all4naija: Your mother was molested by my dog before your smelling father had to get her laid and gave birth to you. You i d i o t. I can do that better than you do.

Shut up you're talking nonsense.

Take your life already, what are you waiting for?

RIP all4naija the fa*ggot

SirShymex:

Since he has been to naij a few times, he might have one.

Probably. Is he really on his way to Number 10?

SirShymex:

Fam, I'll slap the neanderthal genes out of ya DNA

You have absolutely nothing to contribute apart from spouting nonsense everywhere about "hate."

Muthaphuck ya emotions and fvck off the thread!

You need to go and slap your girlfriend, you African woman abuser! You are becoming a racist by the day and it is not funny!

I have not done that until the guy started hating on Taio Cruz in an infuriating way. He didn't even mention the hate in a single post but more posts with repudiation(rejecting to seek for information on who the guy really is). That is annoying to say the least.

50calibre:

Shut up you're talking nonsense.

Take your life already, what are you waiting for?

RIP all4naija the fa*ggot

Your father and family rest in peace! You dirty animal. And, that is reason why white Brits always give you that dirty look. You smelling human being. PTUI!!!

50calibre:
Miliband remains till at least 2015. Harriet Harman is too old & wrinkly to be PM, she would be most likely retired by the 2020. Jacqui Smith will be a younger face.

Imagine Zephaniah being PM, many white people will die of heart attack, weed will be legalised, Rasta religion will sweep across the UK. Loooool the Queen will rather die than see someone like that become PM.

Labour is just wasting time. Ed Miliband is too slow and not charming enough to win anything. Hopefully, he'll step down after losing the next election - and that looks like a sure bet. Maybe Ed Balls will take over after that. I don't see Jacqui Smith going anywhere further than where she's right now, to be honest.

Lmao @ Benjamin Zephaniah legalising weed - you're bad mind! - bwahahahahaha. He's cool headed and he's an intellectual. I just like him because he represents that black struggle and the experience better than these other folks. Anyway, I was just dreaming big, since he isn't even a politician - more of an activist, and a poet.

all4naija: Your father and family rest in peace! You dirty animal. And, that is reason why white Brits always give you that dirty look. You smelling human being. PTUI!!!

Shut up puto!!

ProfCorruption:
Probably. Is he really on his way to Number 10?

Lmao...I doubt it.

I don't even think he can win London's mayoral election, if he were to contest.

And right now, Ed Miliband is the party leader and Labour's PM candidate for the next election.

all4naija: You need to go and slap your girlfriend, you African woman abuser! You are becoming a racist by the day and it is not funny!

I have not done that until the guy started hating on Taio Cruz in an infuriating way. He didn't even mention the hate in a single post but more posts with repudiation(rejecting to seek for information on who the guy really is). That is annoying to say the least.

Muthaphuck sambo ar.se Taio Cruz, his fvcked face, and his weird accent.

We don't know him in London Town!

Waste man!

Mtchewwwwwwwwww

Sincere9gerian: Good news! From here, I wish him the best of luck.

Meanwhile, this is exclusively for the consumption of Ndi-Igbo on NL, myself inclusive

With that, we hope to see less chest-thumping posts on this thread

SirShymex:

Muthaphuck sambo ar.se Taio Cruz, his fvcked face, and his weird accent.

We don't know him in London Town!

Waste man!

I can understand your view and you are not hating on him for choosing to be what he want to be. Even if you do inside,you are not going to show it in a public forum with resenting assertion. It just goes to show how primitive that guy is. Jeez! That's disgusting!

SirShymex:

Labour is just wasting time. Ed Miliband is too slow and not charming enough to win anything. Hopefully, he'll step down after losing the next election - and that looks like a sure bet. Maybe Ed Balls will take over after that. I don't see Jacqui Smith going anywhere further than where she's right now, to be honest.

Lmao @ Benjamin Zephaniah legalising weed - you're bad mind! - bwahahahahaha. He's cool headed and he's an intellectual. I just like him because he represents that black struggle and the experience better than these other folks. Anyway, I was just dreaming big, since he isn't even a politician - more of an activist, and a poet.

Lol Ed balls will be a very bad choice for labour, that will be like jumping from frying pan into fire. Ed balls is one of the most hated men in politics, do you see how he gets heckled & booed in parliament?

David Miliband may be a better choice, although he's no longer actively involved on British politics, he could return & save the day.

I admire Zephaniah's values & I think his kind are rare these days but unfortunately people like that won't get the recognition they deserve. Besides imagine him in Downing Street greeting world leaders, people around the world will say Britain has finally gone bonkers

50calibre:

Shut up puto!!

You shut up! You brute!

