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BORIS JOHNSON was accused of having “no idea” how ordinary people live today after he called those who live in Britain’s poorest communities “chavs,” “drug addicts,” “burglars” and “losers” in a newspaper article.
In the unearthed Telegraph column from 2005, Mr Johnson wrote that poorer voters living on “run-down estates” only vote for Labour because of the “deluded hope of bigger handouts” from Labour governments.
Mr Johnson attacked the “bottom 20 per cent of society” for producing “the chavs, the losers, the burglars, the drug addicts” in Britain.
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