Labour MP grills Ofcom boss over right-wing domination of British media sphere at Select Committee

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  • @toi_techno
    @toi_techno ปีที่แล้ว +681

    Her husband was the editor of The Daily Telegraph. She is literally a member of the right-wing establishment and media.

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      The Telegraph is the in house newspaper of the Tory Party.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤣🤣🤣
      *Far left.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You and your avatar are far right

    • @bt3743
      @bt3743 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@richardgallagher4880 how are the media far left? Has the daily mail began advocating for the guillotining of the rich and the abolishment of the millitary

    • @jimjiminy5836
      @jimjiminy5836 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@richardgallagher4880you don’t even know what that means.

  • @orraman5427
    @orraman5427 ปีที่แล้ว +354

    I wonder how someone who is married to the former deputy editor and chief political commentator of The Telegraph managed to become the head of Ofcom. 🤔

  • @jimmeltonbradley1497
    @jimmeltonbradley1497 ปีที่แล้ว +320

    As a member of the right-wing establishment, how can she be an impartial voice?

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      *far left.

    • @MissBlennerhassett876
      @MissBlennerhassett876 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@richardgallagher4880 What?

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MissBlennerhassett876
      Would a right wing establishment let nine m in?

    • @MissBlennerhassett876
      @MissBlennerhassett876 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@richardgallagher4880 I just scrolled down and stumbled on more of your trolling, so whatever.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MissBlennerhassett876
      🤣🤣🤣🤣
      You've lost a debate and went strait to insults is what happened you liar.

  • @dwdei8815
    @dwdei8815 ปีที่แล้ว +313

    Melanie Dawes wouldn't recognise an egregiously right-wing-biased media landscape it if walked up to her and said "Hi dear, I'm your husband and I'm also the chief political editor of the Telegraph. What's for dinner?"

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Neither can you.
      You know the telegraph is extreme far left?

    • @AshOs90
      @AshOs90 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      ah yes, that damn lefty paper that actively supports the conservative party in every major election...😂

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AshOs90
      If the cons have let nine million foreigners in they're left wing no?

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AshOs90
      Bruh?

    • @nickbarton3191
      @nickbarton3191 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      ​@@richardgallagher4880 What the "Torygraph" ?

  • @22Phantasm
    @22Phantasm ปีที่แล้ว +226

    I have a Level 3 Diploma and 10 years experience working with special needs children in Junior schools and I still claim a portion of UC because my wage is so low. Richard Sharp, who is buddies with sunak & bojo and has no experience at all in broadcasting, is chairman of the BBC and earns £160,000 a year. That's how unfair this country is.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Been telling kids Muslims are equal to them?

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Been telling kids Africans have right to come and take their country?

    • @paulgibbons2320
      @paulgibbons2320 ปีที่แล้ว

      Working with special needs kids. You definitely have. What it takes for the extreme left 👍😉

    • @ianwright389
      @ianwright389 ปีที่แล้ว

      Been telling kids the mad bad bugger who lives in the big house in the village, has every right to shoot you if you trespass on his lands, his grandfather and his great great grandfather have had their knee on the neck of your ancestors since Peterloo.

    • @JT-si6bl
      @JT-si6bl ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And from that admission, you gain my vote.

  • @ctid107
    @ctid107 ปีที่แล้ว +237

    She's trying her best to avoid all the questions.

    • @tommykeeling7697
      @tommykeeling7697 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Typical Tory move

    • @tommykeeling7697
      @tommykeeling7697 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Think that’s what they learn at those expensive private schools .. how not to answer a question

    • @maxine2798
      @maxine2798 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Just useless. That’s why they’re in the job

    • @daveduck4315
      @daveduck4315 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tommykeeling7697 I came across GB News the other day,lob sided Right for sure,love to see their faces when the Tories get knocked off their Perch

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@daveduck4315
      Their black faces?

  • @jontalbot1
    @jontalbot1 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    The whole media landscape in the UK is dominated by the interests and views of the rich. Disclaimer: I mostly vote Labour but am not especially tribal. I am sick and tired of seeing our country dragged down by a privileged few who do not give two hoots about most of us.

    • @jontalbot1
      @jontalbot1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Forbidden Planet eh? do you know how to make a point?

    • @jontalbot1
      @jontalbot1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Forbidden Planet Still have no idea what you are trying to say

    • @DougRutter
      @DougRutter ปีที่แล้ว

      Have a chat with yourself, voting labour🤮

  • @alastair6356
    @alastair6356 ปีที่แล้ว +360

    We need a proper regulated media free from the gerrymandering of the Oligarch establishment.

    • @andrewhotston983
      @andrewhotston983 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      BBC? Ever heard of that?

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@andrewhotston983
      The one with foreign presenters?
      🤣🤣🤣

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@andrewhotston983
      The one that keeps on referring to puttins inv?🤣🤣🤣

    • @docmalthus
      @docmalthus ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@andrewhotston983 I've heard of BBC. They're the ones that tried to censor Gary Lineker for his rather mild comments. Give my worst regards to Tim Davis.

