Immigration: Badenoch is all hot air

Kemi Badenoch's remarks on immigration are hardly controversial. The premise that not all cultures are equal is so self-evidently true it hardly needs elaboration. The first example that leaps to mind in the story from 2018 when hundreds of baby girls were found dumped in a rubbish dump in Pakistan. It says everything about the prevailing cultural attitude to women and girls, the consequences of which are well known to the citizens of Rotherham and Rochdale.

But it's not the first time a regime politician has spoken candidly about the realities of multiculturalism. There are no prizes for stating the abundantly obvious. What matters is policy, and if we are to take an politician seriously policy must be ambitious and robust. Half measures aren't going to cut it.

Badenoch talks about the need for an integration strategy, and she's not wrong about that, but I'm not giving her any credit for realising this. That we now have elections essentially conducted in a foreign language in places like Bradford is a state of emergency - where white British people are excluded from their own democratic process. Not forgetting that we're now seeing armed Islamist gangs taking to the streets and intra-ethnic violence spilling out in our towns. Politicians have had months to be thinking about the problems and their respective solutions.

Adding to the difficulty is that in many places there is nothing meaningfully British for immigrants to integrate into. Immigrants from Pakistan arrive in Britain to become part of Pakistani communities, to the extent where no adaptation is required of them. As such, they arrive not as immigrants but as colonists, further contributing to the Lebanonisation of Britain. We are way past tinkering with integration strategy. The time to get serious about integration was 1994, not 2024.

Such is the state of emergency that there is no fixing this without an array of corrective policies, not least an accelerated programme of detection and removal of illegals, but also a long overdue crackdown on British mosques preaching Islamism - and the misogyny and antisemitism therein. Which will be rather a lot of them, if not most. They should be shuttered and demolished.

Fiddling around the edges, which is what Tory policy is likely to do, is tokenistic and unlikely to make any serious dent in the problem. There is no package of measures that will work unless it explicitly commits to a programme of remigration - starting with third worlders who cannot pass a compressive English language skills test and those whose families are a net drain on the welfare system.

Robert Jenrick has pledged to increase the number of people being deported by 100,000 a year but when we have at least 1m illegals in the country, (likely double that number I expect) this is the bare minimum that any functioning state should be doing. The problem is not limited to illegal immigrants. The Home Office has been handing out passports like candy to those with no hope of ever contributing to the economic and social life of the country. As such, Jenrick's opening bid doesn't scratch the surface. It is unlikely that Badenoch will be any more ambitious.

While it is somewhat notable that the leading contenders are at last willing to acknowledge the problems, we should be clear that the Tory party, which bares much of the responsibility for our predicament, will stop short of anything approaching a workable policy we can believe in. There is still no basis upon which to trust the Tory party. Meanwhile, we've had it from the horse's mouth that Reform will not countenance remigration. It's all hot air.

Furthermore, any subsequent talk of integration should also be met with scepticism. In any debate we often use terms over a long period without giving any real thought to what these words mean. Integration has become one of those weasel words that actually doesn't mean anything when you think about it.

When we talk about immigrants who have integrated, we have to ask what they have integrated with. Being that Britain is no longer a homeland, and is merely a neoliberal grazing strip, open to all comers, integration is only superficial. There are those who may have learned our language, attended our schools, and worked in the economy, but how could they have meaningfully integrated into British society when we've spent so many decades dismantling anything that makes it recognisably British? They have integrated into anything-goes liberalism.

When it comes to social events, though, (those which are undeniably culturally English/British) you will seldom see ethnic minorities. It's not because such social events are in any way exclusionary (i.e. "the countryside is racist"), it's that ethnic minorities, generally aren't integrated to the extent they are part of our wider social and family circles.

At most, they peacefully coexist, but in the main, they live their lives in separatist enclaves, living parallel lives, largely to different cultural values. This is especially true of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent. In the places they've colonised, there is nothing British to speak of other than the weather.

It's certainly the case EU migrants have integrated, and I know people who are in relationships or even married to migrants from Eastern Europe. They became not only part of our social fabric, but friends and family. I'm not saying this doesn't happen on a broader basis but it tends to be the exception rather than the rule, and usually in elite circles - hence citizens of nowhere like Badenoch.

As such, if politicians and pundits use the word integration, they should be challenged on what that actually means and to cite examples where it has happened at scale, where the origin and culture of migrants is no longer substantially evident. When you think it through on that basis, integration is just another empty word. A better term than "integrated" would be "normalised", but that just means absorbed as an economic unit/consumer and client of the state. It does not confer Britishness.

On that basis, we cannot expect Badenoch's phantom "integration strategy" to hold meaning. Like "racist", "far right" and "fascist", integration is another word we can throw on the scrapheap, having been stripped of all contextual relevance.

There are obviously policies we should look at, not least the termination of translation services for welfare claimants, banning the burka, and terminating family reunion visas but, ultimately, the results are in. Integration is a myth. We can only accept immigration from politically stable, culturally similar countries, and only on an as-needed basis. Mass immigration from the third world has been an unmitigated disaster.