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Katie Hopkins tried to make a racist point and it massively backfired – the best 16 reactions

Oonagh Keating. Updated August 28th, 2018

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The former Apprentice quitter and sacked LBC presenter, Katie Hopkins, makes her living by being controversial – something she prefers to do by blowing a racist dog-whistle. She recently tried to draw people’s attention to the large amount of food establishments selling non-British cuisine in London, as though this were a bad thing, and a row of chip shops and branches of Gregg’s might be an improvement.

This is how she presented her evidence.

https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1032618390333083648

If anybody in the UK struggled to guess that this was, in fact, the UK, it can only be because they’d been up past their bedtime and needed their afternoon nap before settling down in front of Cbeebies.

The responses to the sight weren’t the horrified xenophobic reaction Ms Hopkins seems to have experienced – in fact, the diversity was widely viewed as an overwhelming positive. These were our favourite comments.

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https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/1033018673974464512

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https://twitter.com/Mativenko80/status/1032859061631549441

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