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New British PM Truss makes history with non-white top appointments
France 24 ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: braverman; cleverly; kwarteng; liberalracism; liztruss; racialquotas; redtories; selfhatingbrits; truss; virtuesignaling; whitemales
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To: FarCenter

There’s no England now.


21 posted on 09/06/2022 3:26:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Nextrush

Yup. After Major left in the 90s, the conservative party has been that in name only.


22 posted on 09/06/2022 3:36:10 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: marron

There aren’t any MPs that are pro-Britain.


23 posted on 09/06/2022 3:37:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: FarCenter

Oh goody, those “conservatives” in UK are just like RATs and RINOs in the US.


24 posted on 09/06/2022 3:37:18 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Sam Gamgee

Thatcher is Jesse Helms compared to these characters.


25 posted on 09/06/2022 3:51:01 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It’s finance minister now? Not Chancellor of the Exchequer?


26 posted on 09/06/2022 4:05:50 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: FarCenter

Well, that should keep the lights on. Google F’n grief.

The folks in the UK get what you deserve. F!king IDIOTS!!


27 posted on 09/06/2022 4:30:35 PM PDT by technically right
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To: FarCenter

Just as Klaus Schwab intends. This is the CONSERVATIVE candidate, too. Britain is done. So are we. You all just won’t admit it.


28 posted on 09/06/2022 4:36:55 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: FarCenter

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


29 posted on 09/06/2022 4:44:40 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: marron

The UK has a Deep State, too.

And no Trump.


30 posted on 09/06/2022 4:45:24 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: FarCenter

How woketastic.


31 posted on 09/06/2022 5:14:38 PM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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bump


32 posted on 09/06/2022 5:29:27 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: devere

I notice Michael Ellis is in the cabinet.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6gf7qi


33 posted on 09/06/2022 10:16:32 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: FarCenter

Of course race is the most important requirement for an important job.

NOT!


34 posted on 09/06/2022 11:10:05 PM PDT by luvie (🇺🇸The bravery/dedication of our troops keeping us safe & free make me proud to be an American🇺🇸)
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To: scrabblehack

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 :-)


35 posted on 09/07/2022 3:05:53 AM PDT by Menes
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To: FarCenter

Awesome sauce, more racist rhetoric from the new Captain of the Titanic.....


36 posted on 09/07/2022 9:57:03 PM PDT by cranked
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To: marron

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.


37 posted on 09/08/2022 4:12:01 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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