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gb news. >> in tears for keir. we've seen two tier policing and two tier media coverage with people being sent to jail for posting on facebook or joining in with naughty chants. is there now two tier sentencing plus notice your placard saying refugees welcome here. >> i'm just wondering if you'd like to go down on the list saying you're willing to take the refugees into your home. of course, the only problem is i rent lefty protesters demand that britain open its borders to unvetted undocumented men from other cultures. >> but are they willing to open their front doors to the same men.7 someone their front doors to the same men? someone went and asked them and their answers will not surprise you one bit. and labour foreign secretary david lammy says that britain has always been a multicultural place and the far right are the people who
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need to integrate. is he right or were our ancestors actually a bunch of bigots who'd make today's far right thugs look like a green party convention? this is your saturday night showdown . showdown. discussing all these topics and more with me tonight are an absolutely cracking pair. we have dating coach and entrepreneur kezia noble and the comedian and famous international playboy bruce devlin. look at him there in his shorts. fantastic stuff. but first, let's get your latest news headlines from sophia wenzler . wenzler. >> leo. thank you. good evening. i'm sophia wenzler with your headunes i'm sophia wenzler with your headlines just after 8:00, a fire at somerset house in central london has been
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contained after around 125 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze. priceless artworks, including a van gogh painting, have not been damaged and all the public are safe. after the fire ripped through the roof of the historic building. somerset house will remain closed until further nofice remain closed until further notice as an investigation into the fire that damaged the roof is conducted . in ireland, a is conducted. in ireland, a teenage boy has appeared in court charged over the stabbing of an army chaplain outside renmore barracks. a 16 year old boy, who cannot be named due to his age, has been remanded in custody. gb news is home and security editor. mark white has more. >> this short court hearing gave us the firmest indication yet of an apparent terrorist motivation to this attack. outside the irish army barracks on thursday evening. the suspect, a 16 year old boy, according to the court, appeared to have a radical islamist mindset and possessed
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material linked to the islamic state terror group. the victim, father paul murphy, was returning to the barracks in his car when he was confronted and stabbed multiple times. security cameras recorded 20 separate stabbing movements. he suffered multiple deep lacerations. the teenager has been remanded back into custody in scotland. >> a member of the snp has been kicked out of the party for comments about the israel—hamas war, described as utterly abhorrent. john mason has been accused of flippantly dismissing the deaths of more than 40,000 palestinians. the msp has been stripped of the party whip following the social media post. party officials will now meet to discuss a fixed time period of suspension. in other news, it's reported that former newsreader huw edwards is now accused of sexually assaulting a 27 year old man in a west end club after sending explicit text messages. this follows earlier revelations
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that the 62 year old admitted receiving child sex images and videos. the alleged victim claims edwards , who continued claims edwards, who continued despite being asked to stop , was despite being asked to stop, was brazenly aggressive and got off on the risk of getting caught. it's also alleged in the daily mail and the sun newspaper, the former bbc star threatened to kill anyone who looked at the man whom he described as his possession , and anyone possession, and anyone travelling to an african country affected by a new strain of m—pox is being urged to get vaccinated. fresh advice has been issued by the european centre for disease prevention and control after the virus emerged in the congo. more than 500 people have died on the continent so far this year. sweden has recorded its first case while pakistan is trying to establish whether a person there has been affected. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone,
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sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> thank you sophia and welcome to the saturday night showdown. now we've seen two tier policing dunng now we've seen two tier policing during the riots with top cops ignonng during the riots with top cops ignoring violence from muslim mobs. after sitting down with community leaders while white british people get no such privilege, they just get dogs and baton charges. are we now seeing two tier sentences in the courts? i think we can all agree that violence is reprehensible, and should be punished with the full force of the law, but some of these sentences are for sharing memes on facebook or shouting spicy things . we've shouting spicy things. we've seen children as young as 12 facing sentencing in adult courts and judges citing anti—establishment opinions. a judge even told people they'd be jailed for just observing judge even told people they'd be jailed forjust observing a riot jailed for just observing a riot and his due process being
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followed. kiera's 24 hour courts have been holding suspects without bail and rushing convictions and sentences through. let's have a look at some of these sentences. 61 year old david spring was sentenced to 18 months in prison, despite being a carer for his wife, who has health problems. he pleaded guilty to violent disorder dunng guilty to violent disorder during a riot at whitehall. according to the sutton guardian, spring's role in the disorder was making threatening and hostile gestures towards police, shouting abuse at officers and joining in chants officers and joining in chants of who the f is allah? now i fully support the state punishing people who commit violence, but shouting and making gestures at police falls far short of this. and a gay couple were jailed for more than two years each after they walked into the riots. after a day at the bingo. the bingo. i thought these rioters were all far right thugs. are you telling me the edl go to the bingo now too fat nazis 88. they told the court they had happened upon the riot by chance when they went out later in the evening to buy more
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alcohol . i never, never get alcohol. i never, never get between a northern gay and the booze shop. according to the teesside gazette, former school governor stephen mallon, 54, and his partner ryan shears, 29. bit of an age gap were captured dancing and gesticulating at a line of police officers as the crowd behind them roared on the evening of july the 31st, mallon shouted abuse at an officer dancing , gesticulating, shouting dancing, gesticulating, shouting abuse! can this get any more evil? the police hit them with batons and set their dogs on them. one of them was bitten on them. one of them was bitten on the bum. i mean, that kind of sounds worse than gesticulating. i kind of feel that justice was already served. anyway, i'm joined tonight by entrepreneur and dating coach kezia noble and the comedian and famous international playboy, bruce devlin. hey, bruce. hey bruce is a scotsman who enjoys the occasional tipple. absolutely. i sort of feel like, you know, there. but for the grace of god, that could have been us
