GB News has hit back against Ofcom’s decision to uphold complaints about shows hosted by Tory MPs Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Esther McVey and Phillip Davies after the media regulator found five episodes breached broadcasting rules. The broadcaster has more on its website.
Ofcom announced the five episodes broke set rules due to politicians “acting as news presenters”.
However, GB News stressed the media watchdog’s ruling is based on arbitrary changes to how Ofcom determines impartiality.
A GB News spokesman said: “We are deeply concerned by the decisions Ofcom has made today.
“We will raise this directly with the regulator in the strongest possible terms.
“Ofcom is obliged by law to promote free speech and media plurality and to ensure that alternative voices are heard.
“Its latest decisions, in some cases a year after the programme aired, contravene those duties.
“Extraordinarily, Ofcom has determined that a programme which it acknowledges was impartial and lacking in any expression of opinion, still somehow breaches its impartiality rules just because an imaginary viewer might think otherwise.
“Ofcom has now arbitrarily changed the test so that it is no longer ‘Was it impartial?’ but ‘Could someone think it might not be?’
“This is a chilling development for all broadcasters, for freedom of speech, and for everyone in the United Kingdom.
“These decisions go against established precedent and raises serious questions about Ofcom’s oversight over its own regulations.
“It appears that Ofcom is trying to extend the regulations, rather than enforcing definitions which have been settled for many years.”
He added: “GB News is a regulated broadcast channel and takes its obligations very seriously.”
Worth reading in full.
The issue, apparently, is that politicians may host current affairs shows but are not allowed to host news programmes – and Ofcom claims the MPs’ shows would be understood by viewers as news programmes.
All five programmes in question contained a mix of news and current affairs content. We found that host politicians acted as newsreaders, news interviewers or news reporters in sequences which clearly constituted news – including reporting breaking news events – without exceptional justification. News was, therefore, not presented with due impartiality.
Stop Press: Jacob Rees-Mogg has responded to the ruling: “Old fashioned is usually good but Ofcom is antediluvian.”
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Short answer is no. Fascisms always implode when confronted by force. Net Zero, Gaia killing ‘green’ ‘energy’, the Rona, ‘The’ Science ™, the UN-WHO, are all the tyrannical whores dressed up in different technology and propaganda. The Reset will fail because there is no truth, no faith, no reason, in it. What is often missed is the obvious evil which is present. Masonic, Satanic, Pagan or other appellations if you prefer, but all baying for your blood and your demise and the end of your civilisation. This is as much a war of the spirt and mind, as it is of the physical and material. Arm yourselves. It is a long war. And yes, we the little people will win, because inevitably, truth and faith will re-emerge.
Indeed. These things go in cycles, with I think a general drift towards improvement over the very long term, for the reasons you state. The thing that worries me most is a little bit of complacency from some along the lines of “the technology to control everything is not ready yet”. This is clearly true, but the technology to control some things is already here and being used, and this can only get worse. So our only defence over the long term is ceaseless vigilance and pushing back. The longer we leave it, the worse it gets and the harder the job of fighting back.
Good to see what I think is a former Lockdown Sceptics regular BTL poster still going strong (unless I’ve got the wrong Rosie).
Hear, hear.
Excellent comment capturing the key dimensions.
Let’s not forget that the psychopathic luciferians with their bizarre, basic ideology have already lost – they’re but a mere ripple in the eternal realm of Spirit.
Let us meditate, in communion with the Eternal Light, exhaling Resilience, Love, Faith and Compassion for all sentient beings.
We, the little people, have never had to face a corrupt technocracy that controls nearly all forms of communication. It makes the struggle so much more difficult.
This is neo Fascism. Fascism of old was driven by government officials co-opting business and industry. This Neo Fascism is driven, in contrast, by the multinational businesses elites and power brokers more than the government officials. The agenda is not so clear because in truth there are multiple intertwined agendas united in the intent to increase the power making stranglehold through highly effective lobbying (Co-option) to shape legislation and recruit technocrats (like Fauci), influencing to the point of almost wholly setting the news agenda, and of course making money. There is at the top-level the agendas of Climate Change, (increasingly) food supply, Covid and the Military Industrial complex. Private equity to the tune of trillions of dollars unite each of these, which can perhaps more usefully be thought of as mechanisms of opportunity. ESG investment (Environmental, Social, Governanace) is a total anti ‘the masses” disaster which simply provides a mechanism for these private equity funds and the ultra rich elite to siphon the money that should be coming back to individual private investors and pension funds etc into new businesses owned owned by the private equity funds. Worse they are being supported willingly by the very many useful idiots who wholly believe these narratives in the masses. Business such as heat pump manufactures, insect food protein start-ups, farming land and land for wind farms, vaccine development and manufacture. But the technocrats have become too cocky and are overplaying their hand. The erstwhile “invisible hand” of the technocratic elite united in this exercise in shaping state power law and subsidy to bolster these businesses, has actually – since the pandemic – become highly evident and obvious to those prepared to look, think for themselves and question the narrative. The level of government sponsored and elite sponsored misinformation is now overwhelming. The fact we are being gaslit by government telling us it is we who are purveying the misinformation had gone far beyond credibility. The technocratic elites have stretched the membrane so far it is now transparent. All I need to say are the words “criminal, Nazi, terrorist Canadian truckers” and “emergency act,” or “safe and effective” to illustrate my point.
I agree with much of your commentary but wonder if you are not overstating the role of private equity in all of this. PE comprises around $6 trillion out of total global assets under management of around $120 trillion. So PE represents about 5% of global investment. I would have thought that the global asset managers, such as BlackRock, might be more involved in setting these global agendas than PE.
it is true. Nothing beats an in person event. A chance to meet up. I met people from other Together events, people I met during protests and new people.
