I thought we would eventually see this race-baiter come out, but I didn’t expect it to be even before the announcement of Badenoch’s election was made.

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    Dawn Butler has since deleted the post,

    Why am I not surprised it was Dawn Butler 🧐.

    The post described the former business secretary as a member of the “black collaborator class”.

    Fucking hell. Does she even read what she retweets? Imagine, for a second, Trump doing this. Would we be defending his actions? Jaysus what is she thinking?

    “The best thing will be when we get to a point where the colour of your skin is no more remarkable than the colour of your eyes or the colour of your hair,” she told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

    I find it interesting that both Sunak and now Badenoch have said similar things about the colour of their skin and the fact they have been leaders of their party not being a big deal. For them they are are British and that’s how they identify. Whilst in both cases Labour has congratulated them as being the first Hindu to be PM and now the first Black person to be leader of a party. Don’t get me wrong these are important milestones, but I find it fascinating that the people who broke these barriers don’t consider it a core identity point and the party that hasn’t yet does.

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      The kind of language she comes out with herself or endorses is what you’d expect to hear from someone like Nick Griffin. I don’t know she gets away with it so often.

      I find it interesting that both Sunak and now Badenoch have said similar things about the colour of their skin and the fact they have been leaders of their party not being a big deal. For them they are are British and that’s how they identify. Whilst in both cases Labour has congratulated them as being the first Hindu to be PM and now the first Black person to be leader of a party. Don’t get me wrong these are important milestones, but I find it fascinating that the people who broke these barriers don’t consider it a core identity point and the party that hasn’t yet does.

      I think the reason is that we’re a multicultural society and one of the least racist countries in the world, and the fact that it’s not really a big deal that a person of colour is leading a major political party (and the previous one who was also PM) is a good thing. So yes, it is a historic moment (the first of anything happening automatically is) but it’s a good thing that we live in a country where it’s not remarkable that it has happened.