He’s clever, but……………………..
In 2013 the Yale law professor Dan Kahan conducted experiments testing the effect of intelligence on ideological bias. In one study he scored people on intelligence using the “cognitive reflection test,” a task to measure a person’s reasoning ability. He found that Left Wing and Right Wing scored about the same on average, but the high-scoring individuals in both groups were the most likely people to display political bias when assessing the truth of various political statements.
Mastermind
In 2009, appearing on the TV quiz show, Mastermind, in response to the question, “Who succeeded Henry VIII?, he replied “Henry the Seventh”
One Million Dead Indian Soldiers in WW2
In a 2016 debate with UKIP’s immigration spokesman David Lammy claimed that “A “million” Indian soldiers laid down their lives for the “European project” during the Second World War, “
The UKIP spokesman replied ““Did you just say they fought for the European Project?”Pretty sure they were fighting against the only major “European project” of the time… “
The Indian Army, part of Britain’s forces, eventually rose to more than 2.5 million men by 1945. About 24,000 of the fighters were killed by the end of the conflict, 64,354 were wounded and 11,754 were missing, according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
On the Race of the Next Pope
Reparations
As Caribbean people we are not going to forget our history — we don’t just want to hear an apology, we want reparation!” But just not from those who captured, enslaved and sold us – Africa
May 2018 – “As a Black, British, Caribbean son of the Windrush and descendant of slaves I just voted against the hostile environment. I am here, because you were there. We are here, because you were there. My ancestors were British subjects. But they were not British subjects because they came to Britain. They were British subjects because Britain came to them, took them across the Atlantic, colonised them, sold them into slavery, profited from their labour and made them British subjects. “
Except of course it’s not true. His parents came to the UK from Guyana, a former Dutch colony, which only became a British colony after the UK had stopped trading in slaves.
The English
In 2003 when Lammy considered the ethnic English, his attraction to communities of shared ancestry was largely negative. “An ethnic Englishness,” he wrote, “tied to toxic assumptions about group supremacy, has put down deep roots in recent years.”
In 2021 he got upset about questions in the England and Wales census because it wouldn’t let him declare his ethnicity as English and black. The Office for National Statistics has stated that the English are an ethnic group within the White British category. The Encyclopedia Britannica has this to say on the topic:
Even on Wikipedia the definition of English people is stated clearly as ‘an ethnic group native to England’.
He argues that his qualification for being English is having been born in London, but this fact alone does not make someone English. If Dave had been born in Cardiff that wouldn’t make him a Welshman either. Spike Milligan, Rudyard Kipling and George Orwell were all born in India, but they were not Indians. Birthplace does not define your ethnicity. Lammy’s family come from a former Dutch colony in the Caribbean.
A spokeswoman for the ONS added: “After testing different options in England and Wales, we recommended a change in the Welsh questionnaire to include Black Welsh and Asian Welsh, alongside Black British and Asian British.” She added: “The evidence did not support a change to include Black English in England.”
A Black Welsh person is a black person living in Wales and the Asian Welsh are likewise Asians living in Wales. The Census does not record any Black Welsh people having moved to England, and no Asian Welsh either. If Black people are English, then so are Asians, and everyone living in England is either English or an immigrant. The term English ethnicity has no meaning at all when it’s just a post code.
By contrast, he doesn’t think this woman is English:
“Asma Assad, born in the UK, is labeled a sanctioned individual by Foreign Secretary Lammy, who stated she is unwelcome in the UK. The British wife of ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, Asma Assad, has been branded a “sanctioned individual” and is “not welcome here in the UK,” according to Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
His comments come amid growing uncertainty about whether the British government will revoke her citizenship. She was born in London in 1975 and brought up and schooled in the United Kingdom, just like David Lammy.
