Rishi Sunak is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; he will be until the next election, which is slated for July 4, 2024. Then, in all likelihood, the British people will dump him.
PM Sunak is an Indo-British, born in England to parents who were chased out of Africa by the rising tide of African Black Nationalism; when it turned against the Indian mercantile class ( see Uganda).
He is a good looking guy; he has that cool Nehru/Brahmin look. He is a practicing Hindu; he is married to the daughter of one of the richest men in the world; rumored to be richer than King Charles III.
He is very smart; but will be put down by the British voter for that most basic of Jungian reasons; he has no British Blood Memory. He is the British Kamala Harris.
June 6, 2024, was the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landing.
The D-Day Landing has colossal power in the British psyche; it is one of the key members of the British trinity of great military victories- Agincourt, Waterloo, D-DAY.
It was a crowning achievement of British military genius and resolve in World War II, compensating, on one day, for the British defeats, during World War II, at Singapore, Dunkirk, Crete, Narvik and Tobruk.
The courage of the Tommie, the British foot soldier, was beyond comprehension on D-Day; British ingenuity was divine. Take for example, the seizure of the Pegasus Bridge, behind German lines, by paratroopers arriving by gliders. The gliders floated in, in the dark, without lights, and landed within 100 feet of the bridge, surprising the Germans; before they could blow the bridge. How did the Brits do that? At night…….by timing. They had a person with a stop watch sitting behind the glider pilot; when the glider was released from the towing bomber, he counted off the seconds; at three minutes sharp, he told the pilot to turn left. Which the pilot, who died in 1993, did, in the dark, successfully.
D-DAY means a lot, on many levels to the British voter; it was the peak of modern British arms.
PM Sunak attended the morning commemoration; then he left, just left….to scurry back to London, for a live, routine television interview. He ditched the apex of British collective memory for a pedestrian interview.
He left the chore of honoring British courage to a former Prime Minister, Lord David Cameron ( who is descended from an illegitimate son of a British monarch).
It was deemed by the British public as the greatest flight from courage since Marc Antony skipped out on the Battle of Actium.
It was an act of political suicide, on a visceral level.
WHY?
Now, this Blogger is going Jungian……June 6, 2024, that day of all that remembered British courage was too much for the successful Indian boy from Southampton, to take. Sunak is a marginal man. Even though he had conquered the British oppressors of his people, academically, politically, financially, even telegenically; he felt he did not measure up to British courage. The weight of remembering all that British courage crushed him.
America experienced that same situation in 2013, when half Kenyan President Obama, did not attend the 150th anniversary of the apex of American slave owning courage, the Battle of Gettysburg, Pickett’s Charge. All that Southern courage was too much for him; instead he opted to take a trip to Africa.
Marginal men have a very difficult time bearing up under the weight of the oppressor’s courage and/or memories of that courage.
Sunak knew he did not belong with the heroic British Blood Memory on June 6th,; so he took flight.
Indians, perhaps all minorities, in Great Britain have a very difficult time overcoming the internalized stigma of being marginal to British Blood Memory.
And what a Blood Memory it is! In 1903, British scientists discovered a 9,000 year old skeleton in Cheddar Gorge. He was named the Cheddar Man. In 1997, scientists from Oxford University discovered, through DNA testing, that a local history teacher, Adrian Targett, in Cheddar, England shared DNA with Cheddar Man.
That is a heavy lift for an Indian Brit, 9,000 years of Blood Memory, on display at the D-Day ceremony.
At the D-Day ceremonies, Sunak was surrounded by Blood memory, drowning in Blood Memory, suffocated by Blood Memory…Sunak, like Marc Antony had to flee the battlefield. Thank God he did not faint from all that Blood Memory.
Blood Memory is an organic entity, as fresh in 2024 as it was when it emerged, with its hosts, mankind, from the primordial ooze. Blood Memory uplifts and unites the natives; while diminishing the immigrant newcomer.
Seriously, how can an immigrant to England, or their children, not feel diminished when the poetry of Blood Memory hurls them into the abyss of marginalization?
" This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of
Mars,
This other Eden,
demi-paradise,
This fortress built by
Nature for her self
Against infection and
the hand of war,
This happy breed
of men, this little world,
This precious stone
set in a silver sea
Which serves it in the
office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive
to a house,
Against the envy of
less happier lands,
This blessed plot,
this earth, this realm, this England...RICHARD II"
By the same token can a Tamil American or a Nigerian American understand, REALLY UNDERSTAND, the specific to America, Biblical incantation of Lincoln's Second Inaugural?
..."Fondly do we hope ~ fervently do we pray ~ that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether....A. LINCOLN."
But there is hope for the brilliant Rishi Sunak; now that Hindu Nationalist Prime Minister Modi has been humbled in the recent Indian elections; India will soon need a great Prime Minister. This Blogger suggests that Rishi Sunak apply.
British Prime Minister and his wife leaving the D-Day Anniversary Early
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