Robert Jenrick's smoke and mirrors act

Were he the Tory party leader, Robert Jenrick’s latest article on immigration, rhetorically speaking, would put the Tory party far closer to Rupert Lowe’s position on immigration than that of Nigel Farage. In his piece he describes in detail the state of modern Britain and the complete absence of integration.

Though Jenrick has already established himself as quite robust on immigration, this piece certainly nails it down. It almost reads like something I might have written. He even starts creeping into ethno-nationalist territory in observing that:

On current trends, by 2050 as many as one in three of the UK population will have been born abroad. Like those who have come before, most of them will settle in urban centres, exacerbating our ongoing challenges. How can we possibly hope to integrate new arrivals into our way of life if there is nothing to integrate into?

That, indeed, is the question. In his next paragraph, he states “That is why we desperately need to end mass migration. I resigned from the previous Government after I couldn’t secure any more reductions. The need for those changes are more urgent than ever”.

From there, his piece tails off into incoherence.

In Casey’s report she mounted a spirited defence of so-called “British values” (which are, in reality, common Western values) like freedom of speech, freedom of religion and respect for one another. But only tackling extreme behaviour is a low bar for an integration strategy.

We must aspire for more. I want to raise my children, as my parents did, in a country bound by a strong sense of national community, shared customs and tradition, and pride in our history, landscape and literature. One in which people, regardless of their skin colour or faith, live side by side, never ghettoised. It will not be the Britain of yesteryear; however it can still have what Roger Scruton called a love of home.

At an event last week in the Midlands a man rose to ask me a question. He said he was a proud British Sikh, but then corrected himself and said he was, above all, proudly British. He went on to make a powerful speech for a more united country. He called for an end to religious prayers on our streets – explaining there are no shortages of mosques, gurdwaras, and temples – and despaired at the multitude of business groups he was invited to in the West Midlands which divide people by skin colour or faith.

“I am Sikh and a businessman”, he said. “I do not need a Sikh business association to express my views”. He ended by saying, in reference to the foreign flags flying in his neighbourhood that for him, “the Union Flag is the flag I live under and am loyal to, not the Palestinian flag.” Have pride in Britain he said. A standing ovation followed.

We must capture his spirit, and make ourselves one country, under one flag.

Jenrick offers no actual solutions here. He implies that we must dismantle multiculturalism, but doesn’t say exactly how we would go about that. In enlisting an anonymous Sikh businessman, he seems to imply there should be some kind of restriction on public acts of worship, and an end to public sponsorship of ethno-religious associations.

This is where Jenrick’s apparent radicalism ends, and he joins Kemi Badenoch in issuing a vague demand that something must be done. To his credit, he calls for an end to mass immigration, but that doesn’t address the problems he outlines in the first half of his piece. Dealing with it, at the very least, is going to require a package of measures that would best be described as “muscular civic nationalism”.

That, though, would have to be extensive. More so than anything he hints at. We would have to ban the burka and the wearing of ethnic attire in public. We would have to ban non-stun slaughter. We would have to terminate all translation services. We would have to specifically target mosques and ban sex segregation. It would require a ban on cousin marriage - and potentially a ban on faith schools. Unless we’re going to specifically target Islam, we will have to undergo a process of secularisation. Either way, it’s going to piss a lot of people off.

Any government attempting this would essentially be picking a fight with British Islam. After all, it’s mainly Islamic sectarianism that’s the problem here. It would be bold indeed for a British prime minister to finally put his foot down on something that has been festering for decades.

There are three problems here though. Nobody thinks the Tory party has the stones to do it. Jenrick would face implacable opposition from within his own party. Secondly, you can be reasonably assured that even the most moderate request of British Muslims would be resisted by the full force of the race relations industry, Muslims themselves, and most of the liberal media. It’s also reasonable to assume that Islamists will find an excuse to riot. (underscoring why they shouldn't be here at all).

The third, and most significant, problem with this is… it wouldn’t be enough. You can take out all of the state-supported enablement of self-segregation, but you cannot force integration, nor can you nudge it along. People generally stick with their own kind. Unless you’re going to physically break up “communities” and relocate them to force integration, it’s just not going to happen. Muslims and blacks will have their own areas and we will have ours. They aren’t interested in us and we’re not interested in them. They’re not our people.

It is then safe to assume that the Tory party will not do any of the things implied by “muscular civic nationalism”. At most we’ll get some fiddling around the edges, and a new quango to promote a nebulous, managerial notion of “British values”. At this point, I actually prefer Farage’s “it’s impossible to do anything about it” message than Badenoch and Jenrick’s unspecified “integration” shtick. At least Farage is honest and realistic about his position. Not a sentence I ever thought I would write, but there we are.

The fundamental truth of this issue is that our own people will become a minority at this rate, and it is just a waiting game until Muslims and other low-IQ third worlders outbreed us. We are being colonised. As such, we have two choices. We can passively accept our fate and watch our people, culture and heritage be erased, or we can get busy deporting.

If we are to take Jenrick at all seriously, we need to see a detailed outline of whatever it is he has in mind, but he must also commit to a complete reversal of the Boriswave. There can be no half measures. But then even that isn’t enough. It’s a starter for ten, but anything short of a major remigration strategy isn’t going to touch the sides.

In many respects it wouldn’t be so bad if we were just being colonised by Islam, in that there would at least be a halfway peaceful transition, but what we’re heading for is anarcho-tyranny, gated communities and low grade civil war, as ethnic minorities fight among themselves. Without the “dominant culture” Badenoch speaks of, all you have is competing tribes, each living to their own values, and politics becomes little more than a military policing operation.

Here, though, we should remind ourselves of the first rule of politics. Never trust a Tory. This latest article from Jenrick is part of what is now the longest running Tory leadership campaign of all time. This latest article is pure triangulation to signal to his party that were they to rid themselves of Olukemi, and install himself, the party would be in a position to bury Reform. A Jenrick led Tory party would be a natural home for Rupert Lowe and his army of online activists, and that would be the end of Farage.

I am thus inclined to believe this is a political long con, where again the Tory party does what it always does. It talks a good game in opposition, but delivers nothing in power. Jenrick’s rhetoric might well tickle our right wing floppy bits, but it’s the medicine, not the diagnosis we should be interested in.