[Closed] The New Jesus

Personally I prefer stoning. The bloody woman is reprehensible, unspeakable and downright vile.

But hard to ignore.

why give the attention whore attention?
She gets rich by saying outrageous shit just ignore it

I think the Independent had the right approach this week. They just wrote her an open letter saying that that was that, they were no longer going to write anything about her.

Final sentence,

Hopkins left the Sun last month, and has been signed as a columnist by Mail Online.

There's really nothing more I can add to that really.

why give the attention whore attention?
She gets rich by saying outrageous shit just ignore it

This ^^^^
And This

I think the Independent had the right approach this week. They just wrote her an open letter saying that that was that, they were no longer going to write anything about her.

Almost knocked her down in Exeter a few months back when she decided to change direction and walk out onto a zebra crossing as I was halfway over it !

Has she turned Hipster and now sporting a beard?

Jesus pretty much swung to the left though Katie.

Almost knocked her down in Exeter a few months back when she decided to change direction and walk out onto a zebra crossing as I was halfway over it !

Please try harder next time revs...there's a good chap.

Someone in my circle of acquaintances mentioned she went to school with her and said she was a piece of sh1t back then too. Which got me thinking how old is she?

Turns out younger than me....Christ she looks haggered....let's hope she continues on the slippy slope and tootles off soon.....disgusting person.

Some people are obnoxious...she's right off the scale.

Although I think she is a twart of the highest order, she does comes out with things I agree with from time to time.
" It’s fundamentally stupid if you can’t afford to feed your family but you have an iPhone 6" being one of them.

But hard to ignore.

" It’s fundamentally stupid if you can’t afford to feed your family but you have an iPhone 6" being one of them.

Except that you missed out the rest of that quote from that article:

"I don't believe in equal treatment". She added: "I don't believe in food banks at all … I don't believe we are all equal. It's fundamentally stupid if you can’t afford to feed your family but you have an iPhone 6. All the kids on free school meals have iPhones."

Which is quite a bit less agreeable and essentially just a spin on the old "these tramps and Big Issue sellers are secretly millionaires, that's why I never give them any money" nonsense.

It's a daft point anyway, because they probably stole them 😈

revs1972 - Member

Although I think she is a twart of the highest order, she does comes out with things I agree with from time to time.
" It’s fundamentally stupid if you can’t afford to feed your family but you have an iPhone 6" being one of them.

That's how Britain First and other such hate groups got widely shared on Facebook.

This sort of thing Alex?

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From a punishment point of view, you would.....admit it......

[i]I find her remarkably easy to ignore.[/i]

+1

wrecker - Member
From a punishment point of view, you would.....admit it......

I've heard of some depraved, disgusting acts in my time, but that does take things to a whole new level.

👿

😀

One of my ex's went to school with her too, don't think she was held in particularly high regard!

Used to work in a cake shop in the town at weekend apparently.

Obnoxious stealer of oxygen

Sounds like a missed opportunity on that pedestrian crossing Revs!

Exactly GrahamS!
Is that directly from Britain First's page? 🙂

She was pretty reasonable when she did a talk-show on LBC a while ago - surprisingly tolerant and interested in her guests opinions and also receptive of their views.

Better than some of the other hosts on LBC I thought.

I think she's honestly confused because every time she walks into a room, people exclaim "Oh, Jesus!"

In a similar way (Jeremy Corbyn) JC is definitely Not Jesus Christ if that helps. 😛

Reactionary politics + reactionary journalism. If you have a moderate centre-left viewpoint you'll get shouted down these days; social media is mostly to blame. Owen Jones uses similar techniques to whip up the crowd.

people exclaim "Oh, Jesus!"

🙂

cool, when's the crucifixion?

never heard of her

That ladies head is a bag of cats , you can smell the crazy on her , she should stick to whats shes good at .like sexual acts on the side of a road !

bencooper - Member

I think she's honestly confused because every time she walks into a room, people exclaim "Oh, Jesus!"

Bugger, I read this whole post with the aim of posting 'my excellent joke'.

Just beaten to it by a mere 3hrs.

Lolz @ stumpy01! 😆

Is she for real, or is it a clever act, designed to elicit extreme reactions from large proportions of the population, and therefore sell column inches?

