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

[nightowl]

GB News is very openly anti-abortion and antivaxx. Bev Turner implying Jews and Chinese people are responsible for COVID was a particular low point.

Fair bit of competition for low points as far as they're concerned.

 

[ska invita]

Apols if already posted...a fine clip

 

[Lurdan]

Channel profile in the FT:

How GB News became the pulpit of rightwing politics in Britain - (archived)

 

[Lurdan]

And in the "If They Can't Take A Joke" category:

GB News Host Leo Kearse Praises Moscow Terrorists: “I Knew Those Guys Would Come Good Eventually” - Hope Not Hate

Kearse’s Telegram posts show that he:

• Celebrated the Moscow terror attack that left 137 dead.
• Promoted racist pseudoscience about white people having “increased intelligence”
• Littered his posts with racist, homophobic and misogynistic slurs
• Dismissed Brits struggling with the cost of living crisis as “peasants” and said Scots are “fat feminine socialist gimps”

 

[Lotte]

He's mates with Graham Linehan. Oddly, the champion of women's rights didn't seem too bothered about Kearse's digs at fat women.

 

[nightowl]

Linehan is known for digs at women who don't agree with him.

 

[moochedit]

 

[nightowl]

It's a shame they've got such rich backers willing to chuck endless money at it.

 

[moochedit]

It's a shame they've got such rich backers willing to chuck endless money at it.

Who does own them anyway? (Guess that may have been awnsered earlier in this thread but not checked). I know discovery were involved but i think they sold up.

 

[moochedit]

It is jointly owned by hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall and investment firm Legatum, under the umbrella of a holding company, All Perspectives Ltd, which is headquartered in London.

Dubai and cayman islands

ALL PERSPECTIVES LTD persons with significant control - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

ALL PERSPECTIVES LTD - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

 

[teqniq]

It's a shame they've got such rich backers willing to chuck endless money at it.

The rich backers regard it as a useful propaganda vehicle, which is essentially what it is.

 

[nightowl]

Dubai and cayman islands

ALL PERSPECTIVES LTD persons with significant control - Find and update company information - GOV.UK

ALL PERSPECTIVES LTD - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk

Funny how rich scumbags spinning right-wing propaganda (the Daily Fail owner and Lord Ashcroft spring to mind) are so damn patriotic that they feel obliged to take their money abroad for tax purposes.

 

[Lotte]

Linehan is known for digs at women who don't agree with him.

And gays. Women who don't agree with him are handmaidens, gay men who don't agree with him are Vichy Gays.

 

[stavros]

At least they're self-aware:

 

[nightowl]

And gays. Women who don't agree with him are handmaidens, gay men who don't agree with him are Vichy Gays.

He comes across as a bit of an obsessive personality. He just can't drop it. I remember when he was nearly in tears claiming trans people cost him his marriage. No they didn't Graham. You did that. Your missus probably begged you for the umpteenth time to drop it for he sake of your family and you couldn't do it.

 

[Raheem]

At least they're self-aware:

They just give that impression. Although, as the technology develops, who knows?

 

[Lotte]

He comes across as a bit of an obsessive personality. He just can't drop it. I remember when he was nearly in tears claiming trans people cost him his marriage. No they didn't Graham. You did that. Your missus probably begged you for the umpteenth time to drop it for he sake of your family and you couldn't do it.

Linehan is incapable of self-awareness, self-reflection or accepting responsibility. He didn't ruin his marriage, trans people did. I don't know the exact details but members of his family did try to help him with his Twitter addiction and it was a waste of time because he cared more about getting lovebombed by TERFs on Twitter than he did about his wife and kids. He tweets about protecting his daughter but barely bothers to parent her.

 

[editor]

All the news that matters:

GB News has turned the outrage levels up to 11, this time over the most unlikely of subjects – scones.

It was fainting couches at the ready at GB News Towers as the broadcaster picked up on a story about how the National Trust was selling only dairy-free vegan scones its cafes, and bemoaned a victory for “wokery”.

To be clear from the outset, millions of scones served annually in the trust’s 280 tearooms are made with margarine, an alternative to butter that is a staple of British households. The charity’s recipe has not changed for decades, and there’s no stopping customers putting butter or cream on top.

Anyway, in a clip being mocked on X, presenter Dawn Neesom put the bellows under the fire by claiming making scones with marg is “outrageous”.
“I’m not happy with this,” she fumed. “Why should everyone go vegan just because a tiny minority of the country are?”

GB News Outraged At National Trust's Vegan Scones As War On 'Woke' Gets Weird

Charity's baked goods have for years been made with "vegetable-based spread" – or margarine – which now has sections of the media aghast.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

[cupid_stunt]

The video is brilliant, you would think it's pure satire, but it's just GB News being GB News.

 

[Silas Loom]

All cakes and biscuits are better when made from butter. This is a skimpflation story, not a wokeness one, but the new scones are prima facie inferior.

 

[cupid_stunt]

All cakes and biscuits are better when made from butter. This is a skimpflation story, not a wokeness one, but the new scones are prima facie inferior.

But, they not new...

To be clear from the outset, millions of scones served annually in the trust’s 280 tearooms are made with margarine, an alternative to butter that is a staple of British households. The charity’s recipe has not changed for decades, and there’s no stopping customers putting butter or cream on top.

 

[Serge Forward]

I blame Bruce Forsyth. The woke bugger.

 

[ddraig]

Anything "vegan" is forcing it onto "normal" people of course, as evidenced on vegan threads here regularly

 

[Silas Loom]

But, they not new...

In that case I am glad I have never eaten one of their post-war austerity scones. They are a poor custodian of the nation’s cream teas.

 

[cupid_stunt]

In that case I am glad I have never eaten one of their post-war austerity scones. They are a poor custodian of the nation’s cream teas.

Have you started working for GB News?

 

[Silas Loom]

Have you started working for GB News?

Don’t pretend you haven’t seen the show. 03:00 is hardly a graveyard slot.

 

[BusLanes]

What is infuriating is that this stuff is just so transparently a combination of tired old confected outrage and necessity of being a 24 hour a day Hot Takes service.

Even the most disciplined political culture warrior is going to end up saying all sorts of mad shit if they have 2 hours a show to fill.

 

[Storm Fox]

What is infuriating is that this stuff is just so transparently a combination of tired old confected outrage and necessity of being a 24 hour a day Hot Takes service.

Even the most disciplined political culture warrior is going to end up saying all sorts of mad shit if they have 2 hours a show to fill.

Unlike the NTs scones, which are normally cold.

 

[CH1]

Anybody know what this is about

 

[Lurdan]

Anybody know what this is about

Possibly the fall out from this. He wasn't on the show last week.