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.

Pretty much. I don't remember any black children at all in my school. There were a couple of Sikh children at primary school with me. This was greater London in the late sixties/early seventies. All my parents friends and acquaintances were white.

The habitual lie is that other, real, news sources aren't covering stories that are all over MSM.

The straight up lying to your face was Bev Turner, supported by production,😬 lying to viewers about the racist violence in Belfast. Claiming it was part of a KS plot to remove civil liberties.

The Tru Fax thing is when they report shite like the link below.

For those who dont want to click on the link, no one requested litter trays in schools. There was a bit of a local SM panic. The schools mentioned said it was a load of shite.

There was no row, woke or otherwise.

www.gbnews.com/news/woke-news-wales-furries-cats-school-west-monmouth

I don't think it is due to one issue, it's complicated and due to many different things. That's why it's hard to fix and easy to point at one thing.

Less tax means worse public services meaning people get fed up. When you consolidate wealth, it leads to political power and influence at the top and undermines democracy - look at the US for this and how they are running politics/entire economic growth in tech companies. Austerity since 2010 has hit public services, causing impacts for all of us. The immigration you are talking about increased after Brexit during the Conservative government, possibly two reasons for this - immigration boosts GDP and our economy wasn't really growing, and it's helpful to say there's a problem, vote for us whilst feeding the problem. It was sold as reducing immigration, but it has actually increased it. Also, think about it, Farage sold Brexit as the solution and has made things worse economically.

I don't think you are racist to have reasonable concerns about immigration, but I don't think all of the impact is from immigration. I still think it's reasonable to have a conversation about it and look at all the other factors involved.

I do think some of the content from channels like GB News, and the mainstream press like the Telegraph/Mail etc has definitely shifted to the right slowly, although that isn't unprecedented - the Mail backed Oswald Mosley in the 1930s.

I do think the rhetoric is damaging. Burning down houses in Belfast was basically echos of a pogrom, I didn't think we were going back to the 1930s.

I'd like to say again that we do need to work together, without any of the rhetoric. Most of us want the same things, even if we don't have the same opinions or thoughts on how to get there. We have families and friends we care about, we want decent public services, we want affordable and safe housing. We have far more in common with each other than not, and more in common with each other than people like Nigel Farage.

If media is trying to divide us, question why they are doing it. They aren't doing it for us, they have their own agenda. If we are too busy yelling at each other, we can't fix things and they can do whatever they want.

I can understand this in early 70s but not in 2026 that older people aren't used to immigrants. Think about it..it's almost unbelievable unless they've lived a very sheltered life.

It wasn’t the case back then. I went to primary school in rural East Anglia in the early 60s. There were black children in the school and at my grammar school. The was a Sikh boy in my class.