GB News Guest Brands New Tory Deputy Chair Jonathan Gullis As ‘That Violinist On The Titanic’

Newly appointed Conservative deputy chairman Jonathan Gullis found himself publicly gutted on air as one GB News guest panellist Amy Nickell-Turner blasted him as “that violin player” comforting the doomed passengers on the Titanic “as it sinks.”

Gullis, who took up the new senior role on Tuesday, had a hard time selling his party’s vision at the network as host Patrick Christys presented him with new polling figures that showed Reform UK’s growing appeal among those who voted Tory in the previous election.

Reform UK, rebranded from the Brexit Party, boasts several GB News hosts among its ranks, from its only sitting MP, Tory defector Lee Anderson, to leader Richard Tice and its honourary president Nigel Farage.

Invited on GB News to discuss tomorrow’s newspapers, Christys highlighted a new “shocker” of a poll that showed just 44 percent of the Tory vote share “would vote Tory again, with 20 percent now saying they will turn to Labour.”

Christys remarked: “This is a new record high for Reform, putting them in third place overall, with 14 percent of the vote share while the [Liberal Democrats] trail at 12 percent.”

The host turned to the deputy Tory chair: “Now, this was of course all done before it was announced that our very own Jonathan Gullis is now the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. So, hey-ho, things might… This might be the solution for the Tories. All of a sudden, you see polling data today… and the Tories… It’s a landslide victory!”

Gullis replied: “You’re setting me up now… You’re setting me up, Patrick.”

Christys returned: “Jonathan, that’s a shocker, though, mate.

“Look, let me be very clear,” Gullis responded. “The overwhelming majority of the British public, understandably, have tuned out of politics at this moment in time. When it comes to the campaign and those six weeks, voters know very clearly there’s going to be two choices. It’s either Sir Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak… they have to make that choice for their children’s future.”

The deputy chair continued, emphasising that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak “has a very clear plan to grow the economy” and detailed some of his policy ambitions and achievements. He cited tax cuts, the push for a Rwanda deportation bill, as well as promises of investment across the country for roads and infrastructure.

Ripping Labour’s leader as “Sir Flip-Flop”, Gullis blasted Labour for abandoned electoral pledges.

Fellow guest Emily Carver, to the politician’s right, interrupted: “I’m not sure your voters are going to come out for you. You haven’t given them enough to vote for.”

Gullis responded: “So that, I totally accept, is the challenge for us as a party. We’ve had 14 years. It’s to motivate those voters to come out. Well, we smashed Labour in 2019, let’s not forget, that’s why I’m here. So we will make sure that we will motivate their voters and they have to see delivery on the ground. If we don’t deliver, I’ve always accepted…”

“You’re running out of time,” Carver said.

From his left, Nickell-Turner gave her blunt assessment, pretending to play to the entertainment of the guests: “You’re so much like that violin player on the Titanic as it sinks.”

It’s certainly a take that might stick.

Watch above via GB News.

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