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Peter Andre on GB News

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Laughattheloons · 06/04/2024 23:17

This has thrown me. I’ve just seen a TikTok about it. Obviously not a Peter fan but always just assumed he was a decent good guy. Clearly not. I can never ironic Mysterious Girl again

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MarjorieOsborne · 07/04/2024 19:41

Otherstories2002 · 07/04/2024 18:22

No it isn’t.

Are you going to explain why you think it's perfectly fine to slur a particular group of people?

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 07/04/2024 19:52

Sillypede · 07/04/2024 17:56

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

So what? Porn was not unavoidable. You chose not to avoid it.

Sillypede · 07/04/2024 20:09

Livelovebehappy · 07/04/2024 19:41

But these houses are not available. They’re empty for various reasons such as elderly residents in care, airbnbs, second homes, probate. No government is going to go down the route of removing homes from people who own them. There’s so many stages which councils would have to go through to take ownership of these empty properties. The majority of people homeless are not in that position due to unaffordable housing. And Labours costing plans you’ve described won’t come close to taking charge of these 250000 properties. More likely they would increase tax on the the middle earners, because there’s only so much you can squeeze from the top earners, and with the utopia they’ve promised us, their costings won’t touch the sides.

This was 2017/2019. It's not my suggestion btw and we don't need 250,000 homes to end homelessness. I'd simply level an exit tax on wealth, the same as they have in the USA and raise the estimated 70-130 billion from a tax on 1% of the UKs wealthiest. That would only affect people with over 3.4million, on a sliding scale.

Unlike austerity, nobody would have to die or be plunged into poverty to pay for our shockingly poor economic failings. We could even start funding luxuries like the NHS and education property.

Yes, I know all the objections, but Ben Tippet etc can give you the rebuttals, I'm done with this bonkers thread.

Sillypede · 07/04/2024 20:12

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 07/04/2024 19:52

So what? Porn was not unavoidable. You chose not to avoid it.

Some of it, not all of it. Are you saying there shouldn't be restrictions on the accessibility to porn for children because they choose not to avoid it?

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 07/04/2024 20:16

Sillypede · 07/04/2024 20:12

Some of it, not all of it. Are you saying there shouldn't be restrictions on the accessibility to porn for children because they choose not to avoid it?

What? What on earth are you on about?

How on earth do you come to the conclusion that I think there should be no restrictions on porn just because you were "incapable" of avoiding it?

I think porn should be banned. Perhaps unrealistic but I detest the conceot of porn and its apologists.

Otherstories2002 · 07/04/2024 20:40

MarjorieOsborne · 07/04/2024 19:41

Are you going to explain why you think it's perfectly fine to slur a particular group of people?

Am I going to explain why those who hold the power aren’t marginalised?

MarjorieOsborne · 07/04/2024 20:46

Otherstories2002 · 07/04/2024 20:40

Am I going to explain why those who hold the power aren’t marginalised?

I asked you a perfectly simple question, but as is the norm for the left you reply with a question.

So, try again...

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 07/04/2024 20:47

Otherstories2002 · 07/04/2024 20:40

Am I going to explain why those who hold the power aren’t marginalised?

That doesn't answer the question you were asked.

Otherstories2002 · 07/04/2024 21:57

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 07/04/2024 20:47

That doesn't answer the question you were asked.

I don’t agree.

Otherstories2002 · 07/04/2024 21:58

MarjorieOsborne · 07/04/2024 20:46

I asked you a perfectly simple question, but as is the norm for the left you reply with a question.

So, try again...

You really shouldn’t make assumptions about people.

domineastronomy · 07/04/2024 23:06

Free Speech Nation is definitely worth watching if you care about women and children.

Jumpingthruhoops · 07/04/2024 23:36

Laughattheloons · 06/04/2024 23:43

Totally this! It's so tedious how people continue to rubbish GBN just because it dares to do something vaguely different.
Can't work out why people get so triggered by a channel they deem so irrelevant

being different is fine. gammon Fascist not so much so

@Februaryfeels ive no idea what you’re on about ‘secret squirrel’?? Trying to get attention? Nope just posting like everyone else on here.

Can you give me an example of something he's said that makes him a *'gammon fascist'?

(*I always find that anyone using that term ends up looking worse than the person they're insulting).