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stumbling out of the bingo and into a riot by accident. >> i mean, that is the thing we do, like a day out and things can go awry. i don't know if anyone had seen the footage, but sorry, i shouldn't laugh, but it's when the dog bites the guy on the bum. yeah, and it just all seems a wee bit unnecessary. yeah the bum biting it did feel that, you know, in some of these cases, they'd already been dealt with quite, quite harshly, you know, being bitten by a dog, being hit by the police after you know, fairly minor stuff. >> i mean, i know it's part of a bigger violent disorder, but but i feel like, you know , giving i feel like, you know, giving them 26 months in jail each on top of that is quite a lot. >> the reason why they're doing this is because the government want to silence the people in this country who have had enough of mass, uncontrolled immigration. europe want mass immigration, the west want it . immigration, the west want it. canada, australia and people are starting to speak out. and when they saw those votes coming in for the reform party, they got scared. they got worried. and
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now they're doing everything to silence us. yes, that's what's happening here. they'll put forget dogs. that's just the first step. >> they'll just are they going to move to on cows? >> you're going to just immediately arrest people and sentence them at some point because they don't like what's happening. people are getting fed up with this mass, uncontrolled immigration. >> i mean, this is your opinion. obviously, there are people out there who would say we need mass, uncontrolled immigration because, you know, for example, if you're a landlord , it pushes if you're a landlord, it pushes up rental prices or if you're or if you've got a business, then you can you can have cheap workers for your business. and it destroys the power of the unions, destroys the quality of life is getting worse as result. >> i don't care about gdp. our quality of life is getting worse. i grew up in the 90s and 80s. there was no waiting lists for anything. you could get a parking space you could get on the housing market, your child could get into the local school, the quality of life is deteriorated. when i asked people, what has mass
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immigration done for you? they really struggle. they say gdp. of course, landlords, property developers have made a lot of money from it, but they are in the minority. the vast majority of people, their quality of life has eroded . yeah, it has as has eroded. yeah, it has as a result of that. >> and we've seen that in some of the some of the towns that saw the rioting like, like these northern towns, rotherham, rochdale, you know, the places that have, you know, some of the, some of the awkward history with, with immigration they've actually seen in the last ten, 20 years, they've seen unemployment and people claiming incapacity benefit. the number of people claiming the percentage of the population claiming is actually going up . claiming is actually going up. so, you know, people aren't the economy is not thriving as a result of. >> but going back to the sentences for things like gesticulation, dancing, cheering and screaming or whatever you want to call it, we are told constantly that we have no room in prisons for proper offences, whether they be violence by virtue of murder or sexual offences or any of that. you know, there's cases in scotland where people have been convicted of sexual crimes and they
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haven't even been given community service. so my point would be that it's kind of like , would be that it's kind of like, okay, i understand that they want to make their voice heard. we won't tolerate this and we won't do that. but are you going after low hanging fruit? >> well, also, they're clearing the prisons out of people. there's a guy who's involved in a machete murder who only served six months in the end. and they let him out of jail early so they could make space for somebody who'd sent a fruity meme and. >> bingo. >> bingo. >> now. yeah well, back to these guys. i mean, at least these people were actually present at a riot. the bingo guys were actually at a riot. other people have been jailed for sharing memes on social media. 51 year old lee joseph dunn was handed an immediate eight week jail term for three facebook posts showing such things as a group of men asian in appearance at egremont crab fair in 2025. it's quite a niche , specific place to quite a niche, specific place to be, with the caption coming to a town near you. i don't see what's wrong with this, apart from the fact that they're muslim at a shellfish fair, so i
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think that's against their religion to eat shellfish. but the fact that, you know, we're having asian men coming to these towns is factually correct . with towns is factually correct. with immigration soaring to new highs, thousands of men coming across the channel in small boats, and the government's operation scatter policy, ensuring that these new arrivals are spread across the country is simply a matter of fact that this is likely to happen. the muslim council of britain even points out that fully a third of population growth in the uk is muslim. muslims have more kids and obviously there's high immigration from muslim countries coming to the uk. britain's future is as a muslim country, obviously, i think this is this is a good thing and very enriching because i don't want to go to jail, but we can't deny that it's happening. another man was convicted for social media posts after a court was told they contained anti—establishment rhetoric. so we're not allowed to criticise the establishment now. and people on the left who spread misinformation haven't been
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prosecuted , such as labour's prosecuted, such as labour's jess phillips or hope not hate, who spread inflammatory hoaxes about acid attacks on muslim women by white men and 100 far right protests. jess has at least apologised. and let's take a look at some other sentences for other people who engaged in sectarian violence. the golders green supermarket knife attacker avoided prison altogether and muslim men who drove through jewish areas shouting rape threats, threatening to rape jewish daughters had their charges dropped. and i hope not, hates boss spread a dangerous rumour that could have incited violence. but they're not arrested. is this is this more evidence of a two tiered approach? the fact that they're not arrested, but somebody who shares different memes if they're if they've got a different political persuasion, even if they're less inflammatory, does get arrested and does get sent to jail. >> two tier policing, two tier reporting, two tier sentencing , reporting, two tier sentencing, two tier outrage. this goes on.
