Andrew Neil explains what went wrong at GB News

Former GB News presenter Andrew Neil claiming he quit the broadcaster GB News because he saw it becoming “an outlet for bizarre conspiracy theories” at “the nutty end of politics”.
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[@darthmonkey74]

Whitewashing his legacy in realtime

[@robertcoleman6153]

Interesting that Andrew Neil thinks that the majority of mainstream media is centre/left. Difficult to understand how anyone could come to that conclusion.

[@Ibluntlysaywhatithink]

Only a leftie would think that the mainstream media ISN'T centre/left. How deluded the lefties are! 🙄

[@flucazade]

It's not difficult to understand when you remember that Andrew Neil is a vulgar lying prick

[@tman8897]

The mainstream media is/was left leaning on many issues such as immigration, Brexit, LGBTQ, the pandemic lockdown and the BLM riots

[@grantm6933]

He didn't say mainstream media, he said broadcasters; i.e., BBC, ITV, etc. The media as a whole goes well beyond the broadcasters.

[@danielcrafter9349]

​@@grantm6933- and is STILL largely Right-wing to far-Right I think you're lost

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

"yes, i did something daft and morally wrong, but look at my face, im smiling and jovial, and rich, so who cares - ha, ha..."

[@Chris-vi9nh]

100%

[@tomholloway7164]

Wrong, he tried something in good faith, took a chance, and it did not work out. He accepts that he was not in possession of all the information at the outset, does that mean he shouldn't have acted?

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

@@tomholloway7164 mmm.... Not so sure. I think he intended to set up a hatey Fox clone. His only failure was to make money on it because the English aren't up for it. Nothing noble about that.

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

Mmm... Not so sure. I think he tried to set up a hatey Fox clone. His only failure was to loose money because the English aren't really up for it.

[@nathanaelsmith3553]

I replied but my comment was deleted

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

As far as OFCOM is concerned no backbone can be found.

[@whtwht]

A disgrace of a regulator

[@jaexiusnem1267]

Everybody told this clown that this would happen

[@crayontom9687]

It’s almost as if he has got terrible judgement and shouldn’t be all over our TV screens with his opinion. Crazy I know!

[@emailofjamesw]

A bit harsh, of all the right wing pundits, he's definitely on the more reasonable side. And if people want to move away from the alt right, the left should welcome them with open arms.

[@sebastianlangley8900]

The state injectable causes blood clots but lets sum up all critics as "nuts." I for one am glad he left!

[@Ma55ey]

never agree to set up a news channel with your drunk friends from the pub, one of which has a mate who runs a hedge fund....

[@nightw4tchman]

We've all been there.

[@ilikebrowncars9692]

So, is the Spectator not at the nutty end of politics? 🤪

[@richardbrophy3968]

Talk about re writing history. If he was go against it why did he not call it out at the time. Instead of that 'I'm off on holiday for a few weeks its been hard setting this up and its taken it toll'

[@joelboy19]

It must have been hard for him coming to terms with the fact that his friends are like him.

[@barnaclefelching4079]

I used to find this man unbearable, my opinion is unwavering

[@albertbrammer9263]

He has no credability.

[@albertbrammer9263]

Net zero is a requirement. The man is a cretin.

[@albertbrammer9263]

When both the left and right complain about news reporting you know there is no bias. The Spectator arsehole saying they have left-wing bias is a joke. How the BBC employed him is a joke.

[@johnhopkins4920]

Your poor grammar makes your comment less credible, Albert.

[@terrylodge4846]

​@@johnhopkins4920Your poor understanding of the difference between grammar syntax and spelling makes you uncredible as a commentator on such issues 😜

[@stevehall6299]

And maybe Albert was doing a word combo.

[@harrybacon419]

Man starts fire and runs away and then blames others

[@CityOfTinyLines]

Nutty end of politics.... Boris Johnson onwards

[@ethzero]

Brexit onwards?

[@stephanguitar9778]

​@@ethzeroBrexit vote

[@StratsRUs]

Andrew himself.

