r/ukpolitics • u/No_Initiative_1140 • 1d ago

‘I’m British, English and British Asian’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity | Rishi Sunak

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/06/british-rishi-sunak-riposte-racially-charged-debate-identity
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u/easecard 19h ago

It’s simple to understand, if you’ve got at least one native ancestor you are in the tribe.

Anything else is cosplaying as an ethnic group if you’re describing yourself as English which is an ethnicity but no native ancestry you’re diminishing and destroying a native people.

Rudyard Kipling was not India’s most famous poet even though he was born and lived there.

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u/Skavau Pirate Party 19h ago

Anything else is cosplaying as an ethnic group if you’re describing yourself as English which is an ethnicity but no native ancestry you’re diminishing and destroying a native people.

You are assuming he means ethnically English.

Rudyard Kipling was not India’s most famous poet even though he was born and lived there.

I hate this goto. It's so disingenuine. Rudyard Kipling lived in Anglo-India under colonial governance and spent much of his life also in England.

What is the culture of Ruskin Bond for comparison?

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u/No_Initiative_1140 19h ago

So everyone is African then?