Boris Johnson on race: Refers to black people as ‘picaninnies’ and ‘with watermelon smiles’

Black MPs condemn Johnson:

Dawn Butler: “No one with such views can be the mayor of a city with the largest black population in Britain."

Dianne Abbot: "David Cameron is fooling himself if he thinks that Boris Johnson's 1950s attitudes to race will be acceptable to Londoners, both black and white."

Called the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry ‘Orwellian’

Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, said that he would 'destroy London's unity', adding that 'once people read his views, there is no way he is going to get the support of any people in the black community'.

Believes trouble comes from ‘too zealous’ attempts to tackle inequality

Believes in South Africa there is the ‘majority tyranny of black rule.’

Believes Chinese culture is merely imitative, in music, art and pop culture.

Believes the British Empire ended slavery (2003 Radio debate with Clare Short)

Islam and Muslims

Now infamous quote in his Spectator Magazine: ‘Islam is the problem’ stated after the July bombing.

Edited a blatantly islamophobic, zionist magazine which runs front-page headlines such as ‘The Muslims are Coming’, ‘How to spot the Jihadi next door’ &  ‘Eurabia‘.

“Islam will only be truly acculturated to our way of life when you could expect a Bradford audience to roll in the aisles at Monty Python’s Life of Mohammed.”
(http://www.borisjohnson.com/archives/2005/07/racial_and_religious_hatred_bi_1.php)

Daily Telegraph 21 July 2005 - “The proposed ban on incitement to “religious hatred” makes no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself.”

Israel

“I think it’s a wonderful country, my bedrock, irreducible position is that Israel is a huge and wonderful fact that deserves support and protection.”

Telegraph article 2006 – “If I were an Israeli, I would be astounded that any member of the British Government or Opposition felt able to criticise Israel at all”.

“Israel provides a focus for the resentment of a Muslim civilisation that finds itself materially and intellectually humiliated by the achievements of America and the West.”

Iraq

Strong supporter for the Iraq war (source: www.theyworkforyou.com)

Describing marines in Iraq: “The marines had the shades with the slick little nick in the corner. They were taller and squarer than the indigenous people, with heavier chins and better dentition. They looked like a master race from outer space…”

And there’s more…

Opposed the Kyoto treaty on climate change

Is an evangelist for nuclear power – and opposes wind farms

Opposed the introduction of the national minimum wage

Opposed to full pension rights for part-time workers

Wants to introduce the private sector into the NHS

Supported the election of George W Bush in 2000 and his re-election in 2004

Considers Liberal Democrats have ‘a characteristic human psychological deformity’

Was secretly recorded discussing with a convicted fraudster how harshly a journalist should be beaten up

Has insulted New Guniea, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Jamie Oliver and the Dutch

Believes ‘former crypto communists’ run the BBC

Galloway said, “Johnson is an unreconstructed Tory toff with an appalling record of ignorance and bigotry. Don't be conned by his buffoonery. He really is dangerous. Whatever criticisms one has of Ken, and I have plenty, London will be better off with him rather than Johnson."

…And as Johnson addressed the Conservative Party conference regarding his selection as Conservative candidate for Mayor of London, Arnold Schwarzenegger was heard saying of Johnson, "This guy is fumbling all over the place".

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