Only outspoken politicians can voice our concerns
HOME Secretary Suella Braverman hit the nail on the head by slamming Labour’s politics of guilt. “I think the Left can only sell its vision for the future by making people feel terrible about our past,” she said in a barnstorming speech this week.
“I’m not embarrassed to say that I love Britain. Or that I trust the judgment of the British people.”
Ms Braverman said all the right things in a speech touted by some as a leadership bid, but her crackdown on illegal migration faces opposition from footdragging civil servants and her own party as net migration is set to hit almost a million.
Despite being a senior member of a government in power for 13 years, her excoriating speech sounded more as though she was in opposition. How can a Tory Home Secretary seem so powerless?
The answer lies in a Tory Party that was never wholly comfortable with Brexit and a Civil Service actively devoted to confounding it.
“White people do not exist in a special state of sin or collective guilt. Nobody should be blamed for things that happened before they were born,” Ms Braverman proclaimed, saying Britain should be proud of abolishing slavery.
LABOUR’S constant determination to criticise our past and embrace all woke issues does not sit well with most Britons. “When the silent majority is compelled to raise its voice in objection, we’re attacked as the extremists,” Ms Braverman added. “We’re the ones accused of fighting a culture war.”
It’s not only Labour that is determined to mire us in guilt, but Left-wing Tories too, and they are the ones conspiring against any attempt to control our borders. Never happy with Brexit, they’ve dragged their feet over the past seven years, denting any attempt to make the most of Brexit, to the point where they ousted Liz Truss and her tax-slashing plans.
It was Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey and the IMF who set the fiscal trap that Ms Truss fell into, to the delight of Remainers. The idea that Britain should have any competitive advantage over our international rivals was dashed before it even began.
The Left-leaning Civil Service has only been too delighted to subvert Brexit-positive plans. Previous Home Secretary Priti Patel, again saying all the right things, was nearly ousted thanks to accusations of alleged bullying – a now familiar tactic.
The real reason the Tories can’t get a grip of mass immigration was exposed by former Australian High Commissioner Alexander Downer when he advised them to introduce caps on immigration categories as they had in Australia.
On GB News, he blamed “the demand from the Treasury and business departments that migration be maximised in order to maximise economic growth because they see big migration numbers as positive for economic growth”. As he points out, if you rely only on cheap labour, you’ll never get a true improvement in productivity through increased efficiency.
The exact same model was chosen by Tony Blair when he opened the floodgates to East European migration in 2004.
That sense of frustration led to the rise of Ukip and eventually Brexit, but the Whitehall “Blob” is still devoted to the necessity of cheap foreign labour and, under the Tories, it will reach a new high of 700,000 to 997,000 when the latest data is announced next week.That is three times higher than in 2015, before Brexit.
IF 2019 Tory voters are getting the sense they were betrayed, it is clearly true. That is why successive Home Secretaries, including Ms Braverman, are apparently at odds with their own government and can’t seem to achieve anything, especially halting illegal migrants.
Many Left-leaning Tories and civil servants are happy for her to fail and her party to lose the next election as they know Labour will carry on with unimpeded mass migration.
Our shift in culture as a result of Left-wing supremacy in government and the Civil Service is almost complete and it is only outspoken politicians like Ms Braverman who can still voice our genuine concerns.
As a child of immigrants herself, she sees no contradiction in arguing “you cannot have immigration without integration”, explaining “the unexamined drive towards multiculturalism” is a “recipe for communal disaster”.
If the Tories fail at the next election, Ms Braverman will probably be their next leader but the fact is she faces an uphill battle when the establishment is firmly in the grip of the Left and their uncritical embrace of open-door mass migration.
‘Left-wing Tories conspire against attempts to control our borders’