported vaccines generally) since we don't know for sure that it's safe yet and they're low risk. Womand B) It is safe and there is a bit of risk from CoVID for kids but we should be concentrating on vaccinating adults in the Third World before British kids. There are pro's and con's to both these positions but neither are particularly controversial. Come on they want to be unwoke and controversial get Piers Corbyn on and poke him with a stick till he gets riled up.

 

[Storm Fox]

My dad worked for the co-op after retiring from engineering and he got a discount card with them. Certain areas of Britain didn't recognise it. He could use it in the north west but not some places near me in Durham. I've forgotten the names they used to use for regional variations and now it's going to drive me mad.

There are 2 co-ops near me and one is Southern Co-op and the other is not, I'm pretty sure it's Northern Co-op and I needed a card for each. This is pre-covid so may have changed.

 

[Calamity1971]

There are 2 co-ops near me and one is Southern Co-op and the other is not, I'm pretty sure it's Northern Co-op and I needed a card for each. This is pre-covid so may have changed.

North Midlands was called normid group. So it was names like that. This is going to keep me up

 

[cupid_stunt]

My dad worked for the co-op after retiring from engineering and he got a discount card with them. Certain areas of Britain didn't recognise it. He could use it in the north west but not some places near me in Durham. I've forgotten the names they used to use for regional variations and now it's going to drive me mad.

There's a list HERE of the current various regional co-operative societies in 'the group', but there were plenty of mergers over the years, and some that just merged directly into 'the group' itself, including United Co-operatives/normid stores.

All the members of 'the group' are members of the same loyalty card programme, which can be used across all stores & services.

Of course, there remains some totally independent co-operative societies that are not even part of 'the group', but they are few & tend to be very small.

 

[Petcha]

 

[two sheds]

What a pathetic, virtue-signalling twerp

 

[Ted Striker]

Fucking hell it's brilliant Just tuned in to see Andrew Neil was on earlier looking like he was making a 70's training video on sexual discrimination at job interviews (and not giving her a mic).

Dan Wooton's show was introduced with him not realising his mic wasn't on, demanding to the crew if they were going to get him a sound check.

The deft attempts at casually looking at the wrong camera, syncing way off....And now someone's just drowned out the host Dan Wooton as their hot mike had them clambering down some stairs. Half expecting to hear Frank Drebin having a piss any second now

Bloody brilliant.

 

[bemused]

All those people wasting their time watching Gbeebies. What a bunch of idiots. What difference could they possibly make?

Brands pull ads from GB News TV channel over content concerns

Ikea, Grolsch and Kopparberg have suspended adverts due to station’s perceived conflict with their values

www.theguardian.com

I quite like output of two presenters on the channel, but the #gbeebies threads on Twitter are fucking golden.

 

[Petcha]

Fucking hell it's brilliant Just tuned in to see Andrew Neil was on earlier looking like he was making a 70's training video on sexual discrimination at job interviews (and not giving her a mic).

Dan Wooton's show was introduced with him not realising his mic wasn't on, demanding to the crew if they were going to get him a sound check.

The deft attempts at casually looking at the wrong camera, syncing way off....And now someone's just drowned out the host Dan Wooton as their hot mike had them clambering down some stairs. Half expecting to hear Frank Drebin having a piss any second now

Bloody brilliant.

It truly is. But sadly, let's face it, its shelf life is not gonna be long. It's basically a mockumentary. I hope we get a behind the scenes at some point.

 

[cupid_stunt]

OVO & out.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Lot of people pointing out IKEA were fined for spying on their staff.

Replying to a Piers Morgan tweet

I mean, fuck it, I'm not defending IKEA, but at least they paid the people they were spying on....

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The piss poor technical production is amazing, because it really isn’t that hard to do. Standards are well established, and modern switchers are technical marvels that do an awful lot of the hard work for you. Mics can be automatically switched/levelled etc. I’ve literally got the kit to do this sat on my desk at work. How the fuck it’s so bad I’ve no idea

 

[Petcha]

Because it's being sabotaged, surely.

 

[two sheds]

And/or they're paying piss poor wages so not getting anyone competent.

 

[elbows]

Because it's being sabotaged, surely.

Richie: Eddie, you've been mugged!
Eddie: Yeah.
Richie: Great heavens, are you okay? Did you get a good look at him? I
mean, you know, could you describe him?
Eddie: Yes. He, was, he was about my age. About my height. Ah, glasses.
Stupid little fucking hat. And he was wearing these exact clothes.
Richie: You... mugged... yourself.
Eddie: That's right matey, and made a fiver out of it. Right, that's it,
I'm off out again. See you later. [waves the fiver] Hahhh!
[leaves]