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 GB News scandal, Laurence Fox, Dan Wooton |
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 27th September 2023, 11:25 AM
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Anyone been following this rapidly developing story? Basically, on the channel last night (which I despise with all of my heart but am familiar with as my aged parents unfortunately watch it
 ) Dan Wooton (aka Martin Branning) whois under investigation for a lot of dodgy sex scandals himself and is a professional bully (particularly to Caroline Flack RIP and Meghan Markle) interviewed Laurence Fox (occasional presenter and fascist knobhead) last night to discuss comments made by a left wing commentator (Ava Santina) on another channel about men's mental health. Rather than discussing the issue, Fox instead went on a misogynistic rant avout her appearance saying that no one would sleep with her with Dan Wooton being a nodding dog and laughing along. This did not play well with viewers (understandably) and due to fear of Ofcom and other backlash, after an extremely quick investigation, Laurence Fox has been suspended. Dan Wooton has gone down the "It wasn't me" apologising route (although the laughing along with Fox is pretty grotesque). Could this be the scandal that gets BOTH of these evil men off air for good? Couldn't have happened to a nicer pair. In all seriousness, this channel has been churning out complete fascist crap (some presenters worse than others it has to be said) from the get go but increasing rapidly in the last year. Worryingly, there are several current Tory MPs moonlighting as presenters which is a complete conflict of interest. |
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27th September 2023, 01:21 PM
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QUOTE(Smint @ Sep 27 2023, 11:25 AM)  Anyone been following this rapidly developing story? Basically, on the channel last night (which I despise with all of my heart but am familiar with as my aged parents unfortunately watch it ) Dan Wooton (aka Martin Branning) whois under investigation for a lot of dodgy sex scandals himself and is a professional bully (particularly to Caroline Flack RIP and Meghan Markle) interviewed Laurence Fox (occasional presenter and fascist knobhead) last night to discuss comments made by a left wing commentator (Ava Santina) on another channel about men's mental health. Rather than discussing the issue, Fox instead went on a misogynistic rant avout her appearance saying that no one would sleep with her with Dan Wooton being a nodding dog and laughing along. This did not play well with viewers (understandably) and due to fear of Ofcom and other backlash, after an extremely quick investigation, Laurence Fox has been suspended. Dan Wooton has gone down the "It wasn't me" apologising route (although the laughing along with Fox is pretty grotesque). Could this be the scandal that gets BOTH of these evil men off air for good? Couldn't have happened to a nicer pair. In all seriousness, this channel has been churning out complete fascist crap (some presenters worse than others it has to be said) from the get go but increasing rapidly in the last year. Worryingly, there are several current Tory MPs moonlighting as presenters which is a complete conflict of interest. lol |
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27th September 2023, 02:27 PM
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 Alone and wounded
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Can this embarrassment of a channel be expunged please
Today is yet another reminder how much hatred and disrespect towards women still exists - with top stories including this and the one about a teenage girl being stabbed to death by a teenage boy. |
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27th September 2023, 02:42 PM
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Oh nooo 
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27th September 2023, 03:08 PM
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If Fox could take Wootton down with him and both be banished from the public sphere for good, that would be the best thing to happen this side of Christmas.
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27th September 2023, 03:48 PM
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Wootton GONE (suspended) now too!
What a day *.* |
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27th September 2023, 03:59 PM
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I am amazed every time I hear about this channel that it's still going
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27th September 2023, 04:09 PM
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 The owls are not what they seem
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People should've stopped giving these parasites attention a long time ago. Laurence Fox in particular is pathetic in how he has turned into a right wing troll because his music and acting career dried up (see his recent display in Pride month...).
And yeah, I thought we were all laughing at GB News, depressing that it's still around :/ |
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27th September 2023, 04:15 PM
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Good news. Branning/Wooton or whatever his name is today has been suspended too. He had already lost 2 of his 3 jobs (poison writer for the Mail/Sun) when the disturbing allegations came out in.the Byline Times.