A chance to exchange ideas.
I liked the point Frank Furedi made that politicians appear to have outsourced decision making to non-elected institutions, such as the EU, UN, WHO.
We do need to get more pro-active to be able to influence the future.
Whilst gatherings such as this are important for morale, my sense is that the majority of the population are drowning in ennui, just trying to keep their heads above water, caring for their families, surviving Covid hysteria and paying bills.
The 10% who control the corporations, the governments, the bureaucracy, the NGO’s are indefatigable.
We 10% who are red-pilled don’t hold the reins, and can only function as a resistance movement.
I don’t find the great reset helpful, net zero is actually the means by which serfdom is being imposed. Therefore we should fight that a d not this straw man the great reset which I believe is just a distraction from net zero. Net zero can be easily stopped with the right political will.
All part of the same bucket of excrement in my view.
I agree net zero is proving, practically speaking,the most powerful tool. The great Reset is a proposal with nebulous and not wholly coordinated command and control. No one actually thinks Klaus Schwab is actually stroking a cat while sitting in secret at the head of some table with billionaires sitting around it. Covid was temporarily the most powerful agenda but the people have grown wise to it and it’s largely lost it’s power now. My hope is that, through the energy crisis and having become more aware of the control mechanisms (censorship, legislation, social pressure through social media, the desire to project a virtuous persona, taxes, subsidy, “social justice” lawmaking), people will find some of the shine has come off the whole climate change agenda and the stitches are beginning to unravel.
Good point – probably better as a matter of tactics to focus on specifics, especially specifics that are hitting people where it hurts.
You win a war by being cautious about the battles you fight, and by winning one battle at a time.
Was there any discussion about the creation of a new political party in the UK? Pierre Poilievre’s promise to his followers that he will have no minister with connections to the WEF and his subsequent election as leader of his party was a very welcome development.
The fact that articles like this are still postulating, while the thing and all the proponents of the thing are actually happening, might go some way to answering the headline question.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” Karl Rove – Bush jnr’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.
I don’t think the empire he was referring to was the United States. But a supranational empire, which through the weight of its assets held via corporations and foundations now control the global narrative. Our (ordinary people) role is to keep providing the ‘reaction’ to the ‘problem’, which we are steered towards, so the ‘solution’ can be implemented.
The goal is global enslavement. Just as it is says in the Bible.
Its a really hard really bitter pill to swallow and the idea is so crackpot and so hair brain that it can’t be true. Can it? This is the essence of the article.
The events in Revelations and Yeshua Messiah’s words in Matthew 24 can and will only happen in a fully globalised world. Throughout the course of history since and before Christ the world has been continually moving in that direction; recently with frightening acceleration.
Man has never before controlled the world under a single unified system. I can only speak for myself, because I know I would never have believed The Word unless I came to understand it on my own terms. But as a former devout rationalist I can testify it takes a giant slice of humble pie to embrace a position I once believed false, backward and ignorant, to discover the reverse is true and I was in error.
I never thought I would see the day when Russia was the best bet in the fight for traditional values.
A US Congressman (Ruskin) said:
“Russia is an Orthodox country professing traditional values. That is why it must be destroyed, no matter what price the US pays for it.”
I’m doing my best to fight-back, following the steps being recommended by The Global Walkout as best and as much as I realistically can. The members of our small SitP Group are all doing our best to, at the very least, delay their plans.
https://globalwalkout.com/about-the-global-walkout/
The problem with in-person events is that they are generally held in central London and occasionally in other large cities such as Manchester. Attendance isn’t practical and/or affordable for me … or, I suspect, many others.
They’re Deliberately Destroying Britain – Will the Zombies Ever Wake up?
https://expose-news.com/2022/10/31/theyre-deliberately-destroying-britain/
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I started to read that but only to the point where that tired old chestnut of US ignorants unwilling to and probably incapable of learning anything about the world beyond their wasteline popped up – the hypothetical blending of governments and multinational corporations they like to call fascism. Guys, The world may well be in need of saving. But not by horses who confuse the inside of the blinders they joyfully wear with the sky. These are just useful for their masters.
Mussolini’s corporate state was patterned on the medieval guild system and its corporations were supposed to be bodies of craft and tradesmen of various professions, generalized to all relevant sectors of a national society. This has absolutely nothing to do with present-day multinational companies who happen to be legally incorporated and are hence also called corporations.
I think I get now why they are allowing the “migrant crisis”. “Look”, they can say, ” these people go to work in the illegal economy, cash in hand. Abolish cash and the problem goes away”. Make the “crisis” bad enough and maybe people will accept this. CBDC here we come!
The ‘great reset’ is already an irreversible catastrophic failure. The hubris of the criminals is being destroyed by the sweetest rising Nemesis in all history.
But, if we believe in all this (the Great Reset Agenda), which I do, where do we go from here?
I agree with some comments below, that this is a war against humanity, spiritual as much as anything, if not more. And, as others have said, some of the stuff (eg ID passes) is well along the way already. As Simon Elmer says, convenience brings compliance. You only have to see that from May 2023 the EU are introducing facial recognition and fingerprinting to realise this – people will comply because they want to travel. The James Delingpole podcast with Simon Elmer is well worth listening to and his book ‘The Road to Fascism‘ should be read.
If Elon Musk was on charge, life would be so much easier. There would be no more klaus whatever and his crew of trained chimps. Who know, they may all dissolve as the requests for amnesty are coming in thick and fast and as the owner of space X, and now twitter get our party going
Schwab, Gates, Soros et al, look very close to shuffling off this mortal coil, so I’m not worried and as for all the joke governments of the world supported by their very own version of Keystone Cops. Rest easy folks. Example: £36B wasted on “Track n Trace”……remember