It’s certainly an interesting phenomenon.
Rishi Sunak is serving as the Prime Minister of the UK. Pakistani Muslim settler Humza Yousaf has taken over as the First Minister of Scotland and Vaughan Gething (pictured above), an immigrant from Zambia, will become the First Minister of Wales.
Apart from Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom executives are entirely non-white.
It’s certainly an interesting phenomenon that reflects a rate of not only demographic, but political change in the UK, that has become more rapid than the rest of Europe.
Part of it can probably be attributed to the role of bloc votes, certainly in the case of Yousaf and the rising Pakistani Muslim presence, and partly to the aspirational growth of talented Indian immigrants, but you also have to wonder to what extent failed political establishments are using minorities to paper over fundamental failures.
It’s not entirely a coincidence that Rishi Sunak became the frontman for a failed Conservative party in crisis or Yousaf for a disgraced SNP.
American-style identity politics will use minorities and ‘breaking-the-glass-ceiling’ to change the narrative about a company, a party, or a movie. Put a minority figure out front and suddenly, disparaging it is racist.
The UK has been stuck in the doldrums for a while now. (As has America.) And instead of talking about that, soon there’ll be so many thinkpieces about the newly diverse leadership of the isles. (I just got to it first.)
Why are both world powers stuck? There’s a global situation to consider, but more narrowly, both nations went down the dead ends of liberalism, trashing domestic industries in the name of socialism and then globalism, embracing massive immigration and the international community, only to be left with nothing. Incompetent conservative reactions followed leaving the native population despondent and lacking any way forward.
American liberalism papered over its disaster with Barack Obama leading to a decade and a half of horror. Now the UK gets to pretend that breaking the glass ceiling is the only progress the nation needs.
Why actually deal with the problems when everyone can pat themselves on the back for the new tolerance?
https://www.frontpagemag.com/england-scotland-and-wales-all-have-non-white-leaders-now/