Democratic Deficits

One of the failings of the modern day politics, is the lack of ethnic minority representation in Parliament. There are only fifteen MPs of colour, whereas proportionately, there should be four times as many.

I bring this up because today is the birthday of Dadabhai Naoroji, who became the first Asian to be elected an MP in 1892, as a Liberal naturally. He was quite a remarkable man who was a co-founder of the Indian National Congress.

However, bar a couple of other notable exceptions, it was not until the 1980s that the first cohort of Black MPs was to be elected.
To achieve a Parliament that truly represents ALL the people we still have a long way to go.

And don't get me started on the lack of women...