Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Yes well they couldn't get him sacked, professionally damaged or deplatformed due to him being rich, largely retired and 79 years old, so there wasn't anywhere they could go with their outrage. There was also the small matter of rather a lot of people agreeing with him and thinking it was a perfectly reasonable thing to say.
If he'd said that London was an 'international city' there would probably have been a lot of nodding and murmuring of approval from those who got so upset.