Am I the only one who's heard the whole of what he said?
He was introduced as the man who always says something controversial.
Humorously playing up to that role, he said the strike was good because the roads were quiet.
Then he parodied the BBC's compulsion to present both sides for fear of being seen as biased, by giving a mock "opposite of the strikes are good" ... by saying the strikers should be shot ... thus parodying the BBC's tendency to state a diametrically opposite viewpoint, just to artificially "balance" its programmes.
I wonder if he overestimated the audience who (a) took him literally, and (b) ignored the context of the previous 60 seconds of the programme?
He also hadn't banked on Ed Balls, who has a tee shirt saying "I want to feel offended. Please offend me. If you don't offend me, I will find some way of feeling offended. I SO want to be offended."
Just a thought.