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where are all these stand against racism mob when it comes to jews being attacked? yeah. why don't they care about them? >> weirdly, it seems to be a fashionable racism amongst the sort of woke progressive types who are normally it's a trend. >> yeah, i know, i feel, yeah, it's terrible and it's just more evidence that there's this two tier everything now. yeah, it's like the whole thing. it's like, you know, everyone's outraged about what's happening in gaza, but they're not outraged about what's happening in sudan or yemen or syria. that's fine . yemen or syria. that's fine. let's get outraged about this two tier outrage, two tier sentencing. this is a big problem. i think we're being we're really getting split as a nafion we're really getting split as a nation now. yeah and i don't put everything down to immigration. i don't i believe that what you said at the beginning, like there are a lot of muslim people coming over. i don't think it's just muslim. i think they just want people from the third world. wherever it is, it might be india, which is not a muslim
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country. they want people from the third world so that that our expectations and our quality of life deteriorates. so we don't expect the same amount, because if you bring the third world here, you have the third world sort of expectations that they have. >> well, is there an issue with racism, by the way? >> that's like that's not because the people are a certain colour. i don't that's nothing to do with it. it is from and obviously a lot of people don't have what we have, and a lot of people come here and integrate. >> my uncle is indian and, you know, he came here and he's one of the most patriotic, proud to be british. >> this is nothing to do with race. yeah, yeah . issue of race. race. yeah, yeah. issue of race. this is to do this is to do with culture. yeah. and i think this is exposing the failure of multiculturalism. >> i think, you know, tony blair had this dream that, oh, we can make britain into this melting pot of people, but in fact, it perhaps would have been better managed. we would see less sectarian violence and less inter—ethnic conflict if people had been encouraged to be british and sign up to british values. >> i think tony was against that. yet he was up for war crimes. yeah, yeah, he was a
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complex man. i think that's the thing that there doesn't seem to be consistency across the board. >> yeah, yeah, yeah i'd agree with that. and moving on, a judge in belfast said that he'd lock people up even if they were just observing the riots. never mind the right to protest in britain, you don't even have the right to observe a protest. we've got facial recognition. the internet being monitored and policed and people being locked up for observing protests, arrestees subjected to public humiliation. you might be thinking here is turning us into communist china. an unchallengeable autocratic regime that clamps down hard on civil liberties and jails dissidents laws so vague and broad that everyone has broken them. so then the state can pick and choose who to punish for breaking those laws, and everyone lives in fear of them . everyone lives in fear of them. but one crucial difference between the labour party and the chinese communist party is that china does all this surveillance and monitoring and policing of its people to enhance patriotism
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and national unity, whereas keir is trying to destroy patriotism and national unity. now labour are slumping in the polls. do you think this is played out badly for keir , badly for keir, >> i don't know if it's played. i mean, i suppose it's early days with them being in government and all that kind of stuff, but, you know, people got labourin stuff, but, you know, people got labour in for a reason. so and polls fluctuates. >> i don't think it was this reason, though. i think i think the reason they got, they got labourin the reason they got, they got labour in was because they're not the tories. yeah. and i think we've had a, we, we've had about a month of labour and now we're like could we have the tories back please. >> what's the difference between the two. >> well i think, i think the tories, the tories, the tories have chaos and they're doing something. the tories have this chaos but at a slower pace, at a slower pace. >> i agree. and they pretend. they say, oh, we're doing something about immigration and they're not. whereas labour is just like matter of fact, like, yeah, we're going to just, you know, we're going to give all the housing to the immigrants and put them before british people who have paid into the
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system. well, is that honest? you know what, at least labour are transparent. they're honest. >> well, i don't think labour have actually have actually said that. but that's certainly a perception that a lot of people, a lot of people have was angela raynen a lot of people have was angela rayner, who has said, i get confused with them. >> it's one of the women and they've said that they're going to rehouse a lot of the migrants and they're going to put them before, british people on the way. >> they've got operation scatter, so they're going to spread them across across the country to make sure every borough, at least they were saying, look, we're going to help you, you know, so be careful . careful. >> we're going to we're going to screw you over ideologically committed to, to open borders. >> whereas the tories just wanted open borders so their businesses could have cheap laboun businesses could have cheap labour. and you know, fixed asset prices would would rise, property prices would rise. >> that's the whole thing i was speaking about at lunch today with friends and they didn't understand. so i know a lot of gay men, there's a surprise that all vote tory and they're like, but how can they because of, you know, section 28 and stuff. i said, because they're all business owners. so they all think about that. that's why
