tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post8647027469801835478..comments2023-08-11T09:56:34.039+01:00Comments on timrollpickering: BME Conservative MPs - the pioneersTim Roll-Pickeringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-6266032446619816542019-05-21T08:14:04.954+01:002019-05-21T08:14:04.954+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.ipsworkforcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02510182614410829459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-78256220878705831902019-05-18T06:10:16.736+01:002019-05-18T06:10:16.736+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.evs grouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07173790074905722481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10968338.post-57356969022713281652010-05-27T00:54:10.139+01:002010-05-27T00:54:10.139+01:00Hi Tim,
I read your comment on Gray's blog. I...Hi Tim,<br /><br />I read your comment on Gray's blog. I no longer contribute to his blog (he's an arse). I had a spat with him a while ago about my "ethnicity" and whether or not I'm a Jew (my mother is Jewish - I do not practice that faith).<br /><br />He claims that most Jews he knows consider themselves as BME. That's interesting as, to the best of my knowledge, all that I know (family members included) do not. But if Gray says it is so, it must be the case because... he says so!<br />Some how I don't think it would have gone down too well if I'd announced that I was a BME member when I was a Labour councillor!<br /><br />Gray seemed obsessed, wanting to label me a Jew... only he can know why, but it did come across as more than a little odd.<br /><br />AS for D'Israeli, wasn't his father born in Enfield? Okay, his grandfather was Italian but does that qualify him for BME status?<br /><br />I wonder what D'Israeli would have made of it. I can only assume that, to a degree, he would have agreed that, because of his distant family ties to the twelve tribes he could be considered a member of an ethnic minority - I guess he had that "Semitic" look expected of Jews. Yet I have nephews and nieces who are blond and blue eyed and are practicing Jews - my sister married a Jew. To lump them in the BME pot would be absurd.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com