Jumpingthruhoops · 07/04/2024 23:48

hattie43 · 07/04/2024 02:23

I'm not triggered , I watch it regularly, never considered Eamon Holmes , Alistsir Stewart , Stephen Dixon , Isobel Webster far right .
I've learnt more from GB news than any other news channel , they covered the post office scandal before it was a high profile issue , WASPi women , cladding scandal, leasehold issues , so many things .

Well, no, because as you've explained, you watch it, and there's a lot you like.

I'm referring to those who get triggered by the mere mention of it, and immediately dismiss it as 'far-right nonsense' despite barely having watched 10 mins of it!

Jumpingthruhoops · 08/04/2024 00:01

JoeLovesGina · 07/04/2024 07:43

I find it very sad that people are watching and enjoying GB News without being able to spot its extreme right agenda.

It's spreading hate by stealth, dressed up as news, when in fact it's opinions and extremely toxic ones at that.

Are you able to provide examples of what you mean by 'extreme right agenda'?
The few times I've watched it, the presenters/commentators are looking at things from a common sense perspective.
I find it most bizarre how common sense and critical thinking is now considered 'far right'.

Jumpingthruhoops · 08/04/2024 00:08

hattie43 · 07/04/2024 09:01

It doesn't have a right wing agenda , that's a myth peddled by lefties . This country has gone so liberal anything left of centre is now ' right wing ' . Lots of people are just pleased to have a channel that speaks common sense .

It's a lot like the mail , MN, vilifies it yet everyone seems to read it and link to it . GB news is just the same , closet viewers

This! 🎯

Iamtheoneinten · 08/04/2024 00:08

Sillypede · 07/04/2024 18:23

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

So did I. I still managed to avoid Porn. What’s your point? Ffs.

MarjorieOsborne · 08/04/2024 09:14

Otherstories2002 · 07/04/2024 21:58

You really shouldn’t make assumptions about people.

The fact that you refuse to answer a simple question makes it very easy to make assumptions about you.

MarjorieOsborne · 08/04/2024 09:17

Jumpingthruhoops · 08/04/2024 00:01

Are you able to provide examples of what you mean by 'extreme right agenda'?
The few times I've watched it, the presenters/commentators are looking at things from a common sense perspective.
I find it most bizarre how common sense and critical thinking is now considered 'far right'.

Exactly. It demonstrates just how indoctrinated the left have become.

Otherstories2002 · 08/04/2024 09:43

MarjorieOsborne · 08/04/2024 09:14

The fact that you refuse to answer a simple question makes it very easy to make assumptions about you.

The fact that you think I owe you anything says a lot about you.

MarjorieOsborne · 08/04/2024 10:06

Otherstories2002 · 08/04/2024 09:43

The fact that you think I owe you anything says a lot about you.

Really? There's only one reason why you won't answer a simple question and that's because it will confirm that you're a massive hypocrite.

Ramalangadingdong · 08/04/2024 10:30

Sillypede · 07/04/2024 18:57

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.

And it's so weird how, during lockdown, the homeless were suddenly all scooped up and given shelter. I couldn't believe it because just a few months before everyone was mocking Labour's ideas along these lines. On top of that the right were laughing at ideas such as giving every home access to free internet and suddenly during the pandemic we realised why that might be a good idea.

Sillypede · 08/04/2024 10:31

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Ramalangadingdong · 08/04/2024 10:34

And for people who said that we "lefties" think we own the moral high ground, while I wouldn't go that far I would say that I do feel that leftwing policies are more humane. I just listened to some Tory wanker on radio 4 saying that the way to deal with mental health problems was to get people back to work. He never said anything about making treatment more accessible (except for those who are seriously mentally ill) just that work would be a good therapy for people who suffer with their MH. What a wanker.

Ramalangadingdong · 08/04/2024 10:37

I wonder what Peter Andre thinks about all this.

cardibach · 08/04/2024 10:38

Jumpingthruhoops · 08/04/2024 00:01

Are you able to provide examples of what you mean by 'extreme right agenda'?
The few times I've watched it, the presenters/commentators are looking at things from a common sense perspective.
I find it most bizarre how common sense and critical thinking is now considered 'far right'.

Is this ‘common sense’ the same as that shown the group of way-to-the-right-of-the-party Tory Common Sense Group?
Common sense is largely in the eye of the beholder. What you see as common sense I may see as wildly reactionary right wing nonsense.

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