15 Offensive Quotes New UK PM Boris Johnson about Places, People and Cultures

Boris Johnson is well known for his outrageous and offensive remarks. Here is a list of his most controversial comments.

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Date: 26 July 2019 - 20:27

RNA - Boris Johnson is well known for his outrageous and offensive remarks. Here is a list of his most controversial comments.

15. Being PM

“My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.”

14. The EU

“The EU will want to negotiate a new deal with the UK because “they’ve got the Brexit MEPs they don’t particularly want; they want us out; they’ve got the incentive of the money . . . but you have the extra incentive of course that the UK will be ready to come out, as you know, on WTO terms.”

“Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods.”

13. Current US President Donald Trump:

“The only reason I wouldn't visit some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.”

12. Former US President Barack Obama:

“A symbol of the part-Kenyan President's ancestral dislike of the British Empire – of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender.”

11. Hillary Clinton

“She’s got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital.”

10. Russia Prime Minister Vladimir Putin:

“Despite looking a bit like Dobby the House Elf, he is a ruthless and manipulative tyrant.”

9. Liberal Democrats

“The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.”

8. Muslim women in the UK:

“If a female student turned up at school or at a university lecture looking like a bank robber then ditto: those in authority should be allowed to converse openly with those that they are being asked to instruct.”

7. Malaysian women:

“[Female students went to university because they] have got to find men to marry.”

6. Black people

“Orientals ... have larger brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the other pole.”

5. Israel

“Boycott of Israeli goods was “completely crazy” and supported by “corduroy-jacketed, snaggle-toothed, lefty academics in the UK.”

4. The Commonwealth:

“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.”

3. Scotland:

“A pound spent in Croydon is of far more value to the country than a pound spent in Strathclyde. You will generate jobs in Strathclyde far more effectively if you invest in parts of London.”

2. UKIP:

“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.”

1. Papua New Guinea

“For 10 years we in the Tory party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing and so it is with a happy amazement that we watch as the madness engulfs the Labour party.”

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