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TalkTV dumps racist activist, GB News pressured to follow

Talk TV has said it has “no plans” to invite back — self-described ‘public policy specialist’ — Lucy White. GB News still undecided. It comes after the following tweet which attracted widespread criticism:

Now people are pressuring GB News to follow suit.

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In response to White’s statement, TalkTV said:

The views she expresses are her own, and her recent social media post referring to Nus Ghani was reprehensible. We have no plans to invite Lucy White back on Talk in the foreseeable future.

TalkTV recently sacked host Mike Graham after racist comments were posted to his Facebook page (Graham claimed he was ‘hacked’ then refused to engage with the investigation). Since his sacking, Graham has found himself free to make his true feelings known:

Many people took issue with White’s comments:

White, meanwhile, has doubled down on her initial comments in a long and confusing post in which her first argument is as follows:

1. Did you know that a Bengali Tiger born in Siberia remains a Bengali Tiger?… It does not become a Siberian Tiger. The same logic applies to Boris Johnson being born in New York. Boris is ethnically White British (yes, we know he has a Turkish great-grandfather, cry me a river) and, regardless of where in the world Boris would have been born, he would always remain White British. Just as a Bengali Tiger remains a Bengali Tiger, despite being born in Siberia.

Nusrat Ghani, being ethnically Pakistani, would always be ethnically Pakistani, whether born in Pakistan, the UK or anywhere else in the world. Just as a Bengali Tiger remains a Bengali Tiger, despite being born in Siberia.

To conflate Boris Johnson being born in New York as being the same as Nusrat Ghani being born in Pakistan is beyond ludicrous.

So in summary: Boris Johnson isn’t a Yank, Nusrat Ghani is Pakistani, and we’re all… tigers?

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t have to agonise over stuff like this; you can simply judge people as individuals. I know I certainly wouldn’t want people to judge me based on how other whites (and indeed Whites) behave.

White also said the following:


I dunno, Lucy; I don’t think you get to make this point when your argument boils down to ‘all foreigners are rapists and/or tigers‘.

Obviously people aren’t going to patiently walk you through it every time you make an argument that’s been discredited for decades. It would be like having to scientifically prove lead is poisonous every time we tell someone not to drink it. The work has been done, Lucy. They’re calling you a racist because that’s the established word for people like you.

GB News can’t decide what the racist threshold is

While White’s comments are obviously grim and backwards, they’re also the sort of thing you routinely see on Twitter these days. The problem that activists like White have is that they’re all trying to walk the line between gaining social media clout and not becoming too toxic for the telly.

In this instance, White went further than Talk TV were willing to stomach. GB News, meanwhile, is seemingly deciding if it should:

  • Publicly state they won’t work with White and risk pissing off the fringe weirdos.
  • Continue working with White and risk losing their broader appeal.

Whatever they decide right now, the shift on this is obviously mostly moving rightwards. In other words, whether they continue working with her now or not, it’s very possible they will broadcast identical opinions to hers in the next few years.

For reference, this is where GB News and Lucy White were at 4 months ago:

This state of affairs is why we need to support anti-racist parties who are standing in the 2026 local elections. Reform’s success is a big reason why these people are so emboldened, and the way to kick that into reverse is to push Reform back down the polls.

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By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.