The black British newspaper The Voice today runs with an article called London under threat, which leaves readers in no doubt about how bad they think Mayor Boris would be for ethnic minority communities.

It includes the usual quotes from things Boris himself has written in the past, and adds into the mix some of the things that the racist columnist Taki, whom Boris employed and whose columns he signed off week after week for publication.

Boris Johnson was recently forced to publicly apologise after coming under fire over racist articles claiming blacks have lower IQs, which Johnson allowed to be published while he was Editor of the Spectator magazine.

In the Spectator, the columnist Taki, wrote that "Orientals … have larger brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the other pole." The columnist also described black American basketball players as having "arms hanging below their knees and tongues sticking out".

I hadn’t heard that last quote before, and find it shocking that any editor (except perhaps that of the BNP’s publications) could permit such outrageous racism to be printed in a modern publication. Didn’t we abandon those kinds of views some time around the axing of TV ‘comedy’ Love Thy Neighbour?

At best, Boris’s judgement is breathtakingly flawed; at worst, he saw nothing wrong with these comments because he agreed with them.

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