The Extraordinarily Ugly Bigotry of Asian Conservatives In The United Kingdom.

Ambition, but at what cost?

Suella Braverman. Image via Twitter

British Asians are having a moment in British politics.

There’s Priti Patel, the erstwhile Home Secretary, her successor — Suella Braverman and not forgetting the man whose name adorns the position of Prime Minister and First Lord of The Treasury of The United Kingdom —Rishi Sunak.

In a world where symbolism counts for everything, this is as symbolic as it gets: the children of immigrants whose presence in these shores was demonized half a century ago, are now the ones in the position of power, overseeing the affairs of a country which ran a quarter of the globe.

While it is pertinent to never forget the circumstances which made their rise to top possible —Brexit — the very presence of Sunak in Downing Street speaks to the leaps which have been made in a short space of time.

But it ends there.

British Asians are not a monolith.

In a majority white society, the tendency is to lump together groups as diverse as South Asians as a homogenous entity.

You have Hindus —some of whom came to the United Kingdom directly from India in the 1960s.