danny Baker (born 22 June 1957) is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and ..... Baker has been a lifelong Labour Party activist. In May 2017, Baker endorsed Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 UK general election.

And yet there's this consensus of opinion on here that all the racists and bigots are on the Right. As the Americans might say, go figure....

He has also worked for Talk Sport Radio
after a while they may give him a job
just to get Publicity.

I can 100 per cent see him ending up there, which is great as I avoid that radio channel

Of course being left or right has nothing to do with being racist, or saying/doing racist things. People are all individuals and accepting that bigotry is potentially universal should be a human acknowledgement. That said, no parties on the left actually gear themselves towards attracting racists and xenophobes and by the dehumanisation of refugees and immigrants.

well it just goes to show that you can pigeon hole people by their political leanings, politics is far too nuanced to be boiled down to people being one or the other

He tried to be 'fashionably anti-royal' and it backfired on him.

Pretty much


He has now penned an apology

He wrote: "Following one of the worst days of my life I just want to formally apologise for the outrage I caused and explain how I got myself into this mess.

"I chose the wrong photo to illustrate a joke. Disastrously so.

"In attempting to lampoon privilege and the news cycle I went to a file of goofy pictures and saw the chimp dressed as a Lord and thought, 'That's the one!' Had I kept searching I might have chosen General Tom Thumb or even a a baby in a crown. But I didn't. God knows I wish had.

"Minutes later I was alerted by followers that this royal baby was of course mixed race and waves of panic and revulsion washed over me... What had I done?

"I needed no lessons on the centuries slurs equating simians and people of colour. Racism at it's basest.

'Crass and regrettable blunder'
"But it was a genuine, naive and catastrophic mistake. There is of course little media/twitter traction in such a straight-forward explanation. The picture in context as presented was obviously shamefully racist. It was never intended so - seriously who on earth would 'go there'?"

He added: "Anyway I am now paying the price for this crass and regrettable blunder and rightly so. Probably even this final word from me will extend the mania. ('Dog whistle' anyone?) I would like to thank friends on here for their kinder words and once again - I am so, so sorry."

On Thursday, a casually dressed Baker joked with journalists on his doorstep that the tweet was a "stupid gag".

I thought itbwould be something like that. The idea that someone like Danny Baker is racist is a bit daft, especially when people who've never heard of him leap to that conclusion based on one tweet.

Exactly this..

for the record I don't believe he is racist either, he's a white male of a certain generation so he is easily boxed into that category, it was an ill judged and stupid joke that that was meant as James said to be edgy

He's still seems angry. Thats a terrible apology.

He's a proud Millwall supporter. Has he never heard monkey chants at the Den? I'm not a life long Millwall fan and I have. Did he never put 2 and 2 together and try to understand why his friends at the football match are booing every time the black players touch the ball? This joker has had 40 years in broadcast no way on earth is he this naive.

On monday one of my mates bought tickets to his stand up show this Sunday then this happens. he's seriously contemplating not going, figures press will be there and probably protesters too.

Hopefully he sues the bbc for wrongfully dismissal

I bet he doesnt.

The police are now involved and it could bring possible charges of hate crime

Harry getting a mob of arsenal together to go down the den and sort this out.

God, how stupid.

Apparently this is standard procedure, but what a monumental waste of police time, he has been sacked as have many people who have previously come unstuck by using their social media when brain was not engaged, that should be warning enough

Typing words on a screen shouldn't be a police matter.

Sod the words
its the Real old Photo
of the chimp. (a Class Joke)
https://i2-prod.coventrytelegraph.ne...m0WkAINY7G.jpg

If that man thinks Danny Baker’s tweet was a “joke” or “humour” then there’s something far wrong

Did you read Baker's explanation?

The police are underfunded and understaffed. And appaear to spend a fair amount of time these days interviewing people for tweets. Meanwhile, actual crime goes unpunished. Of course what he posted was stupid, but its surely not a police matter..

I also was under the impression until fairly recently that for a 'hate crime' a crime had to be committed first, and then context and such decide if its actually a hate crime rather than..just a crime?

He has done Nothing Wrong but Drinking
Wine in the Evening.


He has no Hate
except the Young BBC boss that phoned him
when he had to be Sacked
he used the F word alot of times