How Do Politicians Win The Asian-british Vote

Do events such as the election of Donald Trump and the British vote toward Brexit show the world is changing permanently or temporarily?

I like this question. It shows an awareness of international events and forward thinking.The Rise of President Trump → In my opinion this is a temporary shift in American politics. I do not honestly believe President Trump is going to be a two term president, and I don’t believe the Republican party will align themselves with any sort of Trump ideology (Whatever that even is) for very long. I think in the long-term, American politics is getting more divisive, and I think that both major parties are at fault. Trump’s international stage will definitely not be a long term shift; I truly can’t see either party getting excited about raising tariffs or renegotiating treaties or anything like that.Brexit → This is going to be a permanent shift in the international world. No matter how Brexit goes: no-deal, bad-deal, or good-deal, it will damage the European Union and their stability with the other members. The UK will be in a new era of politics and economics. I think this will really shift the way Europe does things. I do not think this will greatly affect where I think the world is going, I think no matter how Brexit goes, the world IS shifting towards an Asian-centric direction.Hope this helps —Daniel

My Asian and European colleagues keep asking why citizens in the USA voted for a person who lacks good character, what should I say?

The American electoral system isn’t a straight majority vote or even a plurality vote. It’s pretty much 50 regional elections. The 50 regions vote for who they think would be the best president. Those 50 regions votes are weighted by population. And in all but 2 of those regions, the one who gets the most votes gets all of the region’s votes. In certain, critical regions, he got the most votes, but not the majority of the votes. In 48 out of 50 states, there is a first past the post system for determining the winner of the state’s weighted votes. It doesn’t matter if the winner got 30% or 51% or 70%. As long as the winner gets more votes than any other candidate rather than the majority, they win all of the electoral votes.Trump was running against 4 candidates who split the vote 4 ways. Even though Clinton won the most overall votes, Trump won the most regions. And the critical regions he won, he won without getting 51% of the vote.Pretty much, America didn’t want ANY candidate to win since both major candidates were loathed. But somebody sort of had to, so Trump sort of won by a fluke.

Should the British political parties disband and form two Brexit groups, leavers and remainers and fight it out in a general election?

That would be an interesting approach. Party politics I regard as a curse inherited from earlier centuries. Both major parties are split down the middle. Lib Dem. Green and SNP are not. Issue not party should determine votes. If MPs are seriously acting in the nation's interest, one might ask why they think it OK to destroy the economy, universities, the NHS, agriculture, our reputation for diplomacy and common sense - in pursuit of some pipe dream phantasy of control & sovereignty. Sick man of Europe has nothing on this!Historians will look back at this as the time Brits went collectively mad and caused the breakup of the UK.

What precedent, if any, does the "Leave" Brexit vote winning establish for the rest of the European Union?

This is the first time that a referendum on the EU has been respected.Previous referendums that rejected EU actions (in Ireland, the Netherlands, France, Greece) were ignored: the EU either forced voters to vote a second time, or made back room deals with governments to get what it wanted in defiance of the will of the people. Each time, the governments of member states played along with the narrative that experts should decide, and that voters should not be allowed to decide. Until now.That didn’t happen this time. Both sides in the UK made it clear that this vote will have consequences, and that the British government would respect the will of the people.This establishes the clear precedent that a member states can call a referendum that leads to the end of that state’s membership in the EU.Now member states will start wondering: Do our voters want our country to leave the EU? While the EU position was that referendums can be ignored or subverted, governments were free to ignore their voters, and demonize any who objected to EU actions. Governments could claim that anyone who questioned the EU was a fringe minority with no public support, and should be ignored.That is no longer an option.The governments of other EU member states will now have to deal with the fact that many of their voters are similarly unhappy with the EU. Either this will lead to changes in EU behavior, or it will lead to more members exiting the EU. This is healthy, as democracies need to reflect the will of their voters in order to remain legitimate and relevant.The old status quo is broken, and the old assumptions disproven. That is, by definition, a precedent.

Can an Asian, a Muslim, and a foreign-born become the Prime Minister of the UK?

I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see Sadiq Khan become PM, and I can think of many worse options. But Khan is of course British born and bred, so he only meets two of your criteria. The other prominent Muslim of Asian heritage in British politics at the moment is Sajid Javid, who is currently Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. But he too is solidly British.There are four Muslim MPs who were born in Asia at the moment, but all of them have taken British nationality. Two of them, Yasmin Qureshi and Khalid Mahmood are back benchers in their mid 50s who are unlike to suddenly emerge as Prime Ministerial material. The others are Rushanara Ali (Labour), who is 42 and held a minor shadow ministerial role until she resigned in 2014 to vote against further military involvement in Iraq. She has time to come back, but although she is or was a Corbyn supporter, she isn’t on the front bench at the moment; and Rehman Chishti (Conservative), who is 39 and currently holds a very minor government appointment. Nobody is touting either of these as future Prime Ministers at the moment, but then nobody is looking 20 years ahead.Honourable mention to Tulip Siddiq (Labour), who is British by birth but is the niece of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was a junior shadow education minister until last year when she resigned to vote against triggering Article 50; but she is now Chair of the Childcare and Early Education All-Party Parliamentary Group. She is also a vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Anti-Semitism. She’s only 35, so she may go far.