Good Morning Britain Branded “Embarrassing in the Extreme” as Ed Balls Interviews His Wife Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to Defend Handling of Riots
Good Morning Britain was branded “embarrassing in the extreme” by viewers after Ed Balls interviewed his wife Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as she defended the Government’s handling of the riots. The Mail has more.
Ed, 57, interviewed Home Secretary Yvette, 55, alongside Kate Garraway…
Yvette was on the breakfast programme to discuss whether the police’s response to the nationwide riots had been sufficient.
Ed and Kate questioned Yvette on the Government’s refusal to label the riots “Islamophobic”, as posed earlier in the programme by Zarah Sultana.
Yvette began: “What we’ve seen on the streets of some cities and towns over the weekend frankly is criminal violence and thuggery. That is what it is first and foremost, and that’s why it needs the full force of the law behind it.”
She added: “We have certainly seen some targeted attacks on mosques, and that clearly reflects Islamophobia.”
Largely ignoring the content of the interview, GMB viewers took exception to the decision to put Ed in such a compromising position on X, formerly Twitter.
They wrote: “Does @GMB realise just how utterly ridiculous it looks by continuing to invite @edballs on as a presenter whilst he defends the actions of the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, his wife!?” …
“Ed who’s just treated @zarahsultana with contempt for suggesting MSM plays it’s part in whipping up hate is about to interview his wife in an obvious conflict of interests even for a five-year-old viewer. Stick to Kerry Katona and Strictly #Gmb.”
“Interesting that Ed Balls doesn’t interrupt his wife when interviewing but with other guests he does every five mins #gmb #goodmorningbritain.”
“Ed Balls is going to interview his wife? How is this @GMB being impartial and not a huge conflict of interest, embarrassing in the extreme… and he hasn’t talked to the Home Secretary about her job and the situation… really?”
“Is it really appropriate that Ed Balls is hosting news coverage directly concerning the response to the protests of his wife and the Government she is a part of?”
“Sorry this is insane! You can’t have Ed Balls on a programme ‘interviewing’ his own wife, what a stupid stupid editorial decision! I can’t believe Yvette Cooper went along with this!”
“Why is Yvette Cooper’s husband (Ed Balls) allowed to defend her abysmal handling of the race riots? I’m not sure this is allowed?”
“I don’t think Ed Balls should be interviewing Yvette Cooper on GMB. They’re a married couple. It’s ridiculous.”
“Surely good practice would mean that Ed Balls should not be on a programme that is featuring his wife, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper . Get it sorted @gmb.”
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I look forward to the Ofcom inquiry.
‘Far left’ married stooges having a chat and this is called ‘news’. What an absurdity. Was it ‘balanced’ and ‘fair’ Ofcom?
This government/Labtard party is in thrall to Muslims. They will do anything to win their bloc support including attacking whites and labelling whites Hitlerites. As anti-Christian as the Illiberal UnDemocrats.
What kind of half wit. watches this stuff?
The context was wrong: the discussion should have been at the kitchen table.
She added: “We have certainly seen some targeted attacks on mosques, and that clearly reflects Islamophobia.” So what’s the equivalent of ‘Islamophobia’ then, to describe mobs of armed, violent Muslims going round and targeting lone white people to attack? As much as I’ve seen white chavs setting light to hotels, trashing cars and putting windows of shops in, I’ve yet to see a single video of white people carrying weapons and singling out a solitary Muslim to beat up. They’re not even making a secret of it and they’ve made it onto the mainstream news a few times now. Don’t tell me this was for self-defense; https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1820720100724391989 But regarding the scenes in Birmingham yesterday, and conveniently ignoring the fact they’re caught on camera beating white people up and attacking their cars while they drove, that Labour woman with the bad haircut makes it clear who she sides with. See how the ”far right” will always get the blame, despite the fact nobody was even there. This was 100%, undeniable Muslim mob rule; ”Jess Phillips is a Home Office Minister, failing to condemn the thugs in Birmingham. The only racists on show were the racist Pakistani heritage men attacking white men.”… Read more »
I came across this question tabled at the EU parliament regarding the attacks on Christians in France. Anti-Christian hatred: the Commission ignores burning churches 10.1.2022 Answer in writing Question for written answer E-000098/2022 to the Commission Rule 138 Virginie Joron (ID) Anti-Christian hatred: the Commission ignores burning churches‘Europe means peace’. The dozens of church fires in France, conflagrations in the Cathedrals of Paris and Nantes, the beheading of women in Nice, priests’ throats cut by two Islamists and a Rwandan applicant for refugee status who arrived illegally in 2012 and was not expelled tell a different story. In December 2015, the Commission established a European coordinator to combat anti-Muslim hatred in Europe and a coordinator to combat anti-Semitism and foster Jewish life. The Commission has not, however, appointed a coordinator to combat anti-Christian hatred. In France, the police keeps a record of hate crimes against these three religions. In 2020 there were 613 attacks on Christian, 80 on Muslim and 38 on Jewish places of worship. In view of the threats, there were armed police protecting Christmas celebrations in France. Yet neither the Commission nor the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights mentions anti-Christian crimes. 1. Why has the Commission not appointed… Read more »
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-000098_EN.html
“We have certainly seen some targeted attacks on mosques, and that clearly reflects Islamophobia.”