(See also; the entire Daily Mail, so a match made in heaven, certainly)

She's a clickbait expert. I wouldn't be surprised if she holds the views she writes, but she knows what she's doing.

Is she for real, or is it a clever act, designed to elicit extreme reactions from large proportions of the population, and therefore sell column inches?

Pretty despicable either way. 🙁

she reminds me of the quote about fox news.

"A rich person paid by the super rich to to tell the middle classes to blame the poor"

her family must be so proud

Pretty despicable either way.

Aside from hearing the name occasionally I gave no idea who she is or what she is known for.

She's a complete waste of time. She's only three days older than me, looks more like 13 years.

revs1972 - Member
Almost knocked her down in Exeter a few months back when she decided to change direction and walk out onto a zebra crossing as I was halfway over it !

Jesus pretty much swung to the left though Katie

*Wishes revs1972 had*

The whole point of her existence is to provoke a reaction...why do you think that the Faily Heil hired her?

She doesn't believe in most of the things she comes out with, but she does believe in the ££££s her publicity earns. She's a non-celeb, a paid arsehole, a rent-a-gob.

If everyone ignores her, she'll go away.

Insults about appearance...insults that she's a prostitute..speculation as to whether poster would have sex with her - yes, it's another STW thread about a woman.

yes, it's another STW thread about a woman.

Insults about appearance...insults that she's a prostitute..speculation as to whether poster would have sex with her - yes, it's another STW thread about a woman.

You could argue that she's bring ing out the worst in people but that's no excuse for this shit

"she says vile things, the ugly bitch - I wish she was dead" (set irony meters to stun) 🙄

I'm still not really sure who she is, she seems to bring out Top Gear'esque responses but without any defenders.

I'll not Google.

I am starting to think that Hopkins, Price, Andre and the Kardashian clan etc. are constructs placed in society to distract the ordinary folk from what's really happening. It amazes me that people actually care about them and what they do.

Yes, bit depressing - though "attention whore" is nothing to do with being a prostitute, even in the loosest sense

stevedoc - Member
That ladies head is a bag of cats , you can smell the crazy on her , she should stick to whats shes good at .like sexual acts on the side of a road !
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I agree about the unfortunate use of misogynist insults on this thread, but I [i]think[/i] "sexual acts on the side of a road" is a reference to a news story about her getting caught shagging her boyfriend in a field by a road ([url= http://www.****/tvshowbiz/article-2761124/Katie-Hopkins-FINALLY-admits-caught-camera-outdoor-romp-husband-Celebrity-Juice.html ]it was on Celebrity Juice and everything[/url]).

But yeah, it does still smell a bit like misogyny.

I'm still not really sure who she is

I know who she is, but I have literally no idea why she is famous.

Was there a "Britain's Got Offensive Opinions" show or something?

Looking at [url= https://twitter.com/KTHopkins ]her Twitter feed[/url] she seems to go for a machine gun approach. Four tweets in the past hour, one of them is bound to get quoted in the papers, job done for the day.

iirc he was a married man and it was an affair and i think its ok to judge her for this personally.

I think folk will always hurl insults at folk who are insulting

Not read the thread enough to know whether misogynistic or it i just hatred of her but i do agree STW tends to sexism when it comes to threads about women

She appeared on The Apprentice a few years ago, but turned Sugar down (AFAIR).

She was dragged onto radio occasionally for soundbites to wind listeners up, eg. anti-worker's rights, anti-maternity leave type stuff. I'm guessing papers, media organisations saw the "click-bait" attractions and started using her more to get readers, etc. Then there was the baby's geographical names furore, which (again AFAIR) sparked a fairly funny thread on here. The more reactions she's got over the years, the more reactionary her profile & outpourings have become.

Like any other human with a sense of superiority, I am embarrassed I know all this about her, and plenty more, but anyone who spends any time on social media can hardly have avoided her over the years. She's been quite pervasive.

[quote=Junkyard ]Not read the thread enough to know whether misogynistic

It's not particularly IMHO - some women who deserve a lot more respect than she does get a much harder time on here.

