Racism, sick jokes and utter stupidity.. moments his mask slipped
Calling black people “piccaninnies”
Johnson mentioned “flagwaving piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles” in a 2002 column for the Daily Telegraph.
He wrote: “What a relief it must be for [Tony] Blair to get out of England. It is said the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies”.
Wrongly claiming a British mother detained in Iran was “training journalists”
In November, he told MPs Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, was in Iran training journalists. In fact she was visiting family. It was claimed his words contributed to her sentence being doubled to 10 years.
Rugby tackling a 10-year-old Japanese boy
In 2015, Johnson had to
apologise to Toki Sekiguchi after shoulder barging him as he ran with the ball during a “friendly” game of rugby. The then London Mayor was on a business trip in Japan. Claiming the president of Turkey had sex with a goat In May last year, Johnson won £1,000 in a competition for the best offensive poem about Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president. His limerick included the lines: “He sowed his wild oats, With the help of a goat.” Referring to Barack Obama as “part Kenyan” In the EU referendum, after the then-US President said a Brexit UK would be back of the queue in trade negotiations, Johnson spoke of “the part-Kenyan president’s ancestral dislike of the British Empire”. Joking about Libya being full of “dead bodies” At a fringe meeting at the Tory conference in October, he called a trip to Libya that August “fantastic”, saying: “They’ve got a brilliant vision to turn Sirte into the next Dubai. The only thing they’ve got to do is clear the dead bodies away.” Complaining Liverpool “wallowed in victimhood” In 2004, he said the city wallowed in “victim status” over Hillsborough and repeated the false claim “drunken fans” were to blame. He apologised.