“Britain is the Best Country in the World to be Black”
Britain is the best country in the world to be black in, Kemi Badenoch told the Tory party conference on Monday, as she blasted Labour over its divisive stance on race and trans issues. The Mail has more.
The Business Secretary used a tub-thumping speech to blast Labour over its “woke” views and for using Brexit to repeatedly talk down Britain.
She lashed out over trans rights, Remainer defeatism and the pace of reaching green targets.
Mrs Badenoch rejected the “narrative of hopelessness” for ethnic minorities that suggests “British society is against you and you’re better off asking for reparations”.
She said the Tories were in line with civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King because they believe “people should be judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin”.
Seen as one of the frontrunners to replace Rishi Sunak if the Tories lose the next election, Mrs Badenoch told grassroots activists in Manchester: “The Left accuses us of a culture war.
“But we will not apologise for fighting for common sense. I will not apologise for fighting for a society that knows what a woman is.
“It was this Conservative Government that stopped shameful SNP and Labour politicians in Scotland pursuing a self-ID policy that let convicted rapists pretend that they were actually women so they could be housed in a women’s prison with potential new victims.
“‘Next week, Labour will tell the country that it is ready for Government. But let me ask you this: if Labour MPs can’t tell us what a woman is, what else aren’t they telling us?”
Badenoch, who is also the Minister for Women and Equalities, hit out at Labour for creating a victimhood narrative around race. She said:
Last year I published a report that told the truth about race in the U.K. Labour didn’t like it. They want young people to believe a narrative of hopelessness. A narrative that says there is no point in trying, because British society is against you and you’re better off asking for reparations.
A narrative that tells children like mine that the odds are stacked against them. I tell my children this is the best country in the world to be black – because it’s a country that sees people, not labels. Conservatives want young people to be proud of their country when others want them to be ashamed.
It wasn’t a tough decision for us to reject the divisive agenda of critical race theory. We believe, as Martin Luther King once said, people should be judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin.
If that puts us in conflict with those who would re-racialise society, who would put up the divisions that have been torn down then, conference, all I can say is bring it on.
Let Labour bend the knee before this altar of intolerance, we will keep building a country that is in every way stronger and fairer for all.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Kemi is now the bookmakers’ favourite to become the next Conservative leader, the Telegraph reports, following her conference performance. With odds of 7/2, she leads Penny Mordaunt at 5/1 and Suella Braverman at 9/1, according to odds published by the bookmakers Coral.
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I’d still prefer that the “windrush dividend” had been delivered somewhere else
I see you have already attracted two downticks.
I do not believe I bear any human ill will unless I have reason to believe that have harmed me and my family in some way, but can we honestly say that mass immigration into the UK has been a success, and that we are better off as a result?
Pay your £5 or pipe down
I was one of the down scorers. I pay my £5 but didn’t have time to answer earlier.
It’s definitely not the people who arrived decades ago from the Caribbean that are our primary concern or threat, going by what’s happening all over Europe just now. And while I’m on, I’d just like to bring this petition to everyone’s attention, which I’ve just signed. It’s to get that disgusting statue in Birmingham, celebrating the oppression and abuse of Muslim women all over the world, taken down. It likely won’t have any impact at all and people will take matters into their own hands and trash it themselves, we’ll see, but at least this records people’s opposition to such an insulting and inappropriate eyesore. Look at all the statues that have been torn down already by idiot nutjobs who claim to be offended by British history. This crap isn’t British history nor should it be accepted and normalized as British culture. ”The Labour council in Birmingham has allowed a hideous statue of a woman wearing a hijab to be erected in Birmingham. This comes at a time when women in Islamic nations, such as Iran, are being executed or imprisoned for taking their hijabs off. Women in Islamist communities face enormous communal pressure to wear these hijabs, mostly against their will. The forced wearing of hijabs is a symbol… Read more »
Their descendants are causing mayhem.
Thanks Mogs 👍
Signed.
All done…Probably on some list now!
The Windrush generation brought some amazing, hard working people to these shores, who raised families, many of whom are now higher paid tax earners and generally great people. I have family members who are such. I do not share your wish.
