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New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

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    #5312
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,517 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118006452#Comment_118006452

    Still waiting on that evidence.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    #5313
    Padraig178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭Padraig178


    And back to the thread.

    An industry insider reckons Rupert Murdoch is paying £50million over 3 years to Piers Morgan for his nightly show which will be broadcast in the UK, US and Australia. Rupert at 90 negotiated the deal personally. Morgan is now the highest paid TV guy anywhere outside the US.

    Murdoch clearly thinks the GB News experiment is one worth following.



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    #5314
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,060 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    I was really missing Eskimo and Anne but thankfully someone new has come along who sounds just like them



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    #5315
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,623 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118006635#Comment_118006635

    Absence makes the heart grow fonder



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    #5316
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118006059#Comment_118006059

    But my point is Farage is adept at discerning the issues that really concern people not what we think should concern them.

    If this was the case, he would have been successful at least one of the times he tried to win a seat in Westminster.

    In fact, I would turn it completely around and suggest that he actually convinced people the EU did concern them and when others saw it as bogeyman by which they could finger point to distract attention away from themselves, it became something which crept over the line in 2016. And even so, it took the incompetency of David Cameron and the 'behind the scenes' work of data analysists to make it so.



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    #5317
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,623 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    https://twitter.com/hughquinn31/status/1447677454932381701

    😁😁



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    #5318
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,060 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118008422#Comment_118008422

    Maybe he could give us a rendition on the show after a few "India Pale Ales"

    The Wolfe Tones would surely be better guests than old timer darts man or whoever Osmonde from a few weeks back



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    #5319
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,301 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118008448#Comment_118008448

    Well he did try to have the racist wife beating had been comedian on, at least people knew who that scrote was.



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    #5320
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,039 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Farage is so sozzled these days he can't tell the difference between IPA and IRA 🤣

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



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    #5321
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,060 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118010550#Comment_118010550

    Maybe he thought it was short for CAMRA and he was showing support for Real Ale



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    #5322
    Padraig178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭Padraig178


    I checked in on GB News yesterday afternoon while channel-hopping the news of the murder of Sir David Amess and came across Arlene Foster anchoring the show with Liam Halligan.

    Considering she's new to the game she handled the breaking story pretty well - it looks like she's signed up for a regular Friday gig so an early baptism of fire.

    Didn't stay too long following the story on GB News as they obviously don't have the back-up to cover a big breaking story like the networks



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    #5323
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,861 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    News comes to GBNews. A novel idea.

    Wonder how this will affect the ratings.

    https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1450027519894249473



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    #5324
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118036081#Comment_118036081

    I'd be more interested in how it affects balance with regards to news impartiality regulations, and if it'll affect shows outside of the news bulletins because they're now offering actual news bulletins (rather than just being an opinion/debate channel).



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    #5325
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,517 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    So, they weren't even broadcasting news bulletins? No wonder it's a shambles.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    #5326
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,623 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Nigel is back again

    https://twitter.com/jankell21032905/status/1450604175503544328




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    #5327
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118049715#Comment_118049715

    Didn't his friends bomb a hotel down there once?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #5328
    pixelburp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,711 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118049775#Comment_118049775

    Oh yes. And a pretty Big Swing by the IRA as well, aiming itself at killing Thatcher and the UK cabinet. How Farage isn't being pulled through coals for this must purely come down to being yesterday's man.

    Unless, this is some kind of really deep, four dimensional play by him, a level of satire we can't comprehend. I don't understand the context from which he speaks; is it an Irish pub in the town or something? And to that, are they just trying their hand to see what Farage will say?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing




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    #5329
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,517 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I've been to that hotel for a conference. When I told some other attendees about the bombing, most of them had no idea it had even happened. Ireland is just a non-entity when it comes to English people's understanding of history, even their own.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    #5330
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,060 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118050248#Comment_118050248

    People in North England of a certain age remember Brighton. They tend to be more remorseful about Thatcher stepping out of the room than your average armchair republican



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    #5331
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,861 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118050610#Comment_118050610

    She didn't step out of her room, she was in her room preparing her speech for the party conference the following day. Her popularity soared after she defiantly went ahead with the conference after most advised it should be cancelled. She wasn't called the Iron lady for nothing, which has a better ring to it than the Coal Lady that northerners would have preferred I'm sure.



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    #5332
    ancapailldorcha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,517 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118050610#Comment_118050610

    Well, that'd make sense after what she did to the north. I'd expect the same from some of the older English as well. Not every day someone comes so close to killing a Prime Minister after all.

    Just, however low you set your expectations of how much English politicians know about Ireland and its history, lower them further. If the place wasn't called "Northern Ireland", none of them would have a clue where it was.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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    #5333
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,011 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    I remember the bombing quite well. My Saturday morning cartoons were interrupted by the sight of that cunt Norman Tebbit getting stretchered out of the hotel. 😄



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    #5334
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 42,039 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    If I recall correctly, for a very brief moment on live TV a certain part of his anatomy which was supposed to be hidden by his pyjamas, was not 😲

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



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    #5335
    marieholmfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117903595#Comment_117903595

    Just 'cause the Brits say it's faked doesn't mean it is. Remember Widgery and the Guildford 4?


    Didn't think so.



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    #5336
    marieholmfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118006032#Comment_118006032

    Larger than the EPP?


    Any proof of that?



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    #5337
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,060 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118056597#Comment_118056597

    That poster was banned (again) so you are gonna have to wait till his reincarnation with a new profile before you get your answer.

    Also most people don't know what the EPP or any other party is and don't actually realize that they are not just voting for FF or FG or whoever in a European election



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    #5338
    marieholmfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118056650#Comment_118056650

    Well more fool me for trying to correct someone on the internet; thanks for your intervention.



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    #5339
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,775 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It was refreshing to see David Starkey on Talking Pints last night - and it seems to have gone down well.

    Farage show now moves to a town or city throughout the UK each Thursday - and last night's was in Folkstone. The addition of the crowd makes an enormous difference, as sometimes watching the same set on GB News can become repetitive.

    In fact, I think it would be a wise move for GB News to give Starkey a history-style program each week; I can see it performing very well.

    I know Starkey isn't everyone's cup of tea and is often acid tongued. That said, he knows an enormous amount regarding UK history; as a passion for the subject; and this could be something that GB News benefits from.



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    #5340
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118059767#Comment_118059767

    I see.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #5341
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,689 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Ah yes Starkey man of the people , two posh lads taking to each other oh joy


    Starkey of the "slavery was not genocide so many damn blacks had survived"



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