YE COULDN’T MAKE IT UP
HIS BACK ON RIGHT-WING POLITICS
his 28.7million followers that he has been used to “spread messages [I] don’t believe in”.
In between pictures of his wife, Kim Kardashian, West tweeted: “I support creating jobs and opportunities for people who need them the most, I support prison reform, I support common-sense gun laws that will make our world safer.
“I support those who risk their lives to serve and protect us and I support holding people who misuse their power accountable.
“I believe in love and compassion for people seeking asylum and parents who are fighting to protect their children from violence and war.”
He also insisted he had “nothing to do with” Blexit, adding: “I would like to thank my family, loved ones and community for supporting my ACTUAL beliefs and my vision for a better world.
“My eyes are now wide open and now realise I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in.
“I am distancing myself from politics and focusing on being creative.”
It’s a far cry from the outrage he sparked in May by saying: “When you hear about slavery for 400 years, that sounds like a choice.” Let’s hope the scales have finally fallen from his eyes. A copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover used by judge Lawrence Byrne, who presided over its obscenity trial in 1960, has sold at auction for £56,250.