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to be furious at my children being described like this

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spacepyramid · 28/11/2019 20:49

Apparently they are 'ill-raised, ignorant and aggressive' because I am a single parent.

All I can say is I am extremely proud of them for overcoming my apparent short comings as a parent and achieving so much despite it.

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QuestionableMushroom · 28/11/2019 20:50

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PinkiOcelot · 28/11/2019 20:50

Who described them as this?

EKGEMS · 28/11/2019 20:51

And what's the excuse for the jackass who said that? Raised by wolves? Nasty and ignorant

endofthelinefinally · 28/11/2019 20:51

Oh, is this our prime minister?

NeedAnExpert · 28/11/2019 20:51

An unknown number of his children are presumably being raised by single mothers.

QuestionableMushroom · 28/11/2019 20:51

Bingo. It’s BJ.

BlackeyedSusan · 28/11/2019 20:51

Mine too.

Maybe they would have been better off if I had stayed and subsequently been murdered... Hmm

OhioOhioOhio · 28/11/2019 20:51

Omg. Who said that?

Aquamarine1029 · 28/11/2019 20:52

Who said this, and is it possible you might be blind to their poor behaviour?

Trebla · 28/11/2019 20:52

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EstebanTheMagnificent · 28/11/2019 20:52

At least you know many children you have.

EstebanTheMagnificent · 28/11/2019 20:53

*how many

SmileEachDay · 28/11/2019 20:53

What???

Have I missed some Boris gold here?

PorpentinaScamander · 28/11/2019 20:54

When I mentioned once that I was a single parent another mum said in a very surprised tone "Really? I never would have guessed that. I mean your children are so well behaved" HmmConfusedGrin

BJ is a cunt

spacepyramid · 28/11/2019 20:54

Johnson said the “modern British male is useless” and criticised working class men as “likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless, and perhaps claiming to suffer from low self-esteem brought on by unemployment”.

He added that “500,000 women have chosen to marry the state” but that men were “responsible for a social breakdown which is costing us all, as taxpayers, £9.1bn per year, and which is producing a generation of ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate children who in theory will be paying for our pensions”.

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sue51 · 28/11/2019 20:55

It was an interview he gave 25 years ago though I suspect he still holds the same opinion. Pretty off considering his own behaviour.

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 28/11/2019 20:56

He has fathered a number of children when he was married to another woman, thereby creating at least two single parent families, that we know about. How anybody can have an Oxford degree and remain so thick is beyond me. He's a hypocritical arse hole who needs to keep his willy in his pants.

spacepyramid · 28/11/2019 20:56

It was in the Spectator and when he was deputy editor at the Telegraph.

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AbsentmindedWoman · 28/11/2019 20:56

He's a disgrace, I saw a headline about this earlier.

Has he just said it or was this gem from a while ago?

FredaFrogspawn · 28/11/2019 20:56

Fucking hypocrite.

FredaFrogspawn · 28/11/2019 20:57

I loathe him so much.

AbsentmindedWoman · 28/11/2019 20:57

Cross post!

Crabonastick · 28/11/2019 20:59

My I’ll-raised, ignorant and aggressive son is more of a man than BJ will ever be, and he hasn’t even hit puberty yet.

Stooshie8 · 28/11/2019 21:01

Looks like Labour's concerted effort to swing votes in their favour is still going strong Hmm Hmm Hmm

BeverlyGoldbergsHairAndJumpers · 28/11/2019 21:01

What worries me most is that so many people will agree with him and vote him in

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