If the program you’re on is sponsored by Coca-Cola and you start questioning whether people actually like the drink or are just pretending you’re going to get in trouble. You can debate the rights or wrongs of it but I think most people can see that would be the consequence.
ITV are heavily behind mental health issues with the ‘Britain Get Talking’ campaign. ITV were accused of being hypocrites giving him a platform to basically shut down someone who was talking about their own problems. Remember that in the studio he was genuinely very much on his own expressing those views. He also tried to shut down people of colour from expressing their views on perceived racism.
This how he operates, if you don’t agree with him he shouts all over you. I enjoy that when it’s the lying politicians trying to peddle a message and indulge in some gaslighting, but not when it’s people who have been asked on a show for their side in a debate. It’s often left to Susannah Reid to intervene and try to shut him up so they can be heard.
It’s not woke to call him a bully because that’s how he his and deliberately so. Indeed he has been boasting of how their ratings have been increasing because of his approach and calling out the BBC for being too soft. This time he went too far, which at some stage he always does.
My guess is he’ll be back on the new Andrew Neil news channel which is going to be fully of shouty presenters who refuse to “compromise”. Unless of course the interviewee is of the same political persuasion. It’s going to be Fox News UK and he’ll be perfect.
