Some of his comments do seem like that. But this is his employer. He must be pretty sheltered from the real World if he thinks GB News is normal or even looking to platform a wide variety of opinion. Fact is, he doesn’t care and is deceiving himself. He’s gone over the Victor Meldrew event horizon. He’ll find out.
I suspect it says more about how much attention he has been paying than anything else. i.e. not very much.
He’s very active on social media, but for sometime even before then he has had a bee in his bonnet, for example about the BBC not using him (as if several decades isn’t enough) or about criticism of his fading output and relevance. He’s found a way to put himself at the centre again. It’s a shame and dishonest how he does it, for example by saying how everyone would be offended by the scene in Life of Brian where Eric Idle’s character announces he wants to live as a woman. No one is particularly, even if a production or two thinks about cutting it. There was also the revisiting of Manuel and the odd Fawlty Towers thing. He should have been like the Pogues when they gracefully accepted that ‘faggot’ didn’t need to carry on in their lyrics. Still enjoy his stuff, but his personal schtick is very stale.
"Boss, I can't find anything to write about that'll get people irrationally enraged and moaning online." "Hmm. Find something that maybe happened once as an isolated incident, even if it was a kid taking the piss out of an exam invigilator. Pretend that it happens everywhere all of the time, and add in a dollop of 'everything was better in my day' and 'kids are stupid now', along with the usual 'the world is going to **** and it is all the marxists doing'. That'll work."
I didn't spot this, so apologies for my late comment, but as a member on the committee of our residents association, about 40% of our residents are Hindu and there really is a massive Rishi effect. Which is of course tragic.
I long for the day when religion can be properly separated from politics. It's time the church was separated as a example. What were your feelings about the way the council was run prior to the last election?
Nobody is ever really happy with what they have, but things have gone seriously downhill over the last year. We do our own litter picks and there is much more crap now. The pavements and gutters are a jungle of weeds, and the number of addicts and mentally ill people on the streets waiting for their drug dealers to arrive has gone through the roof. May be a coincidence...
There was something on the R4 a while back looking at Conservative candidates/sitting MPs/councillors in areas with significant South Asian populations. The Tories were going to all the Modi/BJP meetings they could in these communities showing their support and it was driving Sikh community workers/leaders (in Luton, Leicester and Slough) mental as it was driving yet another wedge between community cohesion.
It’s an extraordinary lie. The March is not going to the Cenotaph and its timing is well after the minute’s silence. But no senior politician will call this fascist rousing bs out. We so badly need change in this Country.
Why would there be a riot at a Cenotaph? In fact, why would there be a riot anywhere? It's such dangerous fearmongering. The police can only ban a march like this under very limited circumstances. If they get it wrong, they'll be judicially reviewed after the event, rack up a massive legal bill and could even be susceptible to other legal action by the organisers. Braverman can keep trying to goad the police into asking to ban it but it's naked politicking of exactly the sort the the police are there to rise above.
The flaw in their evil scheming is that the knuckle dragging boneheads of the EDL and "Football Lads" will congregate to protect the Cenotaph and have no one to fight except themselves and the police.
And it’s working in a very superficial sense, with 50% of those polled saying that Pro-Palestinian marches should be banned on Armistice Day. But I wonder on what information that is based? If people knew that the march was after the silence, was nowhere near the Cenotaph, would they feel the same? Do they know the Lord Mayor’s Parade is taking place in London during the silence? Have they considered that Britain will be going about its day on Saturday variously going to football, shopping, drinking, betting, watching porn etc? https://news.sky.com/story/israel-g...e-banned-on-armistice-day-poll-finds-13003438
I don’t disagree that the rally should be allowed to go ahead as I believe in freedom of speech. What I don’t agree with is the pro terror group chanting, chanting death to Jews and the minority that glorify the massacre that happened on October 7th. Unfortunately this just can’t be policed as the numbers are too large my only other comment is, if I went on a rally, and found I was walking alongside the BNP then I wouldn’t attend the following week
The Police have dealt with a few similar incidents, but the actual clear reports of such behaviour have not been widespread. I think many of the other marchers would not put up with it. I hope the Police don’t either. Join the counter demonstrations and you certainly would be marching with the BNP now the Home Secretary and Tommy Robinson have put them on high alert.
I understand my social media timeline will be very different from yours but it’s definitely not just a handful of people and appears to be a large minority. And there aren’t many people discouraging them unfortunately the police find it difficult to police. This minority, glorifying the beheading of children, are on par with the worst fascists.
That behaviour is completely unacceptable. I recognise that there are also some people who may not be antisemites, but have barely engaged with what went on Oct 7th. If people want to take sides they need to confront the realities on all sides.
The Mail’s poppy seller, who was allegedly attacked during a pro-Palestinian march in Edinburgh last weekend and then stuck on Tuesday’s front page, turns out to be a massive Walter Mitty. No assault, say the Polis after scrutinising video and talking to witnesses. Jim Henderson, the poppy seller, turns out to be a well-known ‘character’ who wears an SAS beret one day and one for the Marines the next. Was actually in the Signals. The impact of the Mail’s hasty and poorly researched article has been to scare poppy sellers off the streets. Rarely has a soldier so unerringly aimed at their feet. The Mail and its like-minded papers ruin everything, even the things they claim to respect.
Exactly this. They've created almost from scratch a self-fulfilling prophecy. And all just to sell some newspapers and get some online clicks to drive ad revenue. "Where have all the poppies gone?" said the Sun yesterday. I mean other than lamposts, postboxes, vehicles, every tv personality, the usual tin and box in every supermarket, school and hospital and various niche displays too, they're no where.
I was of the opinion that Braverman should be sacked, but it turns out a whopping 78% think she should stay in post. I don’t think you can argue against those kind of percentages, so I take it all back. https://x.com/gbnews/status/1722910181338517676?s=46&t=oqOMSJXE_g7J5C7kNPG9LA
Always out of touch, Moose. Call yourself a man of the people? In seemingly unrelated news we had a Labour canvasser around this morning. I wonder if there is a connection?
Oh dear. It's chilling to remember just how expensive libel actions are these days. Laurence Fox in libel battle over Twitter row
Absolutely astonishing piece from NewsQuest (ISTR that a NewsQuest hack wasn't paid for in Herts - it went to a 'Reach' 'journalist') concerning possibility of the BBC reviewing its funding for the Local Democracy Reporter Scheme (LDRS): Opinion: BBC now a threat to all local newspapers
