Morgan called Ross Greer MSP a ‘thick ginger turd’
Piers Morgan and a Green representative in the Scottish parliament argued this morning on Good Morning Britain.
Green MSP Ross Greer caught the GMB host’s ire after tweeting that “Winston Churchill was a white supremacist mass murderer.”
Once again for the people in the back:
Churchill 👏 was 👏 a 👏 white 👏 supremacist 👏 mass 👏 murderer 👏 https://t.co/wlOhhnJEms
— Ross Greer (@Ross_Greer) January 25, 2019
Speaking on Good Morning Britain Greer said: “Churchill was a man who declared, in his view, the Aryan race would triumph, he described Indians as a beastly people with a beastly religion – and when a mass famine broke out in India, for which he was significantly to blame, the Bengal famine, he said it was their own fault because they bred like rabbits.”
The Green party politician, who became the youngest person ever elected to Holyrood when he took a list seat at the age of 21, referenced Churchill’s diversion of food imports away from Bengal – against the counsel of his own secretary of state for India.
Meaning the prime minister, who is repeatedly voted the greatest Briton to have ever lived, is complicit in the death by starvation of 4 million people.
Greer also said Churchill supported using poisoned gas against Kurds and Afghans as well as British concentration camps in the Boer War.
‘Churchill was a white supremacist mass murderer’ – @Ross_Greer, Green Party MSP
In a fiery debate, @piersmorgan and @susannareid100 discuss Ross Greer’s controversial comments about Winston Churchill. #GMB pic.twitter.com/pwNhlmLhty
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) January 29, 2019
Before Greer and Morgan were brought face to face by the good producers of GMB, the former editor of the Daily Mirror had called the Green MSP a “thick ginger turd.”
Morgan said: “Churchill almost single handedly dragged this country from the abyss in World War Two.”
“It’s absolutely disgusting. You are saying the man who saved us from the Nazis is actually no better than a Nazi himself.
“You want the world to think you believe he was no better than a Nazi.
“I find you revolting.”
Greer mocked Morgan’s offence and called him a “snowflake” for throwing a “tantrum.” He then said Churchill’s strategic decisions nearly cost him his life: “Because of Churchill’s hatred for the workers on the Clyde and his refusal to properly defend the Clyde, my Gran was almost killed in the Clydebank Blitz.”
This domestic contempt was also apparent in Churchill’s approach to the General Strike and in deploying the Black and Tans to Ireland.
Good Morning Britain hosted two men, united by their absolutism, calling the same person either a patron saint or genocidal maniac. In reality, and as with most things, ‘the greatest Briton’ sits somewhere in the middle, but the very existence of the conversation is owed, at least in part, to him.
