To block GBNews from my parent’s TV?

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My parents retired 4 years ago. They’re both in their 60s, healthy, happy, comfortable financially.

Since they’ve retired they have been sucked in by every single thing they say on there. They can spend an entire day sat in front of the TV getting angrier and angrier. It’s to the point that if Starmer comes on the TV, they shout about how he should be killed.

it’s genuinely starting to concern me. You can’t have a rational conversation with them about anything. I miss my parents, how they used to be before all the conspiracy and anger took over.

I’m genuinely tempted to block it from their tv using parental controls and just pretending it’s some weird fault in their telly. They’d not be able to fix it.

This is a wind-up isn't it? The very suggestion made by OP is worse than anything on GB News. It's totalitarian, controlling, patronising, manipulative and the kind of extremism I never thought I would hear in my lifetime in this country - to want to control what another adult sees, hears, or thinks. It must be a fake post. I don't believe anyone could actually think this might be ok.

GB news has broken my mother and we can't have a single conversation these days without her ranting about immigrants

And another one. The thing that's odd about all these old folk taking against immigrants is the timing. Surely they've lived amongst or worked with immigrants in their lives. Immigrants have been in Bradford as far back as I can remember and I'm knocking on now. They've been in schools and workplaces, neighbours and my kid's mates. My granddaughter is going out with a mixed race lad. It's 2026. Why is it now that a TV programme is making all the old folk racist? Have they lived sheltered lives only mixing with the English?

What an odd question. It's literally in the OP and is the entire topic of the thread:
I’m genuinely tempted to block it from their tv using parental controls and just pretending it’s some weird fault in their telly. They’d not be able to fix it

It does need to work both ways though, realising why people are concerned about content like GB News. Instead of having a proper conversation about immigration, some platforms turn them into scapegoats and it becomes the only reason for the problems in this country, when it isn't. When the country (and the US) experienced the post-war boom, taxation was fairer and the gap between rich and poor was smaller. We didn't have the super-rich with a huge amount of political power like the Elon Musk's and Peter Thiel's of the world. They don't pay the taxes that we do, and that isn't fair. I don't mind people doing well, but not at the expense of fairness and public services for the rest of us.

I'm patriotic and I don't believe immigration is the biggest issue. I do want to talk to people with different views because I believe community is the only way forward.

We need to take the rhetoric and inflammatory comments out of issues, unfortunately now that seems to be what sells. Fixing our society means thinking things through critically and working together. This polarisation is not helping anyone, apart from those who seek to capitalise on it for their own reasons.

Farage also used to be on the Russia Today channel

According to the BBC, Jeremy Corbyn appeared on Russia Today multiple times, David Lammy several times...

Habitual does not mean one example.

That doesn't mean it's any less suspect for Farage!

I'm starting to think there's quite a few fake posts re the elderly all turning into raging racists.

It didn't seem to bother the millions of people who voted for Labour under Corbyn. And these:

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-3298550/Red-handed-Photograph-shows-Jeremy-Corbyn-s-pro-Kremlin-spin-chief-held-Putin-s-iron-grip-propaganda-summit.html
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/14/jeremy-corbyn-under-fire-over-response-to-pms-russia-statement

So they will then believe that GB news has been taken off the air and just never announced it? and no one they know or even the local Wetherspoons ever has it on because it is so dangerous and toxic? LOL Sounds like a plan!

Yes it is nonsense isn"t it, the thread is a just a Reform bashing thread, most people are not racist but they are bright enough to know that mass uncontrolled immigration doesn"t benefit them and they didn"t vote for it.

The Russian's like to play both sides, it creates more division.

Are Reform supporters bright enough to recognise Farage is taking them for a ride?

Reform is racist, but not all Reform voters are. Immigration has gone down under the current government, it isn't the whole answer as people still aren't happy.

I think any amount of obsession with the news and things removed from your actual life by a certain degree - is unhealthy, if it interferes with real lived experience. It doesn’t matter if it’s left or right wing skewed.

A lot of people are now distracted by news and other things like celebrity gossip or politicians that don’t have that much direct impact on their lives, or it’s something they can’t control anyway. The whole media business and social media is addictive and messes with people‘s dopamine and fight and flight. None of it is real.

Humans were meant to respond to real life stimuli and threats not these fabricated imaginary threats they are bombarded with daily now so it changes people‘s psychology. The anxious generation isn’t just the teens whose developing brains were exposed to the smart phone. A lot of people are addicted to 24/7 News especially post Covid when the Government wanted and engineered that. So I would leave the political leaning to one side entirely and just focus on their participation in real life.

It is a long ride, 35 years?

Controlling borders is not racist, you are dealing with numbers not race.

Maybe try actually having a conversation with the ‘old folk’ and understand what their concerns are?

For example, the ethnic minority population of Bradford has gone from 5.9% to 42.9% since 1971. That is a huge change in a relatively short time and far outstrips the overall Bradford population increase (25%) in the same period. This means that a high number of white British people have been leaving the area.

Bradford ranks low in national integration indices. A strong cultural identity in an area that does not align with British culture may not be comfortable or familiar for white British families born and bred there.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Bradford

It's not my relatives having problems with immigration. And I don't need to be told about Bradford's ethnicity. Ive lived here for 77 years. I think you need to reread my post.

RaininSummer · Today 19:19
GB news has broken my mother and we can't have a single conversation these days without her ranting about immigrants

Same here.

I understand (although don’t really agree) your concerns about the super rich and races but as we are clearly struggling at the moment with housing, NHS capacity, infrastructure, sky high benefits bill etc - does it really make sense to bring in millions of people that overall will exacerbate all those problems m? As I said upthread, the 117,000 care workers on visas are projected to be a better cost to us if £36,000 across their lives - not net contributors. Then there will be many family members that will have an even higher net cost per head, often being elderly or otherwise unable to work.

As PPs have observed, this situation is causing huge tensions and division but isn’t because all the ‘old folk’ have suddenly become racist - it’s because huge change is being imposed on our country by successive governments without any consideration as to the consequences.

Maybe the people telling ‘racist’ and trying to silence us will actually start to listen at some point, although somehow I doubt it.

Exactly. The accusation was that they ‘habitually lie’. We are now on p39 of this thread and this is literally the only example of lying that anyone dredged up - and it wasn’t even on a news problem - it was opinion.

So the accusation that GB News are ‘habitually lying’ is clearly wrong. I’m guessing there are other reasons that OP and PPs want them silenced.

I have reread your post - sorry I did misunderstand initially.