GB News Will Play A Key Role At The Next Election

'How we won on Saturday fills me with immense hope.'

It’s easy these days to think the world’s gone mad, the media’s gone to the dogs and “common sense” is about as common as the BBC extolling the positive virtues of Brexit.

But amidst all the doom and gloom, there is hope: the continued rise of GB News.

I’ve been a contributor for about a year now, and in November stepped in to co-present GB News Breakfast until Eamonn Holmes returned. I must have done something right, because on Saturday they let me host my first show solo, Real Britain, from 2-4pm.

And something beautiful happened: we beat Sky News in the ratings. It’s not the first time, either. Earlier this month, when I was on GB News Breakfast, we beat both Sky News and the BBC News Channel.

That’s quite an achievement from an 18-month-old disruptor, when you consider Sky launched 24 years ago and the BBC benefits from £3.75 billion in annual licence fees.

How we won on Saturday fills me with immense hope. Quite simply, we ask the questions and host the debates that would be like salt to a slug in media la-la land.

I kicked off the show by asking viewers if they felt proud to be British, asking “do you feel like a stranger in your own land?” Remarking on the fact we saw 45,000 illegal immigrants come to our shores last year, at a cost of £7 million every single day to put them up in hotels, I added: “We have become a land where cheats prosper”. It really chimed with working class viewers.

My monologue has since been viewed over 80,000 times and rising.

Martin Daubney 🇬🇧 @MartinDaubney

FANTASTIC viewing figures for my first Real Britain show on @GBNEWS For the whole 3-4pm hour we beat Sky News More tuned in for our “bring back British coal mines slot” with @LeeAndersonMP_ than watched Sky’s Climate Change Show! 💪🏻

Next, I asked an SNP Councillor why they are trying to force their Gender Recognition Bill on almost 3 million Scottish women, when the estimated 26,000 trans people would struggle to fill an average-sized football stadium.

We slammed Sadiq Khan’s ULEZ scheme – sure to come to a town near you soon – as “taxation dressed as salvation”. We panned Harry and Meghan.

But the highlight was a debate that would be a sackable offence at the BBC or Sky. We asked “is it time to reopen British coal mines?”

Tory MP for Ashfield and former coal miner Lee Anderson argued it was, to bring well-paid jobs to forgotten industrial heartlands and Red Wall seats.

That seems logical, as our coal imports have risen 39% to 1.7 million  tonnes for the last quarter to stave off power blackouts. I agreed with Lee: my dad was a miner for 47 years.

Lee argued against an environmentalist, who passionately disagreed with him. But we had something our rivals lack: balance. What’s poetic is that this debate out-rated Sky’s doom-laden Climate Change Show.

With topics like these, GB News has no mainstream rival, which explains its continued rise and expanding roster of talent to back up Nigel Farage - still the channel’s biggest draw.

But this isn’t just a media story. Politically, it’s pivotal.

GBN’s viewers are typically older, more socially conservative, patriotic, more likely to have voted Brexit and, crucially, sick to the back teeth of the woke nonsense that is now the new religion in the MSM.

Crucially, unlike the “roof” market Auntie slavishly – and pointless – courts, such people vote.

And that’s why, in my opinion, GB News will play a crucial role in deciding the outcome of the next General Election.

With a recent poll showing 30% of voters are currently undecided - and with the the highest proportion of “don’t knows” bang-on the GBN demographic - both the Tories and Labour should be courting GB News if they want the keys to Number 10.

If they had any common sense, they wouldn’t be sniffy about the new kid on the block. They’d be hammering on its door.