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they don't have any truck with it. yeah. yeah, i agree. you know, tories like to look after themselves. yeah. they do. >> well coming up we will assess the week's winners losers in cursed blessed. we'll see how welcome refugees are to
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welcome back to the saturday night showdown. it's now time to go through the winners and losers of the week. now, we've been told that the police are a systemically racist organisation. well, it turns out that they actually are just not in the way that we were told. three police officers won a discrimination case this week after an employment judge ruled that they were passed over for promotion because of their race. the twist these officers were denied promotion because they're white. when a role as detective inspector became available, superintendent emma bailey decided to move an asian candidate into the role without advertising the role or going through any competitive process, the superintendent had just been told to make it happen by a
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senior officer. the tribunal heard. incredibly, the asian candidate hadn't even been promoted to inspector at the time she was made detective inspector, so she jumped two ranks over white candidates who may have been better qualified. this was despite warnings about the legal risks of not holding a competitive process . now, i've competitive process. now, i've got to say, bruce, even though it's distasteful that, you know, they they just blatantly did this. it's surely better than what they normally do, which is make everybody apply for the job and go through all the jump through all the hoops and then just pick the person they were going to pick anyway. >> yeah, completely. i mean, if it is an internal decision, just get on with it and don't make a fuss about it because you will know if you are going against whatever your hr policy is and all that kind of stuff that you're doing wrong. so just try and get it through as quickly as possible. but we were discussing this last night about the over promotion of people in all jobs, whether police, civil service. we talked about comedy and all that kind of thing. and it seems to be that it is less about the correct person for the job by virtue of their experience,
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qualifications, aptitude for the position. and when you hear things like this. >> yeah, and we're seeing that in some industries because they're focusing on dei, diversity, equity and inclusion. so they're not focusing on actual competency. so we're seeing a competency crisis. i mean you only need to watch a disney film that's been made in the last five years to see that, you know, the really crowbarring in as much, you know, diversity instead of just getting the most talented people and getting the best story and telling the story, instead they've got to, you know, they've got to fill it with, you know, people who are non—binary or whatever you want to call it, and tick all sorts of boxes and, and then have all this diversity propaganda in the film instead of just telling the story. which films used to do you don't like the preachy side of it? >> i don't like the preachy side of it, and i think, you know, it's destroying, you know, it's destroying some entertainment. >> but that's fine. nobody dies from watching a bad film, from watching, you know , buzz watching, you know, buzz lightyear, the movie or whatever, but where it does become an issue is where you've got a, you know, a critical business such as civil engineering or aeroplanes. if
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aeroplanes are made the same way as a netflix show, they fall out of the sky. >> so i, i do agree with you that i >> so i, i do agree with you that! do >> so i, i do agree with you that i do think a lot of things now are very preachy, and it's kind of taking the fun out of it. but and i also agree with you that if it's something like flying a plane, yes, you just want to get the best person for the job. i don't think that's happening yet. in regards to what's happening with the police force and allowing the asian person to go ahead of the white person, is it wrong? on one hand, yes. but i do understand that it's to good encourage people from, you know, ethnic minority backgrounds to join the force also. >> so yeah, it's good to have representation. it's good for you can see why they've done it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's good for the police to represent the reflect the communities that they're policing. and there's going to be advantages there. but is it fair to you it's not fair to boost somebody over no, it's not fair. >> but you can see why they're doing it. because i do i do believe in like inclusion very much and very strong about that, despite what people imagine, but, if it's, if it's going to
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help people from ethnic minorities to join the police force and to feel like that they're part of this, you know, law enforcement , they're part of this, you know, law enforcement, i think for the in the long run, that's a good thing , essentially. thing, essentially. >> and i'd just like to remind anybody who wants to give me a promotion. scottish is a type of ethnic minority. anyway. we're told that britain needs to open its doors to the world and accept more unvetted, undocumented men as refugees. but are the people who demand that we leave our borders open, happy to open their own front doors to these people? here's a video of pro—refugee demonstrators being asked if they'd take one in. >> just notice your placard saying refugees welcome here. i'm just wondering if you'd like to go down on a list saying you're willing to take the refugees into your home so, the only problem is i rent. you rent? yeah. maybe an issue. >> yeah, because they've got . >> yeah, because they've got. >> yeah, because they've got. >> well, well, if i had any space, i would had any space. it wouldn't be a nice place to bnng wouldn't be a nice place to bring them because it's a bit overcrowded, right. >> yes. >> yes. >> rental. yeah. yeah. you can't do it . yeah. someone else's job. do it. yeah. someone else's job.
