Boris’s comments on burkhas take British politics to a new low – or is he right?

Boris Johnson’s admiration of Donald Trump shows signs of taking British politics to a new low of post-truth populism with his offensive anti Muslim remarks about women wearing burkhas.

Meanwhile, Government ministers warn of the danger of no-deal Brexit, industries warn that we are already impacted negatively by Brex- it, and farmers warn of acute food shortages.

Having achieved nothing in office and having offered no workable solutions for the impasse between negotiators, Boris Johnson merely plays to his gallery.

Lessons from the past about the fickleness of populist support for right wing mob orators he seems oblivious to. For example, right wing politicians in Germany in 1914 plunged Germany into a war which led to the fall of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

When this mere stirring up of prejudice is the best Boris Johnson, a leading Brexiteer, has to offer the public, then we need to realise that public dissatisfaction may yet produce someone as much worse than Boris Johnson as he is worse than the Kaiser.

ANDREW VASS Corbiehill Place, Edinburgh

Boris Johnson said that Muslim women wearing burkhas looked like ‘letter boxes’ or ‘bank robbers’ (Scotsman, 7 August).

I suggest that many thousands more, who find the burkha intimidating, would agree with him, for every one of those who complained.

This month two suicide bombers attacked a Shia mosque in Afghanistan killing 29 and wounding 81 people.

They were men disguised as women in burkhas.

Will those who complain about Boris Johnston still be so vocal if there is a terrorist attack in the UK by men dressed in burkhas?

There are now full or partial bans in Denmark, France, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria, the Netherlands and the German state of Bavaria.

The UK should follow their lead.

CLARK CROSS Springfield Road, Linlithgow