[@briancrellin2441]

He's got nothing to say and he's saying it too loudly ! Establishment puppet.

[@SuperEarther]

another presenter with no morals but has all the time for money

[@peterkirby2771]

Andrew Neil couldn’t been offered enough to stay at GB News , this is a man who voted for Brexit and lives in France a man who wants the far right to still own The Telegraph

[@johnking5174]

I think Andrew's form of what GB News would be, it would have been more traditional conservative in nature with a hold to the centre, rather than the hack journalist, lean to the extreme right wing lunatic way GB News has become

[@whtwht]

He's an absolute numpty.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Actually never revealed how he voted in the Brexit referendum. He even famously said that even his wife doesn't how he voted. I actually suspect he is a remainer, as he has been highly critical of Brexit after the result came in.

[@johnking5174]

@@alphabetaxenonzzzcat Andrew is very right wing in his views, I would be surprised if he was a remainer, but not surprised if he voted for Brexit and then despised the pigs breakfast made of it by Theresa May and Boris Johnson.

[@missusatoday9876]

I always appreciated Andrew Neil’s interview style on BBC show “This Week”. He’s an asset to the UK. Even I politically, don’t agree with most of his stuff. He asks the hard questions. No matter who you are.

[@robertjohn6354]

Andrew Neil walks into a pub "still bitter Neil ? " the barman enquires .

[@growlerthe2nd712]

Wa wa wa waaaaahhhh 😂

[@NickDusting]

And there was me thinking that it failed because the general public had seen through the lies, cons and general ignorance of far right politics

[@paulmillard3252]

Better than far left politics.

[@NickDusting]

@@paulmillard3252 ...how?

[@paulmillard3252]

@@NickDusting Well the extreme far left always want to shut down anyone who doesn't think like them.

[@Geffo555]

@@paulmillard3252 When has the country ever had far left politics? Attlee's government was probably the most socialistic government we've ever had. And they delivered the NHS and built a massive amount of social housing. Where's the downside to that?

[@sweetnesscanwin589]

@@paulmillard3252 oh yeah, far right politics isn't related to nearly every genocide and atrocity in history. No, the soviet union doesn't count if you're thinking of such rebuttal.

[@MinotaurSauce]

Gammon Bollocks News

[@NeonVisual]

Boomerati News Network

[@dufud]

Yet getting more viewers and listeners than all the others combined on some days .

[@robertstraw9881]

Sure it is.

[@Toaster05]

@@dufud Welcome visitor from a parallel dimension. I hope you have a pleasant stay in this reality.

[@snowbind]

@@dufud It is ranked as the 18th most popular news brand across the UK with an audience of around 9 million. Similar to that of the Manchester Evening News at 9.8 and Daily Record at 8.1. The largest News brands are the BBC, Sun and Mail with audiences of 37.6, 23.4 and 21.4 million respectively.

[@Geffo555]

He was happy to dissect Corbyn, but devious Johnson was left untouched. So the bias is pretty clear.

[@harambe7430]

He grilled Boris badly years ago, the interview on KZbin is hard to find though.

[@Geffo555]

@@harambe7430 Not for the 2019 election. Neil got Corbyn to the interview on the understanding that Johnson would also be grilled. But Johnson was given a pass. And one to lie his way to an election win.

[@thevale2456]

Johnson was left untouched because he cowardly refused to be interviewed by Neil, I’m not a big Andrew Neil fan but at least be honest.

[@lloydmeadows3471]

@@Geffo555no, Johnson refused to be interviewed. Andrew Neil criticised him at the time for refusing to turn up.

[@Geffo555]

@@lloydmeadows3471 I don't remember Neil criticising Johnson.

[@mrdylanhannah]

Opening statement on GBnews by him was straight out of Fox News. Duno what he’s talking about.

[@susanb4816]

News should not have opinions

[@Globaldave1970]

LOL. Clueless.

[@Geffo555]

Or do you mean that the government should not be measured on morality?

[@susanb4816]

@@Geffo555 why not both?

