re: #273 Joe Bacon 🌹

Meanwhile across the pond the next Prime Minister is living up to the expectations of making a total asshole of himself!

It’s understandable how Boris Johnson, a front-runner to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street, ruffled some feathers on Friday when he said, “There are too often parts of our country … where English is not spoken by some people as their first language.”

“And that needs to be changed,” he said.

The most important priority for immigrants should be “to be and to feel British,” he said, “and to learn English.”

The comments sparked outrage across Britain, where they were seen as echoing populist talking points targeting immigrants and disrespecting centuries-old languages indigenous to the region.

washingtonpost.com

Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Irish…these are all indigenous languages spoken in the UK. Of course he’s going to piss a lot of people off and they should be pissed off. But this is sadly typical of Johnson, who is a generally awful person and yeah, probably racist at the core.