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Chris Weston Appeals To McDonalds And IKEA To Withdraw Ads After Katie Hopkins' "Final Solution" Tweet

Katie Hopkins is a businesswoman who came to prominence on the British version of the TV show The Apprentice, after all-but-winning the series but then declining to accept host Alan Sugar's offer. She then became a figure of media interest and a go-to right-wing pundit, writing for the Sun and the Daily Mail.

In 2016, the Daily Mail was forced to pay £150,000 to a Muslim family whom Hopkins had falsely accused of extremist links, and in 2017 she was made to pay £24,000 in damages and £107,000 in legal costs to fellow pundit Jack Monroe after making defamatory remarks on Twitter – who she manages to mistake for Laurie Penny. She was condemned by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights after her column in The Sun compared migrants to "cockroaches" and "feral humans" and said they were "spreading like the norovirus".

She currently presents a Sunday morning radio talk show on London radio station LBC, and continues to court controversy. Yesterday, as the news from Manchester broke of the terrorist bombing of a pop concert killing many, she tweeted the following, expressing a need for a "final solution".

The phrase used by the Nazi Party for the Holocaust. The tweet was soon deleted and reworded as a "true solution"…

https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/866917159087288320

However, the original tweet has been rereported across the media. Including comic book artist Chris Weston, of The Filth, Judge Dredd, Ministry Of Space and much more, who is calling on advertisers to withdraw from LBC if they continue to employ Hopkins.

Other reports have had Hopkins reported to the police.

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