50calibre:
Lol Ed balls will be a very bad choice for labour, that will be like jumping from frying pan into fire. Ed balls is one of the most hated men in politics, do you see how he gets heckled & booed in parliament?

David Miliband may be a better choice, although he's no longer actively involved on British politics, he could return & save the day.

I admire Zephaniah's values & I think his kind are rare these days but unfortunately people like that won't get the recognition they deserve. Besides imagine him in Downing Street greeting world leaders, people around the world will say Britain has finally gone bonkers

I just think Ed Balls is the best and brightest young politician Labour has at the moment. The rest are old and washed up. If he can get even with the unions, he'd be alright.

David Miliband committed political suicide with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, he's gone forever. Even if he returns, he'll be as irrelevant as Tony Blair is in the UK. Sad to see such a young, charismatic, articulate, and promising chap go down like that. And he was the heir to the throne but life happened.

Zephaniah rejected the OBE you know...he's a rare breed. He's an achiever and one of greatest British post-war writers. So regardless, he'll always be honoured. However, people like him will never be allowed to rule.

AMAKAVIOLA: Nigeria is blessed na Only bad government kill am! God Bless the Igbo Tribe, 'Just show me one country where there is no Igbo man pulling weight ?

# fixed

If chi onwurah can become my MP,why cant chuka. I am Labour and i will vote for him so as many of us.

50calibre: Yeah people keep saying this, hailing him as the British Obama but they're forgetting something important.

Britain isn't the US, blacks are still a minority in the UK, Chuka Umunna himself is uncharismatic, too stiff and frankly doesn't unite the crowd like Obama did. Umunna isn't even popular in the black community, he's too posh and can't relate to the average black boy. He's a shadow business secretary, that's like one of the most boring things ever.

The British still covertly practice racism, they don't speak it, they show it. Black faces are very scarce in politics, & the few either hold less recognisable positions or frustrated out of office by backbiting & lack of promotion.

Are you implying that blacks are majority in the US? Guy, what will happen will happen. I've learned not to doubt possibilities like this. I remember how people swore with their lives that Obama, a black man could never become the president of America but swallowed their words when it happened. Impossibility is nothing.

UK residents would certainly know better, but I think this article doesn't do Umunna any favors at all.
If you look at the false title of the article, you'll immediately know that his enemies wrote it. Umunna refers to UK as his country, but the authors made a business of identifying him as a "Nigerian"
If you can't understand the public relation hatchet job done on his guy, just remember 'Cardinal Arinze who would become the first black pope in histor'

SirShymex:

I just think Ed Balls is the best and brightest young politician Labour has at the moment. The rest are old and washed up. If he can get even with the unions, he'd be alright.

David Miliband committed political suicide with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, he's gone forever. Even if he returns, he'll be as irrelevant as Tony Blair is in the UK. Sad to see such a young, charismatic, articulate, and promising chap go down like that. And he was the heir to the throne but life happened.

Zephaniah rejected the OBE you know...he's a rare breed. He's an achiever and one of greatest British post-war writers. So regardless, he'll always be honoured. However, people like him will never be allowed to rule.

Ed Balls! What a name

naijaking1: UK residents would certainly know better, but I think this article doesn't do Umunna any favors at all.
If you look at the false title of the article, you'll immediately know that his enemies wrote it. Umunna refers to UK as his country, but the authors made a business of identifying him as a "Nigerian"
If you can't understand the public relation hatchet job done on his guy, just remember 'Cardinal Arinze who would become the first black pope in histor'

They identified his Father as a Nigerian not him. The same with Obama. Britons are not fools to think that he has no roots especially considering his name.

CFCfan:
Ed Balls! What a name

He must have been made fun of when he was a student. Ed Balls bring your balls over here

Afam4eva:
He must have been made fun of when he was a student. Ed Balls bring your balls over here

it depends on d type of 'balls' though

Just a pointless endeavor when nIgeria is begging for management u wanna manage Britain. Do u think they r fools in britain

Sincere9gerian: Good news! From here, I wish him the best of luck.

Meanwhile, this is exclusively for the consumption of Ndi-Igbo on NL, myself inclusive

With that, we hope to see less chest-thumping posts on this thread

This is the first time I'd see you make a good post.

Two major studies have shown that black men married to white women are likely to die early...sometimes horribly... At least juju go take you slowly...

Ermm... Na joke I dey ooh..

Nigerian Who May Become First Black British PM by etunoman76(m): 7:04am On Aug 21
On May 7, 2015, a Nigerian, Chuka Umunna, could make history by becoming the first black Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Born in London in 1978, Chuka was bred in the UK. His late father, Bennett, hailed from Anambra State while his Irish mother, Patricia, is a solicitor.