    • @YouAreSleepyToo
      @YouAreSleepyToo ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​@@docmalthus lol really? the same gary linekar that has a special rule in his contract that allows him to say whatever he wants that no one else in the BBC has? the same gary that once claimed he was black?

  • @christinalloyd9566
    @christinalloyd9566 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    So a tory is in charge of Ofcom. Who would have guessed. She basically just shrugged and gave the middle finger.

    • @adamalgin4154
      @adamalgin4154 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      She thought it was funny

    • @leehenry5764
      @leehenry5764 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's why Ofcom never found BBC to be biased during Brexit

  • @allanmcdowall6568
    @allanmcdowall6568 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Going the same route as America news channels.god help us.

    • @MrDesmondPot
      @MrDesmondPot ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, it’s grim. And there’s a swathe of diabetes ridden, couch potatoes cheerleading it all on

    • @ron88303
      @ron88303 ปีที่แล้ว

      American news channels generally have a left-wing bias. So you would be going a different route.

    • @spamme9021
      @spamme9021 ปีที่แล้ว

      The country is becoming mini USA unfortunately. Time to get out if you can

    • @chrisbailey2098
      @chrisbailey2098 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      God helping us is even closer to American

    • @robbrewer2036
      @robbrewer2036 ปีที่แล้ว

      Australia same mob ,danger to democracy.

  • @hg82met
    @hg82met ปีที่แล้ว +174

    These so-called watchdogs are stuffed with Tories. It's like the fox guarding the hen house.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Alex Edwards
      There's ton of far left tories controlling the fat left media.
      Why do you think not one msm channel has called for their arrest for tre ason?

    • @lonelyone69
      @lonelyone69 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @Alex Edwards Her husband is the chief political commentator of the telegraph my guy

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Alex Edwards
      Justice has to be seen to be done.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Alex Edwards
      Your far left self is going to police your far left husband?

    • @everettbr
      @everettbr ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Alex Edwards she just allowed Tory MPs to interview people in TV news despite that being against Ofcom impartiality rules. her allegiances are evident to people with IQ higher than room temperature

  • @reluctantsocialist2670
    @reluctantsocialist2670 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    What a legend, this was my History teacher in school, he was a legend then too

    • @MartinParnham
      @MartinParnham ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I have to admit, I’d never heard of him before but I like him already. Nice to see MPs asking proper questions.

    • @mrmagoo-i2l
      @mrmagoo-i2l ปีที่แล้ว

      I find it hilarious your worldview can only exist with massive amounts of censorship.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was a far left extremists then too?
      Of course he was.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should sue.

    • @reluctantsocialist2670
      @reluctantsocialist2670 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@richardgallagher4880 Holy fuck you’re dumb. Far left extremist….I suggest you get an education in fascism, you’ll be terrified about the party you clearly vote for.
      Also, thanks for Brexit, literally every expert acknowledges the huge damage it did, alongside the Tories bungling of the pandemic and a disastrous mini budget that has seen the UK as the only developed nation yet to recover from said pandemic, record profits for energy companies that lobby the Tories while the Tories are robbing Peter to pay Paul by taking tax payers money and giving it to energy companies to keep our bills low rather than just tax the fuckers or nationalise them. They brag about helping people during the cost of living crisis but as I said, all they’ve done is use taxes from working people which means schools, the NHS, etc all suffer reduced funds, so much for the clapping our heroes bullshit, eh?

  • @ardenwarwick1087
    @ardenwarwick1087 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    OFCOM seemed perfectly happy about GBNews interviewing notorious anti-LGBT activist and allowing her to claim that LGBTQI+ now seeks to include paedophiles without a word of pushback from the host. Made a complaint myself, haven't heard anything back from them. Dangerous channel.

    • @julielevinge266
      @julielevinge266 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same old ignorant nonsense!!
      They have to lie because if they told the truth they’d be seen for the right wing bigots that they are!!

    • @harrymc9263
      @harrymc9263 ปีที่แล้ว

      The same GB News that employs Mogg despite it being against Ofcom rules

    • @JwayT
      @JwayT ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When did that happen?

    • @hermitpermit2553
      @hermitpermit2553 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dude there literally IS a push to include "minor attracted persons" or maps, saying so isnt saying "this is what all the gays etc think" or "theyre all pervs n pedos" - it just recognises this "group" has pushed to become affiliated and legitimized to fall under the emerging alphabet of sexualities and genders - BECAUSE THEY HAVE. You can google it. Btw the person you speak of isnt anti gays , theyre anti the new gender nonsense

    • @keycuz
      @keycuz ปีที่แล้ว +5

      My 15 year old 'trans' daughter told me the exact same thing. They are called child attracted persons and you are being harmful to their feelings by calling them paedophiles.

  • @dexbarry7715
    @dexbarry7715 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Every single one of these so called ‘watchdogs’ are weak and in some cases corrupt. I wouldn’t hire them to watch my dog never mind owt else!

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The point of these watchdogs is to create an impression that rules exist to be adhered to.

    • @clarepeart636
      @clarepeart636 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I couldn’t agree more

    • @fleetingmoments
      @fleetingmoments ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ALWAYS CORRUPT.

    • @AntonyClayton-eq1ul
      @AntonyClayton-eq1ul ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd add the qualification institutionally, and endemically corrupt. It's the consequence of worship of the God Mammon. It's satanic (ritual).