What is the problem with islamaphobia? I hate islam and the muslims hate Christianity and by extension Christians.
Islamaphobia is a perfectly reasonable response.
It is also possible to not want Britain to become more Islamic without hating Islam.
I don’t hate tall buildings but I don’t want my town to be filled with skyscrapers.
Just because I don’t want something doesn’t mean I hate it, That’s what these ultra liberals don’t seem to understand or don’t want to understand or wilfully misunderstand to shut up thise who oppose their ideas.
You’re clearly suffering from towerblockphobia, ie, the irrational fear that they might fall onto you any time and that they’re intentionally congregating in towns because they want to get you.
Phobia is not hate. It’s pathological fear.
Highriseism? You are a Highriseist?
The same problem as with all these -phobia terms: They assert that the people labelled as something-phobic are really suffering from a mental health issue, namely, irrational fear of something that’s inherently harmless. Anybody’s who’s critical of anything the establishment supports will either be labelled as (dangerous) basket case or Nazi or as dangerous basket case Nazi. Save’s quite a lot of trouble wrt actually arguing in favour of one’s firmly held convictions: I’m obviously right because everyone who claims I’m not is clearly mentally insane, morally reprehensbile and on the brink of committing genocide.
The somewhat amazing thing about this as that this seriously crude world view actually gets people anywhere instead of them just making fools of themselves. It seems we’re mostly ruled by the entitled stupid.
You have hit the nail on the head, pointing out the lunacy of the term “Islamophobia”, because it means
“irrational fear of something that’s inherently harmless”, which Death Cult Islam most certainly is not.
In truth, it’s not “Islamo-phobia”, because we are not afraid.
It’s “Islamo-nausea”, because the whole world is sick to death of Islam.
Not all phobias are irrational.
Arachnophobia is a fear of spiders.
Many spiders are mostly harmless but plenty are dangerous and absolutely to be feared.
Good point. I just detest islam and I don’t want it in my country.
But not irrational which a phobia denotes.
Agreed 👍
Native-British-aphobia. The Establishment seems to be particularly susceptible.
What are ‘targeted attacks’ on White people?
Shouldn’t be awarded an -ophobia? Albophobia perhaps? Anglophobia?
We now have an opportunity to ask the Home Secretary about the appalling riots and far-Right thuggery across the country in the last week or so.
EB: So, Home Secretary. Good Morning.
YC: Good Morning
EB: Where the hell were you last night?
YC: Er. There was a Cobra meeting and I had to stay late in the office and then there were riots so the buses weren’t running.
EB: A likely story! My lawyers will be in touch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF1ZVw8sP24
my thoughts on the situation in the United Kingdom
I have been reliably informed that Huddersfield Town Centre was locked down, emptied and shuttered yesterday afternoon. Police everywhere and gangs of Asians on the hunt.
Further shuttering ongoing today. Anti climb boxes to be built around the scaffolds that are behind the anti climb three metre hoarding.
Further violence is anticipated.
Well this officer in Birmingham is either lying or hasn’t witnessed firsthand all the footage that’s been posted online of what was going down there last night. In fact, there was a single police car in a car park and they were flying a drone, and that was it. Proper Brownshirts they are. It couldn’t be any clearer who they’re under orders to target and who to ignore/protect;
”The police reaction to the scenes we’ve witnessed in Birmingham tonight, with armed gangs of Muslim men, attacking cars, pubs, news crews and beating up a lone white man outside the pub, has to be heard to be believed:
“ No dispersal order because none of the people here are causing any problems”
“A small situation no different than something we come to on a Saturday night”
“A small scuffle that probably looks like something it wasn’t”
Police officer starts laughing and says “nobody here is causing problems”
Two Tier Policing for the world to see.”
https://x.com/triffic_stuff_/status/1820568560596652378
”It’s dangerous to be right when the government is wrong”. Voltaire.
