Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister is the direct product of Mrs. Thatcher's policies and her determination to offer New Commonwealth immigrants an equal chance to rise through thrift, enterprise and family and religious values.
Pankaj Mishra, a more recent immigrant, believes otherwise. He writes in the Guardian
The world has watched in appalled fascination as the UK’s ruling party scrapes the bottom of its human resources barrel: it found there its first Black chancellor of the exchequer and then, to clear up his mess, its first Hindu prime minister.
Racist much, Pankaj? Dr. Kwarteng was regarded as brilliant. His pal, Truss, was not. That's why she defered to him on Economic policy. Sunak, who has a first class C.V, was considered superior to Boris last year. Then his wife's wealth and his Green Card made things difficult for him. Otherwise he was considered the best person for the job though it was Sajid Javid, whom Rishi replaced, who would have been my pick.
Yet exultant noises from India
from Hindus delighted that a devout Hindu has become the youngest British PM since 1812.
as well as Britain
nobody here is exultant. Truss and Kwarteng truly screwed the pooch. Misery-guts, Hunt, will remain at Number 11.
would make us believe that some historic milestone has been reached.
Sunak is the Hindu equivalent of a straight arrow Evangelical who doesn't drink, smoke or fornicate.
Hindu supremacists have pounced on the possibility that Rishi Sunak, a self-proclaimed devout Hindu, is a desi bro, even an undercover agent of the “Global Indian Takeover” – the title of a once regular feature in the Times of India.
It so happens that Indian origin CEOs of MNCs have become increasingly common. This has nothing to do with 'Hindu supremacy'. It is simply a function of India being Anglophone and its having invested in IITs and IIMs before its private sector was allowed to grow.
Evidently, he observes upper-caste taboos against beef and alcohol and always keeps his statuette of Ganesha, the guarantor of worldly success, close to him.
Is exactly what an orthodox Brahmin would say- if he'd been born in 1900.
“Indian son rises over the empire” was one typical headline in India this week.
It was from the Left-leaning NDTV. The point about Rishi is that Italy has a son who could have become PM of India at the age of 34. But Rahul is useless. Rishi is 10 years younger than him and has only been in politics for about 8 years.
Never mind that Sunak’s carefully trimmed career pathways to plutocratic chic make him resemble a human pinstripe rather more than the devout Hindu in loincloth – Mahatma Gandhi – who helped the sun set on the British empire.
Fuck is that supposed to mean? Gandhi gave up his Western suits so as to pose as a leader of Indian peasants. Sadly, he wasn't able to prevent Atlee from doing a runner. Sunak, like millions of Britons, has worn a pinstripe suit all his working life. Only a cretin like Pankaj finds this worthy of note. What's next? Will he remark the irony that Sunak speaks English instead of Punjabi?
Sunak’s deeper pieties are revealed by his professional choices: credential-stockpiling and network-formation at Winchester, Oxford (PPE) and Stanford (MBA), stints at Goldman Sachs, and then bank-raiding and tax-dodging hedge fund firms, directorship of his billionaire father-in-law’s investment company, a US green card and eager membership of a traditionally nasty political party.
The Tory party is the traditional party of Governance in the UK. Britain has a big financial sector. Winchester was founded in 1382. Lincoln College was founded in 1427. Sunak's 'deeper pieties' are thoroughly British which is understandable because Sunak is British.
When it comes to 'marrying up', it is worth recalling that Pankaj Mishra's father-in-law is Ferdinand Mount, an old Etonian, Baronet who worked for Mrs. Thatcher. Sunak's father-in-law is a self-made Indian entrepreneur. Sunak was born in Britain. Pankaj's deeper pieties have brought him here as an immigrant.
His hasty promotion to 10 Downing Street now emboldens insolent racists to present themselves as the purveyor of racial diversity, and to scoff at Labour’s nearly immaculate frontbench whiteness.
