Boris Johnson is “not fit” to be mayor of London, campaigners said, after his shameful record on race was exposed.
Today we can reveal that beneath the likable, bumbling exterior the Conservative MP for Henley harbours deep-seated racist views. The Tory higher education spokesman previously claimed the Stephen Lawrence inquiry was a “witchhunt” and that Nelson Mandela’s South Africa was a “tyranny of black majority rule.”
He also referred to black children as “piccaninnies” and said Africans have “watermelon smiles.”
He has even claimed the British Empire ended slavery and blamed “native rulers” for inventing slavery. And he accused inner city “inhabitants” in Britain of being benefit scroungers and of “pissing on the loyalty” of the indigenous population.
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Johnson 'would destroy London's unity' as mayor
Doreen Lawrence, the mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, yesterday launched a fierce personal attack on Boris Johnson, saying he would destroy multicultural London if elected mayor, and that no informed black person would vote for him.
Ms Lawrence, who does not normally become involved in party politics, said she had been moved to make the criticisms by her anger at Mr Johnson's attitude to the Macpherson inquiry in 1999 into the Metropolitan police's failure to bring her son's killers to justice 14 years ago.
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