GB News presenters and their right-wing nonsense are a real turn-off
My favourite measurement of political time is the Scaramucci, named after Anthony Scaramucci.
You’ll remember him – he was Trump’s communications director for 10 days. Even in the revolving-door world of the Trump administration, this was a record.
Andrew Neil lasted just nine Scaramuccis – three months – at GB News. Of course, there are differences between Scaramucci and Neil.
Neil launched the failing news channel in June, with much fanfare and the hiring of “controversial” (i.e. really offensive) personalities such as Nigel Farage, Dan Wootton and Neil Oliver.
They were all very much hoping that the British people would have an appetite for a Fox-type news channel. You know, one that doesn’t deal in actual news but in crazed right-wing opinion.
Some of their shows – like Farage’s Talking Pints, where Nigel has a pint with some lunatic he knows – were so deranged, they could have come from an Alan Partridge fever dream.
Well, it turned out the British public weren’t that interested. After a month or so, GB News’ viewing figures were being reported as zero. That’s right, literally no one – not even the presenters’ mums – was watching it.
So last week, like the captain leaping off the
Titanic before it went down, Neil announced his resignation from the channel he launched just nine short Scaramuccis ago.
But, like Scaramucci, he’ll be back. I mean, you can’t move for hearing about that guy these days, right?
Right?