i dont know about “asserting”, thats simply what ive heard from someone on the inside. its very possible it wasnt even him, or that it was misinformation
Other than Disraeli no primarily anglophone country other than New Zealand has had a Jewish Prime Minister or President. New Zealand has had three. Italy, Latin America, and depending on how you look at it former Soviet countries have had more representation. Obviously the Soviet situation is weird because a lot of the people took office and were nominally atheist due to Soviet policies. Then there’s Israel, which can basically go without mentioning. I think the case of Leon Blum in France is particularly instructive when talking about anti-semitism in politics. In 1936 he was beaten, nearly to death, shortly before his ascent to the office. He was eventually interned at Buchenwald. Here’s a list that might help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jewish_Prime_Ministers
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Is there a family Tinfoil Hat that you’re required to wear while viewing them?
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I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
nay, we find tin foil is too hard to come by these days, but aluminum foil is plentiful
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Well, in my grandad’s case, he used to pootle down the lodge and get slightly pissed, then pick me up and take me to the fair on the seafront and we’d go on the dodgems.
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My family has tintypes of Tin Tin. 
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Being in the Commonwealth and having the Queen as head of state are two different things: the Commonwealth contains republics, and also at least one monarchy with a different monarch (Malaysia). In fact, most Commonwealth citizens do not have the Queen as their head of state: India alone has more than 50% of the Commonwealth’s total population.
But yes, Liz is Queen of Canada.
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Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
— Disraeli responding to antisemitic taunts in Parliament in 1835.
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So that’s a type of Tintin tintype?
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She only sells them at the seashore.
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there was the tutu’ed troupe of tap-tancing Tintin tintype troubadours, though that turned too thoroughly Titanic to attend twice.
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US could have ended up with an Adventist President. Now that would have been something.
I should know. I was raised one.
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See: Australia, Gough Whitlam
You were raised as a US President? Cool!
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And just to be confusing, there’s the Church of England which is sort of both at the same time. It is technically catholic and reformed, with various congregations within the CofE ranging from virtually indistinguishable from old-school Catholism at the ‘high church’ end to almost Calvinist at the ‘low church’ end.
Except of course, it’s a lot more complicated than that. 
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Oh, I don’t know. Most of us raised as CofE just have to remember not to go to church on Sunday…
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Ah, but some people do need to remember which church not to go to…the one where the priest wears fancy robes and waves incense about or the one with a woman vicar eating hobnobs in the vestry.
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