Posted on 07/23/2019 10:23:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
LONDON — Boris Johnson has won the contest to replace Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party after she announced that she would step down in June to pave the way for a new prime minister.
Business Insider has taken a look at Johnson's long history of controversies and gaffes, which include calling gay men "tank-topped bumboys," reciting colonial poetry in Burma, and rugby-tackling a 10-year-old child.
* August 2018: Muslim women in burkas 'look like letter boxes'
Johnson was accused of Islamophobia in 2018 after he wrote that Muslim women wearing burkas "look like letter boxes."
Writing in the Telegraph newspaper, he said: "If you tell me that the burka is oppressive, then I am with you.
"If you say that it is weird and bullying to expect women to cover their faces, then I totally agree - and I would add that I can find no scriptural authority for the practice in the Koran.
"I would go further and say that it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes."
The Muslim Council of Britain accused him of "pandering to the far right" and he was placed under investigation by the Conservative party, before later being cleared.
* June 2018: 'F*ck business'
One of the low points in Johnson's time as foreign secretary was when he refused to deny reports that he used a swear word to describe business leaders who were concerned about the impact of Brexit.
Asked about corporate concerns over Brexit at an event for EU diplomats, Johnson is said to have replied: "F*ck business."
* October 2017: 'Dead bodies' in Libya
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* November 2017: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe conviction
* September 2017: Reciting colonial poem in a Burmese temple
* May 2017: Johnson discusses alcohol in Sikh temple
* October 2016: Johnson refers to Africa as 'that country'
* May 2016: Johnson pens poem about Turkish president having sex with a goat
* April 2016: Johnson suggests 'part-Kenyan' Obama has 'ancestral dislike of the British Empire'
* October 2015: Boris Johnson knocks over 10-year-old child during rugby game
* July 2013: Women go to university 'to find men to marry'
* August 2012: Johnson becomes stuck on zipwire
* November 2007: Hilary Clinton is like a 'sadistic nurse in a mental hospital'
* September 2006: 'Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism'
* December 2005: 'Pat her on the bottom and send her on her way'
* July 2005: Islamophobia is a 'natural reaction' to Islam
* June 2005: Women are more prone to ‘weeping’ than men
* April 2005: ‘Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts’
* October 2004: Liverpudlians wallow in 'victim status' over Hillsborough
* January 2002: Black people are 'piccaninnies' with 'watermelon smiles'
* January 2001: Johnson outs MI6 'spy' for 'a laugh'
* 1998: 'Tank-topped bumboys'
LOL
PM for less than a day and already he’s Trump.
He will be no more effective than the person he is replacing
Most of them are pretty awesome!
‘Tank-topped bumboys’ HAHAHAHA!!!
WOW! Boris Johnson says it like he sees it. How utterly non politico.
Hmmm . . . some of them are right on target. I’ll be waiting for the even longer and MORE offensive list from the lips of The Squad . . .
Well, it hasn't worked for me, but I appreciate the comment, and I'm sure its worked for others!
LOL!
Didn’t take long for the knives to come out.
He should do Brexit 'cold turkey' and then sign a massively beneficial 2-way trade deal with the USA.
I like Boris Johnson and I sincerely hope he irritates the left every bit as much as Donald Trump does!!
And calling Muslims in their burkas “letter boxes” and homosexuals “tank-topped bumboys” didn’t hurt him at all with the average Brit.
Sounds like he might make a pretty good PM.
Wasn’t sure how I felt about BJ but after reading this I think I love the guy!
So, while Boris is saving the UK, the press can have a field day mouthing irrelevancies while he goes about the task to which he was elected.
“Johnson was accused of Islamophobia in 2018 “
That is a good thing, not a bad one. He sees reality, doesn’t fall for the propaganda.
Yep.
He’s their Trump.
Too damn bad for the elites.
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