As soon as the news of Jeremy Paxman moving on from his long-time role at the helm of BBC Two’s Newsnight, the recently unemployed Piers Morgan threw his hat into the ring to takeover.

Which he promptly followed up with:

The idea of Morgan filling Paxman’s shoes was met with widespread derision from well known faces and anonymous Twitter users alike. Twitter users are rarely in agreement over anything, but it appears they have found a common enemy in Pier Morgan…