Thread by @uk_domain_names

A shallow dive into the infinite supply of appallingly offensive, sexist and racist remarks made by Boris Johnson. This deserves a whole lotta love, so you know what to do... RT, RT, RT!

First, a light warm-up with a truly car crash interview...

2002 newspaper column: "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."
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

2006 newspaper column: "for 10 years we in the Tory Party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing"
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

June 2018: "[NI border]'s so small and there are so few firms that actually use that border regularly, it's just beyond belief that we're allowing the tail to wag the dog in this way. We're allowing the whole of our agenda to be dictated by this folly."
buzzfeed.com/alexspence/bor…

October 2017, speaking about the city of Sirte in Libya: "They have got a brilliant vision to turn Sirte into the next Dubai." "The only thing they have got to do is clear the dead bodies away"
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

2004, on Hillsborough: "that is no excuse for Liverpool’s failure to acknowledge, even to this day, the part played in the disaster by drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground that Saturday afternoon."
spectator.co.uk/2004/10/bigley…

March 2018: Boris Johnson had to be told off by the speaker for referring to Emily Thornberry as "Lady Nugee" (Sir Christopher Nugee is her husband, but she goes by her maiden name)

2007 (on Hillary Clinton): "She's got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital"
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

1996 Telegraph article: "The unanimous opinion is that what has been called the 'Tottymeter' reading is higher than at any Labour Party conference in living memory" "Time & again the 'Tottymeter' has gone off as a young woman delegate mounts the rostrum."
businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-…

2004 campaign trail: "Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3"
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

2016: Boris Johnson wins The Spectator competition (and £1,000) for an offensive poem about President Erdogan of Turkey, in which he mentions sex with animals.
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/boris-…

2018 Telegraph column (writing about Muslim women wearing burkas): "I would go further and say that it is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes."
telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/0…

June 2016: Boris Johnson is reported to have said "F**k business" at a diplomatic gathering when asked about corporate concerns over a hard Brexit. (This was never denied.)
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

2013: Boris Johnson suggested that more women were going to university in Malaysia because "They've got to find men to marry."
audioboom.com/posts/1490840-…

2000 Spectator article: Boris Johnson attacks "Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it."
archive.spectator.co.uk/article/15th-a…

In 2001 book: "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."
businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-…

Here's Boris Johnson in more unguarded times, saying he would vote to stay in the single market. "I'd vote to stay in the single market. I'm in favour of the single market."

https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/782633174035787776

Here's a Channel 4 fact check, busting at length the "facts" Boris Johnson laid out in his resignation letter as Foreign Secretary.
channel4.com/news/factcheck…

Here's a BBC Reality Check from shortly before the referendum (May 2016) in which they stated he was keeping the team very busy, before listing a laundry list of stuff he'd made up about the EU.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

In April 2019, The Telegraph defends a recent Boris Johnson lie about "no deal" being the most popular Brexit option by mounting the truly bizarre defense that it was ok to print even though it was a known lie because it was "comically polemical".
hackinginquiry.org/boris-brexit-t…

In January 2019, Boris Johnson was found to have breached Commons expenses rules by not declaring part-ownership of a property in Somerset for nearly a year after he was supposed to have done so.
politicshome.com/news/uk/politi…

In December 2018, Boris Johnson had to apologise to Parliament after reporting over £52,000 in earnings later than he was supposed to.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

September 2017: Britain's ambassador to Myanmar had to interrupt Boris Johnson to stop him from completing the recitation of a colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling when visiting a famous Buddhist sight.
businessinsider.com/r-not-appropri…

May 2017: Boris Johnson reprimanded by a female worshipper after he began discussing the removal of whisky tariffs while visiting a Sikh temple.

October 2016: in a speech reflecting on his first 3 months as Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson refers to Africa as "that country".
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

2005 Spectator article: "To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia — fear of Islam — seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke"
archive.spectator.co.uk/article/16th-j…

June 2015: Boris Johnson wades into the middle of a scandal with remarks on why women cry more than men: "Men are said to have differently shaped tear ducts, for instance, and can therefore retain the tears for longer before they splash down the cheek."
telegraph.co.uk/news/society/1…

And the time BJ suggested UKIP defectors, well... "And I have read that there are some people - probably the type who are thinking of defecting to Ukip - who present themselves at A&E with barely credible injuries sustained through vacuum cleaner abuse."
standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

December 2015: "The only reason I wouldn't visit some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump" (says the man lined up to meet Donald Trump next week)
telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…

During 2008 ceremonial passing of Olympic flag: "And I say this respectfully to our Chinese hosts, who have excelled so magnificently at Ping-pong. Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century and it was called Wiff-waff!"
telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…

April 2007 (writing about Portsmouth): "Here we are, in one of the most depressed towns in southern England, a place that is arguably too full of drugs, obesity, under-achievement and Labour MPs."
standard.co.uk/news/on-the-sl…

July 2010: "In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?"
london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4722

"I don't believe that talking on a mobile phone while driving is any more dangerous than the many other things that people do with their free hands while driving - nose-picking, reading the paper, studying the A-Z, beating the children and so on"
telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/15…

April 2012: "My argument to the Treasury is that a pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country from a strict utilitarian calculus than a pound spent in Strathclyde."

Boris Johnson had to apologise for allowing an article to be published while he was Editor of The Spectator (ie not his words, but his responsibility) that included this: "Orientals have larger brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the other pole."
standard.co.uk/news/mayor/bor…

May 2016 [on European unification]: "Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods."
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/1…

September 2013: "It’s fair to say that the UK economy has finally reached its Costa Concordia moment." [CC was the cruise ship that ran aground, killing 32 people]
theguardian.com/politics/2013/…

"It is my duty to stick up for every put-upon minority in the city–from the homeless to Irish travellers to ex-gang members to disgraced former MPs. But there is one minority that I still behold with a benign bewilderment, and that is the very, very rich."
telegraph.co.uk/politics/0/sho…

November 2017: Boris Johnson claimed Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was "simply teaching people journalism", a claim that resulted in Iran giving her a five year jail sentence. (It was denied by her, her husband, and her employers)
businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-…

BJ: ''Gaffes are good. Gaffes get people listening. A gaffe is something that makes people think. Maybe they think you are a complete nutcase, but they are going to look at it, they are going to think about it and then maybe you'll have more influence.''
smh.com.au/entertainment/…

2007: Boris Johnson blamed the increase in house prices on increasing numbers of female university graduates who "entrench their economic advantages, pooling their graduate incomes to push up house prices and increase the barriers to entry for the rest."
metro.co.uk/2016/06/29/10-…

June 2012: "We seek cities because there are a greater range of girls at the bar, of reproductive choice."
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b…

November 2004: Boris Johnson was sacked from the Tory front bench for lying about an affair (BJ denied it outright, but it turned out to be true)
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…

November 2013: "I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed, some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses and so on that it is a valuable spur to economic activity."
telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/…

1988: Boris Johnson was fired from his job at the Times newspaper for fabricating a quote in a front-page article.
independent.co.uk/voices/why-are…

Boris Johnson, speaking in a street interview about Donald Trump: "I would invite him to come and see the whole of London and take him round the city, except that I wouldn't want to expose Londoners to any unnecessary risk of meeting Donald Trump."

https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson_MP/status/1134398873328398336

(This is maybe 1% of it? Certainly feels like merely scratching the surface. I'll leave this as place-holder, and delete later if I find time to add to this thread. So if you're going to reply to a tweet, probably better not do so to this one or your reply may end up "orphaned"!)