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And he always denied it

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I suppose I am as well, do not like the fact that it was unions votes that achived it.

But that thakes nothing away from the fact that he might make a great leader time will tell.

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Re: Benjamin Disraeli. I don't think Disraeli always denied he was Jewish. His father was Isaac D'Israeli and Benjamin was baptised into the Anglican Church as a child. He did say that Christianity was "completed Judaism" which went down rather badly.

The following is a quote from what he said in defense of his being a Jew. This he once said in response to an anti-Semitic comment in the British parliament,

"Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the Right Honourable Gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon."

I also understand that on his deathbed he re-affirmed his Judaism.

There have been quite a few modern senior members of parliament who are Jewish and may well have become prime minister (had the timing been right).

Three that spring to mind are :-

Michael Howard (named Mecht)
Nigel Lawson (Chancellor of the Exchequer)
Lord Kalms (former Tory Treasurer).

I wonder if you are thinking about the Arab/Israeli conflict Galty and I would think having a Jewish Prime Minster would not make any difference to that situation. Look at the number of politicians in America who are Jewish - that's where the real influence lies.

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No I am not, that why I put in my post that there was no racial point.

I just wonder if a Jew can be elected in this country.

This point was raised when Howard was elected the Con Leader.

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I see Galty - in that case then I think a Jew could be elected in this country - but it may not be Miliband. Regards

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He seems to be saying all the right things so far:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11426411

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I watched a bit of his speech today and he did speak well Azz, but I wonder if it could be quite some time before the labour party are in government again and Miliband may fall by the wayside before then.

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Yeah, think it will all depend on how the coalition does. I voted Lib dems last time, think I'd vote Labour this time - despite their faults, they did a hell of a lot of good things imo, especially progressive things.

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Call me cynical (It's OK 'cos I am) but to be honest, I don't think it would make a blind bit of difference which besuited, Oxbridge educated, middle-class pseudo intellectual got the job. None of them have any real experience of life. None of them have ever done a proper job and none of them have even a glimmer of understanding of what it is like to be an ordinary person trying to make ends meet. Blair, Cameron, Milliband(s), Cleggs - all identikit politicians driven by ambition for power, not concern for their electorate. The differences between the parties are almost non-existent and none of them stand for the ordinary people of the UK.

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Question is do we want any ORDINARY person who did an ordinary job then was elected by his/her party to lead us?

If any Party did this does it make HIM/HER more or less electable, I think less.... would Scargill have been electable?