GB News blew £100,000 getting rid of 'woke' gender neutral toilets

The culture-wars obsessed TV transmission announced cost-cutting plans earlier this year, axing 40 jobs aft posting an operating nonaccomplishment of £42.4 million

GB News blew £100,000 converting their studio's sex neutral toilets into abstracted antheral and pistillate facilities, the Mirror understands.

The culture-wars obsessed TV transmission announced cost-cutting plans earlier this year, axing 40 jobs aft posting an operating nonaccomplishment of £42.4 million.

It was revealed successful March that GB News' rented Paddington workplace features unisex facilities - prompting then-Chipping Barnet MP Theresa Villiers declared to tweet: "This doesn't look wholly accordant with their evident enthusiasm for warring civilization wars."

But a root told this paper elder GB News figures were truthful infuriated by the "woke" bathrooms that they spent eye-watering sums to "fix" them.

They person present been separated into strictly segregated conveniences for Men and Women.

"They're taking the p**s," a root adjacent to the transmission said.

"They've got bogged down successful sex issues. Spending a penny is not worthy spending a 100 grand. Maybe they were feeling flush."

GB News declined to comment.

In March, the institution said that its assemblage figures had grown, peculiarly online wherever leafage views accrued much than 5 times. But GB News revealed that its pre-tax nonaccomplishment had risen from £30.7 cardinal successful the twelvemonth to the extremity of May 2022, to £42.4 cardinal a twelvemonth later.

Despite astir doubling, the company's gross was inactive importantly little than its losses, reaching £6.7 million.

The backing came from the company's owner, All Perspectives Limited, backed by hedge money millionaire Sir Paul Marshall among others.

Last year, GB News received £41.0 cardinal from the genitor company, bringing the full it present owes to £83.8 million. "The institution has beardown enactment from its investors and the directors person nary crushed to judge that the level of these contributions mightiness alteration to a important grade oregon beryllium recalled earlier the radical has the resources to repay the investment," GB News said successful accounts filed to Companies House.

The concern reported an mean of 295 monthly employees during the year, with wage, societal information and pension costs reaching £21.2 million, oregon astir £72,000 per head. The business, which is committed to "promoting diverseness and inclusion successful the workplace," had employed an mean of 175 radical a twelvemonth earlier.

And it reported it had an mean of 2.7 cardinal viewers per period successful the twelvemonth ending May 2023, a emergence of 17.8% from the erstwhile year. Its stock of regular TV viewing was 0.45%, up from 0.30% a twelvemonth earlier, according to Barb Audiences.

On its integer platform, leafage views accrued by 431% to 51.9 million, GB News revealed. The institution earned £5.4 cardinal of its gross from the UK, portion £1.3 cardinal came from different parts of the world. Ad gross jumped 41.4% to £4.2 million, and integer gross accrued astir 4 times to £2.2 million.