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England, Scotland and Wales All Have Non-White Leaders Now
Front page mag ^ | March 17, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 03/18/2024 5:35:15 AM PDT by george76

Apart from Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom executives are entirely non-white..

It’s certainly an interesting phenomenon.

Rishi Sunak is serving as the Prime Minister of the UK. Pakistani Muslim settler Humza Yousaf has taken over as the First Minister of Scotland and Vaughan Gething (pictured above), an immigrant from Zambia, will become the First Minister of Wales.

Apart from Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom executives are entirely non-white.

It’s certainly an interesting phenomenon that reflects a rate of not only demographic, but political change in the UK, that has become more rapid than the rest of Europe.

Part of it can probably be attributed to the role of bloc votes, certainly in the case of Yousaf and the rising Pakistani Muslim presence, and partly to the aspirational growth of talented Indian immigrants, but you also have to wonder to what extent failed political establishments are using minorities to paper over fundamental failures.

It’s not entirely a coincidence that Rishi Sunak became the frontman for a failed Conservative party in crisis or Yousaf for a disgraced SNP.

American-style identity politics will use minorities and ‘breaking-the-glass-ceiling’ to change the narrative about a company, a party, or a movie. Put a minority figure out front and suddenly, disparaging it is racist.

The UK has been stuck in the doldrums for a while now. (As has America.) And instead of talking about that, soon there’ll be so many thinkpieces about the newly diverse leadership of the isles. (I just got to it first.)

Why are both world powers stuck? There’s a global situation to consider, but more narrowly, both nations went down the dead ends of liberalism, trashing domestic industries in the name of socialism and then globalism, embracing massive immigration and the international community, only to be left with nothing. Incompetent conservative reactions followed leaving the native population despondent and lacking any way forward.

American liberalism papered over its disaster with Barack Obama leading to a decade and a half of horror. Now the UK gets to pretend that breaking the glass ceiling is the only progress the nation needs.

Why actually deal with the problems when everyone can pat themselves on the back for the new tolerance?


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: england; muslim; muslims; napbot; nolongergreat; pakistan; pakistani; pakistanimuslim; pakistanimuslims; pakistanis; scotland; unitedkingdom; wales; zambia
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To: wardaddy
The UK despite London being minority white is still mid 80s% British white

Build a wall around Londonistan. Problem's solved.

Although a lot of the wealth is contained in that particular metro area.

61 posted on 03/19/2024 2:14:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Regulator
All that might have some credibility had Rishi Sunak won a General Election as party leader, when the entire UK electorate would have a say in the result. But he hasn't. His rise through the political ranks happened in the following stages, in NONE of which was a decision made by a body with dominant ethnic representation. Just tell me at which point in the following could a 'critical mass' of ethnics have influenced the decision?:

* Selection as potential Conservative candidate (Decision: Conservative Central Office)

* Selection as their candidate by the local conservative Association in Richmond (97% white British)

* Election as MP for Richmond (ditto)

* Appointment as junior Treasury Minister by PM Theresa May

* Appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer by PM Boris Johnson

* Election as party leader by Conservative Members of Parliament (93% white British)

* Appointment as Prime Minister (automatic as leader of largest party in House of Commons)

62 posted on 03/20/2024 2:12:29 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: Winniesboy

” Just tell me at which point in the following could a ‘critical mass’ of ethnics have influenced the decision?”

All of them. Like I said, if he was just one Hindoo boy in some Yorkshire town, he would be the town curiosity, nothing more. But since there is a critical mass of non-White South Asian voters in Britain, a totem like him will be stood up to show them that the “Conservative” party is suicidal too!


63 posted on 03/20/2024 8:50:40 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: wardaddy

“The UK despite London being minority white is still mid 80s% British white”

Not for long Bubba. “We will overwhelm you!” is not just something the Mexicans in California said.


64 posted on 03/20/2024 8:52:22 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Regulator

True but if we were 80 plus percent white
It’d sure be easier to win national elections
We’ve imported a ton of democrats


65 posted on 03/20/2024 11:37:20 PM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind)
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