Katie Hopkins, Conservative Provocateur, to Leave Radio Show After Tweet

Katie Hopkins, Conservative Provocateur, to Leave Radio Show After Tweet<br />"Feminists can go and do one as far as I’m concerned," Ms. Hopkins exclaimed, using a British expression meaning, roughly, "just go away." She argued on the BBC show "Question Time"<br />that women who want equal treatment instead want special treatment.<br />After the Brussels attack in 2016 she wrote on Twitter<br />that the city was "Seen as the heart of Europe, it is now jihadi central," and said that "Merkel — and her ilk — blew up Brussels." Her writing has created trouble for her other employer, The Daily Mail, where she writes a column.<br />So let me clear: I am absolutely gloating over Katie Hopkins’ sacking." The comedian Russell Brand called the move a<br />"small, moral victory." Although she did not mention LBC directly, Ms. Hopkins maintained an upbeat tone on Twitter.<br />Jeremy Corbyn wrote that Looking forward to joining @FoxNews later to update on<br />the rancid speech of terrorist-sympathiser Corbyn and why Britain need Trump,<br />"They couldn’t handle it if they got it, quite a number of them." Before her departure from LBC Radio, a petition had already been started<br />asking the station to fire her after she posted an image of the Netflix series "Dear White People," saying, "Dear black people.<br />LBC declined to comment on the arrangement, saying only<br />that "LBC and Katie Hopkins have agreed that Katie will leave LBC effective immediately." The announcement was met with "massive cheers" from the staff at LBC, Amol Rajan, the BBC’s media editor, reported.