Co-incidentally, Chuka shares startling similarities with the United States President, Barack Obama, who is the first black President of the world’s most powerful nation.

For instance, Chuka is of mixed race, being the child of a Nigerian father and an Irish mother while Obama is also of mixed race, being the offspring of a white American woman and a Kenyan father. Also Chuka’s father, Bennett, was killed in a mysterious car accident in Nigeria in 1992 while Obama’s father was killed in a car accident in Kenya in 1982.

If history repeats itself as it is being predicted by British political observers, Chuka, who is also a six-foot tall lawyer like Obama, could become the first black Prime Minister in the UK.

Chuka’s life story is perhaps a better guide to his future political direction. It is the story of a rise from the streets of South London (scene of some of Britain’s worse race riots in the 1980s) to the parliament. But it is not the story that some might expect.

His father, Bennett, was a Nigerian labourer, who arrived in Britain in the sixties with one suitcase and no money. Having borrowed the fare from Liverpool to London, he worked in a carwash, became a successful businessman and died in a car crash when his son was 13.

Bennett began an import-export business trading with Nigeria and was starting to make a decent living when he met Patricia Milmo, a solicitor, at a London party. She happened to be the daughter of Sir Helenus Milmo, a Cambridge-educated High Court judge and a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi trials. They later got married, a rare combination during a time of high social inequality and racism.

Chuka believed his father was killed because he refused to indulge in corrupt practices when he was running for the governorship of Anambra State during the administration of former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida (retd.).

Bennett died after his car ran into a lorry carrying logs along the Onitsha-Owerri highway in Anambra. Bennett had been splitting his time between London and Nigeria – where he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Anambra State and had taken a stand against bribery.

At a point Bennett was also the owner of the Rangers International Football Club of Enugu, the darling of the Igbo people.

When quizzed about his father on Sky News, he had this to say: “There was a lot of speculation in Nigeria at the time around his death. He was a national political figure standing on an anti-corruption ticket and refused to bribe anybody.

“We don’t really talk about it because it is not going to bring him back but I think he would be bowled over that his son is now a politician just like him.”

Chuka, an English and French Law graduate from the University of Manchester, who also holds a Master’s degree from Nottingham Law School, says his interest in politics was shaped by seeing extreme poverty while visiting his father’s relatives in Nigeria and the social divide in his own Streatham constituency in the UK. He says that he is “not super-religious” but that his soft-left values are “rooted in my Christianity.”

The 35-year-old Labour Party Member of Parliament, however, has two hurdles to cross if he is to make history in the UK. This is because in the UK, for one to become the Prime Minister, the person must first be a Member of Parliament, the person’s party must win majority of seats out of the 560 seats in the House of Commons during the parliamentary elections and the person must be the leader of his party.

Presently, Chuka is the Member of Parliament for Streatham, a position he has held since 2010 but must re-contest in 2015 and win to retain the seat.

He is also the Shadow Business Secretary, a position held by a member of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. The duty of the office holder is to scrutinise the actions of the government’s Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and develop alternative policies. The office holder is a member of the Shadow Cabinet.

According to the UK Telegraph, Chuka is rumoured to have the strong support of a former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who was also a Labour Party leader.

According to the British newspaper, when asked if he was Blair’s anointed candidate, Chuka said, “I really don’t know anything about that.” However, when he was pressed further whether he aspired to head his party, he said, “I don’t entertain any discussion beyond winning the election next year. That would be completely hypocritical of me. To start thinking about hypothetical scenarios would be totally indulgent. All my energy is focused on winning the election, and so should everyone’s. It will be very close.”

Chuka is one of the youngest MPs in the UK having been introduced into British politics by the current Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, while he was in his 20s.

It was Milband that helped him become an MP and later made him his Parliamentary Private Secretary before he was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet in October 2011. He is tipped to become Miliband’s successor and could become the Prime Minister should the Labour Party win next year’s election.

Chuka, however, claims to hate the comparison of him and Obama which he terms the “construct of lazy journalists.” He sharply divides opinion in British politics. Good-looking, articulate, new-media-savvy and a good orator.

According to FT Magazine, he is not universally popular among his own colleagues, who see more style than substance. “He just has a knack of alienating people,” said one experienced Labour MP. “He is probably the most natural communicator I’ve seen since Tony Blair. The problem is that each week he has fewer supporters than he did at the start of the week.”

Even potential allies recount stories of apparent slights or snubs. A senior party figure says, “Chuka has put people’s backs up. They feel he is inaccessible.” Another long-serving MP adds, “The idea of learning the trade first is only for mere mortals, not for him.” Peter Mandelson, the former Labour business secretary who played a key role in Blair’s rise through to the top, thinks the explanation for this is quite simple, “Envy plays a big part in politics,” he says.

