Eamonn Holmes hits out over #JoBrand ‘battery acid’ remark - 'Only a matter ...

Jo Brand, 61, has faced a huge backlash for her comments on the Heresy programme on BBC Radio 4 and has since apologised for her actions.

Although the comedian said she would never go through with the criminal act of violence, many have called for action, with Brexit party politician Nigel Farage, 55, stating the police should get involved with the matter.

Speaking on talkRADIO yesterday, This Morning presenter Eamonn Holmes, 59, gave his thoughts on the matter and said it was “only a matter of time” until someone commits such an act.

Joined by psychotherapist and broadcaster Lucy Beresford, 54, Holmes explained if he were to speak of such a fantasy, he would be taken off-air.

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We’re in a completely different territory

Eamonn Holmes

“Well I’ll put it to you, if I was sitting here and light heartedly tried to replicate what Jo Brand said there, it wouldn’t be regarded as funny,” he began.

“Because I would tell you straight away, I would be taken off air.”

Holmes went on to say: “I like Jo Brand a lot, I think she’s very funny but you just cannot in this day and age, you know tell people like Katie Piper who was badly disfigured with acid being thrown at her that it’s funny, it’s a joke about replacing a milkshake with battery acid.”

Beresford added on the matter: “I think in the last three years when you had an MP murdered, it makes it very difficult to justify people saying certain things.

“However, we have to get to a point in society where you are allowed to almost say the unthinkable to push the boundaries.”

Disagreeing with the point, Holmes hit back: “No! Until somebody throws battery acid at Nigel Farage and then

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