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Oooh BBC thinks the same :
Whoever wins the race to be the next prime minister, it will have been the most diverse major party leadership contest in UK history. What does this tell us about British politics?
Four of the eight Conservative MPs who made it through to the first round of voting are women, and four - Rishi Sunak, Nadhim Zahawi, Suella Braverman and Kemi Badenoch - are from ethnic minority backgrounds. Mr Zahawi was voted out in the first round, along with Jeremy Hunt.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62150063
It was hardly a list of pros and cons. It was a full article, ready for publication in the Times, just a few weeks before he became the figurehead for the Vote Leave campaign.
Is that someone who says it as he sees it?
It's not difficult to think of more examples of him lying, changing a story, and doing anything but 'say it as he sees it' (which is a phrase used for people who speak blunt truths).
"He was a creation of the opposition" - really?
The bloke who wrote this had Johnson down to a tee when this was written more than forty years in his school report;-
"Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies. [He] sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the school for the next half).
"I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation that binds everyone else."
I know you don't like him, but, in terms of responsibility:
He did see us through Covid.
He did ultimately (and finally) fulfil the Brexit referendum.
He is generally acknowledged to have done very well in terms of support for Ukraine
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/boris...nation-1729581
Obviously this is balanced against numerous reasons to not like him, but I think we need to accept a bit of balance here. I hear a lot of (generally on twitter) rather extravagant critiques of him as the worst politician / PM of all time etc. I'm not really sure that's true. A lot of people seem to have these rather extreme proclamations about every prime minister..
Politics is cut throat. It's always been the best man for the job. I'm still confused as to whether you want the best people possible or less suitable people who fit strict racial quotas. I think you want the latter but you're afraid to come out and explicitly say it. Fear of ridicule maybe lol
It's quite simple really - I think that to find the best person possible you need to pick from a diverse pool of applicants, not just a bunch of white men. Sometimes the best person will be a white man, a lot of the time it won't be. Traditionally we've never been able to find out because women/people of colour etc have never had a look in.
I'm not remotely surprised that a Tommy Robinson fanboy would find that idea distasteful and even less surprised that a grown man who says lol finds is easily confused
She is probably a good actress and reading from a script, but Kemi seems like the best option to me.
"Sometimes the best will be a white guy. A *lot* of the time it won't be". *Sometimes* versus *a lot*
You seem to be suggesting that "white men" are somehow handicap. Can you explain why delmbox? Cheers
And what do fully mature, real men use to espress laughter on here? The trite yellow smiley? Lolz
Yeah sure. When you add up all the non white men, white women and non white women in the UK it comes to more people than white men. Therefore I would assume that sometimes the best person for a job will be a white man, a lot of the times it won't be because there's a wider pool of talent to choose from. I'm not a statistics expert though so maybe that mathematical assumption is wrong
Fundamentally I just think a leadership's diversity should be reflective of a country's diversity so everybody can feel represented. Throughout history white men have never had an issue with that but now that society is changing so that voices other than theirs are heard certain people just can't handle it - you see it in from who the new PM will be down to women's football being given publicity. Reminds me of that quote "When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"
That's my opinion, like it or lump it I couldn't honestly care less and I'm sure the feeling's mutual. Have a lovely day
Your assumption is wrong, in parliament White men make up the vast majority. There are plenty of professions where your dreaded "white male" is in the majority. I'm not sure that in the general population are in the small minority either not to the extent to justify your "sometimes" versus "a lot" idea.
" When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression" lol
I'm sorry to bust your bubble but nowhere in nature do you get equality and trying to impose eQuAlITy will lead to oppressing people. What do you do about the naturally beautiful? Make them more ugly for equality? What about those with naturally more drive and a higher work ethic? Tax them heavily?
What about those who are naturally more intelligent? Lobotomy? See how mad equality can get...
You are clearly brain washed into despising your own kind by Marxist "Critical Theory" ...i see you as a victim. You've been tricked into thinking that deriding your own kind is somehow enlightened. The modern left is a suicide cult, so finally Delmbox, just for confirmation, You would want to choose your heart surgeon based on racial quotas and not the best man for the job?