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yeah. yeah. no. >> i'm sorry, i can't you can't take one i don't have, i don't have, i don't have, i don't have i don't have the space here. >> what do you make of this. is this hypocrisy? >> i don't have the space. why don't you have the space, you moron? let's think about it for once. let's analyse this? maybe because we've got 600,000 plus people coming in every year. >> well, we've got 1.2 million less places. >> there are less places to literally live. okay, so it's my goodness, the irony. they're sitting there going , please come sitting there going, please come in. but i have no for space you. yes. let's go back now to the root cause of why you have no space. where to live. yeah. >> and also, it seems that, you know, these people are insisting that we have open borders, but then the people who come over aren't housed with them. they're put with the, you know, deprived working class communities in rochdale or rotherham or whatever. >> why not? >> why not? >> kensington and chelsea? no, no, no, i live in a very wealthy area . it is full of men who are area. it is full of men who are undocumented, have no fixed
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abode. they're living in hotels. they're not being put in the bad areas. they're put in kensington and chelsea. you need to tell people it's to good hear that they're being put in mayfair. this is this is true what i'm saying. okay, i've seen it. they're not being put in the worst places, but they are. >> they are being put in the worst. they're putting everywhere. yeah, i guess they're putting them everywhere. >> well, nicola sturgeon said she would take in a refugee and i've seen no evidence of that. >> and she's got a campervan and a camper van. >> exactly. that's the thing. she could have everyone everywhere. yeah, i'd pop in for a buffet and mingle. >> yeah. and there could be some refugees from scotland. the way things are going there, i think there already are. >> and some of them are just called scottish. >> i kind of feel like a refugee left out here. >> you know, i did a dna test. i got some welsh blood in me. oh, really? and irish. it's not the same, is it? i'm still. i'm still left celtic. it's celtic, it's real celtic actually. >> real interesting. so are you. what what percentage, what percentage is irish? >> i got about 50. about 12%. welsh was about 5%. and
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apparently they're the real celts. oh really? yeah. you guys are the vikings or something. okay. you're not the real ones. explains a lot. >> i've always thought we were vikings, so i'm very. >> i am the minority. i'm the celt. >> you're in the minority, sister. i'm not having this. >> and our reform the official opposition. now, a poll of voting intentions this week showed reform overtaking the tories again, leading them by 21% to 20%. i mean, it's a small lead, but it's a lead. and while reform's popularity has surged, labour's has slumped down six points in the same poll to 33%. unfortunately, this poll is a bit pointless as there won't be an election for another five years, by which time keir starmer will no doubt have worked out how to make voting reform illegal, and positioned himself as an emperor, yeah, bruce, you're pointing it's a rarity. >> i think i know something. i have a friend and i know that's a surprise, and my friend had
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said that in this election she was of the opinion that it was going to return mr farage as our prime minister and everyone else that i spoke to said, no, no, no, no, that will happen in the next election. >> i could really see it happening. right. do you think it's going to happen? >> yes, but i think that labour are going to do everything in their power to outlaw reform. >> yeah, well, we've seen it in other european countries. >> they don't manage to do it. >> they don't manage to do it. >> so germany. yes, germany for example. >> the afd are actually much more to the right than reform. reform are a fairly centrist. >> who from where? >> who from where? >> from germany, in germany. so germany, because italy is the establishment absolute judge. >> so the establishment are basically trying to make the afd party illegal. they've got their under police surveillance . under police surveillance. they're classed as a almost as a terrorist organisation. some of their mps have been prosecuted for things that they've said, even things that are perfectly true. so they've really clamped down there. i don't know if keir is looking at that and seeing that as a this is this, this is this is going to happen.
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>> this is part of the plan labour have got in. they are going to silence us. they're going to silence us. they're going to silence riots. they're going to silence riots. they're going to silence our voices. we can't even put up videos of the riots now on our social media that's going to be prosecuted . that's going to be prosecuted. they're going they are going to make sure no matter what, that they're going to allow mass immigration, uncontrolled immigration, uncontrolled immigration, revisiting and continue italy. they brought in this new government. what have they done? they've done nothing. >> well, they they've made some of the right noises. >> they've made the right noises. maybe the conservatives maybe that'll reassure the right noises. maybe that'll reassure some of the people. >> look, i think reform are going to make a difference. i'm very angry at all the people who made a big point saying, i'm not voting for anyone this time. well done. you got labour because i think the majority of those people would have voted reform. >> but we've seen i think, i think what's happened in italy where we're told, oh, this this party, meloni is a fascist. no, i don't think he is. i completely disagree with you. i think i think they're trying
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they're trying their best. no, but they've got to work within the system of the eu. so they're limited in what they can actually do. but we were told that meloni was a fascist. this is going to be the worst thing for the country. and she gets in. she's actually very sensible and centrist. >> so that should reassure people that voting reform want centralist anymore. >> we want to stop the boats coming in late and italy have not stopped it. you've made the right noises. as you've said. she's not done anything. i think they're trying. >> anyway, next the saturday night showdown is culture. coroner david
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next. welcome back to the saturday night showdown. now reginald d hunter is the latest comedian to fall foul of cancel culture. and incredibly , he was investigated incredibly, he was investigated by the police under humza yousaf's hate crime act for a joke he told on stage. the american comedian had a line in his show about an abusive wife saying my god, it's like being married to israel. apparently, most of the audience laughed in
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response, but a jewish man in the front row shouted, not funny! reginald mocked the heckler, who felt that the audience then hounded him out of the show. the police investigated but found that no offence had been committed. however, the fallout continues with eastwood theatre in giffnock in scotland cancelling an upcoming reginald d hunter performance, and hunter will no doubt have a non—crime hate incident on his police record . incident on his police record. these are recorded by the police when a hate incident is alleged, but they find no evidence of criminality. now bruce, i know it sounds bad to some people. you know, you read the i read the story of the in the jewish chronicle and, like it sounded like he was he was making anti—semitic jokes and then joined in with the audience who were booing and shouting anti—semitic or anti—israel things . but anti—semitic or anti—israel things. but reading it another way, you know, as a as a comedian, he he'd been heckled and never heckled a comedian. you're always going to get slammed. and then the heckler got booed out. that happens
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pretty much every time that somebody heckles . somebody heckles. >> but this is the whole thing. so a very good friend of mine happens to be of the jewish faith. and it said, do you know this guy? and i happen to have known him for years, right? and he isn't anti—semitic, as far as i can see or anything like that. reginald d hunter reginald d hunter, but the fact of the matter is, comedy is subjective. you're in a live performance. he wasn't inciting violence. he made a comment. offence is often taken. you know, it's not necessarily meant , if you see necessarily meant, if you see what i mean. it's all to do with personal interpretation. the late, great joan rivers. i don't know if you know, but she's a hugeicon know if you know, but she's a huge icon to me. she used to do a fabulous joke about what is a jewish woman's favourite sexual position facing macy's. when she was in london, she would say facing harrods. yeah, that's just funny. yeah, as far as i can see it. and i don't mean any offence by quoting someone. don't come for me on social media. i'm not in the mood. but the fact of the matter is, you can't just, you know, we had this with paul currie and the soho theatre. not so long ago.
