GB News is under attack - everybody can see that there is a concerted attempt by establishment figures and hard-left activist groups to shut us down.
The latest Ofcom ruling against GB News is chilling. To be clear, Ofcom has decided that ordinary, normal people - undecided voters - who were selected by an independent company and asked questions to the Prime Minister that we were not allowed to see or vet in advance somehow breached their broadcasting code.
They say that the Prime Minister’s views were uncontested. Really?
Over the course of an hour The Prime Minister was grilled on chronic underfunding for social care, the housing shortage, the failure of the Rwanda Plan and LGBT rights. How can that possibly be a breach of impartiality rules?
We go to extreme lengths to provide balance - my show on Thursday night included two card-carrying members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, one of the most-booked guests on the channel is a left-wing immigration lawyer, LGBT activist Peter Tatchell appears all the time, on tonight’s show there is a member of the Labour Party on my sofa, on Michelle Dewberry’s show this evening the founder of hard-left Novara Media was fulfilling his role as a regular panelist.
Ofcom may say they received 547 complaints about People’s Forum with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, but it is about time that people knew the truth about why GB News and no other broadcaster ends up with this amount of complaints.
There are people who watch GB News 24/7 with the sole intention of finding a piece of content that they don’t like so they can gratuitously report it to Ofcom. They will clip it up and try to spread it as far and wide as possible and include a link beneath it about how to complain.
When the then Tory Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson interviewed then Home Secretary SUELLA BRAVERMAN. A social media campaign BEFORE that show went to air, contributed to the 1,600 complaints Ofcom received about it.
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This is what we're up against. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people make spurious complaints about things that are yet to be broadcast, but they have already decided they hate. This is not about due impartiality, it's about shutting us down.
Of course Ofcom, rightly, decided Mr Anderson's show hadn’t actually breached any rules because, shock horror, we had people on the show who had the polar opposite views to both the presenter and Mrs Braverman.
But this is what we’re up against. In the case of the Prime Minister’s People’s Forum, I think Ofcom got it badly wrong, but in general they have a very difficult time because there are thousands of people who never watch a minute of GB News, who don’t actually see the content, but nonetheless submit relentless complaints to try to get us shut down.
They want to flood Ofcom with thousands and thousands of complaints to make dealing with us a full-time job in the hope that eventually they snap and just shut us down. And they only want to attack us…
What’s the balance like on BBC Question Time? The BBC is allowed to investigate itself. What’s the balance like on Channel 4?
I look forward to their election night coverage including, Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart, Emily Maitlis and Claire Balding, fronted by Cathy Newman and Krishna Guru-Murthy, a man who actually got caught on a hot mic calling a Conservative MP a see you next Tuesday on the steps of Downing Street.
There is no way on earth that we’d get away with that.
Channel 4 had Sir KEIR STARMER on doing a lovely personality puff piece yesterday cooking a Tandoori Salmon.
That is a promotional job for the Labour Party.
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Let me be very clear about this: GB News is under attack, there is a campaign to silence us, that campaign started before we’d even launched as a TV channel, politically motivated activists just want us gone. Everyone can see through that. Ofcom needs to see through that as well.
I will never, ever, ever stop fighting for the rights of ordinary people in Britain to have a television station that truly represents them.
