Jeremy Corbyn just trolled Boris Johnson by asking if he’d deport himself and it’s brutal
A memorable PMQs today and it’s not often you say that. Mostly – in fact, entirely – for this moment in which Jeremy Corbyn asked Boris Johnson if he’d deport himself.
The Labour leader was challenging the prime minister over the issue of the deportation of convicted offenders to Jamaica who were brought here as children.
"if there was a case of a young white boy with blonde hair who later dabbled in class A drugs and conspired with a friend to beat up a journalist, would he deport that boy?"
Boris Johnson feels the 🔥 at #pmqspic.twitter.com/5iUCcHU4JV
— end of daves ❄️ 🥕 (@davemacladd) February 12, 2020
The look on Johnson’s face says it all.
Johnson really didn’t like Corbyn asking if a man who arrived in the UK from the US aged 5 then dabbled in class A drugs and conspired to beat up a journalist should be deported back to the US. Too close to home #PMQs
— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) February 12, 2020
The face that says "how dare you compare a privileged white man to black men I'm deporting for doing the same thing I've done"
#PMQs pic.twitter.com/vkmFujlfmZ— troovus (@troovus) February 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/AlexTaylorNews/status/1227567141450326022?s=20
And here’s a longer clip, including Johnson’s response.
Jeremy Corbyn brutally attacks Boris Johnson over the deportation of convicted offenders to Jamaica.
"Is it one rule for young black boys from the Caribbean and another for white boys from the US?" #PMQspic.twitter.com/USK1zM3fMW
— LBC (@LBC) February 12, 2020
Journalist and former Guardian columnist Gary Younge summed it up very well.
So if you came to the country as a child and sold class A drugs you could be deported by the person you sold them to, who also came to the country as a child. Seems fair. https://t.co/2PR1fS2xXx
— Gary Younge (@garyyounge) February 12, 2020
To conclude …
Corbyn asks Boris Johnson if he'd deport himself. A class piece of trolling. #PMQs pic.twitter.com/2jzS45yGWL
— Otto English (@Otto_English) February 12, 2020
One mystery remains unsolved, however.
Where was this fighting talk during the general election?
— Otto English (@Otto_English) February 12, 2020
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