BORIS Johnson is known for his controversial comments but is still the favourite to become Britain’s next Prime Minister. The former Foreign Secretary has made some colourful comments in the past – here’s a look back at some of his most controversial quotes. What did Boris say about burkas? Writing in the Daily Telegraph Boris […]
BORIS Johnson is known for his controversial comments but is still the favourite to become Britain’s next Prime Minister.
The former Foreign Secretary has made some colourful comments in the past – here’s a look back at some of his most controversial quotes.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph Boris said the cover-all garment was “oppressive” – but added that Denmark had got it wrong to bring in a ban.
Mr Johnson wrote: “If you say that it is weird and bullying to expect women to cover their faces, then I totally agree.
“I would go further and say that it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes.”
And he added that if “a female student turned up at school or a university lecture looking like a bank robber” he would ask her to remove it to speak to her.
In 1996, writing for The Telegraph, Johnson went to a Labour party conference and wrote a piece reviewing the “hot totty” – female labour MPs on the “Tottymeter.”
In his opening line he wrote: “It is hard to know quite how to put this.
“What follows is neither politically correct nor scientific,” but he concludes that women are “naturally fickle” and thus turning to labour with the polls.
Writing again in his now infamous Telegraph column, Johnson described gay men as “tank-topped bumboys.”
In a separate column in the same year he wrote that the BBC’s move to increase equality for gay people “must be a spoof.”
Johnson compared same-sex marriage to bestiality in his 2002 book, Friends, Voters, Countrymen.
He wrote: “If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog.”
“I can hardly condemn UKIP as a bunch of boss-eyed, foam-flecked euro hysterics, when I have been sometimes not far short of boss-eyed, foam-flecked hysteria myself.”
“Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.”
“For ten years we in the Tory Party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing.”
“She’s got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital.”
He claimed she carried out her role as First Lady like “Lady Macbeth, stamping her heel, bawling out subordinates and frisbeeing ashtrays at her erring husband.”
“What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England.
“It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies.”
Speaking to the Malaysian Prime Minister at the time, Johnson suggested a 68 per cent rise in Malaysian women attending university was so that they could “find husbands”.
“Despite looking a bit like Dobby the House Elf, he is a ruthless and manipulative tyrant,”
“Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods.”
“There was a young fellow from Ankara,
“Who was a terrific w**kerer.
“Till he sowed his wild oats,
“With the help of a goat,
“But he didn’t even stop to thankera.”
“I would invite him to come and see the whole of London … except that I wouldn’t want to expose Londoners to any risk of meeting Donald Trump.
“The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.”
But while Bojo always seems to be saying something silly, he told reporters at the launch of his bid to become Tory leader and Prime Minister, that he would not be “muffled” and “will continue to speak directly” when leading the country.
In a hugely controversial blunder back in 2016, that Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband blames for her unlawful incarceration, Johnson mistakenly told Iranian ministers that the charity worker had been teaching journalism in the country.
Johnson condemned her conviction for spying and had been hoping to aid in her release during his visit to Iran, but his comments were later cited as proof by Iran that she was engaged in “propaganda against the regime.”
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