  • @dwdei8815
    @dwdei8815 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    God she's slithering around trying to duck all this objectively true evidence of her and OfCom's flagrant dereliction of duty.

  • @simonwyndham
    @simonwyndham ปีที่แล้ว +80

    I watched the full thing, and the message I got from her was that she didn't think Ofcom could or should intervene in anything at all. It was like watching Thérèse Coffey. Ofcom needs ground up reconstruction and to be given some real teeth, and the BBC needs a management overhaul as well to make it completely independent of government.

    • @citizenphaid1880
      @citizenphaid1880 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It’s almost like every government minister, mandarin and appointee has been coached by the same PR firm 😂

    • @MartinParnham
      @MartinParnham ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s probably the same mantra of no interference or regulation that the Cons love

    • @Treblaine
      @Treblaine ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Which is absolutely right, Ofcom is to stop things like adult-only content being broadcast on TV just when kids are getting home from school, it's not supposed to be a political censorship board. There's a clear double standard where political diversity is only being demanded for new channels and not existing broadcast channels. When channel 4 does a hatchet job interviewing a figure that the established left doesn't like there's no requirement for someone to appear on the same show at the same time to defend them and ask questions that let them justify their viewpoint.

    • @simonwyndham
      @simonwyndham ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Treblaine Err, Ofcom literally has a rule that states in black and white that no politician can be an interviewer on a news channel or programme. It can't really be more easy to understand than that. Don't you get it? Two serving Tory MPs interviewing another serving Tory MP is just completely against Ofcom's rules that are laid out in extremely plain and easy to understand terms. The whole point of that rule is to literally minimise political bias and stop political censorship. That's the whole damn point of it.

    • @Treblaine
      @Treblaine ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@simonwyndham I cannot understand why such a "rule" exists. Is Jon Stewart a politician? He's a political campaigner that's for sure.
      Anyway, I looked up the "black and white" rule and here is what it actually says:
      “No politician may be used as a newsreader, interviewer or reporter in any news programmes unless, exceptionally, it is editorially justified. In that case, the political allegiance of that person must be made clear to the audience.”
      Unless "editorially justified".
      Not so "black and white" that is a grey area as large and as grey as as the British sky on a typical bank holiday.
      "extremely plain and easy to understand terms"
      I don't think you've bothered to even try to look up the rules, you just parroted what a Labour Party MP said.
      "stop political censorship"
      By... censoring politicians.
      War is Peace.
      Freedom is Slavery
      And most relevant to you: ignorance is strength.
      You know how you stop political censorship? You stop censoring politicians.

  • @mididoctors
    @mididoctors ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Last week we upheld one because we knew we were going to get grilled here

    • @toi_techno
      @toi_techno ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Her husband was the editor of The Daily Telegraph. She is literally a member of the right-wing establishment and media.

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว

      One out three and a half thousand complaints, methinks they taking the piss.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@toi_techno
      *far left.

    • @dorbid
      @dorbid ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@richardgallagher4880why comment when you’re clueless about this?

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dorbid
      Why tro77 instead of debate?
      Just except you're wrong.
      Just except your mentaly vulnerable and let someone convince you the far left government is right wing.

  • @paulinskipukprogressive4903
    @paulinskipukprogressive4903 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    So sick of listening to the obvious lies of Conservatives and their friends - it is time to openly challenge the clique of overpaid con-men and con-women
    More of this direct honest challenge please

    • @guywithhisownopinion
      @guywithhisownopinion ปีที่แล้ว

      More crap...just b3cause you don't like what THEY say doesn't mean it's wrong. And because GB news doesn't parrot the BBC doesn't mean its wrong. Also you want to "restrict" what people hear then let's shut down the Internet and only have access to government approved media...

    • @pbysome
      @pbysome ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Do what we've been told over the last 60 years...don't watch it!

    • @gio-oz8gf
      @gio-oz8gf ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@pbysome You're completely missing the point. People watch these shows and believe the disinformation that is fed to them. It can lead to morally corrupt leaders telling their supporters that elections have been stolen and encouraging them to storm government buildings. And, that's only the start of the problems; the situation can quickly deteriorate. As someone recently stated, the Holocaust did not begin with extermination camps, it began with words.

    • @matthewb9621
      @matthewb9621 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should think: So what? Who cares.
      Why is a commercial station being challenged?

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@matthewb9621
      Because of its treasonous far left views.

  • @parshakamarsh
    @parshakamarsh ปีที่แล้ว +37

    It's like watching a worm, wriggling on the end of a fishing hook

  • @lastformorian5188
    @lastformorian5188 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Melanie Dawes is also married to Benedict Brogan, "a British former journalist, formerly deputy editor and chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph".

    • @toi_techno
      @toi_techno ปีที่แล้ว

      Tory England is as corrupt and cronyistic as a banana republic

    • @johnbriggs3916
      @johnbriggs3916 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also married?