[@Geffo555]

@@susanb4816 Morality is subjective. A critical judgement is a matter of opinion. Some people still think that Johnson did nothing wrong. Not me though.

[@calenwatters5267]

He said that its become a place for fringe conspiracies and then he said that we should question net-zero. Does he not realise that he's conspiracy theory adjacent and that during his time at the spectator he facilitated voices from the far right? Spectacularly unaware or disingenuous about his involvment.

[@crappymeal]

I guess it depends on what he and you regard as reality and fact, its all about perspective

[@mach489i]

@@crappymeal Your vapid point was gibberish the first time you posted it

[@crappymeal]

​@@mach489iYeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man

[@Geffo555]

@@crappymeal So on one hand of the climate debate we have NASA with years of data, and on the other side we have some thinktank nob who says it's all woke.

[@crappymeal]

@@Geffo555 I'm with nasa

[@themajesticmagnificent386]

G.B News and Talk T.V just don’t suit a U.K audience..We are rightfully sceptic of extremes and have extremes shown to us and told it’s the “truth”..Most can see right through it and others that don’t,don’t because they don’t like the truth..

[@MrMonkeyHat]

The Daily Mails says hello 👋

[@themajesticmagnificent386]

@@MrMonkeyHat Hahaha..🤣👍

[@vetinaris1297]

Talk Radio seems to have caught a few during lockdown.

[@theNeathBoy]

And yet we have the Mail and other shitrags.

[@juliawigger9796]

Oh like extreme lefty BBC?

[@pandemoniumgaming6344]

King of the Gammon Face, what a bloated PoS

[@leerogers9949]

He appears to be a pompous ass.

[@jeffsimon9594]

A searing argument there

[@paulmillard3252]

Are you white?

[@MrDesmondPot]

The nerve of this man. Not the flavour of lunacy he wanted but he still helped get the soft headed we live amongst addicted to rage. Put him in the bin already.

[@nickvinehill7491]

Oh dear GB News fans. The reason why your father abandoned you! Does this mean you’re all now up for adoption? The regular terrestrial TV news channels like BBC, ITV, Sky etc have always been on the right of politics but in more moderate less conspicuous ways. Therefore I think they provided the launch pad for channels like GB News to start up and continue. After all founder Andrew Neill was a regular presenter on various BBC shows political shows and Farage was a more than regular guest on shows like BBC Question Time. Neill just got out because he didn’t want to take the rap for it in the hope that charlatans like Farage, Fox, Mogg etc would be in the frontline.

[@redlightmax]

4:36 "And meanwhile Talk TV is going online-only. Do you think that has the possibility to be a successful way of running a broadcaster?" "It's a cheaper way. It's radio with pictures." Andrew Neil unintentionally explained why Talk TV is in trouble: their demographic doesn't understand the concept of live-streaming.

[@susanb4816]

News should never be slanted

[@chrisspencer6502]

News is always slanted because you need to pick an angle. Although, it should try tell both sides.

[@lukemackenzie9073]

That’s what makes Andrew Neil so great. He’ll challenging anyone’s views regardless if they clash with his own.

[@dub604]

@@lukemackenzie9073 😂😂😂

[@ManGoatHamburger]

All news is slanted because it’s all based on a dominant perception. A journalist doesn’t necessarily control events, but they do partially control the narrative about what those events mean, as do the agencies they pay them.

[@SynphamyMusic]

@@chrisspencer6502 The problem though, is that even if the news was perfectly impartial straight down the middle, people will still filter it through their own bias. That's the big reason we have such things as 'alternate' media. People will just pick and choose their sources based on what they already believe.

[@st33zyf0rilla2]

"radio with pictures" ? tv can do what it cant ?.... omfg this man has no concept of streaming and the level of distrust for the bias of tv media

[@cappinjocj9316]

He’s a perfect example of the Dunning Kruger effect. Just enough knowledge to think of himself as an expert, but no where near enough to realise how little he actually knows.

