What are the chances of a British mixed race kid born to a white mother and an African father becoming prime minister?
Is it not a little ironic that the Queen and all the assorted establishment fawn over this wonderful president when a British equivalent would never stand a chance of being given his due, because he would be thwarted by the entrenched racism and class privilege which runs along every corridor to the heart of every room and seat of power in the land?
How easy it is to imagine Prince Phillip and countless other pompous landed gentry making racist jokes behind president Obama's back.
So to answer the question. There is no chance.
Until we do away with an unelected second chamber, and remove the hereditary principle from our head of state - Britain doesn't stand a chance of aspiring to be the kind of meritocracy where someone as eloquent as Barack Obama could be allowed to get anywhere near a position of power.
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