David Lammy is pushing himself as Britain's Barack Obama. Lammy claims they are "friends." But what about Tory MP for Windsor Adam Afriyie like Obama a handsome 40-something who played basketball at college and is in his first term as a national legislator.
Both are bi-racial with a white mother and a foreign, black father. Both were brought up by their white mothers after their black fathers returned to their country of origin. Both have half siblings in their fathers' countries of origin, Kenya for Obama, Ghana for Afriyie.
Both have made good (Afriyie had a deprived upbringing in Peckham but is now very rich worth tens of millions having founded three companies providiong jobs for hundreds of people.)
Finally both were born on 4 August, though Obama is five years older.
By the way I am assured that as a good, sound, small government Conservative, Afriyie is rooting for John McCain. Since he was elected as the party’s first black MP, Afriyie has deliberately kept his head down and refused to be the party’s black card, preferring to be judged purely on merit. Bu if the media want to start pushing black role models and comparisons with Obama among British politicians, Afriyie has a better claim than Lammy.