There are certain parts of the world where, if you went in front of a group of churchmen and stated you were the new (insert prophet of your choice) you would run a good risk of being nailed to a tree, or something.

So presumably she is quite happy living in a wishy washy liberal state, depite apparently hating it, and everybody in it.

Like any other human with a sense of superiority, I am embarrassed I know all this about her, and plenty more, but anyone who spends any time on social media can hardly have avoided her over the years. She's been quite pervasive.

I've obviously seen her about, but had no idea what miserable pool of misery she had originally crawled from. The Apprentice makes total sense.

Can't believe people are arguing about whether or not it's ok to be rude about Katie **** Hopkins. Ah, the intolerant left.

She's very good at pushing people's buttons, isn't she?

Can't believe people are arguing about whether or not it's ok to be rude about Katie **** Hopkins. Ah, the intolerant left.

I admire your ability to say so much about yourself in so few words.

he's very good at pushing people's buttons, isn't she?

Can't believe people are arguing about whether or not it's ok to be rude about Katie **** Hopkins.

I don't think anyone objects to insulting Katie Hopkins. She deserves all she gets.

Some people just object to using misogynist insults generally, regardless of the target.

Indeed, if being insulting is wrong, then insulting someone who insults is just as bad. You undermine your own argument.

There are certain parts of the world where, if you went in front of a group of churchmen and stated you were the new (insert prophet of your choice) you would run a good risk of being nailed to a tree, or something.

Which ironically is exactly what happened to Jesus, and people expect him to fall for that trick again.

Indeed, if being insulting is wrong, then insulting someone who insults is just as bad. You undermine your own argument.

Then there was the baby's geographical names furore

Yup, the irony being she's named one of her kids "India".

iirc he was a married man and it was an affair and i think its ok to judge her for this personally.

I don't; simply because it's lazy.

She - or at least, her public persona, who knows whether she believes half of what she says - is just so absolutely obnoxious and has such a goldmine of material to condemn her (should anyone care sufficiently to do so) that pulling her up for taking tea with the parson in public just makes me think "really, is that the best we can manage?"

Take the iPhone comment. All kids on free meals have iPhones? Do they? Really? All of them? Have you got a source for that comment? Did you conduct a poll? Are you in fact aware of [i]any [/i]kids at all who get free meals and have an iPhone? Or it it a "fact" you've just made it up to sound controversial and incite public outrage? We don't know, yet the intellectually devoid Middle Englanders lap it up, which is probably why she said it.

Because, even if this "fact" isn't made up, which it almost certainly is, it's just oversimplified propaganda. Sure, I don't doubt there are families who make poor financial decisions (and who need help, not hatred). But how about little Timmy, his family are poor, he has nothing of any value. He really, really wants an iPhone, more than anything in the world. So he saves his pocket money, the meagre pence that his parents can afford to give him. He takes on a paper round, he washes his neighbours' cars and helps out in their gardens, and clears their paths in winter. It takes him a year of graft, and he finally gets enough cash together to get a battered second-hand model from Cash Converters. His proud parents scrape together the money for a pay-as-you-go SIM, and Timmy carries on with his odd jobs to keep it running. It's his pride and joy, his most treasured possession, maybe his only possession of any note.

And then complete strangers walk past him in the street, see him with an iPhone in his hand and threadbare holes in his jeans and immediately conclude "scrounging doley scum yet can afford an iPhone" because Katie ***ing Hopkins.

So if the most damning thing we can muster about her is that she had al fresco sex once, well, frankly I'm fresh out of shits to give about that. About the only emotion I can force myself to muster is mild surprise.

Well put.

Insults about appearance...insults that she's a prostitute..speculation as to whether poster would have sex with her - yes, it's another STW thread about a woman.

So if the most damning thing we can muster about her is that she had al fresco sex once, well, frankly I'm fresh out of shits to give about that.

And really, what's wrong with that? Apart from getting caught of course.

The fact he was married , not to her, will make many folk think less of them both.

I don't; simply because it's lazy.

I agree what she says and does is worse but I really dont think its bad to judge folk on how they act - as a mod its what you do on here [ no offence]

I also think a hate filled offensive troll really ought to expect that folk will do the same back to her. Neither is right but it will happen.

