As in the French press, one of the required columns in the UK since the election of Barack Obama to the American Presidency has been "When will a Barack Obama British ?".
What is very intriguing in this question, what are the presuppositions of the question and sometimes accompanying articles, which imply that the mere fact have a 1 st Minister or President would be a black mark progress when progress seemed to just be that Barack Obama was elected to his qualities as a man, his character and his ideas and not "grace" or "cause" of his skin color, or just because some voters tried to they support a candidate identified as a member of their community, demographic changes suddenly giving them the advantage. The strength of Barack Obama has been rather to go beyond a vote communitarian recognizing obviously purely racial problems existing in the U.S. while stressing the need to exceed them, aided by his origins and experiences, (see his speech on this subject ). What may seem almost "obvious" if you have a humanistic vision of the world, but rarely is, especially in a country marked by its history in the slave trade and institutionalized racism.
That said, what was more fun to read in various articles on the subject, that caricatured more questions like "Is that the English are too racist to elect a Black ?, "it was finally the questions on the political system and its ability to integrate or not an" outsider "in the broadest sense of the word, someone who does not fit into the political system and parties whether by skin color, social origin, religion etc.. Guardian's article on the subject shows that in fact, apart from data GOALS as the history of immigration to the UK and the proportion of ethnic minorities in the population, it is the political system that slows the onset of candidates "from outside" (the system) more than racism more or less concealed. Where to U.S. Senator a young relatively inexperienced but charismatic may well run a campaign during the primaries to do first and then take out the head of his party for the presidential elections and of course immediately be positioned access to the highest political responsibility of the country, the United Kingdom once elected to Parliament, he must wait, sometimes imposing his authority by accessing various corporate functions and then only after taking the controls of the party, find themselves in position to have the position of 1 st Minister. Which favors the candidate standard in which paradoxically parliamentarians sometimes more that voters will recognize!
To draw a parallel with the system French politics, is ultimately a somewhat similar problem since all the politicians who managed to reach the presidency in the last 30 years have spent a lot of first time and effort to the conquest of a political machine and once their grip on the device secure, could deal with the conquest of power itself ( Mitterrand with PS , Chirac who has done RPR a machine to win elections entirely to his service, which retrieves Sarkozy's former RPR renamed meantime UMP etc.).
short without falling into idealism, saying that there is no problem of racism in France or the UK , the problem is ultimately the conservatism of the system itself that promotes people all got the same mold and have similar paths, not only in overwhelmingly white, but coming from affluent backgrounds and often high officials and lawyers by profession. Each country has its aristocracy ...
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