Open-mouthed Farage struggles to find his voice as GB News is caught between Trump, its viewers and reality

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1. All while making a loss, so the real answer is to shut down.

   But we all know it isn’t about operating for a profit. So the rulebook isn’t a normal one.

   The discourse from this is beneifical to their intent regardless.

2. “Let’s get this on record, we’re still at war with Japan”
   N.Farage, Feb, 2025

3. GB News should be thrown off the air, they’re more of a propaganda wing than a legitimate news source.

4. It’s a shame because we need a new party to genuinely challenge the three old ones but clearly Reform is never going to be it.

   If Farage opposed Putin and Trump unequivocally, he wouldn’t reduce support from existing Reform voters. Even those who didn’t agree wouldn’t stop voting for him on that alone. But by tacitly supporting Russia, Farage puts a very low ceiling on his possible vote share of probably 20-25%. Everyone else would vote against him, even if they agree with some of his other stuff like on immigration.

   If the establishment wanted to block a real opposition party to challenge the status quo, you couldn’t do better than Farage has done. He sucks you in by saying a few things to garner support but is otherwise so toxic that he’ll never get widespread support enough to win an election. He also taints the anti-mass immigration argument by association, because people will assume ‘anti-mass immigration = far-right’ and ‘far-right = you support Putin’ which doesn’t follow necessarily, but it is now a common belief in most people’s minds, and will be hard or impossible to shift. So who the hell has Farage served here.

5. Russian-compromised Reform are a huge risk to our national security.

   Do we really need Trump, Putin and Musk taking control of Trident? That’s the end game, and similar for Le Pen in France.

   We need a party who will take immigration seriously, but a party that is going to sell out the country is not it.

6. >The Farage mouth opened, Homer Simpson-style, in bemused astonishment at this challenge. “Let’s get this on the record,” he said. “We were still at war with Japan.”

   He does know that nobody in the UK was being bombed by Japan? Doesn’t he? Or is he really that stupid?

   I’m betting that he really is that stupid. We held elections when it was safe for our voters to vote. If he cannot admit that much then he’s as much a Russian asset as Trump even if he’s not being paid by them.

   That charlatans like this fuck have been getting any success makes me despair. Have our people got no pride? No backbone? Anyone voting for Reform is an idiot at best, traitor at worst.

7. I think its a source of national shame that it has any viewers at all.

8. GB News is a little like Sky News Australia.

   They are NOT the same as *actual* News stations like ITV or BBC.

   Say what you will about BBC and the likes, but they are NOT the same.

   All you have to do is watch. GB News is an opinion based show that is very, very biased. It is **not** a News station.

9. Open mouthed Farage, what did the camera’ s snap him catching flies?

10. The problem is, when you try to silence a proportion of society then channels like GB News materialise. It all started with people and more importantly our institutions, particularly banks (I should know I helped run two of the biggest in UK and the world) bringing about policy stating “you cannot say that”. As soon as the cancel culture was being adopted mainstream and your governments do not get a grip that when GBN and Farage gain popularity. Just look at the polls. So email your MPs and make sure they take note of your concerns before once again it becomes too late.

11. Boggles my mind that any old idiot can start spouting what people want like a snake oil salesmen and all it takes for people to accept is we can’t get any worse than we are now.

    The trump administration kind of disproves that idea, it can get a lot worse if you don’t be careful about what idiot you put in charge of a country.

12. Farage was on stage with Jordan Peterson yesterday saying that he didn’t believe in man-made Climate Change because Patrick Moore told him it might not be true 20 years ago. Sir Patrick Moore, who was an astronomer, not a Climate Scientist, and who’s been dead since 2012, so we don’t know if later information changed his mind.

13. good he doesnt deserve a voice if hes going to support the nazi and his fellow trash

14. The Guardian isn’t really a credible news source when it comes to Farage, it’s a bit like quoting a Telegraph article about how terrible asylum seekers are. Is there a better source for this? I’m sure Farage and Reform are trying to find a position where they can attract economic rightists and classic British conservatives, which Trump has made very difficult by jettisoning support for Ukraine. But he could give out millions to an orphanage and the G would find some angle to complain about him.

15. Farage the traitor can’t think for himself. The poodle of Trump who is a Russian spy. And he talks about British Sovereignty. Pft.

16. I’ve literally seen him disagree with Trump over his comments on Zelensky and the war in Ukraine what is this fake news? And I imagine most people would agree with Farage on his comments.

17. Nigel Garage has never let anything so bothersome as reality stand in his way.

18. When did GB news start letting reality get in the way of a good time?

19. GB News should consider trying to be a news and opinion channel rather than a mouthpiece for the far right. Even if it is a right wing stance, they could at least try and go for a stance they genuinely believe is the best for the country.

    I think we’re all aware that kowtowing to President Musk is not the best option.

20. The only reason GB News exists is because RT got taken off air

21. I assume the usual suspects from the Turkish immigrant’s post will not be on here?

22. “Reality” is that there needs to be a peace agreement in Ukraine.

23. Isn’t his party ahead of Tories and Labour according to recent polls?

24. The only time Farage is open mouthed is in between fellating fascists and the wealthy.

    R

25. Misleading caption. He’s hardly going to start caring about reality at this stage, is he?

26. Wonder when the “patriots” who vote reform are going to realise they are voting for a nazi.

27. Decide what is right and go with that.

    Change your mind if you discover different information.

    Farage has to work out where the votes are, it must be exhausting for him.

    Russia are communist and therefore bad, but trump not likes Russia, so we have to support Russia, but they are Communists, so have we changed our mind about that?

28. Something really gross about using the battle of Okinawa as a “gotcha” moment. Farage sucks.

29. GB news is a loss maker and rich right wing billionaires keep them afloat…if this country actually was not in cahoots with the rich these guys would be banned and lots of their anchors up for hate speech

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