Boris Johnson, who has been declared Britain's new foreign secretary by Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May is being lampooned by the press and the public. They remember his most disgraceful, undiplomatic moments that include him writing a poem, which insinuated that Turkey's president had sexual relations with a goat.
"There was a young fellow from Ankara
Who was a terrific wankerer
Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn't even stop to thankera."
"There was a young fellow from Ankara
Who was a terrific wankerer
Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn't even stop to thankera."
This poem written by Johnson in may, won him the first prize that included £1,000 in cash through a contest set up by conservative magazine, The Spectator, to write the poem insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan had asked Germany to prosecute a German comedian who had mocked him, according to a report by The New York Times.
Johnson who is set to lead the rarefied Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which employs 14,000 people in nearly 270 diplomatic offices and works with the secret intelligence service MI6, has had many other spectacularly tactless moments making absurd comments about other world leaders.
His inglorious list of blunders include his reference to Africans as flag-waving pickaninnies in 2002, and referring to Hillary Clinton in a column for The Telegraph, as "a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital" when she was last running for the post of US President in 2007. In December, he compared Russian president Vladmir Putin to the Harry Potter character Dobby The House Elf.
On other, more recent occasions Johnson has compared the European Union to Hitler's Third Reich, and accused President Obama of having "ancestral dislike of the British Empire" due to his 'Kenyan roots'.
Twitter meanwhile had a field day to mock the latest appointment, here are some of the most hillarious tweets:
