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He reminds me of Nick Brimble, who I'm amazed to see is 77. Another good villain actor.

Hell, yeah - his Commander Corder in the Urquhart trilogy is the very definition of "quiet menace".

He’s been put in charge of the new HGV tests

Now, then.

Neil spent three months Tweeting divisive culture war stuff about wokes and Remoaners to promote GBN. What was that all about? We can all get carried away with hubris but a man of his age and experience should have had wiser foresight. He was never going to find an audience for his liberal, pro-immigration, free-market politics on GBeebies.

Neil bought his own hype, thought he'd have millions of middle-aged, middle-class and up Tory viewers hanging on his every word, and that he'd become the sensible, British equivalent of a nightly US talk show host. What he discovered was he's a dull old man whose previous authority and gravitas came from the fact he was a serious interviewer on the BBC required to show impartiality, which he did. But without that body behind him he was just one of a collection of opinionated windbags on an understaffed, underfunded channel that had to shift rightwards to attract cranks because christ knows they weren't attracting anyone else.

Coming soon: TalkTV.

https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2021/0 ... -soon.html

I believe one Piers Morgan will be presenting on it.

I've just read a post on an anxiety forum about Covid, by someone who listens to Julia Dunning-Kruger and now, we learn, watches GB News.

Dear Lord...

The problem with GB News claiming that it stands for factual journalism is that many of its presenters are not qualified journalists. Even some of the qualified journalists on the channel like Dan Wootton and Carole Malone have over the years been caught out telling untruths.

Boiler wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:57 am Coming soon: TalkTV.

https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2021/0 ... -soon.html

I believe one Piers Morgan will be presenting on it.

Was the name cuntavision taken, then?

Morgan is boasting that he turned down 20 job offers before accepting the gig at a TV channel that currently has no viewers. Unless he has got a HGV license I reckon it might be bull-shitting.

He works green screened

Braveheart, the Gammon years.

Self-proclaimed haters of"cancel culture" cancel Brillo - permanently.

Andrew Neil will not appear again on GB News despite promised return as a ‘regular contributor’


https://inews.co.uk/news/media/andrew-n ... 211467/amp

You really couldn't make this shit up.

satnav wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:11 pm Morgan is boasting that he turned down 20 job offers before accepting the gig at a TV channel that currently has no viewers. Unless he has got a HGV license I reckon it might be bull-shitting.

All 20 of those job offers might have come from GB news, though.

"Good! Didn't want to be on your silly channel anyway! And you smell!"

It’s almost like right-wing hardcore capitalist set-ups are 50% grift, 50% plain arsehole behaviour for the sake of it. Just as well old Brillo isn’t so daft as to get caught up with such an outfit…

Oh.

A long, and occasionally preposterous, interview with Brillo in the Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -NEIL.html

Talk about The Ego Has Landed...

Polly Filla wrote:He’s the titan of British broadcasting, an unflappable presenter who, with 25 years of broadcasting under his belt, stood as the BBC’s leading political interviewer with his forensic, fearless grilling of more party leaders than most contestants on the reality TV show Love Island have had dates.

He’s been on IRA and jihadi hit lists, and is also – as I can attest – a formidable boss.

So it comes as a surprise when Andrew Neil starts to cry and confesses to me how he nearly succumbed to mental collapse, broken by his experience at GB News.

‘I came close to a breakdown,’ he confesses, tears falling.

Such is Andrew’s enmity towards the channel’s CEO, he can’t bring himself to mention Frangopoulos by name. Instead, he has a nickname for him: Triple G, the Great Greek God.

‘I said: “This is a disaster and it’s my reputation that’s on the line.” That’s what really did me in the end – and it’s my own stupidity for getting into it – the fact that everybody saw my face on the tin. It was Andrew Neil’s channel. That’s what everyone talked about.