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

[skyscraper101]

539K or 539 individual people?

Individual people

 

[cupid_stunt]

539K or 539 individual people?

Did you need to ask that?

 

[MickiQ]

Did you need to ask that?

Not really but I just wanted to feel smug about it.

 

[cupid_stunt]

So, Andrew Neil still AWOL from GB News, gave up retweeting/commenting on anything from the channel weeks ago, I guess he's busy monitoring the output & making notes on how to improve it.

Nope, he's busy watching Sky News, retweeting & praising them, that must hurt.




He's also made a number of tweets in support of Afghans coming to the UK, which I doubt will please the more looney ones at GB News.

 

[skyscraper101]

Neil’s obsessed with the word ‘haters’ - he probably thinks it’s some new buzz word that makes him sound hip.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Looks like Dr Simon Clarke has been interviewed on GB News, hopefully a video clip will surface.

He seems to be enjoying the attention from the loons.

 

[two sheds]

Neil’s obsessed with the word ‘haters’ - he probably thinks it’s some new buzz word that makes him sound hip.

he hates haters, he's a hater hater, which makes him a hater too

 

[maomao]

So, Andrew Neil still AWOL from GB News, gave up retweeting/commenting on anything from the channel weeks ago, I guess he's busy monitoring the output & making notes on how to improve it.

Nope, he's busy watching Sky News, retweeting & praising them, that must hurt.




He's also made a number of tweets in support of Afghans coming to the UK, which I doubt will please the more looney ones at GB News.

GBNews should get their own back by making this their title screen:

 

[cupid_stunt]

Brexit Christmas: Pigs in blankets supply could be hit by labour shortages

The warning came as fast food giant McDonald’s ran out of milkshakes in all its UK restaurants

www.gbnews.uk

Surely no one is that bothered about pigs in blankets being in short supply, so why GB News?

OK, I've got it...

Supplies of gammon could also be affected, he added.

 

[two sheds]

(((pigs in blankets)))

 

[cupid_stunt]

(((gammons)))

 

[Ax^]

not being able to throw milkshakes at ferrage

 

[Calamity1971]

not being able to throw milkshakes at ferrage

Piss is free.

 

[Raheem]

With the climate going the way it is, they might not need blankets anyway.

 

[rutabowa]

Nigel Farage to take a break from GB News - less than a month after joining

He gave no indication of an exact date as to when he will be returning to the show.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

 

[rutabowa]

Rubbish article tbf

 

[Ax^]

rubbish subject matter tbf

 

[cupid_stunt]

Nigel Farage to take a break from GB News - less than a month after joining

He gave no indication of an exact date as to when he will be returning to the show.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

It's made a mockery of their evening schedule, in reverse order...

9pm - Tonight Live with Dan Wootton - he's on holiday, covered by Mark Dolan.

8pm - Andrew Neil - he's AWOL, covered by Colin Brazier.

7pm - Farage - he's on holiday, fuck we've run out of cover. Oh, fuck it, just repeat some of his shit from the last four weeks.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Andrew Neil, if he actually does, is due to return in September, with so many taking holidays now, I did wonder if they are planning a re-launch at that point, and The Guardian seems to think that's the plan, although they suggest that Neil has still to decide if he will return, having been outflanked by the chief executive, Angelos Frangopoulos, and his appointments.

When Andrew Neil discussed leaving the BBC to join GB News last autumn, he made clear to his then colleagues that he had little interest in working with Nigel Farage.

One year later, Neil is deciding whether to return from a two-month holiday to a channel that, in his absence, has not only promoted Farage to be its star presenter but is rebuilding much of the rest of its schedule in the image of the Brexit party founder.

A relaunch of GB News, which has already ripped up its schedule several times since it launched in mid-June, is pencilled in for the first full week of September. Nick Pollard, a former boss of Sky News last seen working at Chinese state-funded CGTN, has been promoted to acting editorial director to replace the departed John McAndrew, a long-term ally of Neil.

So far Neil has hosted just eight of the 41 episodes of his eponymous show.

“It still seems that Andrew Neil hasn’t decided what to do,” said one person connected with the channel, while another said the “key dynamic” in setting the channel’s future would be whether Neil returns to air.

A spokesperson for GB News reiterated they are still “looking forward” to welcoming Neil back to the channel in September and said the station had always planned to have a role for Farage.

However, the sense among some GB News staff is Neil has now been overtaken by the promotion of presenters who are adept at furious monologues that work well on social media. A spate of recent hires from talkRadio included the lockdown-sceptic hosts Mark Dolan and Patrick Christys. On Tuesday the new presenter Calvin Robinson was arguing for scientifically disputed alternatives to Covid-19 vaccines.

That must be the twat, that Dr Simon Clarke clashed with.

Andrew Neil outflanked by Nigel Farage in GB News culture war

Neil still deciding whether to take up role at GB News following two-month holiday

www.theguardian.com

 

[Dogsauce]

Brexit Christmas: Pigs in blankets supply could be hit by labour shortages

The warning came as fast food giant McDonald’s ran out of milkshakes in all its UK restaurants

www.gbnews.uk

Surely no one is that bothered about pigs in blankets being in short supply, so why GB News?

OK, I've got it...

Interesting that their headline appears to blame Brexit, couldn’t see that happening with the ‘nothing to see here’ on-message BBC...

 

[steeplejack]

see that vince cable was a guest of Falange the other day. grim people

Well he was happy to let Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 hang and was implicated in some other extremely dodgy affairs whilst working for Shell in Nigeria, so I doubt sitting down for a televised drink with a populist far-right politician will be too rich for his blood.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Found a clip of the knobhead, Calvin Robinson, interviewing Dr Simon Clarke.




He refers to Dr. Harvey Risch, epidemiologist at Yale, as supporting the use of hydroxychloroquine. However, OVER TWO DOZEN of his Yale colleagues have signed an open letter, pointing out Risch is a cancer epidemiologist, not an expert in infectious disease epidemiology, and is, well, a bit of a plonker, like Robinson.

Statement from Yale Faculty on Hydroxychloroquine and its Use in COVID-19

We write with grave concern that too many are being distracted by the ardent advocacy of our Yale colleague, Dr. Harvey Risch, to promote…

medium.com

He also refers to Ivermectin as being effective, yet...

‘You are not a horse’: FDA tells Americans stop taking dewormer for Covid

Agency issues message after misinformation about ivermectin, a medicine used to deworm livestock, spreads on social media

www.theguardian.com

 

[glitch hiker]

Dr John Campbell, on his youtube videos, was talking quite positively at one time about Ivermectin, but I suppose that's not really relevant here. I've no idea, I'm not a livestock in need of deworming

But Calvin Robinson really is an odios prick. It's just fallacy after fallacy and then the whining "every time i suggest something you say it doesn't work" isn't an argument it's an appeal to emotion, and the simply answer is that you suggest things that...don't work.

But of course...agenda.

 

[two sheds]

But ... but ... but ... it's a Crusade for Common Sense how can he be wrong?? Clarke's very patient with the tosser.

 

[8ball]

Piss is free.

You reckon? Try procuring 3,000 gallons of it at short notice.

 

[Raheem]

You reckon? Try procuring 3,000 gallons of it at short notice.

That would be taking the piss.

 

[DaveCinzano]

That would be taking the piss.

Meet the Urination

 

[Raheem]

Meet the Urination

Talking Pints

 

[DaveCinzano]

Lend me ureas

 

[likesfish]

Its a tiny ray of hope the uk may have voted for de piffle but fox news with a cup of tea is a step to far