The watchdog also refused to investigate a complaint about a presenter's use of an anti-trans slur, saying the comments were "in line with a
Britain’s broadcasting regulator is refusing to investigate GB News over comments about starving and shooting disabled benefit claimants, or another programme in which one of its presenters used the slur “tranny” to describe trans people.
An Ofcom bulletin released this week revealed that the regulator received 96 Ofcom complaints over the broadcast segment on benefit claimants in June.
GB News presenter Patrick Christys told viewers that “welfare needs to be cut” before asking the guest, purported comedian Lewis Schaffer, how he would “get them off their backside”.
Schaffer replied: “Just starve them, that’s what people have to do, that’s what you’ve got to do to people, you can’t just give people money.”
He added: “What else can you do? Shoot them? I mean, I’d suggest that, but I think that’s maybe a bit strong.”
Christys responded: “Yeah, it’s just not allowed these days.”
