The Brexit Thread

[Fenster]

I am just asking a question here as I am just not clued up, but what has Boris done that is racist?

100% guarantee it's his "letterbox" comment!

"Picanninies with their watermelon smiles "...

“The best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty.”

What was the context?

[Beanz]

Lazy Bastard (:

It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the 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.
Daily Telegraph 10 January 2002
The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more... Consider Uganda, pearl of Africa, as an example of the British record. … the British planted coffee and cotton and tobacco, and they were broadly right... If left to their own devices, the natives would rely on nothing but the instant carbohydrate gratification of the plantain. You never saw a place so abounding in bananas: great green barrel-sized bunches, off to be turned into matooke. Though this dish (basically fried banana) was greatly relished by Idi Amin, the colonists correctly saw that the export market was limited... The best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty.
Discussing his views on Africans and "Instant Carbohydrate Gratification" The Spectator 2 February 2002

[Beanz]

Hopefully this quote will be more accurate

"I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis."
Ephraim Hardcastle, Daily Mail, 22 July 2003, p. 13.