Is this an admission that it is the police presence that is the cause of the trouble. They are a provocation in almost any protest situation, and the more heavily armoured they are, the greater the provocation.
I’m guessing the next thing the government will do to ‘ease’ racial integration will be recruit all these young men of fighting age into the military and thus ‘solve’ the recruitment issue?
Lt Gen Dame Sharon Nesmith, the deputy chief of the general staff, said in an interview that “just because we have lots of rank structure, doesn’t mean to say that we have to behave in a hierarchical way”.
Lt Gen Nesmith, tipped by some as future chief of the service, was the author of the controversial Army Race Action Plan which advocates easing security checks in order to drive diversity.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/17/general-behind-lax-security-checks-says-army-hierarchical/#:~:text=Lt%20Gen%20Nesmith%2C%20the%20most,for%20all%20from%20day%20one%E2%80%9D.
And this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy14j38p1Ok
White Men NOT WANTED in Royal Air Force | ILLEGAL Recruitment!
…Asked to name her most inspirational non-military leader, Lt Gen Nesmith said Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand.
‘kin hell.
[1] Please see the following Youtube that compares Yvette Cooper’s response to BL and her response to the current push back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrvtbD_oAT4&t=183s
Will the Real Yvette Cooper Please Stand Up!
[2] A coupe of MSM gems from the BLM riots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1mxJMIIMuE
MSNBC reporter in front of burning building: “mostly a protest”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klVhCkhOTRQ
CNN Claims Kenosha Protests Are ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’ As City Burns Behind Reporter
[3] The Police failed to protect the Cenotaph from BLM and again they failed to protect this sacred monument from the Pro Hamas Palestinian protestors, but they had barriers and a police cordon to protect the Cenotaph from Tommy Robinson. There is no intention of trying to maintain ‘social cohesion’ as this is inflammatory in the extreme. This is what social ‘integration’ will mean which is making sure that the indigenous population (which the BBC says does not exist) integrates with whoever the establishment decides is sacred.
The Barbarians have Cooper over a barrel.
I see what you did there…
😀 😀 😀
The ultimate soft ball interview.
Why not call a spade a spade?
People do have islamophobia. They are afraid of the islamification of Britain. And they probably should be.
The problem isn’t islamophobia, the problem is denying people’s right to be fearful of too many Muslims entering the cou try and making it more Islamic.
Perfectly reasonable fear if you ask me.
Yes. Just posted similar.
If you’re a white working class girl living in a northern town (or the parent of one) it seems pretty reasonable to me to suffer from Islamophobia ….. particularly the Pakistani version.
Sneer has not realised the protected ethics are already several steps ahead of him. As the Manchester airport men have not been charged, they have been able to give their defence in a TV interview.
Turns out the middle aged lady seen on the video was unable to press the call button in the plane to complain to the crew about a man sitting behind her shouting racial abuse in English & Arabic for the entire flight (hours). It was Quatar airline plane and the ethnicity of the man interestingly not revealed.
On meeting the middle aged lady at Manchester Airport they were so allegedly upset about the racist abuse that they did not notice the police uniforms when they were apprehended but just weighed in with extreme violence anyway …. as you do when being apprehended at Manchester Airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iai9p56U1Eo
LEAKED VIDEO: Police at Manchester Airport WHAT REALLY HAPPENED!
Message to Yvette and Starmer et al. Is the gentleman in the short ‘far right’?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k35ZcC4EzeE?feature=share
Ed Balls was certainly right about one thing: treating Zarah Sultana “with contempt for suggesting MSM plays it’s part in whipping up hate”.
The mainstream media is guilty of many bad things, but not of “whipping up hate” against Muslims, only hate against Patriots everywhere.
It is Muslims themselves who “whip up hate” against them, by their own behaviour, everywhere they go on the planet.
I had the misfortune of catching that buffoon on GMB this morning as my wife had left the TV on. He was claiming he “fought the BNP”, when he couldn’t fight his way out of a kiddies play pen. The nearest he got to any fighting was dragging us into an illegal war with his mates Bliar, Campbell and of course the harridan he’s married to.
They probably rehearsed the script in bed that morning. Nothing to see here 🙄