Andrew Neil’s GB News provides a welcome alternative to the mainstream liberal media. But despite its anti-establishment pro-Brexit pedigree and its admirable defence of free speech, its ‘war on woke’, GB News remains distinctly liberal – or at least global liberal – in its outlook. For Neil and his friends, the purpose of Brexit was to liberalise trade, open-up world markets, and make Britain – sorry Global Britain – a haven for foreign investment (that is, asset stripping) and imported skilled labour, the ‘brightest and best’ from around the world (so that we need not invest in our own people). The purpose of social policy, meanwhile, is solely to ‘level up’, that is, to pursue the utopian meritocratic dream that makes of life a perpetual rat race and of our ruling class a meritocratic elite.
As for the concerns of traditional Tories, social conservatives, and not a few traditional Labour supporters, which centre on identity, culture, local community, tradition, reciprocal obligations, and English patriotism, along with the accompanying need to curb mass immigration and promote assimilation into the host culture (something that used to be taken for granted, and still is in non-Western cultures), there is silence. These remain firmly beyond the pale. For Neil and his co-presenters, the cult of diversity, multi-culture and difference remains sacrosanct.
The contrast with France’s alternative news channel CNews could not be greater. Every evening, Eric Zemmour, France’s most celebrated Gaullist (far-right ideologue to those of the liberal Left), essayist, Figaro columnist, author of the best-selling Le Suicide français, and much touted prospective presidential challenger to Macron, holds court on the debate show Face à L’Info expounding his views at length and fielding questions from the other panellists. Zemmour’s record of prosecutions sustained for inciting hatred, racism, Islamophobia etc. (for example, for pointing out that most drug dealers are Black and Arab) is impressive – the courtroom is almost his second home. That the show’s presenter, Christine Kelly, is black is also a nice touch.
To give a flavour of it, this evening’s discussion turned to Macron’s disapproval of teenage girls wearing skimpy clothing to school. Zemmour said he sided with the president, but that since certain dress codes accompanied any civilization, and marked one’s membership of it, Muslims ought to conform to French norms. Islamic dress in France simply relayed the message ‘I do not wish to be part of your civilization’. It was not a token of freedom of expression, as naïve Islamo-Leftists (Islamo-gauchistes) like Jean-Luc Mélenchon argued, but a totalitarian imposition, an expression of blind submission to Islam.
What impresses about the French show is that Zemmour can expound his views at length and that he is listened to respectfully, not because he is surrounded by admirers, but because he is expounding a coherent intellectual position (Gaullist or old Tory as opposed to liberal) amply justified with references to political philosophy, literature, history, and culture. In this country, he would hardly be able to complete a sentence before the thought police screamed ‘racist!’ and banned him – as Nigel Farage and David Starkey were banned, censored, cancelled, for daring to criticise the BLM movement.
Yesterday evening, Zemmour argued that since statistics showed that nearly all attacks on women on French public transport were committed by immigrants, his calling for an end to immigration marked him out as the true Feminist. Who would dare express such sentiments, or be allowed to express them, on GB News? It would be an offence against multiculturalism and diversity of the first order.
Naturally, the mainstream French media condemn CNews for being ultra-conservative, discriminatory, Islamophobic and racist – the French equivalent of Fox News. But the channel’s enormous popularity and appeal to viewers of all political persuasions seems to bear out the view of Serge Nedjar, its director general, that CNews has no political affiliation, rather it merely tackles the topics – law and order, immigration, identity, and of course Islam – that most French people want to see aired.
Alas, there is no equivalent of Zemmour in Britain. Farage is a good populist, a charmer with ‘the gift of the gab’, but he does not measure up intellectually. Starkey has the intellectual ballast but is prickly and lacks the common touch. In any case, soundbites and slogans have long displaced ideas in our political debate. But what if a new discussion show were launched with Farage and Starkey as co-presenters, focusing on the topics of law and order, immigration, identity, and Islam? With GB News ratings reportedly plummeting, this might just be the nuclear option that is needed. Ratings would soar. How long the show would last before the Ofcom censors stepped in is another matter. But if GB News truly stands for free speech, and not just another brand of liberalism, then the stand must be made.
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Monteith, if like Zemmour and Powell you’re racist – who believes Whites and others are defined and seperate biological races with differing characteristics, then why don’t you accept this and be done with it rather than all this pussy footing?
If you’re not, then what’s this? What’re you crying about?
