Katie Hopkins leaves LBC 'immediately' - Twitter reacts
Twitter has reacted to the news that Katie Hopkins is to leave LBC after her 'final solution' comments in the wake of the Manchester bombing.
The outspoken broadcaster, who was employed by the radio station for less than a year, has courted controversy on numerous occasion, but it was her comments following the suicide blast which killed 22 at an Ariana Grande concert on Monday (22 May) that was the final straw.
“22 dead - number rising,” she wrote the following day (23 May). “Schofield. Don't you even dare. Do not be a part of the problem. We need a final solution #Machester.”
Her message is presumed to have referred to the Nazis' plan to murder all Jews within reach.
Social media users have been responding to the news, many with praise and some accusing LBC of eliminating freedom of speech.
Below is a selection of the tweets from members of both camps.
FOR
A reminder about free speech - Katie Hopkins is free to say whatever she wants. LBC are free not to want to pay her to say it.
— James Ellaby (@jamesellaby) May 26, 2017
Finally Katie Hopkins has been sacked from LBC!! Oh Happy Days!! Long overdue as she has been spewing her hate for far too long!!
— Nicole Reece (@Gloss80) May 26, 2017
Katie Hopkins has been fired from LBC. Wonderful news. It'll be interesting to see who defends her and advocates a Muslim 'final solution'..
— François Budapest (@francoisbudpest) May 26, 2017
AGAINST
Katie Hopkins fired over a word mistakenly used in a tweet. Special snowflakes at @LBC caved.
Who listens to radio anyway?— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) May 26, 2017
@LBC Disgraceful!! Free speech LBC style! Political correctness gone mad! We You @KTHopkins
— Aaron Star (@AaronStarUK) May 26, 2017
Ridiculous #KatieHopkins has been sacked! Again politician correctness bull sh*t yet we lead radicals preach in our own country! #LBC
— rightisright (@therightidea) May 26, 2017
Never read or listened to Katie Hopkins, but @LBC caving in only ever works in one direction. Window of acceptable thought grows narrower.
— Halberstram (@PerennialYuppie) May 26, 2017
Upon the announcement, LBC told The Independent it would not be “commenting further" than the initial tweet announcement.
Many are now calling upon Mail Online to fire Hopkins from her position as a columnist.