[@swiggsoclock]

“GB News under my leadership wouldn’t be loony like Fox News. Anyway, here are some crankish right-wing views I have that are definitely not UK equivalents to Fox News”

[@Steelpeachandtozer]

'Bizarre anti-vaxxers.' lol. The man is supposed to be informed about events.

[@phoenixreborn6065]

And he's meant to be at least somewhat unbiased lmao. This guy is a clown 🤡

[@jaycee6996]

He supports the Net Zero knockers but never asks himself what the costs are of not having a net zero policy. If we continue to ignore Net Zero and fail to reduce the effects of all the factors driving climate change we will be facing a catastrophically disastrous future.

[@dondoodat]

Net Zero costs him money today (although he lives in France) but not doing Net Zero will have the biggest consequences when he's not around anymore. He's only interested in his lifetime.

[@apz202]

The main consequence is a greener planet.

[@chrisbuggy4849]

@@apz202 Naughty C02..

[@redlightmax]

4:48 "It's radio with pictures" - also known as TV. It's like Andrew Neil's a vault-dweller from Fallout.

[@georginacasey6648]

He knew exactly what he was doing, he thought he could make a quick buck Can’t fool me Neil 😂

[@carlishiggins]

After fourteen years of chaos and ruination the Tories should be left with zero seats. they do nothing for poverty line working people who work with sickness and pain long hours

[@notrut]

Is traitor Neil still living France?

[@richardtuxford1812]

I opened a box of face eating (racist) rats, then was surprised when a rat ate my face!😮

[@BoredomIncarnate1]

The fact he's allowed to call himself a journalist is disgusting, the man is a charlatan and liar.

[@mcchop1169]

GB news fan by any chance?

[@BoredomIncarnate1]

@@mcchop1169 not even remotely close.

[@star-ed7fj]

GB news it's based in Malta 🇲🇹, of shore company , only god knows who pays back pocket money 💰 into this TV channel, I think its Russian owners

[@monkeykingeater]

No need for the red scare. It's Sir Paul Marshall who funds GB News, one of your own Machiavellian richboy lunatics

[@johnhopkins4920]

Well done. Three painful grammatical errors in one sentence.

[@themajesticmagnificent386]

Da…I think it’s Moscow money that pays for it

[@star-ed7fj]

@@johnhopkins4920 I didn't know I was sitting on the school exam 🙃

[@jeffsimon9594]

@@star-ed7fj We get it, the second you left school you were done with learning anything. That is patently obvious.

[@McKluskie]

it feels creepy agreeing with Andrew Neil, I feel dirty.

[@sweetnesscanwin589]

He's talking bollox, there you go, all clean again

[@JohnnyWaterbucket]

Since his little tantrum on the sale of the Telegraph and Spectator, I've never been able to take anything this man says seriously anymore.

[@AodhanBeag]

When you subscribe to the GB news they will send you a free tinfoil hat to wear while you watch

[@tla2119]

a benefit of brexit, I get a free hat and no one would talk to me in the streets

[@GregOrCreg]

He unleashed a monster we all warned him about. Maybe he should have listened to us 'silly' leftists and liberals.

[@jeffsimon9594]

No inverted commas required

[@GregOrCreg]

@@jeffsimon9594 But you still think he should have listened to us, despite us being, in your opinion, silly? Interesting...

[@megaspongebob6]

A ' monster' that has open debate?..... you have never watched it obviously. Open your mind.

[@Geffo555]

The same could be said for Brexit, Johnson, and Truss. The right got everything they wanted. But it has has only delivered a RIGHT mess. And they are desperately trying to blame anyone but themselves.

[@sweetnesscanwin589]

@@megaspongebob6 This is actualy the only part where Niel makes sense: an "open debate" of politicians interviewing politicians from the same party is indeed a monster. That said, some debates have very intelligent leftists who shred their right wing POV but keep having them on anyway because their audience can't tell when their champions have been made fools of. Which is a different kind of monster...

[@goldenlabradorskye]

What price he is....he talks nonsense

[@AchaimianS17]

Did this joint of gammon really just describe traditional TV news media as centre/centre left?!