  • @syttt7925
    @syttt7925 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    OFCOM performing just about as well as OFWAT, (shit in the water) OFGEM (can't afford to heat your home) ORR (takes almost 5 hours to travel 90 miles from the East Mids to parts of the North West by rail and it's too expensive to use)

  • @alexritchie4586
    @alexritchie4586 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Ah, Ofcom once again sitting there saying 'Who allowed this?! Just wait until I get my hands on the national media regulator!'

  • @easytoassemble54321
    @easytoassemble54321 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    Good to see MPs catching up with the creeping mainstreaming of the Rightwing conspiracy peddling, and asking the right questions about the failures of our UK regulators, to grow some teeth and start doing their jobs.

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 ปีที่แล้ว

      The media has a lot to answer for in Britain in the last fifty years. The right wing echo chamber has amplified right wing lies and moved the Overton Window ever rightwards. The UK has been hijacked by a hard right cabal that poses as moderate, and has co-opted the Labour Party into its project- neoliberal hegemony. No wonder moderate social democratic policies advocated by Corbyn in 2017 and 2019 were framed as extremist/ hard left/ radical left. They were nothing of the sort but anything that does not concur with right wing lies is demonised. The response to Gary Lineker expressing an opinion proves the point. Hard right snowflakes.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      The entire msm is far left.
      It's not up for debate

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Alex Edwards
      They refuse to except that 9 m have invaded I spite the census saying so.
      That the e.u is naz Germany inspite of them taking Belfast and Kiev.

    • @scooble
      @scooble ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Would that be the kind of false conspiracies that are knowingly peddled by broadcasters because they were afraid that if they didn't peddle it, they'd upset their base?

    • @costanzauk
      @costanzauk ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You gotta be kidding me.

  • @fredatlas4396
    @fredatlas4396 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Just like the regulator failed to really cap energy bills when they started rising a lot back in 2021 and 2022 etc. There appears to be a pattern emerging here, could it be part of the tories agenda

    • @Treblaine
      @Treblaine ปีที่แล้ว

      The price cap was never going to work because it doesn't put a cap on price of producers, only suppliers. If there's a tanker full of liquefied gas and they say it costs this much and the government says "can't charge that much so can't pay that much for the gas" then the tanker just says "fuck you, I'm off the sell it to Germany instead".
      The price cap was introduced for when gas was exceptionally CHEAP, so cheap that consumers were being charged way way more than it cost to buy it from producers but these suppliers wanted to save up for a rainy day, instead they were limited and now the rainy days have well and truly come and they've got no savings.
      Most people have no idea how price caps work, they work in the exact OPPOSITE way you presume. They don't help when there's a gas shortage, they only slightly help when there's an abundance and overall they do more harm than good.

    • @leehenry5764
      @leehenry5764 ปีที่แล้ว

      So-called green energy is expensive

  • @Google_Does_Evil_Now
    @Google_Does_Evil_Now ปีที่แล้ว +71

    OMG she's disgraceful. She needs to go. And she needs to be prosecuted for misuse of public office.

    • @tyranitararmaldo
      @tyranitararmaldo ปีที่แล้ว

      Considering who her husband is, the latter is sorely needed.

    • @AntonyClayton-eq1ul
      @AntonyClayton-eq1ul ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, it is misconduct in public office. You wonder why nothing is being done in the public interest. Until you view the video...
      I'd say there is fraud involved (Fraud Act 2006; making and using an instrument to deceive, and mislead; liability orders discontinued in 2003, and never replaced). And when fraud comes in it kills everything.
      E.G. in the case of the regime's illegal and fraudulent Council Tax, you can claim back every penny they have falsely obtained from you.

  • @dextercool
    @dextercool ปีที่แล้ว +51

    How can anyone turn up to these crucial videoed meetings with MPs with no facts and figures in a folder in front of them for ready reference? How can someone turn up with nothing but a bottle of water and just blithely say "I'm not sure - I'd need to confirm that" on basic questions of fact?

    • @ianwright389
      @ianwright389 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      That kind of incompetence, that's how you earn the big bucks. She will be leader of the Conservatives inside of two years!

    • @markherzog9484
      @markherzog9484 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      David Davies did same in his role as Brexit minister……anyone seeing the pattern here? No preparation for the meeting, just spinning ideological mantras for the Tory chumocracy…..

    • @keycuz
      @keycuz ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There are no real consequences, why bother. You could just sit back with your feet on the table.

  • @wirralwontshe7809
    @wirralwontshe7809 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Someone give that man a Goddamned medal.

  • @huwwilliams3230
    @huwwilliams3230 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Totally agree with Kevin Brennan has to say about the take over of local TV broadcasters by Talk TV.......How did that happen?

    • @barrieshepherd7694
      @barrieshepherd7694 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Similar happened with radio. Global Radio grabbed virtually all originally "independant" stations.

  • @JRattheranch
    @JRattheranch ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Amazes me, having watched numerous commons committee meetings, that so many of these "independent" regulators, can be seen to be absolutely clueless about the actual circumstances that they are presiding over! OFWAT.... OFCOM .... Etc... And of course on a different tack, the recent interviews with the CEO of Royal Mail. We're being taken for idiots on every front!

