Talk:Lists of ethnic minority politicians in the United Kingdom

Article move

I moved the article to be consistent with Wikipedia:MOS#Article_titles.2C_headings.2C_and_sections. Ground Zero | t 12:29, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Headings

Since this whole article is identified as being a "List of...", can we simplify and shorten the sub-headings by removing "List of.... from the beginning of each? Ground Zero | t 14:49, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnic minority more like non-white politicians

Thi article lacks mention of any politicians who are ethnic minorities and are white. Good examples of white ethnic minority politicians, all my examples are ethnically jewish, would be Benjamin Disraeli who was Prime Minister and the Miliband brothers (Ed Milliband and David Milliband) and John Bercow the current speaker. They are doubtlessly countless other examples of white ethnic minority politicians in Britain some of whom probably aren't jewish. I would simply add them myself and will do but I thought I should let this issue come to the attention of users on here. Eopsid (talk) 12:52, 11 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. It is inappropriate (and smacks of politicking) to include Disraeli but no other Jews. It smacks, to be frank, of a Conservative editor wanting to boost the Tories' 'minority count' without including the many Jewish Labour (and some Tory) MPs of the 20th century. I suggest removing Disraeli and changing the name of the article to 'visible ethnic minority British politicians', or someone doing some research and adding all the Jewish MPs. Tom Black (talk) 12:56, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I don't understand why Disraeli is included. Ethnicity is almost synonymous with skin colour in the UK, and officially the ethnic groups within the population are defined as being: White, Black, Asian, Mixed and Chinese (see Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom). In addition, there is a seperate list of British Jewish politicians (linked at the bottom of this article).--86.179.225.42 (talk) 13:08, 4 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Really confused about the criteria at work here. Marta Andreasen is listed as a British-Argentinian MEP (although she's a Spanish national). If this makes her an ethnic minority, why not the MPs Rudi Vis (Dutch), Gisele Stuart (German), Daniel Kawczynski (Polish)? Also, Stanley Johnson is listed as being British Turkish, on the basis of one Turkish grandparent - should we then include Robert Halfon, the grandson of an Italian Jew who used to live in Libya? CulturalSnow (talk) 05:50, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

David Dyce Sombre

Would David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre qualify for inclusion in the list?--86.144.246.177 (talk) 06:13, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]