Posted on 09/06/2022 2:22:48 PM PDT by FarCenter
The new British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Tuesday selected a cabinet where, for the first time, a white man will not hold one of the country's four most important ministerial positions.
Truss appointed Kwasi Kwarteng – whose parents came from Ghana in the 1960s – as Britain's first Black finance minister while James Cleverly is the first Black foreign minister.
Cleverly, whose mother hails from Sierra Leone and whose father is white, has in the past spoken about being bullied as a mixed-race child and has said the party needs to do more to attract Black voters.
Suella Braverman, whose parents came to Britain from Kenya and Mauritius six decades ago, succeeds Priti Patel as the second ethnic minority home secretary, or interior minister, where she will be responsible for police and immigration.
The growing diversity is in part thanks to a push by the Conservative Party in recent years to put forward a more varied set of candidates for parliament.
British governments have until a few decades ago been made up of mostly white men. It took until 2002 for Britain to appoint its first ethnic minority cabinet minister when Paul Boateng was appointed chief secretary to the Treasury.
Rishi Sunak, whose parents came from India, was Kwarteng's predecessor in the finance job and the runner-up to Truss in the leadership context.
"Politics has set the pace. We now treat it as normal, this diversity," said Sunder Katwala, director of non-partisan think-tank British Future, which focuses on migration and identity. "The pace of change is extraordinary."
However, the upper ranks of business, the judiciary, the civil service and army are all still predominately white.
And despite the party's diversity campaign, only a quarter of Conservative members of parliament are women and 6% from minority backgrounds.
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There’s no England now.
Yup. After Major left in the 90s, the conservative party has been that in name only.
There aren’t any MPs that are pro-Britain.
Oh goody, those “conservatives” in UK are just like RATs and RINOs in the US.
Thatcher is Jesse Helms compared to these characters.
It’s finance minister now? Not Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Well, that should keep the lights on. Google F’n grief.
The folks in the UK get what you deserve. F!king IDIOTS!!
Just as Klaus Schwab intends. This is the CONSERVATIVE candidate, too. Britain is done. So are we. You all just won’t admit it.
An Old Testament curse:
“As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.” Isaiah 3:12
The UK has a Deep State, too.
And no Trump.
How woketastic.
bump
Of course race is the most important requirement for an important job.
NOT!
Oh yes, the title is still “Chancellor of the Exchequer”, but maybe the author of this article simply wanted to explain its meaning - although the CoE is not just responsible for the finances, but also for the economy.
He or she is generally considered the most important British Cabinet member after the Prime Minister :-)
Awesome sauce, more racist rhetoric from the new Captain of the Titanic.....
Evidence suggests that they are.
Kwarteng is a staunch Thatcherite, Cleverly is a Lt-Colonel in the reserves who got in trouble with leftists for praising Britain’s colonial legacy in Sierra Leone (his mother’s homeland) and Suella Braverman was one of the Brexit Spartans who held out against May’s deal to the end, she is also the only major politician who has called for Britain leaving the ECHR and making a full Brexit.
The left hates them for the same reasons they hate Thomas Sewell, Ben Carson and Candace Owens. They’re none-whites who don’t swear loyalty to their racial grievance politics.
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