The Dubious World of Boris Johnson

(26-01-2022 21:48 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Another Boris own goal today.
SNP's Leader in the House Ian Blackford attacked Johnson on tax rises. "The impending National Insurance tax hike hangs like a guillotine while they eat cake.”
To which Boris said “I don’t know… who has been eating more cake.”

He's managed to upset yet more people with his body shaming comments.

There's a long list of offensive comments that the loveable (by many) rogue, clownish man-of-the-people (some of whom he likely actually views with contempt) has emitted with Prince Phillip-like tacklessness over the years.

Here's but a few (1or2 of them being outwardly politically incorrect amuse, which is part of his charm and reason for his popularity; several however are outrageous and deeply offensive, such as the first one in light of Hillsborough):
- in 2004, he said Liverpudlians are "hooked on grief"
- on former Irish PM Leo Varadkar: " why isn't he called Murphy like all the rest of them"
- in 1995, Boris talking of a typical Blue-Collar working class British man, said: "He's likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless"
- in 2002 in the Telegraph, he said: "the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies"
- in his final column as editor of The Spectator, he offered his successor some parting advice regarding their female publisher: "Once a fire is getting going well, you may find your eyes drifting to the lovely striped chesterfield across the room. Is it the right size, you wonder, for a snooze...". It is said he said to Matthew D'Ancona of the woman (Kimberly Quinn): "just pat her on the bottom and send her on her way"