Phillips at it again...promotes racism.

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He may quit becasue of no ethnic minorities in the cabinet and fewer women than under Blair, maybe Brown has picked the best people for the job (which is good imo). This, for me, is his first real test of what his social policies/interference (or maybe double standards) is all about.

In the article it also shows how Cameron has elected people from ethnic minorities, this may backlash against the tory voters, the cons are turning into New Labour '97 day by day!

Why should ethnic minorities be picked because THEY ARE ethnic minorities? Why does this man claim "equality" if it is always detrimental to the ethnic majority? Claiming your skin colour or religion has benefits over a person with equal abilities but do not have the same skin colour or religion is discrimination.

What do people make of this?

I actually believe it is good on two fronts:
1. It shows that Philips may resign, good, he is a racist.

2. It may bring home to the cabinet that there are people who want to oust them out of there jobs because they are white. No doubt the cabinet, sitting in their ivory towers, have no real inclination of what is happening to every middle/working class person in the UK. Maybe this will "bring it home to them"!
 
ArmyofHarmony said:
I want the best people for the job, but I guess it should represent the whole population too... makes sense anyway
Cannot a white man be representative of a black community? If not then your subscribing to superiority of black skin when compared to white. Also your implying that a black community cannot be represented by a white because of the colour of skin, ultimately implying that the ethnic minority communities are themselves inherently racist.

If it IS the case that communities need racial representation then it shows the absolute segregation of the UK along racial lines. i.e. we have countries within a country.
 
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