[@stevehall6299]

He lives in France. How awful for them.

[@MrElliottjc]

Shocking that no journalist had asked the then chancellor if he had estimated the cost of Net Zero, and even more disturbing when he said he didn't know.

[@sweetnesscanwin589]

it's still the wrong question that resulted in giving Rishi his new strategy of threatening 10 grand a year or something on working people to get a new boiler. The question should be, since it's an option for growth as well as cost, what are the economics of net zero.

[@lancets7137]

"the rest of the broadcast universe is on the centre centre-left" ???

[@GregOrCreg]

He used to have a show on the BBC, and if I'm not mistaken he still has one on Channel 4. I don't think anyone would accuse ITV or Sky of being particularly left-wing. Centrist, perhaps, which is arguably where all broadcasters should be, and apart from being a little 'politically correct' (which is actually what they should be, in order to minimise offence to viewers/licence-fee payers), I'm not sure how the BBC or Channel 4 are even 'centre left' so much as purely centrist for the most part (which, once again, is where all the MSM broadcasters should be). And whilst I don't conflate centrist with neutral (which is arguably the best position to take), I do think centrist is closer to neutral than the left or the right.

[@pallascat1743]

​@GregOrCreg I agree. I think the people who call those broadcasters left-wing are referring to people of ethnic minorities being on TV and having greater sensitivity to certain issues. When it comes to anything concerning the economy it still is pretty right wing and when workers are on strikes they are always framed negativly.

[@GregOrCreg]

@@pallascat1743 Pretty much how I feel, but, to your credit, you've been more specific. I don't know if the BBC is 'right-wing'. It's certainly establishment, which invariably favours the status-quo, which is in favour of the socioeconomically powerful and privileged, so perhaps from that POV it is. But it's Charter also means that it's, quite rightly, required to reflect and represent a large cross-section of society, hence why it will try to use sensitive language and broadcast programmes that focus on minority issues (and it's largely for these reasons, although not exclusively by any means, that I'm a cheerleader for the BBC and the licence fee; if it's gone, expect more generic lowest-common-denominator programming, and fewer minority interest programmes except for those who can afford to pay extra).

[@James_36]

@@GregOrCreg ITV and SKY are all obsessed with climate change, identity politics, multiculturalism and globalism, yet you think those things are right wing LOL. Go do your research on the 1960s and what the marxists / left wingers spouted in universities... deary me how lost can you be

[@2012gallina]

Andrew Neil wanted a right wing news outlet that didn't make people laugh

[@tfking10]

This man sits and talks down to ordinary people as if he knows best when it comes to government yet he had atrocious judgement in his move to GBNews. How the hell did he not know what he was joining and promoting? That beetroot address down the camera at GBNews defending its awfulness should've been the end of all his credibility.

[@missusatoday9876]

Thank you for sharing this

[@sabriya7647]

GB News isn't even officially registered as a news channel that has to adhere to certain inpartiality rules....that alone says a lot

[@Steve-ed9jb]

This is a fuller account of Andrew Neil's speech than that shown on the Maximillen Robespierre (MR) podcast. It shows that Andrew Neil was not trying to create a Fox Channel News outlet as suggested by the MR podcast. Shameful.

[@BinnyBongBaron_AoE]

And yet GB News is still willing the awards. I think he's just salty.

[@jasperknight5781]

Free Speech Nation with Andrew Doyle is a great programme and just happens to be on... GB News

[@paulmoorby2297]

The sooner GB News is Off Air ,The Better !!!

[@paulmillard3252]

Are you a leftie Fascist?

[@DJB01]

@@paulmillard3252are you an idiot?

[@TheLunarnotes]

How could he have not known about all of the wacko conspiracy crap, we were all expecting it from day one! Was he really that blind??

[@MultiMeg101]

😂 Gb news Talk tv lives Worry about the BBC when the licence fee ends

[@AdrianNicholls]

Annoyingly I’d agree with him on most points .

