London mayor branded 'racist' after his attack on the 'part Kenyan' Barack Obama

[Surya Gayatri]

* Mayor of London mentioned Obama's African ancestry as he criticised the decision to remove Winston Churchill bust from the Oval Office

* Johnson suggested Obama got rid of the statue because of his 'ancestral dislike of the British empire'

* But former Lib Dem leader Lord Campbell dismissed 'unacceptable smear'

* Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott hits out at 'offensive' comments that echoed the Tea Party in the US

Boris Johnson was accused of 'dog whistle racism' and likened to right-wing 'Tea Party' politicians in the US this morning after his attack on the 'part-Kenyan' Barack Obama.

The Mayor of London spoke out against the US President, after he urged British voters to stay in the EU, and mentioned his African ancestry as he criticised the decision to remove a bust of Sir Winston Churchill from the Oval Office shortly after Mr Obama entered the White House.

Mr Johnson - who is favourite to succeed David Cameron as Prime Minister - suggested the President got rid of the statue as a 'snub' to Britain's wartime prime minister and a 'symbol of the part-Kenyan President's ancestral dislike of the British empire'.

But Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell hit out at Mr Johnson and demanded he withdraw the controversial remarks.




The Mayor of London (pictured outside his north London home this morning) spoke out against the US President after he urged British voters to stay in the EU and mentioned his African ancestry as he criticised the decision to remove a bust of Sir Winston Churchill from the Oval Office

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3553730/Boris-Johnson-likened-right-wing-Tea-Party-attack-president-Barack-Obama.html

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Sounds like he's learned his lessons well from Drumpf and the Teabaggers.

[shenmue]

1. I had no idea he was such an idiot

[Surya Gayatri]

2. He's an embarrassment, but appreciated for his "say anything" style and entertainment value.

Remind you of anybody?

[shenmue]

5. Aha!

[trumad]

11. The former Mayor of Toronto..

Who is now dead.

[n2doc]

3. His Hair is looking positively Trumpian

As is his brain.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Twins on opposite sides of the Atlantic, with different accents.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

27. Both of them were shit out in New York

[BlueMTexpat]

4. He is an embarrassment to

all the UKers I know. But he keeps getting elected.

As I noted in another post, I have long suspected that Boris Johnson and Donald Trump were separated at birth.

Johnson WAS born in NY, btw.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Like we keep saying about Drumpf. Who the hell keeps voting for this clown?

[BlueMTexpat]

9. God help us all if we're still saying

that in November!

[Surya Gayatri]

12. ^^^This!^^^

[Bjornsdotter]

7. Is anyone surprised by his statement?

He's such a loose cannon.

[Surya Gayatri]

10. Totally out of control, but smelling a chance at the Prime Ministership,

if Cameron goes down because of a disastrous "OUT" vote on the EU.

[malaise]

13. Boris and Cameron are cut from the same elitist

cloth

[Surya Gayatri]

16. Same posh Oxbridge accents...

[malaise]

20. Same gang too

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1215635/Our-Boys-Bullingdon-The-early-years-David-Cameron-Boris-Johnson.html
Our Boys from the Bullingdon: The early years of David Cameron and Boris Johnson
Drinking, wanton destruction and episodes of Neighbours... David Cameron and Boris Johnson's high jinks at Oxford's Bullingdon Club,

[Surya Gayatri]

21. If that pic isn't the embodiment of egregious and elitist privilege, I don't know what is.

[malaise]

22. And ideologically they are as bad as Churchill and as racist

and contemptuous of all non-whites.

Never forget that Thatcher's son should be in prison

[suffragette]

38. Yup, racist, classist Bullingdon Bullies then and now.

[MrScorpio]

14. No, he's just sounding like your basic British imperialist

Those guys never went away.

[tenderfoot]

15. Winston Churchill is one of history's most overrated leaders.

eom

[Surya Gayatri]

17. I don't think Boris gives a rat's patootie about Churchill. He's just talking to his base

by using racist dog-whistles to describe Obama.

Re Churchill, he certainly knew how to rally a nation with stirring oratory. He deserves a place in history, if only for that.

[tenderfoot]

35. He was as much a fascist as the Axis leaders

Perhaps he learned from Gallipoli? At any rate, Britain rallied in spite of him IMHO.

