The remarks would have been racist and offensive if someone had thought so when they first appeared in print, They didn't though did they? The remarks were dragged up as part of Ken Livingston's attempt to smear Boris Johnson in the election to the position of Mayor of London years later so it would appear that the remarks were only "racist" and "offensive" to those who sought to gain political capital by portraying them as being "racist" and "offensive".

Funny isn't it that the person who complained out Boris being "racist" and "offensive" proved to be not beyond being racist and offensive himself to the extent that by being so he was suspended from the Labour Party as he had brought that political party into disrepute.

By the way who is in denial about what? The plain truth is that Labour's NEC ordered an inquiry into anti-Semitism and found the resulting report too embarrassing to allow its contents to be made public - so they buried it.

It would appear that for you and your pals it is perfectly OK for someone in the Labour Party, who is a self-confessed racist, to get off the hook by making an apology - but a Conservative who made remarks in 2002 that were belatedly deemed by some to be "racist" and "offensive" and for which that person apologised for any offence caused about ten years ago now should not be eligible for any post in Government, That Raggy, is what I call bare-faced hypocrisy.