Of course in every group of people there are those who make a positive contribution to society and those who make a negative contribution – and this includes people born here. But society and civilisation seem to me to be quite fragile things and rapid changes in a population seem unwise – and such rapid changes were never really desired by the majority of the UK population. I have no interest in a cultural pissing competition (though I think England is a great place) but leaving aside arguments about which culture is better, the cultures of different countries are different, their people are different – and I believe that differences in culture are down to differences in tendencies that are partly based on race. Introducing large numbers of people different cultures in a short space of time risks disrupting social cohesion, as well as economic well being. I think separate countries and cultures are great, and wish them all success. I wish mine to survive, which it won’t if we continue on the road we’re on. My comments are general, not specific to the “Windrush generation”. I realise you were commenting specifically about them, so you may feel my points… Read more »
Do you feel that mass immigration has been a net positive or a net negative for the UK? To me there have been almost equal measure of both. Those who integrate and want to do the best they can here (and the WIndrush generation and their offspring mostly have) bring the positives. My ex lived in an area where there were many pakistanis. Most (not all of them) were absolutely dreadful and caused massive amounts of social problems and disruption. And the illegals obviously are people who have unfairly jumped the queue. Not to mention some dangerous criminals amongst them. What would you do differently? Have an Australian type policy of selection – also depending on what we need (nurses etc). Also as mentioned, they need to be willing to integrate. How many immigrants are “too many”? I feel we are at that point – services are already pushed to the limits. And the illegals are taking up way too many resources. Do you feel it’s important for English culture and English people to survive? I think it will survive, though may be slightly more blended. That bothers me a lot less than it bothers you I think, but there… Read more »
Fair enough
I would go along with what you say up to a point
It never used to “bother” me overly until it became obvious that white European civilisation faces an existential threat, sadly of its own making largely and in which many among us are complicit
I think there are many threats out there, especially in the last 3.5 years, so I understand that underlying feeling of something sinister and bad out there. I feel it too, but certainly not from the second generation English black, which include some family and an ex I’m still close friends with. And I live in South East London and was born and raised in Brixton, so there’s that.
I agree with so many of yours and Mogwai’s posts, but we can’t agree on everything, and that’s fine. It’s almost refreshing to be so down ticked this time around – I’m not usually so controversial 😀
Haha, well it wasn’t me that disliked your posts and I find your honesty refreshing. I agree actually, though I’ve never lived anywhere as diverse as yourself. My main concern lies completely with the uncontrolled immigration we’re seeing ( and have for several years now obviously ) from countries where their culture is totally at odds with our own. Certainly not with Windrush descendants. But I think if you’ve seen my posts and stuff I’ve linked to then you get what I’m saying. You probably also know what I’m like when I get on my soap box regarding one particular ideology that I see as incompatible and a threat to Western society, so I’d best leave it at that. 🙂
No downvotes from me; not my style.
I agree about the threat – it’s the people who facilitate the immigration that are the threat, not the people doing it (or certainly not the specific group you are talking about who came here legally).
The criminal classes don’t just appear, they are descended from somebody.
True. Representation in terms of arrests and convictions across ethnic groups is very uneven. Racism or a natural reflection of average human behaviour in such groups? Take your pick – neither side of that debate will ever accept the other’s answer – another reason why mass immigration is a bad idea.
Massively negative, to the point where any positives can be safely ignored as outliers.
You sound vaccinated to me 😁
I can assure you I am not. And I attended anti-lockdown marches (not the BLM ones which I thought were nonsensical but at least outlined the hypocrisy of what gatherings were acceptable and which weren’t). Beliefs and opinions don’t always come in linear form.
She should catch up. The Labour leader has since learned what a woman is.
Nothing that he says can be trusted, though.
If he told me it was raining, I’d look out of the window to check.
He shouldn’t ever had had to learn. He should have already known. The man is a snake.
Has he though? I believe he still thinks they can sport a male appendage.
Talk is cheap.
Unfortunately, it’s all we ever get from the ‘conservatives’.
I hope we dont see that five feet high on a Nigerian Billboard…
Lol. I think they already know.
Britain used to be a great place to be white, but it is less so by the day.
