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Boris Johnson has continued to duck questions over his controversial comments last week about women wearing burkas.
In a move that is seemingly typical to Boris, the former foreign secretary compared women who wear the Muslim face veil to letterboxes, which prompted outrage from a lot of the public and even from within the Conservative Party.
You'd assume anyone would come out and apologise after saying such heinous things but, no, apparently because we live in a truly awful society, a posh white man like Boris Johnson can outright ignore the backlash.
When given a chance over the weekend, he timidly emerged from his home - which, at the time, was being staked out by journalists - to offer no apology or comments on what he said, but instead served mugs of tea and have the press literally eating (well, drinking) out of his hands.
What a charming fellow this Boris is, you might think - yes sure, but only if by charming you mean utterly offensive.
Despite being asked if he 'regretted his comments', all he could muster was this pathetic response:
I have nothing to say about this matter except to offer you some tea.
The gesture - whether genuine or tongue-in-cheek - has lead to some truly great and scathing responses online.
taking a moment to reflect on how the pack would respond if Corbyn tried to deflect a question on antisemitism by o… https://t.co/nYnGhfELh3— Sam🌹 (@Sam🌹) 1534108865
I'm going to stop using the c-word for a bit on here, as I have been over-using it recently. But before I do: the w… https://t.co/aSOFa7GdEM— David Baddiel (@David Baddiel) 1534099975
On £350,000 a year and I’m so gormless I can’t even take the tea bags out or find a teapot. But please let me run t… https://t.co/2xT1qUlvf2— David Lammy (@David Lammy) 1534143804
Wait, this is actually enraging. First question should have been - without giggling - “what are your thoughts on th… https://t.co/YrlCN0par1— Musa Okwonga (@Musa Okwonga) 1534097526
Mary Archer first did this, when the News of the World exposed her husband paying Monica Coghlan £2,000+ on Victori… https://t.co/Z82uYsTcwh— Michael Crick (@Michael Crick) 1534111255
My favourite things about this @BorisJohnson video, in order: 1. Black dress socks with white running shoes. 2. T… https://t.co/8kc3sFTFlQ— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@Ezra Levant 🍁) 1534126869
Rly sums up the UK. Racism&all that ugly is ignored and swept under a trite display of politeness and civility and… https://t.co/62GazliAUC— Bolu Babalola (@Bolu Babalola) 1534101609
So he ‘feels guilty’ about his fellow hacks being made to wait outside covering his attention seeking, but not abou… https://t.co/vIBWV6IplD— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@ALASTAIR CAMPBELL) 1534095553
It’s all just one big jolly old jape for @BorisJohnson isn’t it? Not so funny for the Muslim women who’ve experienc… https://t.co/C6VDMkhw0r— Wes Streeting MP (@Wes Streeting MP) 1534095382
He’s left the tea-bags in. Says everything you need to know about the man. https://t.co/cTln4uYxAI— Shaparak Khorsandi (@Shaparak Khorsandi) 1534095684
So he offers tea, and any sense of journalistic responsibility abandons them 🙄... don’t read the papers, but what’s… https://t.co/KGBF0EQuwy— Sarah Roberts, Antisocial Socialist. (@Sarah Roberts, Antisocial Socialist.) 1534141538
The Muslim Council of Britain is expected to tell prime minister Theresa May that the investigation launched by the Conservative Party into Mr Johnson must not be a “whitewash”.
In the week before Johnson’s comments, the campaign group Tell Mama reported no incidents against women wearing a niqab.
But women wearing the niqab were targeted on 8 August in London, followed by another three incidents the next day.
“This is what language does,” Tell Mama said. “It does not fence off actions in the minds of perps but means identifiable Muslim women are also affected."
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