Pankaj is an insolent racist. He is scoffing at a Hindu PM whose deeper pieties caused him to marry an Indian Hindu lady rather than the daughter of an English baronet.
Such opportunistic political correctness is validated by a Labour leadership that is quick to reprimand those who discount Sunak as a “win for Asian representation”.
Because cunts who say 'Kwarteng aint Black' or 'Rishi aint Hindu' make Labor look stoooopid. The Left should stick to saying 'Zelensky is Hitler coz he's Jewish'.
Hollow notions of social diversity and racial justice are further affirmed by
cunts like Pankaj
members of a non-white intelligentsia, who have been trained by the ideology of meritocracy to see success and power, no matter how dubiously achieved or brief, as the measure of all things.
Mishra's measure of all things is his rectum. As an adolescent he would cram a multitude of Soviet publications up there so as to gain class consciousness. Sadly, this hasn't got him as far as Rishi. But then Rishi has a high IQ.
A columnist in the Financial Times this week wrote: “As a British Asian of the same generation, intense feelings overwhelm me when I see Rishi Sunak cross the door into 10 Downing Street.” The same writer had, while celebrating Liz Truss’s “diverse” cabinet, reverently recited the first names of recent British chancellors – “Kwasi, Nadhim, Rishi, Sajid” – and then added: “This is to say nothing of Kemi and Ranil, of Alok and Suella.”
Thatcher and Whitelaw took the trouble to reach out to British Asians. Meanwhile Leftists nutters tried to tell us that Mrs. T would forcibly repatriate our parents and expropriate their little corner shops or curry restaurants. I used to enjoy telling such people that dialectical materialism required me to bite their faces off. Cannibalism is the only way to deal with class enemies- i.e. White peeps. They couldn't be sure I wasn't making up this doctrine which I attributed to Samora Machel who was supposed to be a very advanced type of Revolutionary back then.
And, presumably, Priti, another Tory daughter of immigrants who seemed as keen as Suella to fulfil the dreams of Enoch Powell.
Whose dream was to reconquer India and become its Viceroy. R.A Butler humored the lunatic.
As it happens, the first Hindu prime minister is destroying, more rapidly and comprehensively than Boris Johnson’s and Liz Truss’s diverse cabinets, the pitiful visions of diversity relaunched by his coronation.
Because Hindus are very evil. They should bite the faces of White peeps so as to advance Dialectical Materialism.
Sunak’s immediate resurrection of the disgraced Braverman tells us that we should quickly abandon wishful thinking in order to be truly ready for Rishi.
Pankaj should certainly abandon wishful thinking if not wistful wanking.
True readiness for such overpromoted Tory desis will consist in recognising that collaboration with white ruling classes or political passivity rather than struggles for social justice largely defines the history of the Indian diaspora, especially of its highly educated and upper-caste members.
Why are they not biting the faces off White peeps? Don't they know that dialectical materialism requires nothing less?
The over-zealous persecutors of refugees and the “tofu wokerati” today resemble, disturbingly, the Indian immigrants in A Bend in the River, VS Naipaul’s novel about decolonsing east Africa, who regard their Black and brown compatriots as the losers of history and escape to London to join its white winners.
Pankaj got to London quickly enough. But he isn't a winner. Rishi is.
As one character sums up his bleak hyper-individualistic ethic: “The world is a rich place. It all depends on what you choose in it … I know exactly who I am and where I stand in the world. But now I want to win and win and win.”
Publishing lefty shite aint winning it is whining.
Winning was always easier for a people who spoke English relatively well and avoided political conflict while pursuing their obsessions with educational achievement and social mobility.
Pankaj thought there was a short-cut which consisted of being more Left-wing than Thou. He ended up a dingier, declasse, Tariq Ali.
While the Chinese diaspora, the world’s largest, remains less visible, many Indians in the west have steadily improved their prospects, becoming, as the 1980s arrived, poster people for the neoliberal ideology of meritocracy – the “model minority”.
