Over the past few years, I have visited several countries around the world and on every occasion, I’ve had strangers approach me to say they like what I have to say which as an MP would normally be music to my ears.
But these people are not talking to me as an MP but as someone who appears regularly on GB News. Its fair to say that wherever I go these days people recognise me as a GB News regular, yes people know I’m an MP but the questions I get asked are usually about GB News.
People will ask me ‘what’s Patrick like?’ or they will say ‘we love Nana’. ‘Jacob is great’, ‘We watch Nigel every night’ and ‘Lee, we watch you every Friday’.
Never has a TV News channel had so many different characters on from all walks of life beaming into our living rooms every day. Whenever I visit my parents or family, they will have GB News on in the background and its easy to understand why when you sit down and watch it or listen to it on the car radio.
The recipe is simple. People can get their daily fix of news, debate, current affairs, politics and a healthy dose of humour and heated conversations. All of this chucked together makes for compulsive TV and the fact its live TV as well makes it all the better.
So why does Ofcom seem intent on dragging GB News through the mire at every opportunity? I’ll tell you why, it’s because the station is the fastest growing news channel in the UK and is finally giving a voice to millions of people up and down the country who feel that the MSM does not speak to them.
This latest ruling over the debate with Rishi Sunak beggars’ belief. An audience was left to ask their own questions to our Prime Minister and Ofcom are stating that the PM was not challenged enough. What is Ofcom suggesting here? Are they suggesting that questions should be pre-prepared by the channel to try and catch the PM out?
GB News gives everyone a fair hearing, but the left does not like the fact that the right are allowed to air their views on Britain’s fastest growing news channel and go head to head with people from the left of politics.
Over the past few months, we have seen the banking scandal with Nigel Farage, the Natcon conference in Brussels which got cancelled and even my own GB News show received over 1600 complaints about my interview with Suella Braverman, and by the way most complaints made to Ofcom about my show were made before my show was aired. Free speech must be allowed to flow or else we are on a slippery slope to authoritarianism.
GB News offers something different, something that the establishment does not like. Well, they better get used to it.
