Britain - The Official Thread
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Has anyone watched any of the new GB News channel yet?
No, me neither.
Apparently one of their team is a loudmouth prick called Dan Wootton who has already described COVID as a 'scare story' on GB News. Tonight he interviews Roger Daltrey, no less... this is how it will probably go:
No, me neither.
Apparently one of their team is a loudmouth prick called Dan Wootton who has already described COVID as a 'scare story' on GB News. Tonight he interviews Roger Daltrey, no less... this is how it will probably go:
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I watched 5-10 mins of it last night. An ex Sun journalist (might have been an Aussie - he didn’t have a Uk accent, which I thought ironic given the channel title) interviewing Alan Sugar.
it was a car crash.
super disappointing that Andrew Neil would put his name behind something like this. At best, it will turn in to the Uk’s Fox News.
it was a car crash.
super disappointing that Andrew Neil would put his name behind something like this. At best, it will turn in to the Uk’s Fox News.
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That was almost as excruciating as watching GB News.Fair play to Daltrey for appearing on the interview (Partridge, not GB) and also to the person who left this comment under the video.
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It's already being nicknamed "GBeebies".
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Watching it now and it seems very....stilted.
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Blast from the past but I'm reminded of acorn antiques.
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"Did the BBC try to ambush the launch of GB News? That's the subject of tonight's... Media Watch!"
Next up, we'll be asking "why does Joe Biden want to cancel the word 'Mother'"...
Are we sure this isn't a parody?
Next up, we'll be asking "why does Joe Biden want to cancel the word 'Mother'"...
Are we sure this isn't a parody?
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Everything inside quotation marks was literally said verbatim.
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In both instances? I thought the latter was a hypothetical from you.
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And not a bit of it surprises me at all.
Not one bit.
I'm more surprised by the fact some people still don't see Andrew Neil for the utterly biased, totally partisan right-wing loon that he is; well that and some people see it and embrace it.
It's like the UK just got it's own Fox News.
That's not a figurative 'like' either, but a literal 'like'.
https://inews.co.uk/news/media/gb-news-launch-review-dan-wootton-behind-the-scenes-1052125
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...ns-more-viewers-than-bbc-or-sky-news-channels
It's the proud to be British channel, that's run by a man that lives in France and backed by money from the US and Dubai.
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I do not like Dominic Cummings one bit, but he's putting old some comedy gold at the moment...
... the removed expletive is in Cummings's original twitter post... it's the F one.
... the removed expletive is in Cummings's original twitter post... it's the F one.
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Can't be long before Amanda Hugankiss phones in with her two penn'orth.
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I've seen it referred to as GBeebies. Haven't watched it yet, think I need to retune the TV and I can't be arsed. I've seen enough on YobTub to know it's not for me.
Incidentally I was on a committee panel with Michelle Dewbury (?) and while she comes across as odious on air she's actually far worse in person.
The excuse (reasoning, explanation, whatever) is that this doesn't illustrate national feeling because this seat was lost over "specific local issues". Anyone have any idea what they might be? Other than having a Conservative MP, of course.
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I've been asking the same question lately.
Listening to LBC you'd think it's about Brexit and the so called "culture wars" but I'm sure there are other factors. The only clear thing is they've lost the support of the working class, but it's hard to nail down exactly why that is.
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@HenrySwanson I assume the Liberal Democrats are more...liberal than Labour? Less moderate? Is this a sign that the left in Britain is moving that much further left? I know European politics in general are skewed further left than America's but jeez, you've already got support for things like universal healthcare and university and that's not good enough for Labour which seems like the pro-union pro-workers rights moderate Democrat that you'd find here in the States. What more could the British left desire? Is the Labour party too practical and not idealistic enough which is a hallmark of further-left ideologies?
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