NO sooner had Rishi Sunak taken office as our new Prime Minister than the Labour squad of perpetual victims were on his back, whining with spite.
Step up Nadia Whittome, then.
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The hard-left MP, a big fan of Magic Grandpa, tweeted that Sunak’s victory “isn’t win for Asian representation”.
Privately educated Whittome thinks people are only properly Asian if they share her views, you see.
She wasn’t the only one. Zarah Sultana MP, another Leftie, attacked Sunak because he has lots of money.
Asians being in power doesn’t make things better for Asians, was the gist of her bleating.
She described Rishi as a “fraud”.
It has hit a nerve with Labour that our Prime Minister, a Conservative, is the first Hindu to achieve this country’s highest office of state.
The first person of colour to become Prime Minister, too.
But then, the Conservatives have been leading the way on diversity.
They gave the country the first female Prime Minister — and the second and third, although the less said about them the better.
The first Asian Chancellor. The first black Chancellor — who wasn’t much cop, as it turned out, but never mind.
And now the first Prime Minister of colour.
In fact, the top of the Conservative Party has long been full of women and people from ethnic minorities.
The Tories have a level of diversity in their party that Labour could only dream of.
Some of them are well off, like Rishi Sunak. Others, such as Priti Patel, are from far less well-off back-grounds. Truly diverse, then.
But they all share one important thing.
None of them are obsessed with race.
None of them believe they are victims of a racist state.
None of them spend their entire lives shrieking about how awful it is to be born with skin that is not white.
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Our black and ethnic-minority communities are waking up to the con job done on them every election time by the Labour Party.
Labour insists anyone who isn’t white is a victim and oppressed.
It’s the same mantra you hear from the ludicrous Black Lives Matter movement.
They do this out of self interest.
If they keep perpetuating the myth that Britain is racist and only the Labour Party can help people of colour, then people of colour are bound to vote for them.
And it then follows that if someone of colour DOESN’T support Labour, they can’t really be properly black or brown themselves.
This is the very essence of racism. Another godawful Labour MP, Rupa Huq, once said this very thing about the Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng.
He is only “superficially” black, she insisted.
What a narrow, bigoted and loathsome point of view. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer rightly suspended Huq from the party.
So far, however, there has been no apology from nasty, deluded Nadia Whittome, still less from Zarah Sultana.
At Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir gave a generous welcome to Rishi Sunak.
He was very proud, he said, to be part of a country where such a thing could happen.
Well said, Sir Keir. Now try to get the message through to all those in your own party who clearly think differently.
I SUPPOSE it’s no good moaning that King Charles should keep his nose out of political affairs. And then praising him when he says something really sensible.
But while visiting Bangor University, he said: “I still think the great tragedy is the lack of vocational education in schools — actually, not everybody is designed for the academic.”
Dead right, Chas.
Including, of course, your good self. But still, a point well made.
UNITE OR DIE, TORIES
WHAT a pleasure it was to see the look of fury on Penny Mordaunt’s face.
She exited 10 Downing Street having been given a ropey job, and looked like Larry the Downing Street cat had just crapped in her handbag.
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New PM Rishi Sunak has just about got the balance right in the Cabinet, I think.
I would have preferred Kemi Badenoch – Trade Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities – at Education or Culture.
But it’s a small quibble.
Now, if only the MPs can put their stupid, vaulting personal ambitions to one side, maybe they’ll give multi-millionaire Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer a run for his money.
THE England skipper Harry Kane should wear a rainbow-coloured One
Love armband during the football World Cup in Qatar.
This would show the England team’s distress at the lack of human rights in the host country, apparently.
No, it wouldn’t.
Boycotting the tournament would do that. Not more virtue-signalling.
Still, at least our boys will be coming home pretty sharpish.
HERO of the week is Rosie Duffield, the Labour MP for Canterbury.
She has said she would rather be arrested than refer to Eddie Izzard, below, as a “woman”.
It takes a lot of courage for any public figure to say something like that.
But for a public figure who is also a member of the Labour Party, it is remarkable.
GRIME IS NOT CRIME
THE dirtiest man in the world is dead.
And it’s a lesson to all the meddlesome health bullies out there.
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Amou Haji lived in a village in Iran. He never washed and he was perfectly happy.
He sometimes smoked five cigarettes at once. And when he couldn’t get fags he smoked dried out cow s**t in a pipe.
He was contented – and 94 years old.
Then his neighbours decided he needed a bath. And they dragged him to a bathroom.
Now he’s not contented – he’s dead.
So listen, leave us alone to live the life we want.
If I want to have a shower once a year – on Walpurgis Night – and eat fish and chips in bed, using my belly button to store the salt, that’s my look out.
IF you were to calculate the odds for the coincidence of two undersea cables to Shetland being severed inside a week, I suspect you would be disinclined to believe it was a coincidence.
Just saying
HOME TRUTHS, SUNAK
NEAR the top of Rishi Sunak’s agenda will be housing. We have a crisis.
Obviously we need to build more houses.
But there’s one thing Rishi can do that will cost absolutely nothing.
Make it easier for people to become private landlords.
The Government stupidly clobbered private landlords in the summer, with proposals to make it harder for them to evict tenants, raise rents and refuse ne’er do wells, etc.
As a result, thousands have fled from the buy-to-let market.
And are Airbnb-ing their properties.
Make it easier for people to let their properties, you’ll ease the housing crisis.
And annoy the Lefties.
Win-win.
VILLAINS OF THE… PEACE AND LOVE
EVIDENCE grows that the supposed badduns of Hogwarts are really the good guys.
Last week I told you about Draco Malfoy coming to the aid of Harry Potter author J K Rowling.
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She’s been attacked for her perfectly sensible comments on transgender stuff but Draco actor Tom Felton stuck up for her.
Now Lord Voldemort himself has waded into the row – actor Ralph Fiennes said he was appalled at the abuse received by Rowling.
And added that he knew where she was coming from.
Well said, Dark Lord.
The real badduns in Hogwarts are the incredibly irritating airhead Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Potter himself (Daniel Radcliffe).
