David Baddiel had the perfect last word on Piers Morgan’s trolling of Hugh Grant
Last word – promise – on everyone’s favourite Hugh Grant tweet, when he offered this blistering (and very popular) take on Boris Johnson and the prorogation of parliament.
You will not fuck with my children’s future. You will not destroy the freedoms my grandfather fought two world wars to defend. Fuck off you over-promoted rubber bath toy. Britain is revolted by you and you little gang of masturbatory prefects. https://t.co/Oc0xwLI6dI
— Hugh Grant (@HackedOffHugh) August 28, 2019
Lots of people liked it, and lots of people didn’t like it, including – as you might have seen, Piers Morgan, who said this about it.
Oh shut up you virtue-signalling little twat. https://t.co/TfkPU4u3f2
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 28, 2019
And this.
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1166773104951123978
And we’d have left it there but for this 11th hour intervention by David Baddiel, which really is the perfect last word on the whole thing.
Personally, I'd say fucking a prostitute is considerably more moral than fucking the country. https://t.co/j9FCqL8DlJ
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) August 29, 2019
Not everyone appreciated it (just most people, by the look of all those likes).
Sex workers are a very vulnerable social group who endure considerable stigma, discrimination & violence committed against them – they aren’t a punchline for jokes about ‘moral’ men.
— Whores of Yore (@WhoresofYore) 29 August 2019
But …
Well I agree. But the joke is not at the expense of sex workers. The presence of laughter does not target every word in a joke.
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) 29 August 2019
At least he CHOSE his BJ. More than we can say.
— Danny Morgan (@DannyMorgan83) 29 August 2019
And we’ve got to do better than hey, did this thing ages ago, so all opinions are forever invalid. Who passes that test? (Apart from me). https://t.co/9PnksrAzNY
— richard bacon (@richardpbacon) August 29, 2019
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