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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Focused on the wrong thing. Are they pro-Britain, should be the litmus.
I saw this earlier today and remarked, this should solve all the problems the UK is facing.
Instead of working on energy prices that have quadrupled and set to double again, the most important issue facing the new PM is selecting a total non-white cabinent.
It’s insanity on steroids.
“History” and “good history” are not synonymous.
Well, good to see you have your priororities in order, ma’am...
They've got this all wrong. If you have mixed race parents and you are liberal, you are black. If you have mixed race parents and you are conservative, you are one of those evil white people. A White Hispanic or a White Black, etc.
The decent into demographic oblivion advances.
Geeze...any transgenders? Talk about pandering!
Wokeservative.
Considering that some of the top people in each of the former colonies emigrated to the mother country, you would now expect to find quite a few of them in the upper ranks.
It’s not like they were convicts exported from their homeland, like Australians (or the southern US before the Revolution). Or refugees that couldn’t make it at home.
And we are about to replace all white computer workers with Indians. But you are not allowed to notice that.
I don’t care if she appoints a ham sandwich to a given post as long as it’s qualified to hold that post. Race and sex are irrelevant unless the appointment is just based on race and sex.
You’ve noticed that the left has resurrected the one-drop rule.
White people are the people indigenous to the UK. Imagine having a PM in an African country who refuses to hire any black men, or an Asian PM who refuses to hire any Asian men. This dumb bitch UK PM refuses to hire any indigenous British men. She should be taken outside and shot.
Britain is OVER when they have a pathetic SICKO like this in charge of their country. They already have enough problems without having this maniac in charge of their country. Watch her mirror Biden, and she likely can’t blame it on dementia. Just libtardism.
“You’ve noticed that the left has resurrected the one-drop rule.”
They never gave it up in the first place.
CC
It’s important to remember that blacks make up 3% of the U.K.’s population. I know, if you watch BBC you’d think they’re maybe 25%.
People of Far East origin and South Asian origin outnumber blacks, but for some reason don’t count. White males who make up 40% don’t count either.
diversity will not keep the people warm
I have no idea how qualified these new cabinet members are so not in a position to comment.
Here’s Liz Truss’s cabinet https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62796077 . As you can see, there’s a significant number of white men in it. They just weren’t mentioned in this story.
Liz Truss is not a dumb bitch. She’s a very smart slut; but her husband forgave her.
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