Good Morning Britain star fumes 'has the world gone mad' over furious debate

Ed Balls was wholly confused arsenic helium and Susanna Reid discussed a statement connected cats.

Good Morning Britain's Ed Balls couldn't fell his daze arsenic a heated statement connected the imaginable feline prohibition successful Scotland sparked disconnected connected the show, leaving viewers fiercely divided implicit the contentious issue.

The 57-year-old telly presenter didn't clasp back, peppering the speech with remarks that betrayed his implicit bewilderment astatine SNP ministers mulling implicit laws to prohibit cats successful circumstantial districts.

Ed made nary concealed of his stance arsenic helium and co-host Susanna Reid braced for an aggravated treatment astir the imaginable benefits of specified a ban.

The amusement was rocked by his exclamation: "Has the world gone mad," arsenic helium visibly disagreed with the notion. SNP officials are presently flirting with the conception of creating 'containment zones', wherever feline owners would beryllium banned from letting their feline friends outdoors, each successful an effort to support birds and different creatures successful the wild, reports the Manchester Evening News.

According to The Mail connected Sunday, different script being explored for these zones could adjacent impact banning feline ownership wholly successful those areas.

This provocative thought comes to the Scottish Government pursuing a study that highlighted cats' important interaction connected assorted section vertebrate taxon and wildlife.

These projected "cat containment areas" are intended for spaces deemed astir important for protecting wildlife, and the ministers are present giving this conception superior consideration. Ahead of the statement and aiming to pat into nationalist sentiment astir outlawing cats successful Scotland, Susanna queried audiences of Good Morning Britain: "Should we see banning cats. To halt them harming birds?"

She remarked: "The Scottish Government is considering truthful called containment zones wherever radical would beryllium forced to support their cats indoors to halt them attacking animals erstwhile they're playing." The presenter past encouraged viewers: "Let america cognize what you think?" Ed couldn't clasp back, exclaiming: "Has the satellite gone mad? You're watching Good Morning Britain connected ITV1, lets spell to statement that nonsense successful a moment."

A canvass conducted by the ITV amusement revealed that 75% of viewers are against the thought of confining cats. Meanwhile, implicit connected level X, opinions were starkly split.

Some viewers supported the idea, commenting: "Good idea, cats sidesplitting the birds and c*****g each implicit my plot # gmb." (sic)

Another spectator expressed frustration: "#GMB 'Ban cats to support wildlife'? A amended question would've been astir the information cats are allowed to travel into MY garden, termination birds, past bash their concern successful the grass/flowerbeds. It is DISGUSTING - irresponsible owners! Why should WE person to cleanable it up?" (sic)

However, galore were outraged astatine the thought of specified restrictions connected cats, with 1 idiosyncratic venting: "What americium I watching! ? Scotland makes its instrumentality to Lock your cats up to halt them preying connected birds? #Peta #GMB @GMB." (sic)

Another pleaded: "Leave cats unsocial #GMB." (sic)

And a 3rd highlighted the unfairness, stating: "All cats don't termination wildlife. My ragdoll person ne'er killed wildlife. He's 18 present and inactive terrified of birds ... adjacent tiny ones who travel up adjacent to him and person nary worries. They intelligibly cognize he's nary threat. Cat not interested.#gmb." (sic)

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays connected ITV1, from 6am.