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| "Hate crime" alert! |
A post box in an English town has been dressed up to look like a Muslim woman wearing a burka. This odd act was apparently done in support of comments made recently by British politician Boris Johnson, who wrote in a recent article that Muslim women dresses in burkas -- the full face covering favoured by some Muslim women -- looked like "post boxes" and "bank robbers."
The latest incident occurred in the small town of of Hadleigh in Suffolk, where one of the town's post boxes was dressed in a black bin bag and some black cloth.
This comes on the back of calls for Johnson to be suspended or kicked out of the party. While some of these demands are from butthurt Muslims, others stem from political rivals in the Conservative Party who fear Johnson becoming leader and wish to use fake accusations of "racism" to stop him.
Lord Cooper, a former lackey to Prime Minister David Cameron, Johnson's old political enemy, even accused him of "casual racism" and "courting of fascism."
"He will advocate literally anything to play to the crowd of the moment," said the Tory peer. "His career is a saga of moral emptiness and lies; pathetic, weak and needy; the opposite of strong."
Interestingly, this is probably the first time in history that a piece of black cloth has been deemed a race.
Johnson's comments are wildly popular with grass roots members of the Conservative Party, some of whom have threatened a "civil war" in the party if their hero is suspended.
Conservative Party members are not comfortable dealing with the issue of Britain's rapidly changing demographics by addressing the issue of racial replacement directly "because racism." Instead they prefer to deal with it indirectly through "dog whistle" issue like what sort of cloths immigrant women use to hide their "bobs" and "vagenes."
Johnson is a cunning populist who understands this and is playing to the base. Also note his recent appearance following his return from holiday, when he took out a tray of tea to the journalists besieging his house.
Not only was he showing how down-to-earth he is (he actually isn't) by associating himself with the traditional British cuppa, but he also wore a craftily-worded rugby shirt with the words "Changing" on it, hinting at the coming leadership showdown with failed Brexit negotiator Theresa May.
