Labour Welsh Senedd member blasted for hypocrisy after hailing ban of ‘toxic’ GB News
A Labour Welsh Senedd member has been referred to as out for being a hypocrite after she celebrated the ban of GB News from Welsh Parliament, calling the channel “toxic”.
Jenny Rathbone, a Welsh Labour politician, heralded the banning of the broadcaster on social media: “Pleased to report that the toxic GB News is no longer broadcast on @SeneddWales internal channels.”
She continued: “No place in democratic discourse for Laurence Fox’s unbridled misogyny or echo chambers of misinformation with no fact-checking. Good journalism is essential in challenging times.”
However, Michelle Dewberry of GB News slammed the politician for her hypocrisy in a response to Rathbone’s unique submit.
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Dewberry mentioned: “Imagine calling others ‘toxic’ when you yourself have been suspended from your party, ‘formally sanctioned’ & asked to attend anti-Semitism training.”
In November 2018, Rathbone was suspended from the Labour meeting group for six weeks after she advised that safety fears of Jewish folks at a Cardiff synagogue might be “in their own heads”.
She was ordered to bear antisemitism coaching after apologising for her remarks.
Dewberry additionally slammed Rathbone for “demanding and celebrating censorship in 2023”.
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Others on-line weighed in on the row.
One person mentioned: “Imagine the levels of toxicity you have to reach to be suspended for antisemitism during Corbyn’s reign!?!”
Another commented: “I do not fairly suppose you get the entire democracy factor.
“Shutting down/cancelling folks you disagree with or don’t love form of flies within the face of democracy…”
GB News presenter Nigel Farage slammed the choice as a “totalitarian move”.
“This shows just how awful the Welsh Labour administration is. They are totalitarian in their thinking and behaviour,” he mentioned on air final evening.
A spokesperson for the Welsh Speaker mentioned that they had determined to ban GB News as a result of the channel was “contrary to our parliament’s values.”
GB News will now not be proven on the Senedd’s inside TVs
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They suggested employees and members who wish to watch the channel to “do so online”.
Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies, described the choice to ban the channel from the Senedd’s inside TVs as a “disgrace”, warning that it ought to “worry us all”.
The Senedd launched an announcement to say that they’ve determined to ban GB News following a latest broadcast which was “deliberately offensive, demeaning to public debate and contrary to our parliament’s values”.
The Senedd’s assertion is known to be referring to an incident on the channel final month, by which former GB News presenter Laurence Fox made a collection of remarks about political journalist Ava Evans on Tuesday night which GB News has described as “totally unacceptable”.
GB News apologised to Evans and Fox has since departed the channel after an inside investigation.
