THE Left love to talk about diversity at every turn.
In every crevice of every discussion about virtually anything, you can bet they will find a way to crowbar race into the conversation.
That is, of course, except in one situation: When it’s the Tories getting diversity right. Funny, that.
With Boris Johnson resigning last Thursday, 11 Tory hopefuls have emerged from the wreckage, declaring they are ready to be next to steer the Conservative ship.
There is one noticeable change from previous leadership elections: The sheer number of ethnic minority candidates.
As it stands, six of the 11 candidates standing to be next Tory leader are from African and/or Asian backgrounds. That is a whopping 55 per cent.
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These include Cabinet staples such as former Health Secretary Sajid Javid, a British Pakistani who has held half a dozen Cabinet jobs so far.
Pat on the back
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Not just yet, anyway.
Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak— born in Southampton to Indian parents who emigrated from East Africa — has the most backing so far.
His replacement as Chancellor, the Iraqi-born Nadhim Zahawi is also in the running.
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Then you have rising Tory star and no-nonsense powerhouse Kemi Badenoch, born in London to Nigerian parents, who will no doubt be the antidote to the anti-British, gender-fanatic, race-obsessive nonsense we’re all sick of.
Completing the six are Attorney General Suella Braverman, born in Wembley to parents of Indian origin, and Rehman Chishti, MP for Gillingham and Rainham, who was born in Pakistan before moving to Kent when he was six.
Home Secretary Priti Patel, born in London to a Ugandan-Indian family, could also still join the race.
These candidates didn’t get where they are off the back of tokenistic diversity initiatives, such as the “all-ethnic minority shortlists” many Labour MPs have endorsed.
Nor have they got there because Tory leaders or party members want to pat themselves on the back for electing minority candidates.
That’s just not how they do things.
These ethnic minority candidates are where they are because they’ve worked bloody hard and because they live in a country where the colour of your skin no longer seals your fate.
The fact they are running is testament not only to them but to the opportunities this country can give.
So, given the Left usually can’t get enough of diversity and representation, you might think they would be all over this like a rash.
What could be more symbolic of British openness and how far we’ve come in this country than not one, not two, but SIX potential ethnic minority PMs?
How refreshing, how welcome, how exciting to reach such an incredible milestone in the long history of our island nation.
But we’ve heard nothing of the sort.
Empty platitudes
Instead, what we’ve had is a collective Freudian slip on the part of lefty, Tory-hating minions, who have revealed themselves to be the true bigots, picking on and ridiculing these candidates like playground bullies.
As the ethnic minority candidates announced their bids, this lefty mob came out in full force.
“Do you think the members of your party are ready to select a brown man, Rishi?” asked barrister Jolyon Maugham, who found infamy after clubbing a fox to death while wearing a kimono.
]“Can you imagine a black or Asian person leading the Conservative Party? Others argue that the very concept is diametrically opposed to the party’s core values,” pondered the so-called Race Correspondent for The Independent newspaper, Nadine White (who ironically, is black).
Of course, by “others”, White means herself, since I’ve never heard a single other person argue such an imbecilic, politically illiterate position.
Then you have the likes of Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, the hysterical, one-woman Britain-bashing machine, who says the ethnic minority Tories running are a “gift for white supremacists”.
What deranged logic.
These naysayers can’t stomach the fact that we have such a racially diverse pool of candidates for one reason: It shatters their warped narrative.
The narrative that Britain is a racist cesspit and the Conservatives are the big, bad wolf that comes to eat your black grandmother, as the innocent Left in their little red hoods stand by horrified and helpless.
The reality is they can’t get over the fact it is the ethnic minority Conservatives and not those in the Labour Party who are doing so well.
They only want diversity and representation if it’s on THEIR terms.
They’re embarrassed that the Labour Party has only ever produced ONE ethnic minority Secretary of State.
The Conservatives have had three times as many. (Not to mention they can’t manage to elect a female leader, for goodness’ sake.)
They are humiliated that this Tory Government have had the most ethnically diverse Cabinet in our history.
They’re ashamed that the party they spend every waking hour smearing as racists have managed to nurture so much ethnic minority talent without the virtue-signalling fanfare of empty “diversity and inclusion” platitudes.
I want the best person for the job to win, white, black or brown.
But I have to say, the look on lefty faces if a Tory becomes the first African or Asian Prime Minister in our history is going to be utterly priceless.