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people are just too hypersensitive. and if you're that hypersensitive, i would advise you not going to see a live performance of someone that you don't know what they're talking about. go and see something at the theatre or go, come and see my show. >> i'm doing a show on friday. you'll see. you'll see equally offensive jokes, but from the other, from the other perspective, i'll make fun of it. i'll make fun of hamas, and then they'll be like a pro gaza person standing up and telling me that i'm not funny, and then i'll deal with them as well. >> well, i write in the article that there was also people of the jewish faith that thought it was very funny and when people say, you're not funny because that's the easiest thing to say to a comedian, you're not funny. it should end with, in my opinion. >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely. >> get over yourself and the wrong place. >> i think if you don't like a comedy show, maybe google the comedian before you go to see if you're going to like the material. but also just you can just leave and that's, that's, that's comedy. >> that's more impactful than, than than heckling. >> and the fact that the police i mean, where do you feel about the police getting involved in a comedy performance? >> no, i disagree, i'm with you
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on this. >> i'm going to echo what you said. there should be no restriction on comedy. >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely. >> that's the one safe place where you can say what you like about anyone, including jews. and that's including everybody just going back. and if someone's offended, like you said, yeah, go, go to the theatre. exactly. >> that's the whole thing. but my point is so they heckled and then they hacked off because he interacted with a heckle. what? it's his show. he's the one with the mic. yeah. you know, and that's the same for any comedian, whether male, female, whatever. the fact of the matter is, you can't be as arrogant to think you can express your disgust on whatever level. and for that, it to be signed off, you have to take on board that whoever is doing the piece of work, the body of work, whatever you want to call it, the show will come back at you and just say, pipe down. >> yeah, and i feel like comedy doesn't need to be policed because we already we already perform in front of a jury. >> the audience are the jury. if we say anything that's genuinely, genuinely out of whack, then the audience won't laugh. they'll be, they'll be, they'll be offended. i think what this might speak to, the fact that the audience behaved
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so appallingly, might speak to the fact that there's anti—semitism in woke progressive society, and it's unchecked. and it seems to be very fashionable right now. >> if there's anything wrong with what he did. but i don't like the reaction of the people who are in the audience. i agree with you on that. and can i just say, for the people in giffnock, it's a bougie suburb of glasgow, right? >> and they have never recovered from the fact they lost whole foods to lidl. there's a whole host of stuff going on there. >> oh my god. >> oh my god. >> the lack of faber mangles later, the lack of faber in giffnock labour labour foreign secretary david lammy says that the far right need to integrate. he said in an article for the times that the rioters have forgotten that tolerance is one of the key values of being british. now i think that people smeared as far right are actually much more tolerant than their ancestors would have been if imported, stagecoach reinsman pued if imported, stagecoach reinsman plied a child with honey mead and with a judith raanan of freons engaged in unwanted prank and prank. local barons wouldn't coverit and prank. local barons wouldn't cover it up for the good of diversity. those reinsman would have been shown the inside of an iron maiden, and if a saracen
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had detonated an amphora of naphtha at a minstrels recital, i don't think my ancestors would be singing. don't look back in angenl be singing. don't look back in anger. i think they'd look back in a lot of anger and burn them in a lot of anger and burn them in a lot of anger and burn them in a big fire. and david seems to be british when it suits him, but caribbean when it doesn't take a look at this, i'm afraid as caribbean people, we are not going to forget our history. >> we don't just want to hear an apology, we want reparations . apology, we want reparations. >> reparations, indeed. i mean , >> reparations, indeed. i mean, i think a lot of people who've been smeared as far right were in fact just angry local people who and i think, you know, there is a genuine far right. but i think the numbers are pretty small in the uk. i think a lot of the, a lot of the disorder that we saw was just from, from people who were genuinely angry about the state of britain. >> exactly. what was the definition of far right now? what is it exactly? >> well, yeah, people are just concerned about undocumented young men. >> there's no children there, by
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the way. let's just shelf that straight away. yeah undocumented young men coming to this country. people are just concerned about it. yeah, that's far right. people are just concerned about it. yeah, that's far right . wow, it. yeah, that's far right. wow, wow. honestly, because i know about 30, 40 years ago that would have not been considered far right. that would have been considered normal. yeah. >> and if we go back to our ancestors, i mean, our ancestors were crazy . they were burning were crazy. they were burning people on on big fires and. yeah. >> no, they did a lot of it in scottish. yeah. >> they did english did the same thing. >> yeah. no, i'm talking about all of our ancestors. it's all part of this. this was that thing, part of the same island. >> don't worry. we're just. we've just got different accents and some of us were tartan skirts. >> i'm scared because i was about to say something about being scottish. and it's the fact that when david lammy had said about, you know, dual heritage or whatever, yeah, it is the fact that. do you remember when andy murray was winning? he was british and when he lost he was scottish? yeah. so it kind of cuts both ways. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> but olympic gold i think, sealed that for good. he's always going to be british.
