You can hardly blame him, when he’s been witness to such horrors as this:

“I met a single mum who had three teenage daughters,” he said. “The oldest daughter, who was about to go to university, had bought some workmen’s boots and put them outside because she wanted the illegal migrants to think there was a man in the house.”

I’m surprised the guardian could even print it. Won’t someone think of the children?!

If you can work the phrase “shove them up your fucking arse” in there, I’m in 100% agreement.

Yeah, “trivial” was too strong, but I do think that “punch them in the balls” is obviously impractical enough as not to count as a serious suggestion, particularly coming from a comedian.

I’d be surprised if CPS took it any further and shocked if he actually got a conviction. But either way this just plays into the narrative of “woke snowflakes who can’t take criticism without crying to the police”, IMO. Just look at how much of a cause célèbre Lucy Connolly has become for the right, for what was objectively a much worse tweet.

Linehan and Streeting are both dickheads of the highest order, but jfc I don’t want to live in a country where you can get arrested for such trivial shite.

And well done to whichever twat escalated this to the police - I’m sure this won’t lead to yet more demonisation of the trans community 🙄