Nigel Farage Hosting Show On GB News While Running A Political Party Is “Completely Unsatisfactory,” Lisa Nandy Says
https://deadline.com/2025/09/nigel-farage-gb-news-show-slammed-lisa-nandy-impartial-news-1236526907/
Posted by AbbreviationsHot7662
16 Comments
A bit like the fireman/woman informing you that indeed your house is on fire. She’s the Culture Secretary, what is she doing about it?
Grifters are gonna grift. Personally I think Farage needs shooting out a cannon into the North Sea.
If only we knew someone in government who could push against the continued corruption of the MPs role with outside interests?
But OK for other senior politicians like David Lammy on LBC when labour was in opposition I guess.
Just wait till he bankrupts the country while making himself his first billion. This is just beginning
MPs should be MPs. No second jobs at all, a complete ban. Only exceptions on a case by case basis, such as a Medical Doctor or Nurse needing to maintain their professional certifications, and then they would have to work for free in a hospital or NHS facility in their constituency.
The guy is about making money and the UK people love to make money for him They fall for his lines like trump every time and make any excuses for him to brake the rules
What’s wrong with a foreign-owned propaganda machine that has lost £100m promoting a grifter with links to Russia and the American far-right?
The Culture Secretary should bloody do something about it, then.
I don’t remotely understand how it’s legal for MPs to run TV programs. It’s basically free political propaganda. I understand Ofcom tried to push back against GB News, only for the High Court to dismiss their complaints.
GB News needs to be closely monitored and punished for impartiality at every incident before it becomes an out of control misinformation beast like Fox News.
Won’t this break some party political broadcasting regulations? Maybe they only apply during an election cycle? If we were in an election cycle and you had one party leader with their own TV show that would surely be a problem when it comes to equal media coverage.
So is taking money from the Israel lobby while moaning about anti genocide protestors
OK? So what are you going to do about it? Your party is in government, you could pass legislation *tomorrow* to give some fangs to Ofcom… but you won’t.
I’m just so tired of Labour politicians and supporters whining about how *unfair* the media environment in Britain is, and then doing fuck all about it. Starmer dropped any prospect of Leverson 2, he continues to regularly write articles in many of these ‘unfair’ publications. He has allowed a bunch of Tory hires to continue running the institutions supposed to check these sort of abuses. So clearly the Labour leadership fundamentally don’t give a shit here.
David Lammy’s LBC show whilst being an opposition MP was fine though was it? Labour’s blatant hypocrisy does them no favours.
Him hosting a show is bad enough but earning ten times his MP salary is ridiculous, we really to have tighter rules about this, I mean you work for who pays you, and if GB News pay ten times what we are paying him then I think he works for them and being an MP is his side gig.
Taking money totally out of politics is probably impossible, but surely some sort of rule that limits the value second jobs to the equivalent of an MPs salary should be doable, so at worst we are evens.
This should be unacceptable. Every second he’s there should be labelled as a party political broadcast.
She should have a word with the Culture Secretary and ask them to do something about it.