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News - 17 July 2025

GB News won’t apologise after starve or shoot disabled people slur

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GB News has refused to apologise after a guest suggested the best way to reduce disabled benefit claimants was to starve or shoot them.

According to Disability News Service:

GB News presenter Patrick Christys had told viewers that “welfare needs to be cut” – while ignoring the evidence that working-age social security spending is stable as a proportion of GDP* – before claiming that the prime minister was not “doing much” to cut disability benefits.

He then asked his guest 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 then added: “What else can you do? Shoot them? I mean, I’d suggest that, but I think that’s maybe a bit strong.”

Christys then replied: “Yeah, it’s just not allowed these days.”

Inciting violence on GB News

GB News has no problem inciting violence and hatred towards disabled people. Their guest literally called for them to be murdered. A Glastonbury crowd shouting death to a foreign occupying military force committing an actual genocide? Fetch its faux outrage fainting couch and smelling salts, it’s an indignation!

We could run an experiment and get “death, death to the DWP” going at the next big music festival. You can practically guarantee the right-wing cess-pit will be frothing at the mouth to denounce ‘militant’ disabled activists. Maybe that’s the next play – we can’t get benefits if you lock us all up.

Currently, media regulator Ofcom is assessing complaints about the programme. In reality, this is simply to decide whether it will even bother investigating it. But that’s the state of our so-called media regulator. A hack journo called for disabled people to be starved or shot, and will likely get away with Ofcom giving him a small slap on the wrist.

Eugenics

Of course, that this rancid eugenicist rhetoric can flourish in 2025 Britain should almost be just as scandalous.

Yet, it’s also hardly surprising. For months upon months, years upon years, vile politicians and their corporate media mouthpieces have maligned disabled benefit claimants. With a constant drip of ‘scrounger’, ‘skiver’, ‘fraudster’ scapegoating, is it any wonder a GB News presenter can cry “bants” and brush his disgusting statement under the rug?

Schaffer may as well label disabled people “useless eaters” and be done with it.

His festering fascism is plain for all to see. But we live in a country where the state can kill tens of thousands of disabled and poor benefit claimants, and keep doing it without consequences. This is now a UK where the government can make cuts that will make hundreds of thousands destitute, and pass a bill legalising assisted suicide, which in turn, the appalling cuts will only push disabled people towards.

Schaffer’s comments on GB News are abhorrent. But let’s not pretend they aren’t the verbal acknowledgement of the way a majority of the right-wing media and political class have been thinking this whole time. He just said the quiet part out loud.

Feature image via the Canary





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