Boris Johnson: Racist trolls should crawl back under the rock from which they emerged

At the start of today's COVID press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson slammed those who racially abused England players, Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka

[stringer-ikpc]

What about the white statues being attacked Boris. Anything to say about that.???? Playing to the gallery.

[PointNemo]

There is nothing heroic about being good at kicking ball.

[bridiesmith]

Shame he didn’t say that about the BLM rioters over last summer.

[tenshi]

i think we need brexit from london, that place is full of evil!

[nobordersnowelfare]

They never miss an opportunity to push white guilt.

[name_blank]

If it was the black players who scored the goals, you wouldn't stop hearing it from the BBC and the entire left and how diversity is our strength etc. However, the black players (and only those 3) missed the penalties and now anyone who points it out is a racist troll. Love it.

[hellochicago]

Shocking. Never heard him lay that kind of vitriol on murderers and terrorists.

[PointNemo]

"Racist troll" is misnomer, by definition if one is trolling they do not believe what they are saying, they are trying to get a reaction. Likewise if some is actually a racist they are not just trolling, they really believe that.

[janeregan]

Shame that those who hate England our history etc get away with their hate crimes,

[JillessJack]

The whole game was a white-knuckle ride.

Which makes my knuckles racist.

[martinking]

They make out its English racists but every day it becomes less English as the boats roll in.

[JPnielsen]

I wish people had the same energy and determination about stopping people being hacked up with machetes as they do about mean words on Twitter

[JPnielsen]

Any explanation as to why GB News producer Nimrat Ahluwalia was openly lying about England fans and causing further division when she shared a picture of Poland fans fighting from 2012 & said it was England fans last night?

[WllKiedSnake]

Its funny how all this Racist stuff always happens on Twitter

[MrButtlettuce]

More than likely a Jessie Smollett incident.

[stipple]

Gareth Southgate admitted to creating a team that looks like Britain! So it wasn’t picked on football skill and ability then?!

Gareth, that’s racist. Period.

[JPnielsen]

Don't let him saying this distract you from Boris still trying to bring in discriminatory vaccine passports even after he said multiple times he wouldn't

[bobyorke]

This man has no principles or morals. How dare he preach people

[captainbuggernut]

He has turned into a rather pathetic PM. The path of least resistance seems to be the mantra. Margaret Thatcher he ain't.

[gweilo]

It was the team that went all "woke/identity politics ". What did they expect?