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>> god love him. that went on longer than cher's farewell toun longer than cher's farewell tour. it was like you're leaving yourjob or tour. it was like you're leaving your job or not tour. it was like you're leaving yourjob or not going home to your job or not going home to the dogs. >> he'll be back next year. moving on the late show host stephen colbert's audience reacted with laughter after he made an apparently sincere comment about cnn, the news news channel's objectivity. cnn channel's objectivity. cn n anchor channel's objectivity. cnn anchor kaitlan collins appeared on the late night comedy show and here is what happened. >> i know you guys are objective over there that you just report the news as it is. no, i know cnn makes it. i know that's supposed to be a laugh line. i wasn't supposed to be, but i guess it is . guess it is. >> man, that's a room full of lefties. and even they know that cnn is biased. it's, you know , cnn is biased. it's, you know, stephen colbert made just made a matter of fact point. he was trying to make a sincere point that, you know, cnn just represent the news. and even the people who watch cnn found that hilarious. >> but what was interesting was the anchor didn't pick up on the laughter. yeah, ironic or
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otherwise . otherwise. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> they seemed embarrassed. >> they seemed embarrassed. >> yeah , it's kind of awkward. >> yeah, it's kind of awkward. >> yeah, it's kind of awkward. >> i feel like so much media is run by this cabal of leftists who tell us what they think we should be told, rather than tell us the truth. >> oh yeah, cnn are the equivalent , the us equivalent of equivalent, the us equivalent of bbc, aren't they? i'm allowed to say that, no. >> okay, bbc, i mean , they're >> okay, bbc, i mean, they're not they're not funded through a, through a regressive tax on, on working people. >> but yeah essentially and i think, i think they've got fewer links to paedophilia. but yeah essentially they're a leftist. they're they're a leftist cabal. presenting i didn't say that presenting. well i mean , it's presenting. well i mean, it's factually correct. i don't know if you've been watching the news. it's even been reported on the bbc. but i think most news channels, discounting they were pushing a fox and a few others pushing a fox and a few others pushing a fox and a few others pushing a narrative. >> they pushed it during progressive. >> they pushed a very clear narrative. and they're pushing a narrative. and they're pushing a narrative with the immigration and who they want next in power, of course. yes. >> cnn and do you think people
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are trusting the mass media less? a lot of people, yes, much less, but much less. >> but you got boomers. yeah. listen to what bbc, cnn say and the cnn, okay. >> well we'll see. everybody else is getting their news from tiktok and the saturday night showdown. anyway, next on the saturday night showdown , that saturday night showdown, that australian olympic breakdancer has asked for the to world stop poking fun at her so we're definitely not going to do that by showing some of
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the australian breakdancer rachel gunn, aka bgirl raygun , rachel gunn, aka bgirl raygun, caused some bemusement with her street dance routine at the paris olympics. her unorthodox performance is the subject of a social media storm. she says. the backlash to her performance at the olympics has been devastating. let's take a look. >> hi everyone . ray gun here, i >> hi everyone. ray gun here, i just want to start by thanking
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all the people who have supported me. i really appreciate the positivity , and appreciate the positivity, and i'm glad i was able to bring some joy into your lives. i didn't realise that that would also open the door to so much hate , which is frankly been hate, which is frankly been pretty devastating. i really like to ask the press to please stop harassing my family, my friends , the australian breaking friends, the australian breaking community and the broader street dance community. >> i'm so disappointed with the ray gun. i thought she was, you know, she was the eddie the eagle of this year's olympics, but instead, she's got all serious about it and she's been criticised by people on the left. someone said she is simply the ultimate white woman. she got her phd in an art form created by people of colour, went on to possibly the biggest global stage the art form will ever have, and made a mockery of the art form to centre herself in the conversation. i mean ,
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in the conversation. i mean, some people have also said that she's taken a spot that could have gone to a more talented and younger person of colour who needs the break, such as me. i mean, is this is this fair? this criticism? >> i don't think anybody should be targeted on social media like in such a way. >> you've been targeted on social media in such a way, haven't you? >> no i haven't. oh you haven't, i've been i've been pretty. okay. yeah. okay i have, but i have. okay. but but i have, i have. okay. but but i have, i have seen it done to other people and i think target politicians for sure because they have like power over your life and your future. this woman really doesn't. okay. she's just some breakdancer in the olympics. i understand, like, people can like say, look, i think that this person could have been better and so forth, but to get nasty about it, to get horrible about it, i don't understand that i would never attack someone that way. i'd only attack politicians online. >> that is the equivalent of like judging a street performer at the edinburgh fringe. you know, they've gone up to, or they're just doing a show, you know, like i got on with it. i used to be a breakdancer. i know
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that will come as a surprise. what? >> let's try this out. >> let's try this out. >> what? can you do it in the table? >> i still can't do it, but i'm not going to do it. please. >> okay, i'll pay you. >> okay, i'll pay you. >> absolutely not. how much i got a credit card, but no. i used to go to the overgate centre with my cousin, and at the age of 12, 14 and break dance on the lino. wow. >> amazing stuff. well, raygun's dancing has been compared to a labrador rolling in fox poo. i'm not sure if that's what yours was like, but let's see some of the memes that have lit up the internet. boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop. boop boop boop boop boop boop . a recent poll from research company . was that anything like company. was that anything like you, bruce? no. i was betting that the homer simpson. >> but you know what? i think this is showing that flexibility. she has great flexibility. she has great flexibility. she has great flexibility. she does. her hips are open, her joints are long. are open, herjoints are long. they're supple, that kind of thing. yeah. to say that she's a fox rolling around in faeces,
