This clown is favored to succeed David Cameron as Tory PM?
Boris Johnson branded 'racist' and likened to the right-wing Tea Party after his attack on the 'part Kenyan' Barack Obama
He and Nigel Farage, both in favor of Brexit to which O is opposed, both refer to the removal of the bust of Churchill from the Oval Office and O's Kenyan ancestry as evidence of anti-British sentiment, specifically anti-British Empire sentiment.
Referring to the removal of Sir Winston's bust, Mr Johnson wrote in The Sun today : 'No one was sure whether the President had himself been involved in the decision,' he said.
'Some said it was a snub to Britain. Some said it was a symbol of the part-Kenyan President's ancestral dislike of the British empire - of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender.'
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Ukip leader Nigel Farage backed up Mr Johnson's claims.
He told The Guardian: 'Look, I know his family's background. Kenya. Colonialism. There is clearly something going on there.
'It's just that you know people emerge from colonialism with different views of the British. Some thought that they were really rather benign and rather good, and others saw them as foreign invaders.
'Obama's family come from that second school of thought and it hasn't quite left him yet.'
The White House has previously insisted there was no basis to suggestions that the removal of Sir Winston's statue was influenced by Mr Obama's views on colonialism.
The facts about the bust in question are not what you might think, anyway.
The story that O had the bust removed is an American, and now British, right wing canard.
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