The leader of the
Tory Party seems
quite exercised about the idea that anyone could believe that she has only
got to her current position because she’s a black woman. In fairness, the
suggestion that there is a sufficiently large group of Tory MPs and members
prepared to vote for her out of some desire to pursue a policy of positive
discrimination really isn’t credible. That just isn’t the Tory Party as we know
it. It’s much simpler to accept the obvious alternative explanation, that those
MPs and members who elected her really did believe that she was the best person
to be the leader of the opposition and the party’s candidate for PM. Or the
even simpler explanation that she actually is the best that they have to offer.
I’m happy to accept either of those explanations, but I’m not at all sure that they
paint either her or her party in a better light than the suggestion that it’s a
result of positive discrimination.
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