Activists | Paul Evans http://www.paul-evans.org “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool” (As You Like It) Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:23:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Politics is dominated by people who are interested in politics. That’s a bad thing. http://www.paul-evans.org/2024/01/politics-is-dominated-by-people-who-are-interested-in-politics-thats-a-bad-thing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=politics-is-dominated-by-people-who-are-interested-in-politics-thats-a-bad-thing Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:23:51 +0000 https://www.paul-evans.org/?p=553 A new year thought for you. The Conservative Home website tells us that nearly 60% of their panel of Conservative Party members now watch the cranktastic hyper-partisan GB News channel — the BBC only just shades the poll for first place. 60.7% watch the BBC regularly compared to 57.21% who tune into GBN in the same […]

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The Conservative Home website tells us that nearly 60% of their panel of Conservative Party members now watch the cranktastic hyper-partisan GB News channel — the BBC only just shades the poll for first place.

60.7% watch the BBC regularly compared to 57.21% who tune into GBN in the same way. Sky (31.38%) and ITN (18.54%) both pale by comparison.

As ConHome puts it…

“GB News, in political terms, has settled somewhere to the left of Reform UK (Richard Tice is a presenter) but well to the right of, say, the Conservative Parliamentary Party’s centre of gravity.”

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