EXCLUSIVE: Industry figure explains why he was kicked off Twitter
Russel Quirk's Twitter saccount was suspended after users complained about his allegedly defamatory remarks.
TV pundit and friend to the stars Russell Quirk was booted off Twitter last week after defending landlords and lambasting their critics in an online storm after he hosted a panel at the National Landlord Investment Show.
Quirk, who rarely finds himself on the receiving end, was kicked off the social media platform with his account @russellquirk suspended after other users complained about his allegedly defamatory remarks.
BANISHMENT
Not to be outdone, Quirk quickly resumed to a new username – @itsRussellQuirk – where he explained his banishment in his bio stating: “New account. The original was cancelled because I spoke my mind. I thought Elon [Musk] was all about freedom of speech?”
Speaking exclusively to The Neg Quirk blasted Twitter’s owner: “Elon Musk talks a lot about freedom of speech but his censors didn’t seem to get the memo.
“I spent much of Wednesday last week defending landlords and letting agents on Twitter after hosting a panel debate at the National Landlord Investment Show in the City.
“Unfortunately, the event attracted a tenant activist group protesting outside the venue and what followed was some left-leaning media stories that used vox pops with landlords in an exaggerated and wholly unfair way in order to portray them badly.”
Those comments grew in volume and as they became more aggressive Quirk was quick to retaliate.
He told The Neg: “They included statements from the anti-landlord unwashed such as ‘Landlords should all be put against a wall’, ‘Landlord scum’ and one that featured a picture of a guillotine as the solution to the ‘problem of greedy, predatory landlords’.”
Definding his actions Quirk adds: “I posted a couple of dozen responses to these nutters in defence of our industry and took the opportunity to humiliate as many of the idiots as I could.
STARMER’S GRANDAD
“Yes, I compared one of them to ‘Keir Starmer’s grandad’ because that’s what his bio pic looked like.
“So what? All harmless fun – except that Twitter’s goons banned me for defending both myself and the property sector.
“I hope that Threads and Instagram [the new app from Face book founder Mark Zuckerberg] now thrive against this backdrop of selective and disproportionate censorship from the Twitter-Stasi woke-warriors.”
Twitter was approached for comment.
The problem is that such platforms allow for all sorts of anti-establishment nonsense and no-one has the balls to call them out for what they are, so well-done Russel.
As I’ve said before, there is still a ‘Tory Mill Owner’ mentality out there and the latest call from these crazies is that ‘tenants help pay the landlords buy to let mortgage so should be entitled to a share of the profits when the property is sold’. Poor old Littlejohn will be out of a job soon as there’s really nothing you can make up now that is madder than current reality.
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