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Stormzy claps back to homophobic slurs with Boris Johnson’s columns after admitting he’s never voted


Stormzy is making his thoughts clear

Things are getting political on Stormzy’s social media, after the grime superstar admitted earlier today he had never voted before. Now, after past homophobic slurs were used against him, he’s clapping back with Boris Johnson’s columns.

Earlier today the Vossi Bop star took to social media to urge fans to vote in the General Election.

‘I know a lot of people are saying “Go vote,” and it can seem like just bulls*** but hear me out,’ the 26-year-old said. ‘Man’s never voted. Man’s always looked at politicians and thought “You guys are f***ing everything up. Man don’t trust you lot. You lot don’t do nothing for man and my community and my circumstance and my mum’s circumstance.”‘

He went on to back Labour in his message, which then prompted the LGBT+ Conservatives Twitter page to repost previous tweets of Stormzy’s that dated back to 2011 and contained homophobic slurs – that he has since apologised for.

As the account namedropped the rapper in the tweet along with screenshots of his now-deleted messages, Stormzy clapped back by sharing snippets from columns written by Boris in the past.

One excerpt quoted a line from a Spectator column written by the current PM that referenced ‘Labour’s appalling agenda encouraging teaching of homosexuality in schools and all the rest of it’.

Stormzy also mentioned the politician suggesting in a 2002 piece that if gay marriage was ok he ‘saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men and a dog’.

Fans rallied behind Stormzy in the series of messages, with punters taking to the original post from the Conservative feed citing the rapper had said sorry for his previous homophobic comments.

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In 2017 when the tweets came to light, Stormzy came forward to apologise, telling fans in a stream of messages: ‘I am sorry, these are attitudes I’ve left in the past.’

He wrote: ‘I said some foul and offensive things whilst tweeting years ago at a time when I was young and proudly ignorant. Very hurtful and discriminative views that I’ve unlearned as I’ve grown up and become a man.

‘The comments I made were unacceptable and disgusting, full stop. Comments that I regret and to everyone I’ve offended, I am sorry, these are attitudes I’ve left in the past.

Stormzy earlier today admitted he’d never voted before (Picture: Getty Images)

‘The homophobic language I used was, embarrassingly, a part of my vocabulary when I was younger and…ignorance made me feel comfortable to use them whilst not understanding the hate and the ramifications they carry. That isn’t an excuse, I take responsibility for my mistakes and hope you can understand that my younger self doesn’t reflect who I am today.’

He closed the stream of messages with: ‘Again, I’m sorry to everyone I’ve offended. To the LGBQT community and my supporters and friends, my deepest apologies.’

When it comes to Boris’ comments, last month he insisted they were not offensive and claimed they could only be ‘made to seem offensive’ if they were taken out of context.

He added during BBC Question Time: ‘I have written many millions of words in my life as a journalist and I have genuinely never intended to cause hurt or pain to anybody.’

Boris then defended his ‘right to speak out’.

Stormzy, who’s gearing up to release his new album Heavy Is The Head, has been using his platform to get his fans involved in politics ahead of the general election.

And he’s made it clear which side he’s on, previously branding the Prime Minister a ‘sinister man’ with a ‘long record of lying and policies that have absolutely no regard for the people that our government should be committed to helping and empowering’.



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