All I'm getting from this is that you have a huge chip on your shoulder about the perceived 'left', and Mail-esqe bogeymanning. Let's get something straight, if you claim to be about balance and representing differing points of view, those points of view have to be curated in some way (otherwise we'd end up with the televisual equivalent of Twitter, and nobody wants that).
What that means is that these POVs must be evaluated for what they add to the debate. Farage's POV adds literally nothing. It's also worth mentioning that the right's emotive hysterical rhetoric regarding representaltion and cancellation is a clear fig leaf for 'we want the freedom to air prejudicial and parochial nonsense', which adds nothing to the debate they claim to crave.
A lot of it is the 'my ignorance is equal to your facts' fallacy. A flat-earther does not get to go head to head with any kind of scientist on any news outlet, because it would be a pointless waste of everyone's time. Creationism does not get to go head to head with evolution in a school curriculum because one is proveable and the other is not. It isn't a 'debate', it isn't a matter of opinion, it's a matter of 'please be quiet you attention-seeking cunt'.
If the right wants fair representation, it must say something worth listening to. The Sainburys debacle illustrates that more people find Farage irrelevant (and despicable) than those that don't, ergo on balance not worth people's time.
(, Sat 7 Aug 2021, 15:02, Reply)
All I'm getting from you is that you think that only certain POV should be allowed.
If people's views are ignorant, illegal or offensive then that becomes immediately apparent when they are aired. Remember the BNP going on question time? They sunk without a trace after people heard his crap. The same will happen to GBNews if people don't like what they see and hear. What matters to me is that I don't think I or anyone else should decide for those people.
I really give up with this. I am just amazed that you and others think it is somehow right wing to say the things I have.
If you want the freedom to present your point of view, then you have to allow that same freedom to views you don't agree with.
If you think someone should decide whether those views should be aired, then the next question is who curates them? You? Government, Political parties? Activists?
(, Sun 8 Aug 2021, 13:43, Reply)