Like Blair, Chuka sometimes connects better with those beyond his own circle. John Cridland, head of the CBI employers’ group, calls him “a guy with whom we can do business.” Andrew Tyrie, Tory Chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, say: “He’s extremely talented and charming.” Andrew Adonis, a former Labour minister, sums up his cross-party appeal: “The best politicians are those who look outwards not inwards.”

However, allies of the current British PM, David Cameron, scoffed at the idea that Chuka might represent a threat to Cameron’s second term bid.

“I can’t think of any issue where he’s put us under pressure,” says one close friend of the prime minister. “He’s pretty average – he’s a slick corporate lawyer.”

Also, among his fellow party members, Chuka’s lack of political definition is another source of irritation as some claim they struggle to work out what he really believes in. But Chuka says people should show a bit more patience. “It would be rather unhealthy if after just three years in parliament I was setting out some blueprint for my country,” he says. “What do people expect?”

But some see him as the potential leader of a mainstream 21st-Century Labour party with the kind of crossover appeal of Blair’s New Labour. Despite initial reservations that Chuka might be a bit too left-wing, Blair has started seeing him regularly. “Chuka strikes Tony as very smart,” says one close ally of the former PM. “Business is a particularly important brief in tough economic times and Chuka seems to be rising to the challenge.”

As if Blair’s blessing was not enough, Chuka recalls the “honour” of spending “a small bit of private time with former US President, Bill Clinton, who he describes as one of his political heroes. “I think he defies the left-right description,” Mandelson says in approbation. “He’s part of a generation that transcends those labels.”

He has also recently been to Europe to meet his friend, the French PM, Manuel Valls.

According to statistics, almost 15 per cent of people in Britain describe themselves as “non-white” but the country has never had a party leader from an ethnic minority background. Nobody has ever come close. Chuka confesses that until his late teens he had not even thought about a career in politics because there was “nobody who looked like me” running the country.

Chuka has been vocal in the call for a reduction in government spending as well as issues on immigration. “They [the French] have something like 40 ministers compared to our 80,” he says.

On the EU itself, he has called for reform, saying not long ago that free movement of workers was not intended to mean free movement of jobseekers. “As one of the most pro-European shadow ministers, I don’t think you can ignore the impact that free movement has had on some of our communities,” he says, adding that it has changed because there are “many more EU members.”

He adds, “There’s a number of things we need to look at. Those who tend to raise the issue of immigration with me are my African and Asian constituents. They want confidence there are proper controls.

“They want to see people integrate, which is why we shouldn’t be spending all this money translating documents and [instead] directing resources to ensure people learn English. And you do need to look at free movement.”

Next year’s election may not be based on ethnicity but it obviously will be hard not to notice that a British-Nigerian could become the leader of one of the world’s wealthiest countries.

On the issue of ethnicity, Chuka has this to say, “A lot of people presume – because of my ethnicity – that I come from a particular social background. I am very quick to disabuse people of any sense that I’ve wanted and struggled in the way that, say, my father did. I come from a fairly middle-class background. People try and pigeonhole you in a box and I find that frustrating sometimes.”

If Chuka is hard to pigeonhole, that may be linked to his own pedigree. It seems likely, if not certain, that Chuka, whose name means God is the greatest, is destined to become a larger presence in his party and thus a bigger potential target despite being a person whose father came to the UK from Nigeria without a dime.

etunoman76:

http://www.punchng.com/politics/nigerian-who-may-become-first-black-british-pm/

Get it: HE'S NOT A NIGERIAN! HE'S BRIT!
Just get!!!

AMAKAVIOLA: Nigeria is blessed na Only bad government kill am! God Bless the Igbo Tribe, 'Just show me one country where there is no Igbo man?

i bet u wnt find an igbo man in heaven, "they will be in hell clearing containers.

Is he the highest public office holder of Nigerian descent? If no, why are the rest who have been in politics before him and have better chances of being the first and full black Nigerians not listed? Or is his campaign being kick started on nairaland?

Btw, if UK media is not flashing his picture, he might as well run as prime minister of biafra. Tall dream anyway!

yh..this won't be happening anytime soon.

duni04: Just because your ogor is shaped in the same way as obamas does not mean you'll be a president too. This guy can continue dreaming

Guy... u shld learn to appreciate pipo..
@ just 35yrs and see where he is already. .

messpero90: i bet u wnt find an igbo man in heaven, "they will be in hell clearing containers.

.... and u'll be there watching too.... smh
#judgenot#

niggereyez:

Guy... u shld learn to appreciate pipo..
@ just 35yrs and see where he is already. .

Nice looking puppy