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Katie Hopkins was tricked into accepting a NSFW fake award – and it’s simply superb

You may be aware that former Apprentice candidate and more recently hate-for-cash media personality, Katie Hopkins, has had her Twitter account suspended as she is investigated for violating Twitter’s terms of service with extreme bigotry.

Someone else who’s aware of it is YouTuber Josh Pieters, who shared something rather special.

If you can only read the big letters, the prize Hopkins travelled to Prague to collect was the Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy, or the C.U.N.T.

The stunt involved an impressively elaborate set-up, with Josh creating a company with the supposed ethos of promoting free speech, and actually registering it at Companies House for cover.

The online faces of the “Cape Town Collective for the Freedom of Speech” were Josh’s dad, the lady who does the announcements on the London Underground, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan – the Oxford comma being crucial to that sentence.

He engaged the services of some actors to form an audience, booked the expensive Four Seasons Hotel in Prague, had a trophy engraved, and flew out Ms Hopkins to enjoy a top-class meal.

This is how Josh introduced the award.

We need freedom of speech, from politicians to journalists, campaign groups to creatives, YouTubers to you in this room, without being able to say what we think, without being able to mock other people, without being able to attack other people, we are not free.

This set her up to feel that she could say anything she wanted, and that’s exactly what she did.

The full video is ten minutes long and her speech near the end is littered with racial and religious slurs, but the whole thing is a masterclass in pisstaking fakery.

Some people felt that the prank lowered Josh to Hopkins’ level, but Harry England addressed that with this supercut – yes, cut.

Josh’s video has had over 650,000 views in less than a day, and these are just a few of our favourite reactions.

As Josh himself said in his award dinner speech, we can’t think of a more worthy recipient of the C.U.N.T award.

It’s almost a pity she isn’t on Twitter to tell us all about it. Almost.

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