[@carole4448]

Lost all respect for Andrew Neil

[@simonwhiting6929]

Who would have guessed that the nutty end of right wing politics was not his thing.

[@samuelmelton8353]

Talk TV etc are all shit

[@a1990hussain]

The fact he thinks the internet can be boiled down to "radio with pictures" shows how irrelevant his opinions are. He couldn't say which stories he'd wanted that were not included, which means the crap GB & TT that he pushed out did make it out

[@vijendrapatricknaryan2637]

It couldn't happen to a more deserving channel. Now to get rid of the useless government. Just call the election.

[@davidmansfield9167]

News is something somebody somewhere doesn't want you to know. Everything else is advertising.

[@rainblaze.]

I now want GB news to succeed soooooo bad. Thank you andrew niel thank you so fckn much 😖

[@phoenixreborn6065]

Thank goodness Andrew Neil didn't get his way. The way he talked about the unvaccinated among other things is disgusting.

[@lorny4u]

Hes a tory!

[@johnhopkins4920]

Hes?

[@colinmacdonald1939]

He continually contradicts himself. Not a clue.

[@robertlamb1962]

Andrew Neil ‘Explains’ ….Oh is THAT what he does!

[@neildmonte8786]

What was ever right with it 😅

[@sebastianlangley8900]

The state injectable causes blood clots but lets sum up the critics as "nuts"

[@nightw4tchman]

0:00 Andrew seems to be forgetting people have memories. That's exactly what it was hinted it was going to be.

[@DanielMasmanian]

What a man.

[@moomin7461]

He sounds a bit like the late Robert Hardy, but a lot less likeable. 😂

[@PurityVendetta]

GBeebies, dimly lit tv for the hard of thinking.

[@arma21regency]

Surprisingly coherent on important issues

[@SuzanneO707]

For some reason. I looked up what it was a national day of. Apparently its Mr Potatoe head day today.😉 He's just trying to clear space for some kind of career when he becomes irrelevant. And distance himself. Tories out.

[@Harte105]

Old Andrew trying to rescue his street cred before an election job coming up

[@iangascoigne8231]

Was it ever right.

[@ryanconnor9240]

Okay Andrew was pretty funny here shitting on GB news 😂

[@autodidact537]

Boy, Andrew Neil is really full of himself!

[@finianlacy8827]

Very sensible .. brave and honest..

[@zooblestyx]

Such a relief to hear that democracy is safe as long as undermining it isn't profitable.

[@1pauljs]

Oil needs to get his JOB cosplay on and score an interview with Andy to unpick his skewed view of the UK media. It’s mostly corporate and right media not much on the left. For him to say that his private opinions must be quite something. 🤨🤮

[@MegaKapo12]

Money shouldn't spend moŕ money coming from a man that lives in the South of France.

[@benammiswift]

I’d prefer him to talk about what went right then he might shut up for a bit

[@JonathanJudd-ve6lc]

Like it was ever going to become anything else

[@Whightwolf]

You have to wonder if he's ever even opened the spectator

[@robjmck]

Very good as always, Andrew Neil was the best but not popular with those in politics and from the left, irony he was quite unbiased generally, very rare these days!

[@mikelloyd9934]

Neil attempting to clean up his own sh-t.

[@problemsolverthinktank859]

Look at all the damage you have done, now running away and leaving us to clean up your mess when you were warned.

[@jonboymk1bridgemaryfront889]

The south of France is a lovely place to live, all that sunshine nearly all year round. Ohh Al la

[@richsan4923]

Bring back something similar to World in Action. Thats what people actually want and need.

[@whoflungdung1046]

He sounds bitter because nobody liked him at gbn

[@user-lp7wo7og4x]

In theory net zero will be profitable given the energy saved through insulating households across the land

[@silondon9010]

Its getting very big viewing figures, this sounds like sour 🍇

[@davidjones190]

Nothing went wrong with GB news because people want to watch it’s free Choice for ordinary people just except!

[@Scrapperbang]

Andrew Neil is a legend straight to the point u all are to soft

[@fakatdobarstrip]

This guy lost all his credibility