There was a time when the Left believed in merit. Then it decided 'to the victim goes the spoils' and started clutching its pearls in shrill alarm anytime a working class lad did well.
Even as Sunak’s Punjabi middle-class parents sent him to Winchester,
Pankaj's parents sent him to Allahabad and JNU. He did quite well for himself thanks to a globalized market for pseudo leftie shite.
such far-right political office-bearers of Punjabi origin as Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal
what about Ro Khanna? He started off as an Obama appointee.
started to sing in the US from Ronald Reagan’s songsheet about hard work and dreams.
As opposed to taking drugs and getting AIDS.
In particular, twice-migrants, such as Patel’s and Sunak’s families, have been much better placed than any diasporic community
America is mainly 'diasporic'. Trump is of German heritage. Biden is of Irish heritage.
to benefit from three decades of neoliberal globalisation under American and British auspices.
But the US began under British auspices. But, soon enough, India too came under British auspices, which is why Pankaj writes in English, not Hindi.
These proto-globalisers were helped at the same time by fresh personal and professional networks with a “New India” that swiftly discarded its pretensions to Gandhian values
just as Gandhi had swiftly discarded his pretensions to Arya Samaji values
while rushing to embrace power and wealth.
Gandhi started off wanting both. He gave up wealth because begging enabled him to gain more power.
Sunak, now married to a Indian citizen richer than King Charles
unlike Pankaj, now married to a British citizen who is a book editor- which probably comes in useful in his trade.
shares his glossy biography with many men (and some women) of Indian ancestry who today own the world’s biggest industries and run major banks, hedge funds and Silicon Valley companies.
While Mishra's brand is small potatoes. Still, it is the best he can do.
Many of these still strangely unexamined winners of globalisation have assumed power-broking positions in several countries. Take, for instance, the Gupta brothers, who
were small businessmen in India who emigrated to South Africa in 1993
managed to get South Africa’s ruling party on their payroll and nearly ruined the country’s economy.
Because they were corrupt cronies of the extremely corrupt Zuma.
Sunak, whose in-laws’ company Infosys
was already in the top twenty on NASDAQ in 1999
has made more than $120m in public sector deals in Britain
a drop in the bucket. Its market capitalization is 100 billion.
since he entered government, belongs to this serenely diverse global plutocracy rather than any community demanding reparative justice for damages sustained in the white man’s world.
Pankaj emigrated to 'white man's world' to demand reparative justice from wifeji.
What’s truly unprecedented about the new occupant of 10 Downing Street – who held on to his green card while living next door with his then-non-dom wife to Boris Johnson, and who owns a penthouse in Santa Monica, and may soon jet off to sunny California – is not his showy Hinduism or brown skin, but his multiple identities as a ferociously networked transnational that allow him to operate simultaneously in several countries..
Pankaj operates in several countries. Lots of people do. BoJo held an American passport till recently. He only gave it up because he objected to paying Federal Income tax.
That this “citizen of everywhere”, a devout Hindu in a tie and cashmere hoodie, should now be chosen to mollify financial markets and caress the Brexit fantasy of absolute sovereignty says a great deal about the ideological dementia of the Tory party.
Says a guy demented enough- or mercenary enough- to cling to some deeply boring Seventies style Socialist ideology.
The turd-polishing abilities of centrist-Dad liberalism, too, are in plainer sight as the logrollers of the BBC, Times and Financial Times work hard to present merciless enforcers of austerity as “grown-up moderates”.
Why bother? Let Rishi & Co fix things after which the Tories can throw them out just before the next election. The truth is, it doesn't matter who you get in to fix the plumbing provided they don't stay to dinner and then fuck your wife who divorces you so her new lover can move in. I'm not saying that's what happened to me. Anyway, it's the sort of thing which could happen to anyone.
But we should be in no doubt about what an immoral and inept political class wants us to celebrate: “Asian representation” leading a cruel Tory programme of mass impoverishment.
Whereas proper Asian representation should feature cannibalism and Pankaj himself biting off the face of his father in law.
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