Of course representation matters. It matters in lots of ways and in lots of areas! But when you equate being progressive with happening to have a leader with minority characteristics you're making a mistake. Margaret Thatcher was the first woman prime minister. But she was a Tory and a bastard and her policies made peoples lives worse (including and especially minorities). Calling the Tory party of 1975-1990 progressive when they regressed the nation significantly would make no sense. The same is the case now.

I can imagine.

Why are you more concerned with gender and ethnicity than the material conditions of the minorites you claim to care about? Please stop posting

This has to be bait? They just crashed the economy with their right wing tax cuts which is likely to lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths due to austerity in the long term. (Google austerity deaths UK) Try not to speak if you have nothing informed to say. Fucking hell.

He's about to enact some of the worst austerity this country has seen. He's the second completely undemocratically elected conservative prime minister elected in recent times. The previous one completely destroyed our economy with huge unaccounted for tax cuts (which now the poor will have to pay for with said austerity) His being in power is nothing to be happy about. What a joke.

Why should we let corporations keep their existing profit margins if it means suffering and hardship for working people? Companies often increase prices well above inflation with no intention of bringing prices back down.