LONDON Boris Johnsons record on racism has left some Black Brits so afraid for their safety that they are considering leaving the UK should the Conservatives claim victory in Thursdays election.

Racist comments written or signed off by the prime minister include an article published in The Spectator while he was editor , written by columnist Taki Theodoracopulos, that claimed Black people have lower IQs.

Elsewhere, he penned a column for the Daily Telegraph referring to watermelon smiles and piccaninnies. He once wrote of Africa : The problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more. And, in a piece for the Guardian , Johnson said: When I shamble round the park in my running gear late at night, and I come across that bunch of black kids, shrieking in the spooky corner by the disused gents, I would love to pretend that I dont turn a hair.

Comedian Ava Vidal is among those considering packing her bags.

I totally understand the idea that people are having to leave the UK if the Tories get back in, she said. I agree with it and its something Ive looked into myself.

Ive also been online giving citizenship advice to other people, with Caribbean parents, some advice about what they have to do.

I fear a Johnson-led government because weve not had such an overtly racist prime minister for years. He doesnt try to hide what he is. The fact he consistently refuses to apologize to Black people for what hes done to our communities and the words hes used is ridiculous.

Lorna Jackson, 45, agrees. She told HuffPost UK she would leave for New Zealand with her husband and son if the Conservatives win on Thursday.

As long as the system works as it does in this country, she said, Black people are never going to be safe. Johnson is actually making us feel unsafe. If the Conservative Party win, Im gone.

The 45-year-old, from Dover, has been assaulted and called the n word in her coastal village on numerous occasions. People have even defecated on her doorstep.

She says shes noticed an increase in the frequency of these incidents since the referendum result and believes Downing Street is at least partly responsible.

Jackson added: Boris Johnson is not held to account for the vitriol he has been dripping into our system. He gets away with it.

Its not just now. Over the last 25 years, Johnson has been putting racist, xenophobic poison out there. Look at his articles picanninnies. Look at the things hes done and said.

On Sunday, following a racist incident at the previous days Manchester derby, English football coach Gary Neville blamed Boris Johnson for fuelling racism in the UK with his comments, including about migration.

Among the prime ministers most notorious remarks are his description of Papua New Guinea as a place of orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing and his reference to the entire continent of Africa as that country.

In April 2016, during the Brexit referendum campaign, he dismissed former U.S. President Barack Obama s views on EU membership because of the part-Kenyan Presidents ancestral dislike of the British.

And the following year, he appeared to belittle victims of the Libyan civil war at a Conservative Party gathering. Referring to Libyas potential to be the next Dubai, he said: The only thing theyve got to do is clear the dead bodies away.

Nathan Coombes, a sales consultant who lives in London, told HuffPost UK: If Boris Johnson wins, life in this country will be much harder for Black people.

Racism has ramped up since Brexit and my Black skin instantly identifies me in the way a burka instantly identifies a Muslim woman.

He added: I wish I could start again somewhere else but I just dont have the money to take my family out of this country.

A friend of mine at work is going back home to Spain. EU citizens have been treated very badly since the referendum. I wish I could join him but its not much better for Black people in Europe either .

Black people are on the frontline for abuse and after a lifetime of tolerating prejudice, I dont want my children growing up experiencing the same thing. I look at 2020 and I feel so little optimism.

My fate, and my familys fate, is largely in the hands of white people in this country. If they care enough, they will stop Boris Johnson from winning a majority on Thursday. But I dont have much faith in that happening.

The concept of Black people leaving in response to the post-Brexit referendum increase in hate crime, the rise of far-right groups, and the Conservatives notorious hostile environment policies, has been termed Blaxit (Black peoples exit).

Speaking to HuffPost UK, writer and podcaster Marianne Miles revealed she has been looking at land in the Caribbean and making enquiries about citizenship for her and her sons. She plans to leave whether the Conservatives win or not but says Boris Johnsons ascent to power was the final straw.

Truthfully, Ive never felt comfortable in this country as a Black woman, she said. Ive always known that theres going to be barriers to what I can achieve because of the colour of my skin.

Now that we have Boris Johnson being openly racist and the people in his party felt like hed be a perfectly fine person to lead the country. It felt like a slap in the face to me as a Black British person, as somebody who pays taxes and led an exemplary life in this country.

Knowing that this is the where were going, where we can have someone whos so racist and homophobic leading this country I know here never will be home, so its time to go.

Dawn Jones, a retired lawyer, made her own Blaxit shortly after the referendum result after becoming increasingly alarmed by the rise in racism. She left the UK and moved to Spain with her husband.

I felt the need to seek a permanent alternative for myself and my family, she said. It became obvious that the results had woken the racism which so many like myself knew still existed but was no longer dormant.

Brexit appeared to have given the racists carte blanch to say out loud what they are thinking. I just knew I had to leave in order to enjoy my retirement.

Though she will be voting Labour by proxy on Thursday, the 63-year-old despairs over the state of current affairs.

When you have a media dominated by Tory sympathisers, the idea of them holding the likes of Johnson, [Jacob] Rees-Mogg and others to account is like believing in fairies, she told HuffPost UK.

As the prime minister he ought to be held to a much higher standard, yet hes allowed to dismiss concerns around his racism, his xenophobic rhetoric, as free speech.

Award-winning author Alex Wheatle says he despairs over the political landscape in the UK and has considered leaving Britain to live in Jamaica, where his parents are from.