Readers respond to the former prime minister’s record and the end of his quasi-Trumpian brand of racist populism
I found Nels Abbey’s article (Dear white Britain: we hate to say we told you so about Boris Johnson – but we told you so, 19 June) not only brilliant and jaw-dropping, but also chilling in that we have failed in our attempts to stop people like Boris Johnson in succeeding in their campaign against immigrants in general and black immigrants in particular.
This is the second time that I have written to the Guardian in more than 50 years. The first time was in 1967, when the paper was then called the Manchester Guardian. The story then was about the racial abuse I was experiencing as a young parent living in Lewisham. Sadly, nothing has changed since then, except that racism has grown more sophisticated. It was also around that time that Enoch Powell delivered his “rivers of blood” speech.