Must distinguish between racism and race realism, and act on this reality. That is, if one seeks to do good in the world, and maintain the safety and welfare of one’s family, and provide for the greater good of humankind, while always seeking to advance to self-sufficiency, and to flourish as a full human being.
Good news. Farage has been given his slot on GB news. Now, who has Starkey’s phone number? I see Katie Hopkins has just been expelled from Australia. Throw her in too – with a black co-presenter, of course.
Trevor Phillips?
P.S. According to their Web site at http://www.gbnews.uk, they have nineteen leading presenters, three of whom (Inaya Folarin Iman, Mercy Moroki and Nana Akua) are black females, but there are no black males. In the interests of compulsory diversity, Trevor Phillips needs to be recruited instanter!
“Throw her in too”
Yes! She, Hopkins, is so stupid she’ll bankrupt them. Even Jan Moir has managed to keep a column at Daily Mail.
Recent mid-July news about GB News is significant. Woke has put in a spoke.
Incidentally, did you notice that a Minister in the Crony Government spoke of “unlawful views”. Incitement, threat and defamation can be illegal, but…”opinions”?
Diverse examples? (1) Stalin did not kill as many as 20 million Russians; (2) The Tories are useless; (3) Allah is imaginary; (4) Jared Diamond is a great anthropologist; (5) Rap is better than Classical music; (6) It always snows in winter; (7) Cannabis causes mental illness; (8) Zionists are racist; (9) Zionists are anti-racist; (10) Space travel is a waste of money so long as there is one hungry baby in the world; (11) The earth is flat; (12) Laetrile cured my cancer; (13) Felching is fun; (14) Hitler painted some nice pictures; (15) Diet Pepsi tastes horrible.
A racist rat is slipping visibly out of the wokist bag. Past “slavers” or present “saviours”, the “white people” are “evil” – it is in “our DNA” we are now told. See e.g. Jared Taylor, “Some crazy things…”, American Renaissance, 9 July, online. Will the self-induced western “baby bust” (see e.g. New Statesman,9 July] be enough to vacate our territories totally for new masters? Some people saw it coming, long before WW2 and “decolonisation”; see e.g. William McDougall, “Ethics & Some Modern World Problems” (London: Methuen, 1925).
Worth passing on here is the following unusual quotation from the unlikely source of The Economist, 19 June (p.30): “This obsession with the past [whites-only slavery and imperialism] is part of a bigger project of deconstructing Western power. This means tearing down structures that, supposedly, continue to oppress everybody other than heterosexual white males…. The showdown that would inevitably follow any such deconstruction would…flatten ordinary Britons.”
You are right, but your final paragraph highlighted the problem. GB news cannot fall foul of OFCOM. Since in this country everything that is not woke and liberal DOES fall foul of OFCOM, GB news are in a double bind. Either they limit what they say or they will be fined so much that they won’t be able to continue broadcasting. Welcome to Marxist UK.
We may be in for a “long night” from London to Ottawa, if not Budapest or Copenhagen, but the advice I have offered publicly and personally, especially for well over ten years on the internet, remains: (1) Have more healthy white children, (2) protect and promote the western heritage wherever possible, & (3) master the technology as well as content of cyber communication. Never give in, and never give up.
The evidence from recent decades is:
A few odd statements on TV in defence of and/or support for the essentials underlying factors of Western Civ do not seem to help the cause very much, if at all.
Patriotism and libertarianism are uneasy bedfellows. Which would Brillo Neil prefer to have the upper hand?
Great idea to have Farage and Starkey on the telly. Together they would probably just talk past each other but a show each would be good. Starkey could front a remake of Clark’s ‘Civilisation’ whereas Nige could have a chat show called ‘It’s my round!’ If they can’t afford a special studio set I’m sure they could borrow the Rovers Return or the Queen Vic.
Throw in Rod Liddle and Katie Hopkins too, though probably not on the same show. I used to enjoy Hopkins on LBC before she got the chop for voicing what most ordinary people think, a natural presenter like Farage. A pity that Chris Hitchens is no longer around to lay into Islam.
Liddle has been told to watch his step, and his comments on the “England” soccer team suggest he is doing so. He is about the only exception to the wokism of The Times newspaper group, though his reiterated enthusiasm for Israel probably helps there. The problem with TV programmes is that they are often set up, recorded and edited. Just occasionally there is a breakthrough; e.g. Lionel Shriver on Hard Talk. Still, nil desperandum, as they say in ebonic.