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The purpose of the quango watchdogs is to give the appearance that the public interest is being guarded

    • @JRattheranch
      @JRattheranch ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Coelacanth1 In which case? They are an abysmal failure! 😉

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JRattheranch What do their job, nah that's not what they're there for, not unless that is job is upholding complaint against the left wing.

    • @hanric2000
      @hanric2000 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, the majority must be idiots. They voted for this…

  • @andrewbaxter9395
    @andrewbaxter9395 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Like me asking my son if he has tidied his room and him saying “I’ll take that point on board dad and I am actively engaged in reflecting on that perspective”

  • @clacton17
    @clacton17 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    OMG she looks like she's terrified. What I want to see is a list of firms who advertise on GB"news" and Talk TV.

    • @Crouchy232323
      @Crouchy232323 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Very small list

    • @sirtristram8297
      @sirtristram8297 ปีที่แล้ว

      You never see charities advertising on GB News and Talk TV. What does that tell you about the people who watch them ?

  • @J0MBi
    @J0MBi ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The problem with this - Ofcom will not change anything because of a grilling by a select commitee MP. Nothing will change until there is a change of government.

    • @hilaryporter7841
      @hilaryporter7841 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My absolute fear is, nothing will change WITH a change of government. The flaws of 'unfettered' capitalism, and I really mean unfettered, have to be dealt with.

    • @fleetingmoments
      @fleetingmoments ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@hilaryporter7841 my fear exactly.

  • @boogaloo4640
    @boogaloo4640 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Lord Michael Grade - Since 2011, he has been a Conservative Party life peer in the House of Lords. In April 2022, it was announced by the Government[2] that Grade would take up his four year appointment as Chairman of Ofcom from May 2022 - From his Wiki page. Says it all really

  • @damienirving1436
    @damienirving1436 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    "....very happy to reflect on." Why do they get away with bs responses like this!? Clearly disingenuous

  • @laterstar1966
    @laterstar1966 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I wonder which Conservative prime minister made her a Dame mmmm🤔

    • @laterstar1966
      @laterstar1966 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      After a quick Google... it was Boris "Blojo the Clown" Johnson 🤡. Tories make my teeth itch.

  • @benedictcowell6547
    @benedictcowell6547 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    A sure sign of perverse appointments is to appoint Nadine Dories to anything. And Esther MacVey? and Rees-Mogg? When the lunatics run the asylum there is problem. Wall to wall carpet to cover the flaws

    • @ianwright389
      @ianwright389 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nadine Dories is launching her own new social media platform combining the functionality of twitter with the broad scope of facebook, she is calling it Twit-Face.

    • @benedictcowell6547
      @benedictcowell6547 ปีที่แล้ว

      You have to say that she is under illusions about her patent stupidity. I think it shows great humility to pronounce to the world that her show is hosted by a cretin,, that her network is owned by a liar and the entire endeavour is to appeal to the national reservoir of bloody idiots, paranoids, liars, cheats, obsessives, fascists .It should do well if Brexit is any guide @@ianwright389

  • @oakabielb5406
    @oakabielb5406 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    "either right wing or extremely right wing" yup

    • @paulgibbons2320
      @paulgibbons2320 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Everything looks right wing from an extreme left position.

    • @oakabielb5406
      @oakabielb5406 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@paulgibbons2320 How foolish

    • @MontyCantsin5
      @MontyCantsin5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Paul Gibbons: 🤦

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oakabielb5406
      Insults instead of debate.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MontyCantsin5
      And you.
      How come you extremists can't debate?

  • @emm_arr
    @emm_arr ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Jacob Rees-Mogg is diverse now? He ticks a box for people who turned into their teenage personas.
    But other than that, he's a far right oddball who has shared a number of stages with far-right operators. He's far right.

    • @ianwright389
      @ianwright389 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I disagree how often on TV do we actually have people who were breastfed into their 20s being able to talk and express an opinion. Go Team Mogg. 🎉

    • @danw5760
      @danw5760 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Genuine question, does the fact your a liar ever bother you from an ethical perspective or do you consider yourself to be engaging in a noble lie?

    • @emm_arr
      @emm_arr ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@danw5760 "does the fact your a liar"
      I am not a liar.
      He's far right. When did you become that way inclined?

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Politicians intent on personal enrichment will be what they need to be to ensure that personal enrichment

    • @danw5760
      @danw5760 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@emm_arr But you can list his beliefs and positions (or can you?), and they are simply not far right by any definition. It's like calling a bird a dog, it's a categorical error. Or just a politically expedient lie. Free markets, small state, free speech, mass migration, these are his positions, they are the opposite of far right. Presuming you like big state interventionism, which to be clear is a legitimate position, you are nevertheless closer to the far right than he is

  • @Mannin_Watch_Time
    @Mannin_Watch_Time ปีที่แล้ว +61

    They need Joe Lynette, he’s very very right wing!

    • @calicokittenproductions591
      @calicokittenproductions591 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Isn't he just. 😂

    • @eightiesmusic1984
      @eightiesmusic1984 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lycette. Joe Lynette is very left wing. Polar opposites.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is that the ginger gay guy?
      Support the German empire like invading countries?

