It's time for David Lammy to join the Tories

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At Guardian HQ last week, they actually seemed upset that the Johnson cabinet contains more BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) people than any other in history — how dare he! Bloody Tories, coming over here, taking our ethnic minorities — because Labour, as surely as any pukka sahib swanking around a colonial tea plantation, believes that the non-white vote is theirs by right...

It’s time for David Lammy to join the Tories


Julie Burchill
31 July 2019
The Spectator

I’ve never voted Conservative and I never will. Having been raised in a working-class home, I can’t get past the fact that had the Labour party not come into being, the Tories would have kept my people serfs for as long as inhumanly possible. But I’m also an extreme Brexiteer; far from the past three years being boring (anyone who says this reveals themselves as such a monumental dullard that we should remove their right to vote), I consider that this nation spent the four decades up to 23 June 2016 sleepwalking into the shadowlands of EU dreariness — and disaster. Only a halfwit could fail to comprehend that the whole repulsive gravy-train is set to run into the buffers very soon and that it makes sense for us to pull the communication cord and hop off ASAP.

Thus I have viewed the rise of Boris Johnson with a degree of cold-blooded delight. I don’t particularly like or trust him, but I don’t need to as I’m not a teenager pining over a poster on a wall. I don’t idealise or even humanise politicians — I see them as things, put there solely to enact the will of the people. Once Brexit’s done and dusted and the anti-Semitic scum has been routed, I can return to my party. Ever since victory morn we have been caught between the fudge and mudge of the Tories and the moan and drone of Labour. But now the fun starts — and it began with the appointment of the new cabinet.

At Guardian HQ last week, they actually seemed upset that the Johnson cabinet contains more BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) people than any other in history — how dare he! Bloody Tories, coming over here, taking our ethnic minorities — because Labour, as surely as any pukka sahib swanking around a colonial tea plantation, believes that the non-white vote is theirs by right.

Nowhere was this more hilariously proved that in that shockingly condescending message from the Glorious Leader two years ago which read:

‘Only Labour can be trusted to unlock the talent of black, Asian and ethnic minority people who have been held back by the Conservatives.’

So I fair hugged myself with glee as the bountiful BAMEs rocked up and racked up the day after Boris bounced into No. 10.

Most of my favourites were there — Priti Patel (pro-hanging, Brexit fanatic, friend of Israel), Sajid Javid (bus-driver dad, friend of Israel) and — be still my beating heart! — James Cleverly. What a turn-up for the books that this is the youngest and most non-white cabinet ever, with around a quarter made up of women — under racist, sexist Boris! And how vile the response from the left has been. The very same people who decry ‘white saviour syndrome’ are now maintaining that BAME politicians who become successful without the benediction of Magic Grandpa are traitors. The Somalian-born Muslim feminist Nimco Ali said it best at the weekend:

‘The Labour Party wants us to wait so it can “emancipate us” — we are not to seek our own success.’

What a rotten shower of BAMEs Labour has in comparison to the glory of, say, Munira Mirza, now head of the No. 10 Policy Unit. Fiona Onasanya, Naz Shah, Diane Abbott, anyone? It’s weird how they’re overwhelmingly women too. A comrade was quoted in Rosa Prince’s Corbyn biography as saying:

‘For some reason he called four or five of us and said: “Oh, we’ve got to go back to my flat and pick up some leaflets.” It seemed a bit odd — “Why the hell didn’t you bring them with you, Jeremy?” So we all bowl along to his bedsit, follow Jeremy into the room; there on the mattress on the floor is Diane with the duvet up to her neck, saying: ‘What the ****’s going on?’… it was the late Seventies, it was still a point of interest, a white man with a black woman, so he was slightly showing off: “I’ve got a new girlfriend, and she’s black.”’

A stick-in-the-mud masquerading as a firebrand, it makes sense that Corbyn has now given in on Brexit. Lovers of the EU believe themselves to be progressives, eager for the new. In fact they are the reactionaries, with an almost parasexual need to cling to the suffocating teat of the status quo. And this is why a young, non-white Brexit cabinet makes sense; even blond Boris, of Turkish Muslim descent, defied his liberal Remainer family. We are the outsiders, the rough-and-ready big beasts, our hour come around at last.

I’ve read that David Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, has complained that ‘the white men who run my party’ need to explain why he’s not on the front bench. Dave, do yourself a favour and jump ship. Cast off your stale, pale, male virtue–signalling masters and come on over to the dark side. Join the Tories — you’ll be sitting upfront in no time.
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The Left's savage attacks on Boris's "Uncle Tom" cabinet...

How Boris and his cabinet broke the left


The response to Johnson’s appointment of ethnic-minority ministers has been ugly and undignified.

Rakib Ehsan
31 July 2019
Spiked

The left’s reaction to Boris Johnson’s first week in office, and to the appointment of his new cabinet, has been unhinged.

Since becoming PM, Johnson has been called a ‘fascist’ and has been accused of leading a ‘far-right’ administration. Calling Johnson a ‘fascist’ and labelling his new cabinet ‘far-right’ doesn’t only trivialise the suffering of those who experienced the brutality of fascist regimes — it is also an odd way to describe a liberal Tory like Johnson. While fascist dictators of the past systematically oppressed and brutalised minority groups, Johnson has long supported an amnesty for long-term illegal immigrants and has just removed the government’s cap on new migrant arrivals.

He has also handed two of the great offices of state to ethnic-minority ministers: Sajid Javid is now chancellor and Priti Patel is home secretary. Javid, of Pakistani-Muslim origin, and Patel, of Gujarati-Hindu stock, are part of a diverse cabinet which also includes Alok Sharma as international development secretary and Rishi Sunak as chief secretary to the treasury.