Get rid of the cosplay homophobic vicar (Calvin Robinson) and deranged dangerous arch conspiracy theorist (Neil Oliver) if they even want to have a chance if being mainstream - oh and those Tory MPs too. |
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27th September 2023, 07:34 PM
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I can never quite decide if this is a failed Russian propaganda project or a deliberately failing money pit for the tax write off
Either way, everyone involved should be fired into the sun. Absolutely rancid cast of c**ts |
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27th September 2023, 07:42 PM
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I think they should hire me and let me go full left wing - moderate Corbynite European left, nope, but full on far left socialist!!!! - and I'll sort the whole lot of them out
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27th September 2023, 09:15 PM
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Feels to me like this has been a long time coming. Disgusting human being. If anything I judge how long he has been given a platform for
Side note - I am always in shock that Billie Piper was married to him. She’s very liberal so surely he can’t have always been this bad |
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28th September 2023, 08:30 AM
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I'm pleased that they've both been suspended, hopefully it will lead to both being sacked but given the 'standards' that GBNews has I won't hold up too much hope, apparently Dan's binfire of a show pulls in the most viewers for some bizarre reason, maybe they tune in to see if he can go an entire show without blinking. In the case of Dan Wootton in particular it is especially long overdue, the channel have done nothing to address all of the very serious and credible allegations (including of blackmail) published by Byline Times and others against him. He's a bully, a throughly toxic person and frankly doesn't deserve the platform he has. Apparently he was calling Ava repeatedly after the show went out and left a voicemail at 1am, this despite the fact that she had never given him her number. As for the comments from 'lozza', pretty disgusting but the kind of predictable rubbish he comes out with. I did enjoy this clapback from Ash yesterday however: Ava is a respected journalist first and foremost. Critique or oppose her views by all means, but the way she was just reduced to her appearance (even Dan did with his 'defence' of Laurence's comments) was awful, and there was absolutely no effort to seriously discuss what she had said, she was simply attacked for her views and the whole segment simply used as a vehicle for their misogyny. |
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28th September 2023, 08:56 AM
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What shocks me (although doesnt surprise me) is if you see comments on social media channels, there are lots of comments along the lines of 'can't she take a joke', 'years ago this wouldnt have been an issue'
The level of denial is unreal |
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28th September 2023, 01:28 PM
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Break the tension
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Dan Wootton has been sacked by MailOnline
I think I can just about hear the sound of the world's smallest violin 🎻 |
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28th September 2023, 01:49 PM
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QUOTE(Herbs @ Sep 28 2023, 09:56 AM) What shocks me (although doesnt surprise me) is if you see comments on social media channels, there are lots of comments along the lines of 'can't she take a joke', 'years ago this wouldnt have been an issue' The level of denial is unreal Give stupid, backwards people access to the internet and that's what we've got sadly. Must be pretty awful for Fox and Wooton to be so repulsive they can't keep jobs with even the most morally hideous media companies in the world. Karma is a great thing - although they get off much better than many of their victims, mind. |
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28th September 2023, 02:21 PM
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QUOTE(Herbs @ Sep 28 2023, 09:56 AM) What shocks me (although doesnt surprise me) is if you see comments on social media channels, there are lots of comments along the lines of 'can't she take a joke', 'years ago this wouldnt have been an issue' They'll be the first to cry 'misandry' or something if it was the other way round.
The level of denial is unreal |
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28th September 2023, 03:55 PM
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QUOTE(Jessie Where @ Sep 28 2023, 02:28 PM) Dan Wootton has been sacked by MailOnline I think I can just about hear the sound of the world's smallest violin 🎻 Hopefully this is not one of those cases where they just get employed by an equally awful company |
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28th September 2023, 04:24 PM
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Break the tension
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QUOTE(Herbs @ Sep 28 2023, 04:55 PM) Hopefully this is not one of those cases where they just get employed by an equally awful company Hopefully it'll mean his name is mud and nobody will want to touch him now. |
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