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that's a bit much. >> it's horrible. >> it's horrible. >> well, some of those labradors are very supple as well. yes, but my point would be, if things have really been as hellish for her, stop engaging in it then. yeah, yeah, just turn off that. >> that's the right thing. but if it's causing you such great distress, stop engaging. >> and a recent poll from yougov shows that 27% of adults in britain believe that they could qualify for the 2020 olympics if they started training today. but looking at some of the people like this rather aerodynamic american target shooter, i don't think they'd even need to start training. i love the caption on that. by the way, it says the flag patch was not necessary because you can tell they're american. and do you do you think you're going to do you think you're going to do you think you're going to do you think you're going to try and train for the olympics? do you think you can? oh, sure. >> yeah. you know, i think i could do 100 metre and four years. i used to be a really i used to do the 100m, i used to, iused used to do the 100m, i used to, i used to do, you know, proper training and yeah, i got to about 14 and i chose cigarettes and boys instead. >> right. yeah. well maybe, maybe that decision, maybe
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cigarettes and boys will become an olympic sport. and i guess for some sports the person taking part is basically just ballast. if you're on the, you know, the one where you're on a horse that's doing the tippy toe dancing like the horse is doing all the work. >> do you mean dressage? >> do you mean dressage? >> dressage. that's right. >> dressage. that's right. >> okay. i was just going to say that i >> okay. i was just going to say that! can >> okay. i was just going to say that i can make a litre of gin disappear in three hours. i'll maybe try and get my time down to two. >> let's do that. let's have a match. watch. i get the gold. >> this would be an interesting olympic sports. we've got the cigarettes on one side. the litre of gin on the other side. >> i think the cigarettes anymore . anymore. >> oasis. if oasis ran the olympics right up next, it's ben leo tonight. what have you got for us this evening, ben? thanks, leo. >> cracking show. look, a massive exclusive bombshell. i'd call it in just a few minutes at the top of the 9:00 on the small boats crisis. i'm not going to reveal too much details because i want you lovely viewers to tune in. however, it should really send shockwaves through the nation. and indeed, this labour government and also leo, jimmy savile jonathan king, stuart hall, chris denning , rolf
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stuart hall, chris denning, rolf harris and new allegations tonight against huw edwards. what's going on at the bbc, your panel there anyway, thanks to my brilliant panel tonight, kezia noble and bruce devlin and we will see you again next week. >> and don't forget headliners as well tonight at 11 pm. and i am performing a comedy show with frances foster of trigonometry on friday. if you want to come along and get offended by that, people always seem to get offended by something. somebody described it as a as a far right rally disguised as a comedy show, as if the nazis started out as a comedy night above a pub. anyway, come along to that, but don't see you there. i'll hopefully see you next week on the saturday night showdown. till then, goodbye . till then, goodbye. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello there. welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. over the next 24 hours, high
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pressure, largely holding on across the uk, keeping it fairly dry and settled. a few showers still in the flow and we can see that on the bigger picture. generally low pressure to the north, high pressure extending in from the southwest, keeping most weather systems at bay for the rest of the weekend through this evening and overnight, largely dry across much of the country. a few showers still possible across parts of scotland, northern england, down into wales and the west country, but most places dry as we head through the night and towns and cities generally holding up in double figures. but in the countryside dipping down to around 7 or 8 degrees. so a bit of a fresh start to sunday, but there'll be plenty of sunny spells, showers, though possible in a few places. most prevalent across central and northern parts of scotland . temperatures parts of scotland. temperatures here first thing sunday morning around 10 to 12 celsius. so on the fresh side, best of the sunshine towards aberdeenshire, northern ireland, northern england also a few showers possible, largely in the west, the east generally dry and 1 or
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2 showers for wales and the west country. parts of the midlands over into east anglia, southeast england. plenty of sunshine to start sunday through the day. well that high pressure generally keeps things dry and settled for many parts more in the way of sunny spells for parts of wales, western parts of england, northern ireland that we saw quite a cloudy picture on saturday. a few showers still possible across scotland, but they do start to ease later in they do start to ease later in the day. breezy here. temperatures on the cool side. 1516 celsius in the sunshine rising into the low 20s. highs around 25 celsius for london. then it's all changed slowly through monday as a weather system moves in from the atlantic . outbreaks of rain atlantic. outbreaks of rain pushing in across northern ireland. the winds picking up through the irish sea as well, gales developing later on in the day. best of the sunshine holding on across the southeast. temperatures here around 25 or 26 celsius and staying unsettled right through much of the week. see you soon! >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on
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