Andrew Neil has been roundly mocked on social media after claiming that the term ‘gammon’ is racist.
The outspoken journalist, who is about to launch an ‘anti-woke’ challenger to the BBC in GB News, blocked a Twitter user who he deemed racist after he was called a ‘gammon’.
When one person replied: “Oh mate. Gammon is a state of mind”, the 71-year-old wrote: “It refers to colour. Ipso facto racist.”
When he was called out for his comments, Neil suggested that he was being sarcastic, calling his critics “humourless”.
Nevertheless, he also retweeted a post that read: “The word isn’t racist in itself but the fact that it’s used pejoratively solely and only against white people means that it’s use is racist so the person wielding it to cause offence must be racist too.”
It also didn’t stop a barrage of hilarious reactions coming in.
We’ve picked out the best of them so far below:
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