Goodbye Specsavers! Customers to boycott glasses shop after company pulls GB News adverts

Former BBC stalwart Andrew Neil launched his new GB News Channel this week, with the promise to “lend an ear to some of Britain’s marginalised and overlooked voices”. Furious GB News fans have vowed to boycott Specsavers for pulling its advertising from the GB News Channel. Former Brexit Party MEP Christina Jordan tweeted: “After over 20yrs, it will be sad to say goodbye to you Specsavers.

“Extremely disappointing to see you throw yourself in with this lot.

“Thanks for the customer service and good luck with your new bedfellows.”

Another person wrote on Twitter: “I’ve been getting my glasses at @Specsavers for 10 years for reading.

“No more I’m I going there after Specsavers jumping on the bandwagon with GB News.

“You will lose thousands of customers over this.

“All my followers use specsavers go somewhere else like me.”

A third quipped: “Should’ve gone to Vision Express…..”

It comes after Mr Neil warned about “cancel culture” as he opened his first show with a monologue explaining the ways the channel would be different from other news outlets.

He said: “We will puncture the pomposity of our elites in politics, business, media and academia, and expose their growing promotion of cancel culture for the threat to free speech and democracy that it is.

“We are proud to be British – the clue is in the name – and while we will never hold back from covering our country’s many flaws and problems, we will not come at every story with the conviction that Britain is always at fault.

“We won’t forget what the ‘B’ stands for in our title.”

TV industry magazine Broadcast reported yesterday that GB News peaked in its opening minutes on Sunday with 336,000 viewers – outperforming the 100,000 viewers who watched BBC News across the hour and the 46,000 who tuned into Sky News.