Shocking statements from the new British Foreign Secretary

Former London Mayor Boris Johnson, who was recently appointed British Foreign Secretary, has repeatedly made shocking statements about politicians and people of other countries.

New British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Photo: AFP.

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Insulting the Congolese people

In an article published in the Daily Telegraph commenting on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002, Johnson sparked outrage by calling Congolese people "piccaninnies", a derogatory and racist term used to describe children of African descent.

"Without a doubt, the AK-47s would fall silent, the machetes would stop hacking people to pieces, and the tribal warriors would grin like watermelons at the sight of the white leader stepping down," he wrote.

Angering the people of Papua New Guinea

In 2006, Johnson was forced to apologize to the entire people of Papua New Guinea for offending them in an article mocking the leadership crisis of the British opposition Labour Party due to power struggles.

"In 10 years in the Conservative Party, we had become accustomed to cannibalism and chieftaincy killings of the Papua New Guinea type, so it was a pleasant surprise to see this madness gripping the Labour Party," Johnson wrote.

Jean L. Kekedo, Papua New Guinea's high commissioner for foreign affairs in Britain, expressed anger at Mr. Johnson's insults at the time.

"I am shocked and appalled by such comments from someone so highly placed and seemingly well educated," said Ms. Kekedo.

Insulting Hillary Clinton

In a 2007 article, Johnson insulted Hillary Clinton, then running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“She had dyed blond hair, pouty lips, and a steely blue-grey gaze, like a grim nurse in a mental hospital,” he wrote.

Mocking Donald Trump

According to observers, Johnson's offensive words have exceeded the limits allowed by the Conservative Party. In an interview with the press late last year, Johnson said the only reason he did not visit some areas of New York was because of "a very real danger of meeting Donald Trump".

His actions are believed to be in response to billionaire Trump saying parts of London are so radicalised that police fear they will lose their lives working there.

According to Johnson, the New York tycoon's uninformed comments about London were "utter nonsense".

Criticizing Putin, mocking Obama

In another article published in December 2015, Johnson compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to an ugly-faced house elf in the Harry Potter books.

In an article published in the Sun newspaper in April, Johnson implied that US President Barack Obama's removal of the bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the White House Oval Office was "an act that shows Obama's ancestral roots in Kenya, which hated the British Empire, an institution that Churchill fiercely defended."

His argument was criticized as racist. Even Conservative MP Nicholas Winston Soames, grandson of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, condemned Johnson's article, calling it "a terrible article", completely wrong and incomprehensible.

Attack on Turkish President

In May, Mr. Johnson won first prize in a poetry competition organized by the Spectator weekly newspaper, criticizing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his policies of restricting freedom of speech.

In the five-line satirical poem, he called a goat President Erdogan's "lover".

According to VNE