    • @theghostoftom
      @theghostoftom ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@eightiesmusic1984 he did a bit, it was funny. You should find the clip

    • @calicokittenproductions591
      @calicokittenproductions591 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @80s Music
      No, he's 💯 right wing... he told us so. You don't think he'd lie to us do you? 🤣

  • @lidgie123
    @lidgie123 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    They’ve upheld ONE OUT OF OVER THREE THOUSAND COMPLAINTS????

    • @PaulStargasm
      @PaulStargasm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That isn't really indicative of anything as we don't know what the complaints were. 17M people can be wrong!

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว

      And was that a right wing or left wing complaint?

    • @lidgie123
      @lidgie123 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@PaulStargasm do you believe only a little under 0.03% of all complaints warranted action?

    • @lidgie123
      @lidgie123 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Coelacanth1 makes no difference

    • @bereal6590
      @bereal6590 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup, that's gotta be a record!!😕

  • @babymonalisa
    @babymonalisa ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'm really impressed by this MP! If we dont grasp the problem now, we'll end up sleepwalking into the kind of scenario they have in The States. Very scary indeed.

    • @FEWGEE1
      @FEWGEE1 ปีที่แล้ว

      We're already there. Brits just behave in a more reserved manner.

  • @lemongrabloids3103
    @lemongrabloids3103 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This country is really starting to scare me

  • @user-bu9nb8wr6e
    @user-bu9nb8wr6e ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Time for her to step-down as she is on their pay roll.

  • @christill
    @christill ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Never heard of him before. Surprised to see anyone actually challenging them on this. Nice to see.

  • @segue2ant395
    @segue2ant395 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Imagine being the head of OFCOM and having to be TOLD to look into the relationship between social and broadcast media.

    • @Treblaine
      @Treblaine ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ofcom was only supposed to regulate the content of broadcast media because it is what is within UK jurisdiction. Not use that as a pretext to scour all the media outside UK jurisdiction.

  • @andrewolgado6018
    @andrewolgado6018 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Basically she'll think about it, then sit on their hands

  • @DsComicColours
    @DsComicColours ปีที่แล้ว +9

    She's almost certainly been compromised in some way. Out she goes.
    Next!

  • @David-le7jy
    @David-le7jy ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So good to see Oli Dugmore on this mornings Laura Kuenssberg. He's a good bloke and yes, I searched for Politics Joe on TH-cam and I subscribed!

  • @martinobrien7110
    @martinobrien7110 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    How a once Great Nation is slowly sinking beneath the waves .

    • @AntonyClayton-eq1ul
      @AntonyClayton-eq1ul ปีที่แล้ว

      Waves polluted by Tory revenue generating, sewage discharge.

  • @Leornianæfre
    @Leornianæfre ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Couldn’t have summed it up better. Time to overhaul Ofcom for the better. Then they can clean up TV and radio by getting rid of GBNews, TalkTV and all other Murdoch media. Can also get rid of Sharpe, Gibb and Davie from the BBC. While they’re at it, remove Neil and Balls from ITV and Channel 4 too.

  • @markrobinson1458
    @markrobinson1458 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I think she was thinking what to buy at Sainsbury's on her way home, don't know how they get these jobs 🤯

  • @chrissilver7719
    @chrissilver7719 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Russia Today got taken off the air . No these channels are being allowed to be eradicating the need to have accuracy.
    Why are many of these presenters of GBNews given a guest slot on BBC current affairs programmes ?

  • @bereal6590
    @bereal6590 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Just come here after doing my usual watch of what they're up to, looked at jeremy kyle and first guest prev editor of the sun rejoicing hunts budget! ! This is the best select committee ever and about time!!

  • @clarepeart636
    @clarepeart636 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I so wish we had an MP like him

  • @neilg6675
    @neilg6675 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Ofcom execs are very well paid, so most likely tories. Oh her husband works for the telegraph. Real fair balance and control

  • @rodericklawley2846
    @rodericklawley2846 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As independent as the Independent Police Complaints Committee and the Independent Pay Review Body.

  • @mikerivers9634
    @mikerivers9634 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    If Labour gets in at next election we need a root and branch clear out of all watchdogs. I’d consider scrapping the lot of them if this is the standard of their enthusiasm to do the job properly. Pathetic.

    • @AntonyClayton-eq1ul
      @AntonyClayton-eq1ul ปีที่แล้ว

      But New Labour are Conservative, in all but name. Starmer won't reverse anything of the tyranny, and dictatorship the Conservatives have wrought upon us.

  • @rivkahlevi6117
    @rivkahlevi6117 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is it just me, or is the idea of sitting MPs of any party presenting TV programmes just a bit bonkers?

    • @rob-c.
      @rob-c. ปีที่แล้ว

      But the problem is Gary Lineker! Don’t look at us, look at Gary!!

  • @peterwhitear7716
    @peterwhitear7716 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    all these company's are run by Tories be honest about it it's time they where taken down .

  • @martincopeland8153
    @martincopeland8153 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    To quote Rupert Maxwell “it’s not about Red or Blue it’s about Green 💵 💴 “

  • @Shood33
    @Shood33 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why is she the boss? She clearly has no idea what she is doing, married to someone with a bit of power is she?

