Piers Morgan has blasted those who branded Winston Churchill “a Nazi” at the Black Lives Matter protests in London over the weekend.
The 55-year-old Good Morning Britain host was discussing the powerful anti-racism demonstrations, which thousands of protesters attended in the UK last week.
Piers slammed the graffiti of Winston Churchill’s statue, saying: “The bottom line with the Churchill statue is, if that is what you want the image to be from a protest about George Floyd, then there’s something wrong with you.
“Because you’re not going to bring anybody with you on any campaign, any attempts to change things for the better, if you desecrate Winston Churchill – recently voted the greatest Briton of all time.
Piers Morgan slates Winston Churchill graffiti at Black Lives Matter protests (Image: ITV)
“Churchill wasn’t perfect he had a checkered past, he said some racially inflammatory things over the years, there’s no question of that.”
Morgan continued: “But, he saved the world and this country from Adolf Hitler.
“A Nazi. One of the worst racists in history. That’s what Churchill did.”
Piers ‘there’s something wrong’ if the protests have led to Winston Churchill’s statue being graffitied (Image: ITV)
Despite his disagreement with the Winston Churchill graffiti, Piers supported the dragging down of slave trader Colston’s statue in Bristol yesterday.
His co-host Susanna Reid said: “You may have different views about the tearing down of [Edward] Colston’s statue in bristol, of course.
“That was in the centre of Bristol. Now, he was a slave trader.
Morgan was hosting today’s GMB alongside Susanna Reid (Image: ITV)
“He traded at the Royal Africa Company, hundreds of thousands of African slaves, around 20,000 died.”
Piers agreed, saying: “Men, women and children, shackled and were killed during the transportation protest and he was party to it.”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV
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