Katie Hopkins sets new record after making racist remark just 47 words into debut Mail Online column

The controversial columnist made a remark about smuggling children so they can "service Asian men in Rochdale"

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Katie Hopkins has wasted no time causing controversy in her debut column for the Mail Online, managing to crowbar a racist remark in after just 47 words.

In a piece titled ‘Just because I’m an adulterer whose kids have different surnames, it doesn’t make me a people-smuggler!’, Hopkins writes about the problems she faces travelling with her children due to their being born to different fathers.

While she lists the things various people call her - “a gobby cow, a slapdash mum and a serial adulterer” - Hopkins is thankful that at least she doesn’t make a habit of “stealing other people’s children and smuggling them through customs to service Asian men in Rochdale”.

Further in the column she ponders if the recent refugee crisis in Syria is having a profound effect on her own life.

“England is being besieged by migrants riding the axles of Eddie Stobart’s lorry fleet [and] I wonder whether being a white British mum playing by the rules is a distinct disadvantage,” she muses.

She goes on to admit that she pays far too much tax, and would rather she pay none at all if it is going to “support some of the 560,000 illegal immigrants” that live in the UK.

The Mail Online announced it was hiring Hopkins in September, citing her “successful” two year stint as a columnist at The Sun as reason enough to hire her.

Hopkins’ insistence on discussing the refugee crisis comes after a surprisingly quiet period.

After advocating the use of gunships to prevent refugees from reaching Europe’s shores, Hopkins was challenged when hundreds of people sailing to Europe died after their boat capsized crossing the Mediterranean sea.

But it looks like that radio silence is over.