If only it were so simple.
Britain’s most hateful attention-seeker Katie Hopkins has been vocal about her disdain for the plight of refugees in Europe, and never more offensively so than in a column for The Sun called Rescue boats? I’d use gun ship to stop migrants.
“No, I don’t care,” Katie Hopkins wrote in her April column. “Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don’t care.
“Watching them try to clamber on to British lorries and steal their way into the UK, do I feel pity? Only for the British drivers, who get hit with a fine every time one of this plague of feral humans ends up in their truck.”
Since that dehumanising screed, there have been calls for her to be sacked from the paper, which haven’t been heeded.
Following the publication of the photograph of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, whose tiny body was washed up on the Turkish coastline after he and his family tried to flee Syria, she’s remained steadfast in her views.
So some Brits who consider the I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here contestant a national embarrassment have taken action and begun a Change.org petition to swap her for 50,000 refugees.
Katie finds it amusing, of course:
“It has become fairly clear that the UK needs to do more to help and save the lives of innocent refugees making their way to Europe in order to flee the situation in their home countries… The UK however has currently not got the space for refugees, no this is not because we are full it is because Katie Hopkins massive head takes it all up…” read the petition.
Unfamiliar with Katie Hopkins? Here she is at her charming best… Post continues after video.
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Has anyone mentioned Andrew bolt? He's a contender for sure!
I started a petition yesterday to swap Andrew Bolt for 50,000 refugees. It has over 2000 signatures on it already. Can't put the link here but a quick search for it will find it.
Tony Abbot, Joe Hockey, Bronwyn Bisho, Matt Tilley, Karl Sandilands, David "Koshi" Koch.....