    • @alexagardner5149
      @alexagardner5149 ปีที่แล้ว

      She seems to have the same level of understanding as Nadine Dorries has on the media, she knows what the channels are called and you can find them on a TV but i'll ask someone in the office to give me any other info.

  • @lm014c2414
    @lm014c2414 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Should be asking about BBC impartiality during Brexit

  • @jananders1351
    @jananders1351 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The answers and non-answers of this Melanie Dawes does beg the question what is OFCOM there for. She seems to have a good vision of what it's not there for which is pretty much everything that has anything to do with broadcasting!

  • @chrislaurenceleo
    @chrislaurenceleo ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What about the leveson enquiries. Tories promised to activate its recommendations then broke their promises with Hancock announcing their refusal to keep their promises.

  • @DD-fc1rv
    @DD-fc1rv ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I seriously believe the daily fail and express are a risk to democracy in the uk.

    • @paulgibbons2320
      @paulgibbons2320 ปีที่แล้ว

      No it's people like you who are a danger to democracy.
      Think you can ignore views and censor views that don't agree with you.

  • @jerrywinder7249
    @jerrywinder7249 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I always said that there's a political bias in the media

    • @CrawfordGriffiths
      @CrawfordGriffiths ปีที่แล้ว

      political bias in the media like the BBC very left-wing bias

    • @robinfoster7597
      @robinfoster7597 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@alexedwards-mg6gk don't be silly!!!! Examples please?????

    • @bradfordzone5187
      @bradfordzone5187 ปีที่แล้ว

      Of course there is political bias in the media. Newspapers never had to be impartial. The problem is that the owners of newspapers are now operating tv channels which is why Ofcom are looking into that very area. However has Ofcom said - GB News and Talk TV are not actually news channels - They don't do rolling news they are actually opinion based channels. The problem is Ofcom rules on impartiality in news refers to news channels not opinion channels. When people complain about a programme to Ofcom, Ofcom can only take action if the programme broke Ofcom rules, where as most of the complaints to Ofcom are from members of the public who don't agree with something. The right wing complain the BBC is left wing and the left wing accuse the BBC of being the Government's PR piece. Both of those statements about the BBC clearly cannot be right - But that's the complaints that Ofcom get from both side of the political spectrum.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@robinfoster7597
      Every single newspaper and channel is far left.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robinfoster7597
      Have you every heard one mentioning zenazis taking over Europe?

  • @clivejohnson6468
    @clivejohnson6468 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Ofcom: The Government.

  • @mikewilson1285
    @mikewilson1285 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    12:20 So GB "News" isn't actually a news channel. Because that isn't misleading.

    • @lonelyone69
      @lonelyone69 ปีที่แล้ว

      Im pretty sure they're also tax exempt because billionaires love paying their taxes ;)

  • @SkyEcho7
    @SkyEcho7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Surely freedom of expression should NOT allow freedom of FACTS & SITTING politicians definitely should NOT be presenters or host their own programmes imo

  • @woowoo111111
    @woowoo111111 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ofcom's unofficial motto - ' If we stay still , the public won't notice us - their vision is based on motion"

    • @AntonyClayton-eq1ul
      @AntonyClayton-eq1ul ปีที่แล้ว

      They know the masses have been brainwashed, and indoctrinated well enough, to let the Right wing agenda achieve it's sinister ends.

  • @LEThavFUNnSMILE
    @LEThavFUNnSMILE ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great work

  • @kirstyguard6023
    @kirstyguard6023 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    good grilling

  • @kimcallaghan753
    @kimcallaghan753 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is it possible to remove these stations from the menu?

  • @pancakingon
    @pancakingon ปีที่แล้ว +47

    "It's either right wing or extremely right wing" sounds like the choice between Labour and Conservatives at the moment!

    • @tonyboswell5732
      @tonyboswell5732 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Spot on! It's either Sunak or Blair 2.0

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Cringe.
      They're both far left🙄

    • @tommykeeling7697
      @tommykeeling7697 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The difference between May and now is the difference of the right wing and extreme right wing .. even May is dead against this Rwanda deal. Labour is currently acting as the centre with bits that don’t suit a lot of us .. but I’d rather have the Labour MP’s dealing with this mess than the corrupt right wing horror show we have now.

    • @Zebacha
      @Zebacha ปีที่แล้ว

      A necessary evil. When Corbyn ran the Labour party with fairly sensible moderate left wing policies he was branded Comrade Corbyn by the aforementioned right wing press and, unfortunately, there are too many morons incapable of thinking for themselves so they let the newspapers determine who they vote for. The only chance Labour have, with the media bias as right wing as it is, is to play the game, get in power and then, hopefully, tear down the system and start again.

    • @richardgallagher4880
      @richardgallagher4880 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tommykeeling7697
      Do you understand 7.6 billion people have an army to stop people raking their land?
      That's the centre.
      Rwanda🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @kieranclarges2514
    @kieranclarges2514 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Who shows up to a select committee with zero information? Every answer has been i dont know but i'll look into it...
    She hasn't been abducted off the street and dragged into the committee!
    Not a single folder!
    It's almost like she wasn't planning on giving straight answers!

