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Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 Profile picture
@MonkEmma
May 25 • 7 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Had this shared with me by a gleeful GB News fan🙄

It seemed incredibly unlikely - so I wondered who they asked, what they asked etc.

Went to look at the results of the poll itself….

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#GBeebies
#GBNews

uk.news.yahoo.com/gb-news-named-…
So the first thing to jump out was that out of 100 media brands, GB News wasn’t in the top 10 or the top 20 or even the top 50.

I had to scroll to the end of the report - it was number 53

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5043860.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5043860/…
So, OK, maybe all the “news” brands were just really unpopular and GB News was the least unpopular of an unpopular sector?

Well, no, that’s not what’s happening here.

While the brands were all ranked together, they were also split into categories - Social media, News, etc

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And basically, all the “media” channels that GB News pits itself against, were in a different category!

Sky (10)
ITV (12)
BBC (14)
Channel 4 (23)

Were all classified as “Television”

LBC (51) was under “Radio&Music”

GB News (53)

4/
So for some unfathomable reason, GB News was in the “News” category (I know!🙄)

And every other brand in that category was a NEWSPAPER!

Why wasn’t it under Television- after all, it’s a Television channel far more than it’s a Newspaper 🤷‍♀️

5/
So you see any crowing GB News tweets about them being the “most popular news brand” please set them straight!

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And finally, @Ofcom - you claim you can’t take action against their blatant violation of your rules for “News” shows as you don’t consider them to be News.

Clearly it’s now a commonly accepted thing that they are indeed a “News” channel.

So maybe take some action?🙏🏼

7/7

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Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 Profile picture
May 6
While we all bask in the beauty that is:

Con -1061
Lab +536
LD +405
Green +241

Can we also take a moment to acknowledge that UKIP lost EVERY Councillor, while Reform UK came away with just 6 (gained 2)🤣

#LocalElections2023

1/7
So we can absolutely REJECT any daft Right Wing notion that this result shows the Tory Party just need to swing even further Right, or that it’s because they haven’t “stopped the boats” or that they need to “scrap net zero”.

This result really, really does NOT show that!

2/7
REFUK averaged only 6% in all the places they stood, on a platform of scrapping net zero, fracking, reopening coal mines, more North sea Oil&Gas exploration.

Their culture wars, “stop the boats”, anti-Green ideas are simply not wanted.👍🏻

3/7
This is a wonderful juxtaposition👇🏼 Image
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Mar 11
What a day for the #BBC yesterday

Lost all their #MOTD presenters after @GaryLineker wouldn’t apologise for criticising the government (read that again!😱)

And while that was obviously the big story, their bad day didn’t end there….

1/7
They announced they’d wouldn’t be airing the final episode of the latest #Attenborough series on TV for fear of a “Right Wing backlash”

WTF?

It will go out on iPlayer where the poor snowflakes won’t see it….

2/7
Then we had the statement about why #FionaBruce felt the need to clarify it was a “one off” when #stanleyjohnson put his wife in hospital😱

Yes, she was quoting one of their friends and not expressing her own opinion, but of all the things to ensure they clarified..?

3/7
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Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 Profile picture
Jan 21, 2022
I don’t know if anyone has seen the pernicious claim flying round social media in the last few days that only “17,000 people in the UK have died from #covid”

I’ve yet to see anyone debunk it so I thought I’d do a 🧵

1/
Recently, I saw a number of people making the same, obviously false claim along the lines of “only 10% of covid deaths are actually covid deaths”

I asked for sources repeatedly and eventually got sent a link to an @ONS Freedom of Information request…

2/
ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transp…

The ONS were asked for the numbers of people who had died from covid, but had no other underlying conditions.

The answer came back as ~17,000.

So does that mean the other 150,000 didn’t die of covid??

No - of course it doesn’t.

3/
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Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 Profile picture
Nov 8, 2021
OK, I'm really struggling with the uproar over @Keir_Starmer saying we need to #MakeBrexitWork.

#Brexit has happened. There is no magic wand we can wave to make it simply vanish in a puff of smoke. We can't just return to 2016 and all live happily ever after...

1/
The path to Rejoining the EU will take 5-20 years (depending on your optimism levels😜) and will necessitate multiple steps bringing us closer to the EU both in terms of standards/trading/economy and also values/attitudes/democracy.

The EU didn't chose Brexit.

2/
Yet the EU has spent 5 years (and counting) expending vast amounts of political energy dealing with Brexit. Every EU country has spent time and money preparing for the changes that Brexit has thrust upon them.

We will need EVERY one of them to allow us to Rejoin

3/
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Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 Profile picture
Jun 10, 2020
I'm going to start by saying:

I'm not a Farmer
I voted remain
I have campaigned passionately to Remain
I am gutted and angry that we have left

But my eyes have been well and truly opened to the attitudes of many people whom I have campaigned alongside previously....

1/
I got involved in a campaign, #SaveBritishFarming, to try and protect our high food standards (after the govt U-turn) and push for an EU trade deal to try and protect our food industry.

Protecting our food supply felt like a mission we could all get behind.....

2/
But the comments and attitudes of many Remainers on twitter have really shocked me.

They seem to lay the Brexit blame solely at the farmers' door.

So as a Remainer, who likes facts over beliefs I wanted to take a closer look...

3/
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