I worry. Not about Prince Charles editing The Voice, seizing on a naive open goal presented to him to curry some ill-deserved favour with Britain’s biggest Black newspaper.
Most people see through that, given his failure to provide any substantive public support for his son Harry and Meghan Markle.
Nor do I worry about Rishi Sunak ’s hurt feelings. Particularly after the former Chancellor sold his soul during the hustings.
Check out his shameful, reprehensible “gags” about his “tan” (yes, really) to try and get the Tories’ hard-right on side, only to fail in his bid to become Prime Minister.
I worry most about Liz Truss. The glove puppet given the keys to the most prestigious office in the country. The woman who, in her acceptance speech, blew apart any ideas that she might bring an end to the most polarising period of British politics in decades.
I worry about the fact that in the hustings, Truss made it clear that, on race and racism, she was very much the Boris Johnson continuity candidate. More so.
Forget the idea that she could be more centrist, like Blair and Cameron, to even try and keep floating voters on board.
Truss has already promised to take an even harder line on immigration. She will make life even tougher for Black Britain. She promised the hard-liners in the Tory party she’d do so.
She has some seriously odious promises she needs to make good on.
This is what she said in the hustings on shipping migrants to Rwanda. “The Rwanda policy is the right policy. I’m determined to see it through to full implementation, as well as exploring other countries that we can work on similar partnerships with. It’s the right thing to do.”
She also went further, promising to increase frontline border staff by 20 per cent. Also striking Rwanda-style deals with more countries.
Don’t kid yourself, either, with the delusion that by surrounding herself with the likes of Suella Braverman, Kwasi Kwarteng and other non-white individuals that Truss will have a diverse cabinet in any positive sense.
How can it be when Braverman and Kwarteng are all about making life difficult for other Black and Asian people?
They are gatekeepers, happy to normalise racism and to see the rest of us as pawns to sacrifice in their bid to earn brownie points and stoke culture wars.
They are happy to defend policies that malign young Black men. Also to reject training to educate people on other cultures. What is there to celebrate about that?
What child will see inspiration in a Black or Asian minister of state ( Kwarteng could become the first Black Chancellor) when they see them and their parents as a problem for this country?
The Truss administration threatens to do just that.
God help us.