TBH there is no point attacking her ideas as no one actually thinks she means all of what she says and she just wants the oxygen of publicity

I really dont think its bad to judge folk on how they act

The fact he was married , not to her, will make many folk think less of them both.

Still a big load of meh from me.

The only people I feel sorry for are her kids. They didn't ask for any of it.

I never claimed there was a public interest i said I was happy to judge folk on what they do,this includes having affairs with married men.

I can't believe that people on here are actually putting effort into debating the likes of her or Piers Morgan, or Jeremy Clarkson, or Richard Littlejohn etc etc.
There's a long line in front of a constantly revolving door with these clowns queuing to get in.
Lock the door and they'll disappear.

Ckarkson was slagged off on here for extra-marital sex and being a boor. Does that make us man haters?

I think shagging a married man is part of the evidence she has no morals and shouldn't be left out just because she is a woman.

I had never heard of her before this thread BTW.

There was a very revealing portrait of her in the Gruniad back in the summer..

No excuses offered here:
She has a medical condition which means she may very well die early e.g. 40-50 something.
She has struck gold in that she is willing to be controversial in media and gets paid a lot for it, perhaps doing so to help provide for her offspring as she doesn't expect to be around for long.
She has a history of overt deception and lying to get jobs, like not telling the Army about her medical condition.
Her current husband wants nothing to do with the media
She doesn't articulate herself very well and has no "filter" there are grains of truth in some of her observations but they are masked by some pretty vile viewpoints.
When the father of one of her children left her for someone else, she phoned the other women and asked for him back...
She's basically a knob.

the last bit is my own conclusion, the Gruniad would never be so rude.

There was no legitimate public interest

I cannot help but think that somewhere in the midst of tiem the establishment has lost its way in the meaning of this phrase.

The legal system talk about "in the public interest" meaning its for the good of the public to find out about somethng or to prosecute some case. The papers take it to mean - will enough people be "interested" - the answer to which is, if it's lurid enough then yes. And somehow the two have crossed over. I call for a redefenition..

In Guardian Newspapers Ltd and Heather Brooke v the Information
Commissioner and the British Broadcasting Corporation
(EA/2006/0011 and 0013, 8 January 2007) the Information Tribunal
said at paragraph 34:
“Mr Wells also exhibited to his statement a long list of
press articles relating to the affair. Lord Wilberforce said in
British Steel Corp v Granada Television Ltd [1981] AC 1096
at 1168: “There is a wide difference between what is
interesting to the public and what it is in the public interest
to make known”. We did not find that the list of articles
assisted us, since in the selection no distinction was made
between matters which were in the interests of the public
The public interest test
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to know and matters which were merely interesting to the
public (ie, which the public would like to know about, and
which sell newspapers, but which under s 2(2) are not
relevant).”

So the DM's personal Jesus.

*rushes out into the garden with guitar and returns with:*

Can't believe people are arguing about whether or not it's ok to be rude about Katie **** Hopkins. Ah, the intolerant left.

I admire your ability to say so much about yourself in so few words.

he's very good at pushing people's buttons, isn't she?

Better than you and just as subtle

Woah!

Well that'll teach me to post in a contentious thread then bugger off and do something with the rest of my day.

Erm. I think my comment may have been misconstrued. If I may be allowed to rephrase:

mintimperial - not a troll

Gosh! Isn't that Katie Hopkins a bit horrible! I think it's probably generally ok to say mean stuff about her because she's horrible, though.

Furthermore, I think it's interesting that even though she's horrible, and thinks that everyone who disagrees with her ("the left") must be intolerant, just because they disagree with her, nonetheless many people on here who do disagree with her are still prepared to pull others up when the terms of their condemnation move beyond the boundaries of generally acceptable disapprobation and into sexist or otherwise discriminatory abuse, which is a sign that those who disagree with her ("the left") are in a large part not intolerant at all.

Finally I would like to observe that she's technically very good at what she does, which is no reflection on anyone else, particularly not the reader of this comment, nor does it constitute an appreciation of her oeuvre.

Is that better? I wasn't attacking anyone or looking for a fight, I was just sufficiently struck by KHs latest daftness to feel moved to comment on it, but next time I'll keep me gob shut, don't worry.