Thursday, July 14, 2022

And That 'Minority-Affirming' & Racially 'Progressive' British Labour Has *Virtually No Dark-Skinned, Much Less Refugee-Born &/Or Middle Eastern or Asian (or African) Person In Its Highest Echelons...Whereas the U K Conservative Party Has Had (At Least) Three of its Twelve Leadership Contenders Coming From Such Backgrounds, All of Whom Have Served in Some of the Very Highest Cabinet Positions of Recent Times...One of Whom Might Very Well Go On to Secure That Much-Coveted Position and With It the Prime Ministership of the United Kingdom...

          Disclaimer: Is it my fault that Blogger et al are assiduously rearranging and re-ordering the layout            of this particular blogpost? Hardly!

*Evidently fake news once again (see immediately preceding blogpost), as not only had Keir Starmer 'appointed...the most female and ethnically led shadow cabinet in [British] history' (according to 'Diversity Today' on April 6th, 2020), but Jeremy Corbyn's own ones had 'been the most diverse in [British] parliamentary history' (according to 'The News'), with this important caveat: 'the [then] current composition [of Corbyn's shadow cabinet] [was]n't the most diverse ever (taking either gender or ethnicity in isolation'.

          Nevertheless, surely one expects as much from a party profusely professing equity in all things,                  whereas supposedly the UK Conservative Party has hardly - at least historically - ever been                        associated with such...

          That's the point I've been seeking to make, but yes, it's ever a dangerous temptation to seek to make            the facts conform to our own pre-conceived opinions!

Anyhow, how many and what percentage of Labour leadership aspirants, let alone ultimately successful ones, have been 'ethnically diverse' as such?

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