GB News Replatforms Actual Fascist

Still the search for any potential path to profitability goes on among the management at Gammon Broadcasting™ News (“Bacon’s News Channel”), and such is the desperation to entice the public to tune in, the broadcaster’s choice of guests has resulted in some of questionable principle and, indeed, extreme stance being given a platform to air their views.

And the latest example of GB News inviting extremists to participate in their particular brand of what Jon Stewart called “Opinutainment” is especially inexcusable, given that the presenter responsible, junior motormouth Patrick Christys, had previously given a platform to the same extremist, Jack Buckby, who has a grim record of backing, and indeed fronting, far right campaigns.

The GB News Twitter feed told yesterday that “'The topics that the far right groups prey on and weaponise are things that a vast majority of Brits agree on... most people aren't woke’ … Counter-Extremism researcher Jack Buckby discusses the growing number of right-wing extremist ‘influencers’”.

Quite apart from yet another deliberate misuse of WOKE, calling Buckby a “counter-extremism researcher” is total tosh. It was Buckby who, after the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, stood in the Batley and Spen by-election, representing Liberty GB, “an ‘Anti-Islamisation’ party that calls itself a ‘radical patriotic conservative’ organisation’”. Bunch of racist bigots, more like.

Buckby told his followers at the time “if #BritainFirst Jo Cox shooting rumour is true , it’s either moronic BF damaging our cause as always, or false flag from #Remain campaign”. “Our cause”. Blaming the Remain campaign for the murder of an MP. He ranted at a fellow guest on Channel 4 News “Take in a Syrian refugee, I hope you don’t get raped”. Some “researcher” he is.

Spot the difference

Buckby was also in the BNP: “I initially got involved with the BNP in high school. I wasn’t very political, but I had my opinions, as everyone does. I saw Nick Griffin and the real bias that he was facing on the television and I thought, 'That can’t be right.' I did my own research and thought, 'Shit, I agree with him. He actually seems like a good bloke.' I started supporting it and went through college being the notorious BNP guy. It was later that I met Nick and started talking about these culturist ideas”. “Seems like a good bloke”.

All this was known the last time GB News gave Buckby a platform, as was his equally known endorsement of Jack Renshaw, who is now serving life imprisonment for conspiring to murder a Labour MP, and a Police Officer. They knew who he was. That was no problem to giving him an invite.

The last time Buckby appeared with Christys, he was bleating “People on the right are so scared of being smeared as being far-right extremists to the point where they say the far-right doesn't exist”. This time, it’s “The topics that the far right groups prey on and weaponise are things that a vast majority of Brits agree on”. See? He’s just a mainstream pundit. Nothing to see here.

This is where fascism inevitably leads

And so it was that GB News legitimised an actual fascist, not once, but twice, presenting Buckby as some kind of genuinely concerned “researcher”. This is not about FREEZE PEACH. GB News can invite whoever they want to dispense their punditry. It is about mainstreaming actual fascists, and actual fascism. Buckby, as I told previously, is a fully paid-up member of The Fash.

Something for advertisers to consider, no doubt. Over to Stop Funding Hate.

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