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Boris Johnson published a poem joking about the 'extermination' of the 'verminous' Scottish people
However, when Johnson was editor of the Spectator magazine in 2004, he sparked outrage in one part of the UK, when he authorised the publication of an apparently satirical poem describing Scottish people as "a verminous race" who should be exterminated.
It described Scots as "tartan dwarves" who were "polluting our stock" and suggested that the country should be turned into a "ghetto" with the inhabitants submitted for "extermination."
It is not the only time Johnson has triggered offense with a poem. In 2016, he won an award for writing a limerick about the Turkish President Erdogan, who he referred to as a "wankerer" who has sex with goats.
When Johnson was in the Shadow Cabinet under then Conservative leader Michael Howard, he was ordered to apologise to the citizens of Liverpool after publishing a leading article accusing the city of wallowing in "victim status" following the murder of Ken Bigley and the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster.
The Scotch - what a verminous race!
Canny, pushy, chippy, they're all over the place,
Battening off us with false bonhomie,
Polluting our stock, undermining our economy.
Down with sandy hair and knobbly knees!
Suppress the tartan dwarves and the Wee Frees!
Ban the kilt, the skean-dhu and the sporran
As provocatively, offensively foreign!
It's time Hadrian's Wall was refortified
To pen them in a ghetto on the other side.
I would go further. The nation
Deserves not merely isolation
But comprehensive extermination.
We must not flinch from a solution.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/boris-johnson-published-a-poem-joking-about-the-extermination-of-the-verminous-scottish-people/ar-AACV6O7?ocid=spartanntp
However, when Johnson was editor of the Spectator magazine in 2004, he sparked outrage in one part of the UK, when he authorised the publication of an apparently satirical poem describing Scottish people as "a verminous race" who should be exterminated.
It described Scots as "tartan dwarves" who were "polluting our stock" and suggested that the country should be turned into a "ghetto" with the inhabitants submitted for "extermination."
It is not the only time Johnson has triggered offense with a poem. In 2016, he won an award for writing a limerick about the Turkish President Erdogan, who he referred to as a "wankerer" who has sex with goats.
When Johnson was in the Shadow Cabinet under then Conservative leader Michael Howard, he was ordered to apologise to the citizens of Liverpool after publishing a leading article accusing the city of wallowing in "victim status" following the murder of Ken Bigley and the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster.
The Scotch - what a verminous race!
Canny, pushy, chippy, they're all over the place,
Battening off us with false bonhomie,
Polluting our stock, undermining our economy.
Down with sandy hair and knobbly knees!
Suppress the tartan dwarves and the Wee Frees!
Ban the kilt, the skean-dhu and the sporran
As provocatively, offensively foreign!
It's time Hadrian's Wall was refortified
To pen them in a ghetto on the other side.
I would go further. The nation
Deserves not merely isolation
But comprehensive extermination.
We must not flinch from a solution.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/politics/boris-johnson-published-a-poem-joking-about-the-extermination-of-the-verminous-scottish-people/ar-AACV6O7?ocid=spartanntp