Do you know what the most common shared holiday is around the world? It's independence from the British. While we are not the worst in these regards, we most certainly are not the best.
Feel free to try and convince me their not.
Who, what, where, how?
I don't even know where to start with this. Have you ever been here?? Also, regarding the Tory candidates: Rishi Sunak, for starters, as Chancellor Of The Exchequer has been in charge of the nation's finances and taxes. Yet he is a multi-millionaire who has been holding onto his American green card for tax avoidance, along with having a multi-millionaire wife with non-domiciled status, avoiding millions in tax despite literally living at Number 11 Downing Street. This is the kind of behaviour, attitude and contempt for working people exemplified by the Conservative Party and no amount of tokenistic 'diversity' is going to change that.
Seems to me there's a mismatch in between most of the world's perception, and the reality many of us see from day to day. Perhaps half the reason we're so 'resentful' is that we know the picture that some try and paint of the UK is basically lies that have little to do with reality, and this is likely done to undermine legitimate grievances with our society and our systems.
He's completely misinterpreted my earlier comment "ignorance is bliss" to mean "unhappy people are smart" rather than "British people know what's happening in their own country and are unhappy about it" as per @MatskiMonk's post.
Ok, I know you like to over dramatise and post some questionable content but this has to be the… I have no words really.
Extremely intelligent people, like yourself, should not publicly and reflexively label native Britons who happen to be Asians, blacks, women, military officers or others who happen to be Conservatives, as nothing, as non-humans, as nothing but excrement! It makes you seem to be foaming at the mouth with prejudice, and lacking any tact, taste, parental tutelage, formal education or understanding of common sense and common politeness. Just stop calling other human beings excrement, okay?
You're mixing perspectives here. By the US definition the Conservatives might have a plurality of the voters, but only 29.3% of the electorate voted for a Conservative MP, therefore 70.7% of the electorate didn't vote for a Conservative MP - that's not a minority of people, and as I'm sure you're aware, we don't directly vote for a leader or for the people that fill positions in government or the cabinet.
Perhaps if they stop treating the people they're supposed to serve as such, people might be less keen on doing it.
When elected in 2019 they had a 80-seat majority in Parliament which was 56.2% of all seats. That majority has since dropped by half a dozen seats as they keep losing by-elections. However, they got 43.6% of the popular vote to Labour's 32.1%, with a voter turnout of 67.3%, which equates to 29.3% of the total electorate, who themselves are approximately 70% of the entire population of the UK, voting Conservative, to Labour's 21.6%. So, 20.5% of the entire country voted Conservative, and 15.1% voted Labour*. Once the MPs have made all their endorsements and the eight Prime Ministerial candidates are whittled down to just two, the next Prime Minister will be decided by the approximately 200,000 Conservative Party members, 0.3% of the country, which I guess is still an upgrade from Supreme Court Justices being chosen by just one person.
You're supposed to be better than that. In fact, Britain may be the richest, best educated and most pampered nation on Earth. But now you need to be served even better before you acknowledge the loyal opposition, actually ruling majority, as humans. Until they do you right, they stay nothing but excrement. Got it.
Will it do any good, or will you just quiet down on the subject for four months and then come back repeating the same original nonsense as usual?
Yes, although that's not how the UK election system works. They represent the plurality of the votes cast in a majority of the seats; that needn't be a plurality overall (and isn't the plurality of voters, which is almost always no vote). Minority government is also possible.
No. They're the party that has been allowed, by royal assent/convention, to create a government of ministers.
No - and I don't even know what that means in this context.
No, not really.
Again, meaningless drivel.
Cool. Lessons in prejudice from the guy who just casually dropped Asian racial stereotypes and then doubled down on it. Also "blacks"? :| And when did "military officers" become a protected characteristic?
Cool. Lessons in being "better than that" from the guy who just casually dropped Asian racial stereotypes and then doubled down on it.
He may be a bit scatty at times, but who are we to kinkshame?
Being better than that would be to donate to the foodbanks that are now having to serve 2.1 million Britons whilst calling the self-serving Bullingdon Boys Club liars, shysters and ***** because they're responsible for eroding our freedoms, democracy and productivity as a nation for what can only be their own personal betterment - not to just ignore it because things could be worse from the perspective of an American.
You didn't say that though.
As a further note, none of the candidates are "South East Asian" or of "South East Asian" origin, so I've literally no idea which of the candidates are the three you're claiming you said but didn't.
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That's not what you said.
Oh dear...
Now I know that Americans sometimes get accused of not getting sarcasm or humour, but you're taking it a bit far now.
That's not the reason at all, it's more the repeated nonsense you post, often opinion dressed up as fact, and you then double/triple down on it.
Cool retcon. Didn't happen - and I already quoted what did happen.
You said we need "a South East Asian", grouping an entire region of very distinct peoples together for no good reason. You doubled down on that by saying we didn't need the "insular focus you'd get with a native", disregarding the concept of people being of "South East Asian" origin and UK natives. And there's not even a "South East Asian" candidate anywhere in there.
Distressing that Hunt could find 18 people to vote for him though. Still, at least with the Anglo-French Tugendhat still in there's four Asian gentlemen left.Results from the first ballot in the Conservative leadership race:
Rishi Sunak - 88
Penny Mordaunt - 67
Liz Truss - 50
Kemi Badenoch - 40
Tom Tugendhat - 37
Suella Braverman - 32
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Nadhim Zahawi - 25 - withdrawn
Jeremy Hunt - 18 - withdrawn
Good to know that no single candidate can muster more than a quarter of their own party to vote for them
Wasn't so long ago that Hunt was favourite. I wonder if anything can stop her "momentum".
Being a busty blonde can take you a long way.
