He's definitely a motor mouth. I find it too much tbh but that's just my sensibilities. He's no idiot though, on the contrary, he has a very quick mind. That is why I think it disingenuous in the extreme for him to claim he didn't see the racist inference in that pic.
He's posted that pic loads of times in the past, once when Jacob Reece-Mogg's son was born (well one of them anyway).
I've listened to DB for years, I love his quick wit, and sense of humour. He's always been a bit of a loose canon and hence his time at the BBC was always likely to be limited. In all the years I've listened to him, I've never heard any hint of racist views. Why would he suddenly think, right, time my mask slipped, time I threw away my career, I'll put up a very offensive image so at last everyone can see what a racist bastard I really am. I just don't buy it.
It was absolutely the right call to sack him, it was a hugely offensive picture. Intent to offend ?- I don't think so. Naïve and very stupid, most certainly yes. I suspect he may have had a shandy too, not that that's any excuse. I genuinely believe he was clumsily trying to make the same point he made with JRM's baby- a comment on privilege, and in the case of the royals the absurd circus surrounding them. (I had no idea the princess is mixed race either- and thought it was the other one who just gave birth).
One thing I do know for sure, I'm not listening to 'Saturday bloody Live' instead on Saturday mornings now for love or money.
