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Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been accused of Islamophobia after saying Muslim women wearing burkas "look like letter boxes"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45083275
Not Islamophobia IMO
he's losing his edge.... not up to his 'piccaninnies' and 'watermelon smiles' standard in reference to black people.
Stupid **** should just **** off, he obviously wanted his name back in the news.
The membership of the Tory party will elect the next leader, who’ll become PM without anything as inconvenient as a general election. I don’t think it’s any stretch to imagine that the vast majority of the retired Sargent Majors and senile old blue-rinses are inherently racist.
So Boris, ever the morality-free opportunist, is just shamelessly pandering to those who’ll deliver him what he’s always desired. The chance to strut around number 10 pretending to be Winston Churchill
Awesome...
Next he’ll be saying the U.K. will save £350m a week if it pulls out of the EU.
Then he’ll find a benefactor to fund a campaign to the tune of £8m that wasn’t his money to donate. And flouting the rules about private funding political parties..
I also want to see him lie down in front of a bulldozer, somewhere near Slough.
I want someone to kick him in the pants.
How this buffoon and his party aren't sunk without trace is beyond me. As above, he wants his name back in the news and I'm sure we will find out soon enough.
It is rather depressing that so many in this country appear to admire people like Boris.
I’m sure that Boris’s recent meetings with Steve Bannon and his subsequent overt racism are entirely coincidental.
Next we can look forward to his column lauding the martyr to political correctness and warrior for free speech Tommy Robinson
He has a point, just didn't deliver it in the mainstream PC way. He say's what most of us are all thinking. That is why he is called bumbling boris
He say’s what most of us are all thinking
Yer might wanna edit that statement me old flower..
😜🤔🤠
Before we all fire in on top of you.
I find him more offensive than women in burkhas.
rmacattack
Member<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">He has a point, just didn’t deliver it in the mainstream PC way. He say’s what most of us are all thinking.</span>
Just want to check if the most and us means the racist ones or just the intolerant ones?
I thought burkas were black.
Boris doing what Boris does best, being a prick. Problem is, the morons of the world seem to lap up his self serving bullshit.
He say’s what most of us are all thinking.
My guess is the poster was reffering to the public in general. STW is a part of the public, but not very typical !!
Exactly taxi25
He say’s what most of us are all thinking
Most? What about 52%?
Fair point. So by ‘most of us’, you mean about 52%
EDIT: beaten to it 😂
Exactly taxi25
What proportion of the population do you think are a bit racist and intolerant?
What proportion of the population do you think are a bit racist and intolerant?
100%
100 %
What proportion of the population do you think are a bit racist and intolerant?
I meet a few dozen every day. More than 52% easy 😉 People tend to live in a bubble. If your a tolerant switched on liberal those are the sort of people you associate with.
He's being a bit unfair.
I think they look more like bottles of Guinness. 😊
Yes but JC support anti-Semitism.
Not “most” then.
More like “most people in my peer group”
Suggestions of “get out more” and “see the world” probably don’t apply to either you nor your peer group then ?
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You missed the edit cut off.... its too late to retract anything now.
I don't want to retract or need to retract anything. If it came to vote it would probably be approved. I personally would vote in favour. Am I a right wing ukip nut job ? No, my views just aren't the same as yours. Will I travel to the middle east? Absolutely
I refer to my comment on the Labour Party thread
“
Are nothing compared to the problems in the Conservative party….
BUT
vested interests decide what makes the news and what doesn’t “
case proven imho....
don’t want to retract or need to retract anything. If it came to vote it would probably be approved.
What would, being a racist ****?
Probably would though tbf.
I couldn’t give a toss if a large group of people wanted to spend all day, every day dressed in ninja turtle outfits.
Seriously.. who cares?
We should be a lot more concerned about what lying, mendacious scumbags like Boris are up to while they’re busy lobbing distractions into the mix
I Think Boris was jealous of all the attention Corbs was getting.
BTW of course its Islamophobia!
Not Islamophobia IMO
Do we have a Jewish style definition of anti-islamic? I'm pretty sure he'd never say anything like that about our Jewish brothers, as Binners says, he's courting the bigots.
So Boris, ever the morality-free opportunist, is just shamelessly pandering to those who’ll deliver him what he’s always desired. The chance to strut around number 10 pretending to be Winston Churchill
This exactly. Boris is part of that small group that sees films such as The Gathering Storm and Young Winston as prime material for extreme wrist action.
It's Islamophobic just enough to achieve the desired effect without winding up in front of a judge.
Totally agree with the last couple of comments, but who are you all going to vote for?
Well not the Tory prick, how about you? Do you like the racist and intolerant way he likes to shout?
I'm not a fan of the burka by a long shot, but do you really want to live in a world where a rich, old, fat white man, (and it's always rich, old, fat white men saying shit like this) decide what you can wear? Next binners won't be allowed to wear his tutu at the weekend.
I'll take bet's that the tories remain in power for a fair few terms yet. Won't matter what they say or do.
He has a point
Which is what, then?
Anyone who thinks this is a gaffe is out of touch.
This is deliberate and playing to the racist pensioners who will end up electing a new Tory leader.
Johnson will stop at nothing to be PM and when he can’t get the genie back in the bottle he will be protected from the fallout by wealth.
and it’s always rich, old, fat white men saying shit like this
It's not really though is it? They might be the ones that vote it through but what you typed is a lie. BTW the most Islamaphobic people I have ever met were a group of African Christians at a church event.
He has a point
Which is what, then?
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This I guess.
FWIW I detest all politicians but speshly tories.
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been accused of Islamophobia after saying Muslim women wearing burkas “look like letter boxes
1 Boris Johnson is not saying what I am thinking.
2 Boris Johnson should not be trusted to post a letter.
Edit beaten to the punch by Essel
Oh dear my pitchers have went.
Freedom of speech or not? Or have/may I have offended a snowflake?
Anyway, they were a picture (photo) of a black letterbox & a person in a black burqua. There WAS a similarity.
Boris is STILL a C/womble.
I don’t think it’s any stretch to imagine that the vast majority of the retired Sargent Majors
I’d beg to differ Binners.. ☺️
What a non story. Politician sticks 2 fingers up to the PC brigade in a newspaper column.I haven't seen many comments on here being critical of the people or government of Denmark. Or would that be racist ?