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Rishi Sunak, The New UK Prime Minister and some of the other Premiers of non-English Descent in the History of the United Kingdom

  Rishi Sunak, born in Southampton, England to parents of Punjabi Indian descent who had migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s, was announced today as the new Leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. He would become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on October 24, 2022. His rise to the top political post in the United Kingdom was following a chaotic Conservative Party leadership race, where he prevailed after the withdrawal of former prime minister Boris Johnson. Thus, he replaces Elizabeth Truss, the outgoing prime minister with the shortest reign in British history(44 days), making him the third minister in two months of political distress and economic turmoil in the country which faces the risk of global war as fears grow of an escalation in the wars in Ukraine involving direct NATO involvement on the side of Ukraine against Russia and Russian allied forces. Rishi Sunak thus becomes the first UK Prime Minister of Asian/Indian/Hindu/Punjabi descent, as well as of
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Euphoria for a "Revolution" and Truth

  Saying the truth to those who need it the most often gets the wrong reception. Revolution is a science that those wanting to carry it out need to think it through, taking into account so many factors. No Western institution has a good grasp of it. The fine art of it was never developed in the West nor mastered there. Back in 1997, at a time that our SDF had more than 60% support in Cameroon and the system(Biya regime and France) was treating it with disdain, at a time that I was just back home, some of our people thought the SDF should pick up arms. Despite its popularity, the SDF lacked a national idea, a unifying ideology that all those who militated in, supported, sympathized with or led it could identify as a rallying or sobering source.   Advocates for a revolution should never dismiss the aspect of "unintended consequences" arising from an abortive revolution, especially one that is not well formulated. The SDF at the time was different things to different peoples. It
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