It’s good that Tory leadership candidates are being frank about their beliefs but Kemi Badenoch’s cultural values should make you sick.
She has written an article for the Sunday Telegraph, stating that “not all cultures are equally valid” when people from other countries want to live in the United Kingdom.
What she does not seem to understand is that people seeking asylum here are fleeing the cultures that they are leaving behind. They have already rejected those cultures.
So Badenoch’s claims are false.
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In her article, she also states that “our country is not a dormitory for people to come here and make money”. This is not true either.
Conservatives have been delighted to welcome into the UK (via accepted routes) anybody from foreign countries who they thought would be good for their businesses and those of their donors. Those people have been making money here for years – possibly centuries.
And they were happy to have workers in the UK from the European Union who were cheap, and therefore profitable – until it became politically expedient to pretend they were enemies who were taking menial jobs away from indigenous UK workers.
In her article, according to the BBC,
She calls for a complete overhaul of the system to ensure every public servant makes it a priority – not just the Home Office – and does not rule out leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.
I read that as demanding that her racism becomes pan-government policy.
Also:
She also calls for a better “integration strategy” that emphasises British values and culture.
“I am struck for example, by the number of recent immigrants to the UK who hate Israel. That sentiment has no place here.”
How is support for a genocidal settler-colonialist regime a part of British values and culture? It isn’t.
Badenoch fails to define her terms, meaning her claim that many immigrants into the UK hate Israel is unclear. Is she saying they hate the concept of Israel as a country that was set up by the United Nations (including the UK) in the 1940s – or that they hate the government of Israel that has harmed so many other people in the Middle East and is trying to push the entire region into war as I write these words?
There’s a big difference between the two, but Badenoch does not acknowledge it.
Her words came in advance of the Conservative conference in Birmingham where, as one of four candidates to lead the party, she will make her case for Tory MPs and party members to vote for her.
The other hopefuls are Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat. None of them are suitable potential leaders of the UK, in This Writer’s opinion.
During the conference, the number of candidates will be cut down to two, and the new leader will then be chosen by the wider party membership in an online ballot, the result of which will be announced on November 2.
The BBC report states that the other candidates have been setting our their own stalls.
James Cleverly seems keen to emulate Labour leader (and now prime minister) Keir Starmer by eviscerating his own party:
“We need to end the Tory psychodrama that has damaged our party for so long.
“We cannot expect our members and volunteers to be out campaigning while the parliamentary party rips itself apart in Westminster.
“Fixing our party will take work.”
So he wants to rid the Tories of anybody other than his own faction, as Starmer is still trying to do in Labour.
Tugendhat seems to be relying on an exaggerated interpretation of patriotism – as one might expect from an ex-serviceman (Territorial Army, with experience in Iraq and Afghanistan):
He vowed to restore pride in Britain if he is elected leader and restore the Tories “fighting spirit”.
“We should never apologise for who we are or for defending our values. Patriotism isn’t a dirty word—it’s the best antidote to decline.”
It seems likely that this will also involve an unwarranted attack on immigrants and asylum-seekers. What will he and Badenoch do if Starmer’s Labour succeeds in reducing this issue to acceptable levels before the next general election?
Jenrick has said his party needs to accept “hard truths” about itself – that it needs to overcome its “shortcomings” and prove that it has “changed”.
His problem is that his party hasn’t changed – at least, not yet.
The views of the leadership candidates – and other events at the Tory conference – are likely to make this abundantly clear to the public over the next few days.
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Kemi Badenoch’s cultural values should make you sick
It’s good that Tory leadership candidates are being frank about their beliefs but Kemi Badenoch’s cultural values should make you sick.
She has written an article for the Sunday Telegraph, stating that “not all cultures are equally valid” when people from other countries want to live in the United Kingdom.
What she does not seem to understand is that people seeking asylum here are fleeing the cultures that they are leaving behind. They have already rejected those cultures.
So Badenoch’s claims are false.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
In her article, she also states that “our country is not a dormitory for people to come here and make money”. This is not true either.
Conservatives have been delighted to welcome into the UK (via accepted routes) anybody from foreign countries who they thought would be good for their businesses and those of their donors. Those people have been making money here for years – possibly centuries.
And they were happy to have workers in the UK from the European Union who were cheap, and therefore profitable – until it became politically expedient to pretend they were enemies who were taking menial jobs away from indigenous UK workers.
In her article, according to the BBC,
I read that as demanding that her racism becomes pan-government policy.
Also:
How is support for a genocidal settler-colonialist regime a part of British values and culture? It isn’t.
Badenoch fails to define her terms, meaning her claim that many immigrants into the UK hate Israel is unclear. Is she saying they hate the concept of Israel as a country that was set up by the United Nations (including the UK) in the 1940s – or that they hate the government of Israel that has harmed so many other people in the Middle East and is trying to push the entire region into war as I write these words?
There’s a big difference between the two, but Badenoch does not acknowledge it.
Her words came in advance of the Conservative conference in Birmingham where, as one of four candidates to lead the party, she will make her case for Tory MPs and party members to vote for her.
The other hopefuls are Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat. None of them are suitable potential leaders of the UK, in This Writer’s opinion.
During the conference, the number of candidates will be cut down to two, and the new leader will then be chosen by the wider party membership in an online ballot, the result of which will be announced on November 2.
The BBC report states that the other candidates have been setting our their own stalls.
James Cleverly seems keen to emulate Labour leader (and now prime minister) Keir Starmer by eviscerating his own party:
So he wants to rid the Tories of anybody other than his own faction, as Starmer is still trying to do in Labour.
Tugendhat seems to be relying on an exaggerated interpretation of patriotism – as one might expect from an ex-serviceman (Territorial Army, with experience in Iraq and Afghanistan):
It seems likely that this will also involve an unwarranted attack on immigrants and asylum-seekers. What will he and Badenoch do if Starmer’s Labour succeeds in reducing this issue to acceptable levels before the next general election?
Jenrick has said his party needs to accept “hard truths” about itself – that it needs to overcome its “shortcomings” and prove that it has “changed”.
His problem is that his party hasn’t changed – at least, not yet.
The views of the leadership candidates – and other events at the Tory conference – are likely to make this abundantly clear to the public over the next few days.
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