I think Tanzanians might disagree with that statement…others too…
Especially since Tanzania didn’t do a lockdown or force jabs on anyone. In fact, I think they banned the jabs if I remember correctly, at least until the president got whacked…I mean, had an unfortunate accident, you see.
Great Substack article about Vivek Ramaswamy In the riveting spectacle that was the first Republican primary debate on August 23, it was reported that Google searches were ablaze, with countless curious Americans eager to uncover more about the smooth-talking young man who seemed to derive immense pleasure from engaging in verbal sparring with his conservative comrades. Amongst this star-studded lineup of opponents were the old deep-state puppets such as the former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and the cabbage-smelling former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. (I still think this name is a joke.) Ramaswamy, in his debut performance, graced us with his attempt to solve the riddle of his identity. He gallantly addressed the assembly with these unforgettable words that reminded me of a school board assembly: “So first let me just address a question that is on everybody’s mind at home tonight: ‘Who the heck is this skinny guy with a funny last name and what the heck is he doing in the middle of this debate stage?’” No, I wasn’t wondering. I already had an extensive dossier on you in my database before 2020. Chris Christie, showed no signs… Read more »
I like the look of Ramaswamy, but he has to reach across the divide. It seems every Democrat is frightened of Trump, but not every Democrat likes the way Biden has taken them. Those are the ones he needs to reach.
It looks like i missed out of the important parts of that article when pasting it. He is a big pharma shill that was pushing masks & jabs. In a nutshell, he is not to be trusted.
Here is more on him:However, let’s contrast this with Ramaswamy’s stance on Trump’s handling of the tumultuous events of January 6 – or was it an insurrection? Some might say a protest, others a rebellion, and perhaps some even dub it a riot. The terminology is as varied as Ramaswamy’s viewpoints, especially considering it all unfolded just days after hundreds of fervent Trump supporters breached the hallowed halls of the Capitol building. “What Trump did last week was wrong. Downright abhorrent. Plain and simple.” But brace yourselves, for this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the pharmaceutical magnate’s (yes, I would totally trust that guy) depiction of Trump in his 2022 opus, ‘Nation of Victims’ (which, again, I read, so you can spare yourself the agony), a literary creation that could have seamlessly sprung from the pen of the most fervently progressive Democratic Party stalwart. “It was a dark day for democracy. The loser of the last election refused to concede the race, claimed the election was stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from loyal supporters, and is considering running for executive office again. I’m referring, of course, to Donald Trump.” So, either Ramwaswamy… Read more »
Yes, especially if your nature is one of entitlement
I am personally very conflicted by the issue of immigration. There has been far too much, far too quickly over the past 25 years and in many cases by people (usually, but not always Muslim) who have no intention of adopting British cultural norms and integrating. I wish it hadn’t happened. However, as a small child growing up in a rather exclusive Kent village in the ’60s, my best friend was a mixed-race girl – I think the only one in the school. It never occurred to me that she was “different.” I spent a lot of time with the family and I adored her black mother. When I was about 6 years old she gave me something quite wonderful for dinner – West Indian curry – and when I told my mother about it, she learned to make it as well 🙂 As my sons grew up in a rather exclusive Surrey village in the ’90s they had friends who were Ugandan Asians and were “as British” as them. My younger son was recently Best Man at a friend’s Hindu wedding and the ethnic Indian family/guests could not have been more welcoming and accepting of him dressed in traditional… Read more »
Not sure where the conflict is. Everything you say makes perfect sense. Just because something is overall a bad idea doesn’t mean that no good can come of it, especially if that something is a large complex event that fits into an even larger and more complex system. Without immigration you would not have met those people in those settings, and nor would your sons, but you would have other rewarding relationships.
If you’re saying that the arrival of people from other countries and cultures enriches us in a way we would not otherwise have been enriched, that’s a different argument but you still need to look at the tradeoffs.
My mum was a foreigner and I am married to one so I have no axe to grind.
Suella was and still is the only true Conservative candidate for party leadership.
Maybe like a stopped clock is right twice per day. She was one of those that voted for the energy bill, what was she on jab mandates, Lockdown etc.