Talk with your fingers: No matter where you are, your friends are always at your fingertips with free instant messaging.Find their username and start chatting or sexting now. Find all your friends and family in an instant: With over 250 million users, you're bound to bump into someone you know.There's so much you can do, right from the palm of your hand. Join the millions of people using Skype today to stay in touch with the people who matter most. “The fact that he was ever London mayor, let alone the prime minister, is alarming to me and shows how far our country still has to go in the fight against prejudice.Say "hello" to friends and family with an instant message, voice, or video call on Skype for free. Green Party leader Sian Berry told PinkNews: “There are hundreds of reasons why Boris Johnson isn’t fit to lead the country, but the casual racist, sexist, homophobic slurs dished out in his newspaper columns should have struck him out of politics forever. When PinkNews asked the Liberal Democrat’s Jo Swinson if anyone who uses language like “tank-topped bum boys” is fit to lead the UK, she replied: “God no. Party leaders attack Boris Johnson over ‘bum boys’ remarks.ĭuring the 2019 general election campaign, opposition party leaders used Johnson’s past comments as evidence of his unsuitability for office. As of yet, no apology has been forthcoming. Upon becoming prime minister, Johnson was asked by the LGBT+ Conservatives group to issue an apology for his previous remarks. He replied: “If you are going to excavate and disinter every single quotation from the millions of words I have (written), you can of course twist things one way or the other.” Members of LGBTQ community protest outside Downing Street (Wiktor Szymanowicz/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Īround the same time, he was asked about the “bum boy” slur during a head-to-head debate with Tory leadership also-ran Jeremy Hunt. The following June, during the Conservative leadership challenge that he eventually won, he said that his reference to black people having “watermelon smiles” was “wholly satirical” and suggested his other comments had been “wretched out of context”.
Boris Johnson’s failure to apologise for ‘bum boys’.Īs well as his Johnson’s use of homophobic slurs, he has also been challenged on derogatory comments about women – especially Muslim women, single mothers, the working class and black people.Ī lengthy list of offensive remarks were unearthed by Business Insider in January 2018, when Johnson was foreign secretary. I think I can get away with that,” he said. “It will be the perfect ceremony, you can take your partner up the…. In it, he wrote: “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.” Boris Johnson changes tune on ‘bum boys’ – for the most part.Īs an MP, Johnson went on to vote for the abolition of Section 28 in 2003 – defying the Conservative party whip, and for same-sex civil partnerships in 2004.Īs Mayor of London he adopted an even more liberal persona, and in 2010 came out in support out of marriage equality in a PinkNews interview.Īs mayor he also took part in several Pride events, including one in 2013 in which he made a homophobic joke about gay men getting married at the ArcelorMittal Orbit scultpture in Stratford, East London. Where are the shrieks of protest?Ī year later, in 2001, Johnson released his first book, Friends, Voters, Countrymen, which recounted his successful campaign for the parliamentary seat of Henley. This British legislator is voting in favour of Labour’s appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it, while his taxes are going on the Paris Metro and the SNCF.
Johnson was aghast that Grenfell lived and presumably paid taxes in Paris. The article began by criticising then-prime minister Tony Blair for appointing Lord Grenfell a life peer, “to rescue him from the general cull of the hereditary peers”. In 2000 Johnson wrote a column for The Spectator – where he was, by then, editor – attacking Labour for its opposition to Section 28. Attacking Labour’s opposition to Section 28 and criticising same-sex marriage. The Labour MP had been outed as gay on the BBC’s Newsnight just weeks before the column was published, though tabloids had alluded to his sexuality prior to that by giving him the feminine nickname ‘Mandy’.