Peter Andre on GB News

@Sillypede this thread has covered a lot of ground to get from Peter Andre to ending homelessness via the gender debate, free speech and 70s porn.

You think most people are homeless because there aren't enough homes?
That's like thinking people starved in Ireland because they didn't have enough potatoes to eat.

While it's true we haven't built anywhere near enough social housing for decades, nobody is homeless because they can't find housing, it's because they can't afford it. The stats for Nov 2023 show almost 250,000 empty homes just in England. ( that includes Airbnb's left empty for 6 months)

It's a while ago, but if I recall correctly Labour's plan was actually costed, it involved closing down tax avoidance, an offshore tax levy, reversing tax giveaways & charging VAT on private schools.

Part of the strategy was to aquire 8000 homes (it'd have to be more now) as well as fixing inequalities in our system that lead people into homelessness. Levelling the gap between local wages and rental prices etc.

If you are going to keep repeating it, please spell TikTok correctly!

Just because ‘most’ people do something, it doesn’t mean it is right though. It does not surprise me that GBN is popular, looking around at people in the UK today. As I told my kids when they were little, just because ‘everyone’ is doing it, you don’t have to follow.

The 70s started 54 years ago. What's your point?

No it isn’t.

I was a boy in the 70s, not a bloke.

But you're an old white man?

I'm very happy you grew up in an environment where porn wasn't readily available, where half the boys had access to their dad's porn stash and your daily paper didn't have page 3. Or where the kids at school would sneak in copies of Mayfair and Penthouse to show to curious kids and your weekend job didn't involve counting cash in a room with a porn calendar hanging on the wall.

I didn't, so what point do you think you're making?

It’s still racist.

And you typed your message today as a grown man - or as I like to say, a bloke?

My point still stands.

I was a boy in the 70s, not a bloke.

Where did I say anyone disagreeing with me is talking nonsense?
What I don’t like is far right rhetoric dressed up as ‘news’.

😂

Is that you Angela?

Well crack on and have a nice day with you belief that any one who disagrees with you is talking nonsense. For me if some one makes a claim I like them to back it up with facts, but hey ho were all different I suppose.

Have a lovely evening.

OK. It’s fabulous and well balanced.
We both know this is nonsense, but it’s what you want to believe, so crack on. I’ll stop arguing.

Only a bloke would say that watching porn was 'unavoidable'! I was around in the 70s too and I managed it...

Okay so please provide evidence, that their news broadcast sections do not provide unbias news? You know that actual news broadcast with specialist news broadcasters not the presenters.

So not a good place to go for unbiased news?
Which is my only point.

You:
Are you quite alright?
You stated it’s vision was to be a news channel featuring the entire political spectrum

Me:
I was in favour of it from day 1, because the original remit was to have news and debate on current affairs featuring all sides of the political spectrum.

Yes I'm quite alright. Glad not to be looking foolish currently. How are you though?

Again as you quite clearly do not understand or deliberately ignoring the FACTS, "GBN isn’t a news channel, OFCOM say so.", OFCOM have never made that decision or said that and never will, GBNEWS itself registered itself as a weekly topical debate programme with OFCOM. They said from day one that they were.

They also have sections of actual news broadcasts, but you don't watch it do you, so you would not know.

Eh? I’m really not sure what your point is.
It seems to be they aren’t a news channel but they do present news. So why call themselves GB NEWS ? BBC News, Sky News etc - just news. GB News - mostly not news. Why?

Are you quite alright?

You stated it’s vision was to be a news channel featuring the entire political spectrum

The fact it’s been so terribly biased it can’t even call itself a news channel clearly shows that the original vision has failed

The fact they pay Lawrence Fox a salary is deplorable, anyone agreeing to work for GB news is directly and indirectly supporting people like that and Farage.

Hence why people don’t think highly of those who do appear or host programs. Even if they themselves aren’t a compete asshole

Are you confusing BBC News with news on the BBC?
News channels don’t get anywhere near the numbers news bulletins on the main channels get. Most people don’t use them.
And anyway, GBN isn’t a news channel, OFCOM say so. So why, in your opinion, do they call themselves one?

But it does have news broadcasts on it, and they discuss current news affairs in-between. So people will naturally get news off it as they have legitimate news broadcasts. So yet again you are wrong.