March 19, 2024

At last, someone with a plan for the silver tsunami

Outspoken media personality Katie Hopkins wants euthanasia vans for Britons.

A TV show called “If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World” debuts next week in Britain. Ms Hopkins, a 40-year-old reality TV celebrity and a columnist for The Sun newspaper is what envious journalists call a “professional troll”. Whenever she opens her mouth, she hogs the headlines. The “queen of quotes” recently called for gunships to deter illegal migrants into Europe, calling them “feral humans” and “cockroaches” who are “spreading like norovirus”. 

Now she has swiveled her guns to take aim at the elderly. In a radio interview promoting her new show, she declared “We just have far too many old people”. If she were in charge, she knows what to do: “It’s ridiculous to be living in a country where we can put dogs to sleep but not people,” she told her 69-year-old interviewer. She believes that the problem is readily solved.

“Easy. Euthanasia vans – just like ice-cream vans – that would come to your home. It would all be perfectly charming. They might even have a nice little tune they’d play.

“I mean this genuinely. I’m super-keen on euthanasia vans. We need to accept that just because medical advances mean we can live longer, it’s not necessarily the right thing to do.”

Ms Hopkins is a lean mean vilification machine but her views resonate with many people. Some 300,000 people signed a petition demanding that The Sun sack her and The Sun did not sack her. Instead she now has her own television show. And if she wants to follow up her idea of euthanasia vans playing Greensleeves, she can always ring up the Dutch right-to-die group NVVE. It is already offering the service

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