CONSPIRACY nutjob and GB News host Neil Oliver was left stranded at Edinburgh Airport after his flight was cancelled amid a global IT outage.
Oliver told GB News viewers that he had been due to hop on the British Airways 1451 flight from Edinburgh to London on Friday in order to head to the English capital to record his monologues – but ended up stuck at the airport.
According to the website Flight Aware, Oliver’s plane has now been cancelled altogether – meaning he is one of the stranded passengers that Edinburgh Airport has asked to get off the premises.
To be fair, we’d be asking Oliver to get off the premises as well.
The tin-hatted TV host took the news about as well as you’d expect, suggesting to GB News that it might be some kind of anti-Trump hacker who was behind the whole thing.
Oliver said: “I’m sure people are speculating about this having been done by someone, maybe someone’s hacked a system somewhere. I’m sure people are asking those kind of questions.
“It’s happened on top of the Republican National Convention, disrupting coverage of speeches and all the rest of it. I’m sure many people are speculating.”
One GB News host responded “Mmmmmm” to Oliver’s thoughtful nonsense.
Unperturbed, he added: “As often happens one is left wondering just how wise we are to put all our eggs in this one basket.”
The outage was actually caused by a “defect” in an update for Microsoft Windows users, cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said as they issued an update while “actively working” on a fix.
But reporting on Oliver’s troubles, a GB News article was headlined: "'Dependent' and DOOMED nation? Neil Oliver questions the stability of the 'entire global network'."
It reported: “Neil said his ability to host The Neil Oliver Show has been thrown into question.”
Isn’t that the truth.
