The best place to start is always an analysis of the economic base.
Does this match with the showâs focus on the concerns of the British people?
As youâll see below, the two main funders are mega-rich New Zealand and US businessmen⌠/2
âCo-lead investor in GB News, is the New Zealand-born, Dubai-based Christopher Chandlerâ
âUS media group Discovery Inc is the other co-lead investor. Its significant shareholder is John Malone, the libertarian and erstwhile Murdoch cable rivalâ
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https://t.co/6KV6cJay6m
Still, at least ONE major investor is BritishâŚ
âThe channelâs third major investor is British businessman and philanthropist Sir Paul Marshallâ
According to Byline Times, Marshall is the man who convinced Michael Gove to throw his political weight behind Brexit... /4
Marshall's hedge fund âsuccessfully bet on the ensuing political and economic chaos after its initial big wins on Brexitâ
Meanwhile, he made clear that he is as avariciously âBritishâ as the rest of his investors byâŚâsetting up a fund in Dublin..."
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"...to avoid the impact of crashing out of the EU.â!
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https://t.co/9Pxl7cnhFd
So far we have hugely wealthy lovers of âfree marketsâ with only a tenuous connection to Britain
Not a great start, is it?
How about the claim that GB News will be âproudly independentâ and focus on âdebate that embraces all voices and opinions across Britainâ?
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This seems somewhat unlikely when ALL CONFIRMED STAFF SO FAR are right-wingers
GB News Chairman and lead presenter Andrew Neil made his name as Rupert Murdochâs lackey at the Sunday Times
As editor of The Sunday Times Neil boasted that âThatcherâs battles were our battlesâ
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As editor of the Sunday Times Neil was âa delirious sacker. He dumped so many people for being leftishâ
And:
âNotoriously, refused to accept the consensus view of Aids, promoting the idea that this was a disease of gay men and drug addicts..."
Quote continues next tweet /9
"...attacking official advice that heterosexuals too were at riskâ
Source: Davies, Nick., Flat Earth News
There's plenty of other evidence out there that Neil is a rabid right-winger (Spectator Chaiman, Iraq war), but what of the other lead recruits at GB News?
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"Chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos, a former boss of Sky News Australia"
"Rebecca Hutson who is joining as head of digital. The former Mail Online director of video will also appear on-air"
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https://t.co/f00I3Ldlwp
"Lucinda Duckett has been named director of corporate affairs and editorial advocacy. Duckett most notably spent 13 years at News Corp Australia"
John McAndrew, a former director of content at Sky News...named director of news and programmes"
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https://t.co/f00I3Ldlwp
Headline recruit for GB News is Dan Wootton
Wooton left Murdoch's Sun to join GB News
Simultaneously, he took up a position as a columnist with the Mail on Sunday...
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https://t.co/UbvHboPL8p
Can you see a pattern emerging here?
We suppose itâs possible that a TV show funded by mega-rich free market devotees and staffed by ex-Murdoch, News Corp, Daily Mail right-wingers will be âimpartialâ and embrace âall voices and opinionsâ
Actually, no we donât
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Still, at least lead man Andrew Neil is as British as they come:
âI get out of London as much as possible when Parliament is not sitting" Neil boasted in an Independent column on his French chateau.
"I either come here or go to New Yorkâ
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https://t.co/jjsKC841Pq
His New York apartment was purchased for a mere $3.2 million dollars, consolidating Neil's connection with the ordinary Brit
Said apartment is in Trump Tower, no less
Oh Andrew! You make it too easy!
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https://t.co/GP3LQS42V1
It appears that only ONE claim by GB News so far is true
They will be âfearless in tackling the issues people care about, especially in communities outside of Londonâ
As we've seen, the communities GB News will serve do indeed exist outside of London...
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With funding from wealthy investors in New Zealand and the US
Staffed by wealthy corporate journalists like Neil and Wootton, themselves part of globalised, jet-setting elite (Wootton is from New Zealand)
GB News will do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what it says it will...
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Rather than serving ordinary Britons, GB News WILL IMPOSE ON THEM the libertarian, free market perspectives conducive to members of a transnational, capitalist elite of which Andrew Neil is a part
The evidence is clear. It is in this thread.
RT to spread the word!