Karen’s Diner/Katie Hopkins - cancel?

I wouldn't bank on it. KH's popularity has grown significantly in recent years - she currently has over 600,000 followers on Instagram and her tours regularly sell out - because she's not afraid to say what many people are thinking.
Karen's wouldn't have hired her if there wasn't demand. But it's OK if it's not your thing. I'm sure if you cancel someone else will snap the table up.

I wonder what the world is coming to when I read stuff like this OP. Utter waste of money. Who goes to a restaurant where their speciality is insulting and being rude to guests and thinks it's some sort of treat? Why are you surprised they work with scum like Katie Hopkins- of course they do, that's her speciality too; she makes a living from stuff like this. Can't you see how tacky and vulgar and horrible this is as an entertainment. Or is it 'just banta', 'a bit of fun'? I think it's scummy and shows how much our cultural mores have shifted in recent years.
You really must not understand any of this at all if you are prepared to pay to experience people being insulted and then say you have an objection if Katie Hopkins is involved- it's all part of the same thing!
The next thing will be papers full of articles from people hurt by the insults, restaurants accused of 'insensitivity' 'going to far' 'isms - sexism, racism, ageism in their 'humour'.

I bet working in that environment takes a toll, actually.
We all can bellow names at someone that has pissed us off, but for it to be customers in a cafe and you're being asked to ca them names all shift, that would be weird. I wonder how many staff have taken a taxi home and called the driver "ya cunt" out of habit?

’The woke brigade’ please grow up

@RosaMoline Never hears of Karen's but googled just now and it's ghastly...so utterly chavvy and unfunny.

YABU for wanting to go there and pay to have idiots swear at you and act like a cretin with zero manners.

Don't get your knickers in a twist, lovey.

Not really sure what about my post set you off but rest assured, I'm sure many many many people (yes, even YOU) are far more financially successful than I am.

Feel better?

@imnotgoodenoughtobehere FWIW all in our family love the name Karen. From the little girl in Outnumbered. She was great and will always be the first association I make for this name.

I agree. That's what I said.

Katie Hopkins is appalling. And if anyone supports her, they’re clearly supporting racism which makes them a …… We all know the answer.

It's been there for years and is still there
it was just grumpy service - they weren't being ironic or clamouring for social media likes (there were no like to clamour for)

If you like fascists, yes she is great. Otherwise, no.

Who on this thread is saying Hopkins shouldn't have freedom of speech? It's a perfectly simple point - she can say what she wants, this restaurant chain can employ her, customers don't have to listen to her and have the right to withdraw their custom from that restaurant chain as a result of their decision.

It is still there. We went once in the 80's as it was a novelty. I wasn't a fan as I didn't like being made to sit with others on their very large round tables.

No, they are attacked for what they actually say, with every justification. Pretending otherwise is just lazy, and indicates that, if anything, you haven't listened to or read what those in disagreement with these two are actually saying. It's all on record, and we can all see and hear for ourselves how repellent what they actually say is is. You are living in fantasyland if you believe anything else.

Tbh the whole day sounds awful.

Cancel! Hideous Hopkins is the scum of the earth.

..in a diner based on a vile misogynist trope..

Calm down, and get off the soap box, KH isn’t being cancelled and will continue making more money than you from being a professional troll.

However, OP does have the right to not have to pay to have said troll yelling at her about the ‘final solution’ whilst she’s eating an overpriced bad burger and oily chips.

I know.
However. I am responding to other points, viz, freedom of speech.

I've done some very basic Facebook research. The chain started in Sheffield and that's closed or closing shortly. I've seen pictures of people at various branches wearing stupid hats saying "my fanny has dried up", "I sell my mucky knickers online" etc. I don't get how this is funny.

Not give money to an establishment that collaborates with her? Which is the point of the post.

alright? I suppose if you like ticklist insults that she regurgitates for money and attention
Ghastly woman

So what would you do?
Ban Katie Hopkins from speaking? Put her under house arrest? Most of us find her views unpalatable, but until she breaks the law, she can continue.

I think that’s “Prime Time Diner” you mean? The staff aren’t rude per se, more a “has everyone washed their hands? Up you get go wash your hands” and things like you’re not getting any dessert because you didn’t eat all your vegetables. Have been there, food was really good as was the live music. One of our party didn’t enjoy it as they got a telling off for picking something off someone else’s plate.

Different concept to this Karen’s Diner thing with grown men shouting cunt at children and by all accounts bloody awful food (from a friend who was unwillingly dragged to the Manchester one).

But yes OP please do cancel - KH is vile.

It’s no surprise we have the government we do when people are claiming KH is some kind of political freedom of speech fighter, with a straight face.

She is a failed reality TV star rent a gob whose only way to get attention or maintain any level of public interest and money is to say whatever will get her most coverage. If you don’t like her opinion she has plenty more you can pay her to spout.

Her only guiding principle in life is to do whatever necessary to get attention for herself.

She has zero integrity or political belief.
She is now a ranting YT ‘star’ making a big deal about slurping £5 bottles of wine in her online ‘pub’ to show she’s one of the people whilst saying things like Kate Garraway is on the payroll of the shadowy cabal trying to forcibly vaccinate everyone for nefarious gains. She comes across as desperate and lonely. And deservedly so.

Much like her mates Tommy Robinson - or Stephen Yaxley Lennon, son of immigrants who wants to live in Spain as he’s otherwise known - or Nigel Farage, who claimed EU citizenship via his immigrant wife as soon as Brexit was won, KH is a hollow vessel grifter who will eventually be replaced by someone with even more vile rent-an-outrage opinions.