    • @PaulStargasm
      @PaulStargasm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You've clearly not watched many committee meetings since Brexit. :D

  • @grantjsimon
    @grantjsimon ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Not fit for the job!

  • @juanribeiro73
    @juanribeiro73 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You can't embarrass these people. If there are no consequences they will do as they please.

  • @SSRT_JubyDuby8742
    @SSRT_JubyDuby8742 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    It feels very much like there have been back handers to Ofcom *allegedly*
    Like deployed 👍

  • @samshep70
    @samshep70 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Finally we are talking about this.

  • @wendysimpson6395
    @wendysimpson6395 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm sick of far right propaganda. Really sick.

  • @TankEnMate
    @TankEnMate ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What would really help is that channels that want to labelled as "News" channels have to report evidence based output. And that viewers have a right to complain if that output doesn't have such evidence. And any opinions voiced by guests that don't have evidence are clearly labelled as opinion void of evidence; that way journalists are REQUIRED to ask their guests for evidence.

  • @pauloliver1842
    @pauloliver1842 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we don't want fox here

  • @haeuptlingaberja4927
    @haeuptlingaberja4927 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Well, you're right, but the Free Market rules, money and power accrue, and we have no moral compass whatsoever. Next question, please?"

  • @awjelfs5034
    @awjelfs5034 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These sort of people are helping England sleepwalk into a right wing paradise where the rich get richer and the poor get the picture.

  • @3D_Printing
    @3D_Printing ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Off-CON is there true name: look at Energy costs suppose to be reducing

  • @timcastle1844
    @timcastle1844 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    M Dawes wriggles around her attempt to justify doing very little for the money spent on her dep't.

  • @shady2322
    @shady2322 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What does Ofcom actually do?
    Same question to Ofgem.

    • @barrieshepherd7694
      @barrieshepherd7694 ปีที่แล้ว

      ...and OFWAT, ORR and all the other "regulatory" QUANGO's

  • @bigmajstudios409
    @bigmajstudios409 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Overton window keeps moving.

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interesting reading ; How the online alt-right shifted the Overton window by Andrew Marantz. The goal he says was to build the political discourse in their own image.

  • @michaelmather7352
    @michaelmather7352 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I thought MP's couldn,t be news interviewers on tv news channels.

    • @markbriten6999
      @markbriten6999 ปีที่แล้ว

      They can't it's against the rules but apparently these twats are claiming that GB news's isn't news. This doesn't actually matter but Tories being Tories they don't give a shit

    • @rob-c.
      @rob-c. ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As they spoke about here towards the end, Talk TV and GB News have somehow convinced the regulator that they are not technically ‘news’ programmes/channels - GB NEWS is not a news channel 🤷‍♂️

  • @PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS
    @PaulSinghSelhi-VFX-TUTORIALS ปีที่แล้ว

    Impartial : Dame Melanie Henrietta Dawes DCB (born 9 March 1966) is a British economist and civil servant. Since February 2020 she has been Chief Executive of Ofcom. She was previously the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and before that worked at HM Treasury, HM Revenue and Customs, and in the Cabinet Office. In January 2015, Dawes was announced as the next Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government, succeeding Sir Bob Kerslake. She was the first permanent secretary to be appointed under a new scheme in which the Prime Minister has the final say in the recruitment process; the PM now chooses directly from a list created by the Civil Service Commissioners, rather than only having a veto over the Commissioners' preferred candidate. She took up the position on 1 March 2015. As of 2015, Dawes was paid a salary of between £160,000 and £164,999 by DCLG, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time

  • @charlyhammond5280
    @charlyhammond5280 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    1 complaint they looked at out of 3.5k 🤦‍♀️ they don’t know there own rules and just ignore complaints

  • @2006HUGO
    @2006HUGO ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i DONT LISTEN TO GB NEWS OR TALLK TV I would advise DON'T

  • @terryroots5023
    @terryroots5023 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Woe betide UK if we follow the US down this path

  • @seebarry4068
    @seebarry4068 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What times are they showing local tv? 3am? 4am? Then fill the day with Doris and mogg.

  • @del8boy
    @del8boy ปีที่แล้ว

    As a previous tory voter I would agree with Kevin. Never vote Tory again.

  • @octopusman9969
    @octopusman9969 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Free speech is for all,not a chosen few.

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว

      Free speech has to be fought for.

    • @ianwright389
      @ianwright389 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nice one mate, your buying me a TV channel so I can have the same right to free speech as Jacob Reece-mogg. When do we go on air?

    • @Coelacanth1
      @Coelacanth1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ianwright389 Perhaps you need to recognise where you are to become aware of the fact that you can create your own channel to exercise your freedom of speech as a private citizen. Where unlike the TV you can receive comment on what you say to get some direct feedback Rees Mogg is scared of.

  • @finlayfraser9952
    @finlayfraser9952 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ms Dawes is not up to the job!

  • @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922
    @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Ofgem owned by the Tory party

  • @2006HUGO
    @2006HUGO ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fascism could well be at work in the UK

  • @stevesretroloft
    @stevesretroloft ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Most people will likely ignore Channel 7 on freeview anyway once the retune for BBC local HD services start towards the end of the month. I removed the channel a while ago as it was rubbish.