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Apparently Rishi isn't an Asian.

In the US, Asian generally means east Asian, as that's where the bulk of immigrants from that continent to the US came from. In the UK, they mainly came from the Indian subcontinent because of empire. That's all.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 12:32 pm For crying out loud, bad as Corbyn was, he didn't leak fucking documents.

Also, "It was 3 years ago, it doesn't matter" vs "Just 3 years ago that lot were...".

Time for a "Is Jeremy Corbyn in the room with us now?"

Rishi taking the tough decisions, like bowing to Tory house prices MPs and spurning cheap renewable energy. Don't let him hide behind banning fracking.

Truss, to her credit, had signalled she wanted more onshore wind.

More grown up government here.

Bloke last seen resigning after doing a massive favour for a donor gets back in Government to babysit somebody who shouldn't be in government. Not the slightest pretence of policy or competence counting.

How the fuck is disgraced, corrupt Jenryck having a sniff at a big-boy job?

Apparently it will get Labour worried.

I’m not sure what the it was.

Worried in the "U OK hun?" sense?

Trevor Noah has a very shrewd idea about what’s niggling Tory voters about Sunak
https://fb.watch/gq1r4eVZlq/

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:33 pm

How about that "correcting the "mistakes" " that "were made". narrative?

Does reinstating Suella Braverman as Home Secretary only 6 days after she was obliged to resign for serious breaches of national security count as correcting another of Truss's "mistakes", even though it could possibly be the only
thing Truss got right in her entire short-lived tenure?

I can envisage Sunak having to back down and dismiss Braverman again, which should effectively end Braverman's reprehensible political career (a consummation devoutly to be wished). It might also flag the ever encroaching end of Sunak's own political career.

Braverman is clearly going down the Johnson/Trump route of utter shamelessness, and wearing criticism and censure as badges of pride. Sadly, her fans will lap it up.

Sees herself as the UK equivalent of Marjorie Taylor Greene

I can envisage Sunak having to back down and dismiss Braverman again, which should effectively end Braverman's reprehensible political career (a consummation devoutly to be wished). It might also flag the ever encroaching end of Sunak's own political career.

National interest Vs Party management and its lose lose for Rishi. A checkmate of this fool’s own making.

Should we apologise to Tory members? Truss is looking like the wiser choice.

Watchman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 11:19 am Sees herself as the UK equivalent of Marjorie Taylor Greene

Ye god's! There's things growing on gravestones that demonstrate a higher level of intelligence than her.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 4:36 pm In the US, Asian generally means east Asian, as that's where the bulk of immigrants from that continent to the US came from. In the UK, they mainly came from the Indian subcontinent because of empire. That's all.

It says about how Americans try to impose their racial standards on the rest of the world.

Heaven forbid an American show caters for an American audience...

And for a Brit to point this out is hypocrisy/high praise indeed.

No it's about Americans inability to understand how other nations work. It gets even worse

Think I'd question your use of the words "even" and "worse" there.

No it's about Americans inability to understand how other nations work. It gets even worse

What would a mixed race South African know about racism compared to Julie Hartley Brewer and Iain Dale?
Notice its all metropolitan Tory pundits outraged at the idea that Tory voters don’t want one of them in No 10. Lee Anderson or Andrew Rosindale haven’t commented on the subject.

"India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: Bhārat Gaṇarājya),[25] is a country in South Asia." (wiki)

That's not opinion, that's geography. If Americans don't know that, it's an issue for their education system.

Ronny Chieng's argument is literally that he is Asian and, as Indians don't look like him, they can't be Asian.
How is that different from a Scandinavian person saying "Spanish, Italian and Greek people don't look like me, therefore they're not European"?
The fact is that Asia is enormous and ethnically diverse so it's peoples don't all look the same.