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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
It's not about the appointments themselves. They're fine.
It's the gratuitous observation to which I object. It's unnecessary.
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In the last hundred years
Home Secretary - there have been 41 office holders, 3 of which were from an ethnic minority (all in the last 4 years)
Chancellor of the Exchequer - there have been 37 office holders, 1 of which was from an ethnic minority (the current Officeholder)
Foreign Secretary - there have been 44 office holders, 4 of which were from an ethnic minority (all in the last 3 years).
Perhaps it’s a pertinent, rather than gratuitous, observation because of the 122 Officeholders, only 8 of them have been from ethnic minorities, and all of those in the last 4 years, and never before have all 3 Offices been held by ethnic minorities.
It’s a change, and the media reports change…
btw, interesting (imho) statistic - 7% of the U.K. population are privately educated, yet 74% of the new Cabinet are privately educated.