>> hello there! coming up on this saturday night showdown, boots has taken a beating with its christmas advert starring adjoa andoh, a woman who thinks that our royal family and by extension british people are terribly white. but is it the last gasp of wokeism.7 because the john lewis advert has white people in it.7 and amazingly , people in it.7 and amazingly, none of them are drag queens? honestly, i couldn't believe it. i thought my tv was broken. there were so many white people in it. i thought it must be an advert for alcohol abuse or gambling. and as well as adverts getting back to normal, the pronoun fad is dying out with prominent lefties ditching the pointless she slash her. he slash him, they slash them. don't worry. owen jones still has got he slash him and his profile. although i'm not totally convinced by those pronouns. moving on. essex police have set up a major crime gold group usually reserved for major incidents like terror attacks. what's the heinous crime we should all be terrified

of? well , crime we should all be terrified of? well, apparently a year ago, allison pearson, the telegraph journalist , tweeted something journalist, tweeted something that someone didn't like, so they reported it to the police, who waited a year to visit allison. the police didn't tell allison. the police didn't tell allison which tweet or who accused her or what would happen.the accused her or what would happen. the vague threat of jail, the public humiliation, the physical presence of strong uniformed men on the doorstep. this is a slide into soviet union style policing of speech in communist east germany , an in communist east germany, an estimated i in 6 people work for the stasi secret police, informing on their neighbours and acquaintances, but at least they were getting paid. in starmer's socialist britain, people are working as stasi informants for free. hey, at least it's cutting the public sector wage bill and 27 year old youtuber jake sector wage bill and 27 year old youtuberjake paul beat 58 sector wage bill and 27 year old youtuber jake paul beat 58 year old mike tyson last night in texas. it was a fight they'd probably both like to forget. there's no glory in beating up an old man. who are you going to fight next, jake? joe biden but mike gave an unforgettable interview before the fight that made his child interviewer age about 20 years. we've got that

coming up later on this. your saturday night showdown . saturday night showdown. discussing all tonight's topics with me are my brilliant panel. joining me tonight are the fantastic satirical wits of comedian justin panks, from the world famous free speech podcast and the actress and impressionist. and i'm sure she'll make an impression on you tonight. it's francine lewis, but first, let's get your latest news headlines from sophia wenzler . wenzler. >> leo. thank you. these are your headlines. it's just gone 8:00 kemi badenoch has said hate crime laws must be reviewed to protect free speech. after police launched an investigation into a journalist over a tweet.

in an interview with the telegraph newspaper, the conservative leader said it was absolutely wrong for the police to visit any journalist home simply because they had expressed an opinion. allison pearson is under investigation by essex police for allegedly stirring up racial hatred, with a social media post made in november of last year. meanwhile, former prime minister bofis meanwhile, former prime minister boris johnson compared police to action that of the soviet union in the last century . sir keir in the last century. sir keir starmer has said he will defend the decisions made in the budget all day long, amid anger from farmers over inheritance tax changes. the prime minister made the comments as his first speech as prime minister at the welsh labour conference in llandudno. meanwhile , farmers descended on meanwhile, farmers descended on the conference in protest over changes to the inheritance tax. it changes were announced in the budget for farmers who pass on their land will have to pay a 20% tax on assets worth more

than £1 million. the prime minister defended proposals, saying the government needs to keep explaining how it will work . keep explaining how it will work. more than 400 illegal migrants have arrived in britain by small boat today, gb news can reveal. it comes just a day after we revealed the country had passed the 33,000 mark for migrants arriving in the uk, with official figures showing that 237 people arrived in four small boats yesterday. earlier this week, the prime minister announced the arrest of a major suppuer announced the arrest of a major supplier of small boats in collaboration with police colleagues in europe. germany's chancellor has challenged vladimir putin over what sources describe as a grave escalation in the war in ukraine. olaf scholz spoke to the russian president for more than an hour, ending the western isolation of the country in place since 2022. the chancellor condemned russia's invasion of its neighbour while criticising the deployment of north korean

troops to the conflict, promising to continue supporting ukraine until it can achieve a just and lasting peace. meanwhile, volodymyr zelenskyy has said ukraine must do everything to ensure the war ends next year through diplomacy, adding that the war will end sooner with donald trump as president. will end sooner with donald trump as president . back in the trump as president. back in the uk, a woman's body has been found in the boot of a car in east london. detectives said a murder inquiry has now been launched into the suspicious discovery in ilford. the woman, who has not been named but is from corby in northamptonshire, may have been the victim of a targeted incident, according to police and actor and comedian john kenny has died at the age of 66. kenny was best known as half of the comedy duo with pat short called d'unbelievables in 19805. short called d'unbelievables in 1980s. he also made two guest appearances in father ted. his wife margie told local news outlet the limerick leader that

the comedian had died on friday evening in galway clinic. those are the latest gb news headlines. more in an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gb news .com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you, sophia and welcome to the saturday night showdown. the season is upon us. the season of big brands releasing adverts that tell their customers how much they hate them, and then the customers getting angry, and then the customers getting called racist. the boots christmas advert starred adjoa andoh, a woman who's mainly known for calling our royal family and by extension, the rest of the country terribly white. not just white, terribly white. our whiteness has reached the level of terrible. couldn't they find someone who appears to dislike britain a bit less to star in

this advert, like maybe gerry adams or abu hamza , or even keir adams or abu hamza, or even keir starmer to upstage boots? the john lewis christmas advert would have had to have doctor shola mos—shogbamimu wiping her bottom on a union jack or maybe osama bin laden taking a dump in the king's crown. it's a really. yeah, yeah, yeah , they wanna yeah, yeah, yeah, they wanna know. >> sugar plum snowball. come on. shall we? >> it's a great advert. i mean, a great advert for superdrug, as well as having a woman who thinks that being white is terrible. santa is depicted as a lazy white man. oh, white men are so lazy. this is incredibly danng are so lazy. this is incredibly daring in an advert, as i've never seen the white husband portrayed as a dunderhead before. santa obviously isn't lazy as he delivers presents to every christian child and some other ones who like to join in as well. in just one night, the

quy's as well. in just one night, the guy's basically jeff bezos and everyone in the advert might be trans, or they might just be a middle aged woman who's had a bit too much work done. it's a lot like going on a dating app in your 40s. there's a hip hop soundtrack because nothing says christmas like hip hop. happy kwanzaa everyone. and it's incredibly multi—ethnic, which i think is wonderful. i just think it's so refreshing to see and so important if it makes just one little chinese papua new guinean, black transgender elf grow up one day and think one day i could be madame president, then it's worth it. >> my friend, what are you looking for? something for you. >> you're not going to find it. no . not here. i don't want no. not here. i don't want a dog. i want a nose ring. jewellery . jewellery. >> is it a politician ? >> is it a politician? >> is it a politician? >> but then the john lewis christmas advert landed, which you just saw a clip of, and it's

got white people in it in an advert and none of them seem to be trans or in isis. what on earth is going on? have things totally changed? i thought my tv was broken. i'm now joined by the comedian justin banks and the comedian justin banks and the actress and impressionist francine lewis. now, francine, do you think wokeism is dying out? we've had years of this stuff and it doesn't seem to. so many companies go woke and then go broke, and it looks like boots are losing a lot of customers. >> and it's a shame because i'm a boots fan. i >> and it's a shame because i'm a boots fa