Darren Grimes blasts left-wing magazine for targeting GB News presenters on annual 's**t list': 'Rank hypocrisy!'
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This year's list features many GB News presenters and regulars, including Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Ben Habib, Neil Oliver, Lee Anderson and Richard Tice
Darren Grimes has lambasted a left-wing publication for targeting GB News in their list of "worst people" for 2024.
The list created by The New European, dubbed the "S**t List", features many GB News presenters and regulars, including Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Ben Habib, Neil Oliver, Lee Anderson and Richard Tice.
The 50 people picked by the publication are, in their words, the "sneaky, the snobbish and the snide - the spiteful, the shameless and the downright sinister".
Speaking to GB News, presenter Darren Grimes hit out at the "dossier of drivel" against those associated with the channel, and accused them of "rank hypocrisy".
Darren Grimes launched an attack on the New European for their 's**t list' featuring himself and Nigel Farage
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Sharing his reaction to being placed on the list, Grimes sarcastically told GB News host Ben Leo: "Oh, I'm absolutely delighted. My mother just texted me saying, 'Darren, I've never been more proud'.
"So there we are, Ben, I've succeeded finally."
Hitting out at the publication, Darren fumed: "What really gets me and what's really interesting about this is how delightfully self-important these people at the New European actually think they are.
"And it really is quite rich, because this is a paper that has one of its key columnists as Alastair Campbell. He was a bloke who helped draft the dodgy dossier, and is now publishing a dossier of drivel."
The list featured many GB News regulars and presenters, with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage coming top
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Ben read Darren's his entry on the list, which sits at number 31 out of 50, and claims Darren is a "right wing provocateur" who has "been part of a giant tantrum on the part of those who did not vote Labour in May", and is "currently getting excited about a petition asking for a general election".
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Hitting back at the claim, Darren explained: "Well, we're all excited about a petition about the general election, and it's a bit rich of them, given that they wanted to overturn the votes of 17.4 million people. Only nine million people voted for Sir Keir Starmer.
"And these elitist Remoaners at this magazine wanted to actually say to those people, well, your vote, it don't count. So God forbid anyone highlight the three million people fed up with a Labour Government already."
Offering further criticism of the New European, Darren claimed that the publication "fancies itself as a "bastion for the enlightened free speech liberals", when in fact it is "doing the opposite".
Darren raged: "The real kicker is ultimately that the New European fancy itself as a sort of bastion for the enlightened free speech liberals, when actually it's the complete opposite.
Grimes told GB News that the New European should stick to 'irrelevant finger wagging'
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"It's constant pearl clutching over right wing opinions, over the fact that GB News exists. It's like being lectured on healthy living by someone that downs a pint of gravy every single time they sit down to have a meal."
Darren concluded: "So my advice to them would be this - stick to what you're good at, namely irrelevant finger wagging like this, and leave the actual debate to us at GB News and the other grown ups like Matthew Goodwin, whose name you've just tried to smear.
"It's rank hypocrisy at its very heart. Ultimately the be kind brigade, they're the ones that want to actually shut down our right to speech, our right to choose our news channels that we may prefer over others that have been established for far too long and actually to shut down our right to vote for political parties that we respect and admire, such as that one led by Nigel Farage.
"I think ultimately they ought to look themselves in the mirror and realise that they're not too far away from the so-called fascism that they all too often warn us about."