A positive story among the horrors of the European turn to the right. The UK’s only parliamentary politician of Chinese origin — the Alliance Party’s Anna Lo – has defied racists in Northern Ireland and will stay on in her job. Lord knows we need people like her. It was bad enough that a Christian …
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Yesterday’s first ever UK Chinese hustings, featuring five of the eight Chinese parliamentary candidates running in the general election and attended by an almost entirely Chinese audience, was an interesting if disappointing affair. Organised by bbcchina.com and bbcchinese.com, this was a much-needed initiative considering that Chinese are the third-biggest minority in the UK, but you …
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Having chased out 100 Romanians from Belfast, racist loyalists in Northern Ireland have set their sights on Anna Lo, the United Kingdom’s first Chinese-born politician elected to national Parliament, and the sole ethnic minority member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. According to a report in the Belfast Telegraph, police have warned her that she is …
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The UK got its first Chinese politician this year (at MP level – it’s complicated) but, as luck would have it, she’s an MLA in Belfast, a city not most famed for its universal love. Anna Lo is the first ethnic politician to be elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly (Alliance Party) so you just …