[Surya Gayatri]

36. A bit over-drawn? I sincerely doubt that he would ever have behaved in the

manner of a Hitler, a Mussolini or a Hirohito.

But, born and bred into a certain elitist, racist and sexist mentality endemic to the British ruling class? I'll grant you that.

[tenderfoot]

37. I agree.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Boris in 2002, commenting on Tony Blair's trip to Congo:

"No doubt the AK47s will fall silent and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird."

Taken from this article in the Guardian which opposed his election in 2008
Be afraid. Be very afraid
Unbelievable as it may seem, Boris Johnson has a real chance of being elected London mayor today. Zoe Williams and other Londoners imagine what it would be like if this bigoted, lying, Old Etonian buffoon got his hands on our diverse and liberal capital

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/may/01/boris.livingstone

[Surya Gayatri]

19. What utter filth. And, just like with Trump, his racist rank and file laugh and keep voting for him.

[Bluenorthwest]

23. Boris is a ghastly creature.

nt

[Surya Gayatri]

24. He reminds me of a big, pale garden slug.

[northernsouthern]

28. I was wondering if his comments...

...were more elitist, snobby empirical upper-class British than racist, since he is calling out Obama for the Kenyan, and since much of my extended family is from Kenya they do love and hate the UK. So part of his comment read to me as an out of touche jab at Kenya having beyond 100% legitimate anger to the crown for their atrocities...and trying to play off of British nationalism with the statue...but nope got to the line on watermelon smiles... you are a f@cking piece of scum Boris. Can't wait for Oliver to cover this.

[04alsabi]

25. Nigel Farage has basically echoed Boris' 'anti-British' slur

Quelle surprise.

[04alsabi]

26. But Boris has been slapped down by none other than Sir Nicholas Soames...

... the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill.

https://audioboom.com/boos/4469230-sir-nicholas-soames-in-blistering-attack-on-boris-johnson-for-offensive-article-about-obama?utm_campaign=detailpage&utm_content=retweet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[Nye Bevan]

29. The UK leaving the EU would be similar to the USA leaving NAFTA, no? (nt)

[Surya Gayatri]

30. Much more deleterious. The present-day EU has evolved around

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the integral participation of the UK for the last 40 years.

Their leaving would deal a major blow to the long-term viability of the whole European Union.

Not a positive prospect.

France has historically labelled Britain "Perfidious Albion" (due to the white cliffs).

Sadly, they have lived up to that derogatory tag many times, and this is one of them.

[KamaAina]

42. Not quite. They're not nearly as dominant within the EU as we are within NAFTA.

We have almost three-quarters of the population within NAFTA and likely a larger percentage of the GDP.

The EU, meanwhile, would still have Germany, France and a few other heavyweights.

[Maeve]

31. For what it's worth, the bust of Churchill was on loan

from the Brits, after 9/11.

And Obama replaced it with one of Abraham Lincoln. Now which bust deserves to be in the Oval office more?

[Surya Gayatri]

32. Oh, there you go, destroying another Teabagger talking point.

[mr blur]

33. Johnson is a loud-mouthed halfwit, old friend of "Dave"

Soon they'll both be gone.

[Surya Gayatri]

34. Their old "friendship" appears to be under stress at the moment.

Boris the boar wants Dave's job.

[libodem]

39. What a clown

Maybe he has it confused with that economic theory? What is that? Kenesian?

[Enrique]

40. he took Dinesh D'Souza's nonsense seriously

I was wonder who was stupid enough to do that, I guess Boris was.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

41. Wait, he's favored to replace Cameron????

I thought "Mayor of London" was almost a ceremonial post???

And I thought this guy was a total goofball, but more leftist than anything.

Maybe I'm confusing him with someone else.

[KamaAina]

43. You may be thinking of Lord Mayor of London

Nope, as strange as it seems, Boris is to London what de Blasio is to NYC or Garcetti is to L.A.

[Jim Beard]

44. Sorry guys, I like Obama but I don't like him doing this any more than Benjamin Netanyahu

coming to the US to politic against national policy (Iran)

Do it from home, not on thrir soil. Made me made when Netanyahu came over here and addressed congress.

[Celebration]

45. You are right

But it still doesn't excuse this particular attack on him, which was totally off the rails.