How can anyone defend this guy?
"Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson seethed with anger the other day when a radio caller reminded him of something he wrote about the children of single mothers and the presenter read extracts of the article, in which Johnson attacked working class men, single mums and the children of single parent families.
Johnson tried to distance himself from his abhorrent comments by saying it was a long time ago (though he was in his 30s at the time, not a child) - The article is called ‘The male sex is to blame for the appalling proliferation of single mothers’. The irony is that Boris Johnson’s adultery has created at least two single mothers, having cheated on and left behind two wives and sired a number of children unknown to even Wikipedia. And his own mum was a single mother from 1978, when his parents divorced. But of course, Eton-educated Boris Johnson wasn’t talking about people like himself. His sights were trained on the working class — and especially mothers who depended on benefits to survive.
Ignoring the fact that many single mothers were previously attached (like his own mother and his ex-wives), Johnson writes: “You can call, if you like, for the odious and unfair humiliation of bastard children, in the hope that it will cause a pang of regret in their parents and deter potential single mothers. You can call for a revival of the stocks.. But these prescriptions, thought-provoking though they may be, are unlikely to be widely read in the estates of Liverpool or Hackney.
“And yet no government — and certainly no Labour government — will have the courage to make the cuts in the safety net of the viciousness required to provide anything like such a deterrent. For the reality, surely, is that nine times out of ten these girls will go on having babies out of wedlock not because they want to qualify for some state handout, but because, in their monotonous and depressing lives, they want a little creature to love.”