But this development was also greeted with rage. Had Johnson selected an all-white, all-male cabinet, he would have been absolutely hammered by the left. But his appointment of non-white cabinet members was also derided. It was dismissed by the likes of Kehinde Andrews, a commentator and professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, as ‘window dressing’. According to Kerry-Anne Mendoza, editor-in-chief of the Canary, the black and Asian MPs serving in Johnson’s cabinet are ‘turncoats of colour’. By being Tories with non-white skin, they are legitimising ‘oppression’, she argues.

This is nothing but vile bigotry. Ethnic-minority conservatives are increasingly being subjected to slanderous attacks from the left. Instead of being congratulated for reaching the highest offices of state, the likes of Javid and Patel are derided as ‘coconuts’, ‘bounties’, ‘turncoats of colour’ and ‘Uncle Toms’. They are accused of being traitorous upholders of ‘white privilege’. One of the worst responses came from Cambridge academic Priyamvada Gopal. Gopal asserted that ‘Asian Toryism’ is primarily based on ‘anti-blackness’. According to her, ‘Asians have a good line in white supremacy’.

Following Johnson’s rise, the left seems to be in complete meltdown. While many of these responses are so ridiculous as to be almost comical, we must not underestimate how divisive some of the language being used is. For an academic at one of our leading universities to attempt to drive a wedge between Asian Tories and black Brits, in such a shameless and careless manner, is not only embarrassing for British academia but also quite worrying for society at large. Besides, if ‘Asian Toryism’ is based on anything, it is a belief in economic self-sufficiency, a positive approach to integration and a deep love for family. It has nothing to do with ‘anti-blackness’ or racism of any kind.

Javid, born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, to working-class parents of Pakistani-Muslim origin, is the epitome of the self-made man. He attended a state comprehensive near Bristol before obtaining a degree from the University of Exeter. At the age of just 25, he rose to become vice president of Chase Manhattan Bank. He then worked at Deutsche Bank. He had to take a hefty pay cut to enter politics.

Javid’s background is not too dissimilar to that of Munira Mirza, the new director of No10’s policy unit. Born to working-class Pakistani migrants in Oldham, Greater Manchester, Mirza’s career has spanned politics, academia, the media and the arts. Mirza is a vocal critic of the British model of multiculturalism for its championing of difference over cohesion. She has also called out misogynistic behaviour and patriarchal structures within migrant communities.

But for the left, it seems that ethnic-minority achievement is only worthy of celebration if it fits within the left’s own agenda or narrative. If you are successful, non-white and have sympathy with either a left-wing or identitarian worldview, expect to be congratulated by the left. But if you hold different views, you can expect to receive a torrent of abuse.

There is another reason why the likes of Mirza, in particular, will be targeted by the more regressive sections of the left. It is because their personal life stories undermine the left’s prevailing narrative of ethnic-minority victimhood. In their worldview, ‘white privilege’ is understood to be society’s greatest scourge, standing in the way of socioeconomic progress for non-white people. But this grievance narrative is weakened by the success of people like Mirza.

For all of his many flaws, Johnson is a welcome break from the stale, lacklustre and uninspiring leadership we have recently had to endure as a country. The PM’s confident, optimistic, inclusive brand of patriotism will go down well with many voters – including those who do not usually vote Conservative. In sharp contrast, the British left increasingly offers very little apart from divisive negativity and personal attacks against anyone who challenges the politics of grievance and victimhood. The left’s divisive identity politics and hysteria could play right into Johnson’s hands.

The wing of British politics which supposedly celebrates diversity is increasingly hostile towards diversity of thought. And our politics is much poorer for it.

Dr Rakib Ehsan is a spiked columnist and a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. Follow him on twitter: @rakibehsan

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/31/how-boris-and-his-cabinet-broke-the-left/

 

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I honestly am not shocked there's 'diversity' in BoJo's cabinet. For one, he kind'a *has* to do so, else he DOES look like a racist twat.


Second though, there are idiots in all ethnics, across all types of human so it only makes sense there are idiots in his party too, even those who are 'not white'.


Seriously though, I don't get why it's such a big deal now a days. Hell, I don't think it should be a big deal by any leader to have diversity in their leadership groups. Sure it's nice to finally see diverse people but making a big deal out of it is like making a big deal out of a baby that learns to use the potty. It's just excitement over the same shit done a different way.

 

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We’ll keep the Redneck flag flying here

The Prime Minister onboard HMS Victorious earlier this week

Labour’s disgusting, patronising condemnation of the Conservatives’ ‘Uncle Tom’ tendency in the new Cabinet is nothing new.

The Left have always thought that they should own the votes and loyalty of black and minority ethnic citizens (BAME) — not just here, but the United States, too.

Welfare programmes and social housing are designed deliberately to keep people in their place, beholden to their benevolent betters.

Randy Newman nailed it as long ago as 1974 in his biting satirical song Rednecks, which you’ll never hear on the radio because of its repeated use of the unsavoury n-word.

It centred on Northern ‘liberals’ sneering at racist Southerners and boasting about how they had freed African Americans from their slavery chains.

Yes, Newman wrote, they’re ‘free to be put in a cage in Harlem in New York City’ and ‘free to be put in a cage on the South Side of Chicago, and the West Side . . .’ going on to list notorious U.S. welfare ghettoes.

That’s how the Labour Left think of black and ethnic minority citizens in Britain.

They despise as traitors anyone of immigrant heritage who would ever vote Tory, let alone serve in a Conservative government. They’re as racist in their own way as any Redneck.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...D-LITTLEJOHN-Doesnt-Project-Fear-day-off.html