A JOB advert for a role at the BBC which was only open to UK nationals from a black, Asian or non-white ethnic minority has been heavily criticised.
Outraged callers rang in to vent their fury on LBC to host Katie Hopkins, who had earlier tweeted an image of the BBC job ad.
The internship ad was placed online by Creative Access, which was founded in 2012 to provide opportunities for paid internships for people of black, Asian and other non-white ethnic backgrounds (BAME).
At one point Hopkins said: “What I hate is that as a taxpayer I am paying for the BBC and it doesn’t want to take my white children and give them employment.”
One caller, Paul, from Forest Gate in east London, said: “My point is that we are losing our heritage, our nationality. We’re losing it all because as soon as you say something you are classed as racist.”
He continued: “That job interview for no-whites allowed is racist.
“If we did that advertising for only an English white nationality it would kick up a storm.”
A caller from Dublin said: “White people are becoming an endangered species.”
He added: “Multiculturalism is one-way traffic.
Another caller from East London defended the BBC and said the corporation was looking for ethnic minorities to fill the positions because there were “too many white people” working there and that it needed to have a wider perspective.