In allowing Jim Davidson and Dan Wootton to show up together, all GB News achieves is to prove that their joke of a channel is beyond the pale
Jim Davidson is rat-like-rogue who has ‘nice’ things to say about the paedophile Gary Glitter; Dan Wootton is a rat-like-rotter who has ‘nasty’ things to say about lovely old ladies like Susan Boyle.
Surprise, surprise (with no Cilla Black bonus) to hear that the two spent part of yesterday uniting to chat on GB News last night. Whilst the sentiment of criticising Just Stop Oil is something most sane folk can agree with, the fact that this supposed attempt a news channel thought it appropriate to bring these two together was beyond the pale.
If GB News wishes to be taken seriously as a news force, it should certainly take Dan Wootton off air until the investigation into his alleged activities is complete. Equally, if GB News wants to prove it doesn’t associate with 1980s style bigotry, it’d have never have put Jim Davidson on the air in the first place. It is time that these two grimmer than Darren Grimes even grotbags were simply told “don’t bother to show up again.”
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Deserved “public hate figure” Jim Davidson OBE’s worst moments…
On Great Yarmouth:
“Full of fat children of all colours.”
On London and the UK:
“I am never coming to London again… I may as well go to Dubai and be an ethnic minority there than wait five years till I become one here.”
On former UKIP leader Nigel Farage:
“The Jim Davidson of the political world.”
On beating up one of his four ex-wives:
“We’re like a couple of boxers. On the first occasion, I poked her in the eye by accident. I actually went for the mouth… The second time I gave her a shiner. I threw a bunch of keys which whacked her in the eye. Just for a giggle she kept blackening it up to make it look worse.”
“I took the wife out last night; one punch!”
On supposedly giving up on making jokes about black people:
“I can’t do impressions of Frank Bruno or Ian Wright? That’s racist, is it? But I can do Sven-Göran Eriksson?”
“I’m not going to get on my knee, and I’m not going to go ever black person I see, ‘hail you.’ I’m not going to apologise for the past; the past was the past.”
On Black Lives Matter protestors:
“Pondlife… F**king stupid.”
Of his thoughts about his chum Boris Johnson:
“Don’t listen with mother.”
On Piers Morgan (after he was paid to appear on his Life Stories programme):
“You don’t deserve to listen to anyone’s life story because you don’t f**king listen.”
On the BBC and the NHS:
“I was a smell under peoples’ noses… I’m totally erased; I am the statue that’s thrown into Bristol Docks… They gave me a million quid to go away.”
“I hate the BBC with a passion. It’s a toss-up between them and the NHS who I hate the most.”
Proving himself the ultimate ‘Brain of Britain’:
“People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.”
After being declared bankrupt:
“My problem is money.”
On himself:
“I could cure Aids and give £1 billion to womens’ groups and people would still think I was a racist, sexist twat”.
“I’m a homophobic arsehole.”
Delusional and deservedly disliked Dan Wootton’s worst moments…
On Dominic Cummings (who’d probably have preferred even Katie Hopkins as a defender):
“Make no mistake, the establishment is out to get Dominic Cummings… I despair.”
On footballer David Beckham and his singer turned fashion designer wife Victoria (whose fans responded with fury):
“Weird and creepy.”
On singer George Shelley (whose unsurprisingly fans got equally upset)
“[He’s] done a Tom Daley and come out as bisexual.”
On singer Susan Boyle (whose management hit back with a denial):
“Volatile… Forced to shop Tesco and travel by bus.”
On political activist and Novara Media editor Ash Sarkar (before he “shut her down” during a “fiery conversation”):
“Grasping.”
On Celebrity Masterchef winner Emma Kennedy (who reported him to Ofcom and threated to sue him with the help of Carter Ruck):
“Deranged Boris hater.”
On actor Johnny Depp (who sued him for defamation):
“Wife beater.”
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