Suella Braverman has never wavered in telling the truth, even under severe criticism. See HERE and HERE. However, her party and country are run by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who — like his predecessor Boris Johnson — has demonstrated no will to tackle the flood of illegal migrants that have invaded Britain, and continue to do so daily via the English Channel. Nonetheless, Braverman still advances a strong anti-globalist message, which seems to be out of sync with her party’s actions. For some reason, however, Braverman is still tolerated within her party, perhaps to calm the party’s conservative base. It remains a deep mystery why the Sunak government refuses to act in the best interests of Britain, and in accordance with conservative values.
Braverman’s speech was undoubtedly praiseworthy, particularly when she notes that “multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate. It has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it. They could be in the society but not of the society.”
Most important, however, is the question of what her party intends to do about this, if anything. In Italy, right wing/conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni bemoans suicidal immigration policies and hails the importance of protecting Italy’s culture, yet she has done nothing to stop the migrant influx.
“Braverman: Multiculturalism has ‘failed’ and threatens security,” Sophie Wingate, Independent, September 26, 2023:
Suella Braverman has declared that multiculturalism has “failed” in Europe and threatens social cohesion in the nation state.
The Home Secretary, giving a speech on migration in the United States, said a “misguided dogma of multiculturalism” has allowed people to come to the UK with the aim of “undermining the stability and threatening the security of society”.
Setting out the “civic argument” against illegal migration, Ms Braverman said: “Uncontrolled immigration, inadequate integration and a misguided dogma of multiculturalism have proven a toxic combination for Europe over the last few decades.
“Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate. It has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it. They could be in the society but not of the society.
“And, in extreme cases, they could pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of society.”
She said “the consequence of that failure” are evident “on the streets of cities all over Europe,” pointing to clashes in Leicester as an example….
Hoi Polloi says
This appears to be the approved approach. Decades of violence and forcing taxpayers to support invaders whose average IQs would be seen as a critical systemic failure were they citizens, pols make a minor admission and still do nothing. To say nothing of their supremacist ideology, and we are, in fact commanded to say nothing.
Tucker says he’s asked the Texas governor directly about action and got nothing. I sense a theme.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Talk is cheap, Mrs Secretary! Fact remains that a “Conservative” government in the UK has failed to do anything about stemming this tide, such as staging the Royal Navy in the English channel, putting Coast Guards on alert and instantly deporting any new arrivals to Rwanda, where they can be processed for further action
Unless a real anti-islamic anti-immigration party comes to power, I fear that Britain is done for
Jayell1 says
“Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate. It has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it. They could be in the society but not of the society.”
Ms Braverman attempts to ‘hit the nail on the head’ but misses because she can’t see the ‘nail’ properly. The people of whom she talks invited themselves to the British Isles in their many hundreds of thousands only to access British socio-economic infrastructure in order to enjoy a (quote) ‘better life’ for themselves and their families, NOT to join British society (of which they would have learned little or nothing back in their Third World homelands thousands of miles away). This would account for the severe cultural shock most of them suffered after they arrived, and which caused them to retreat into their ghettos and just carry on with their native customs, languages and dress codes as if they’d never moved; and many of them never even bothered to learn English especially since the authorities very kindly translated welfare application forms into their own languages.
But Ms Braverman really shows her ignorant lack of perception when she talks of these people being ‘in our society but not of it’. That’s impossible; you can’t be ‘in’ a club but not a member. What she really means is they were physically present in the British POPULATION but never part of British society; a ‘society’ is a culturally homogenous group of humans who obviously subscribe to the same set of values – and the word has never been synonymous with the concept of a random collection of human beings. Which brings us to the whole ‘multicultural society’ nonsense; it’s an oxymoronic impossibility. What you have at best is parallel societies who have the congenital decency to agree to co-operate for the sake of common civility so long as there’s no serious dispute as to who calls the shots for the territory; at worst you have an unstable primeval demographic mess that’s a toxic danger to all who dare to exist in it. Those who remember the UK as the beacon of advanced Christian-based Anglo-Saxon/Celtic civility that it once was will sadly recognise that those days have gone and while we’re just about conforming to former scenario above but fast heading towards the latter; and if Ms. Braverman was really going to tell the truth, she’d admit as much.
Hoi Polloi says
Well stated.
Westman says
A VERY OLD PROBLEM – 13 years late UK recognition.
BBC 17 October 2010: “Merkel says German multicultural society has failed”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11559451
Now UK Home Sec Suella Braverman has declared that “multiculturalism has ‘failed’ in Europe and threatens social cohesion in the nation state.”
The EU citizens recognized this from the beginning and were silenced by EU government’s punishment, derision, and delusion. Uncontrolled immigration imported a whole functioning foreign culture instead of individuals who would integrate into the host nation’s economy and language.
Uncontrolled immigration is the equivalent of breaking off a segment of a nation, still complete with the original citizens, and offering its use to a foreign state while expecting the foreign society and culture won’t flow, intact, into the rest of the host nation.
Which Islamic nation allows uncontrolled immigration? The EU is being colonized with the assistance of its own elites.
Vincente Fox, a former Presidente of Mexico, suggested that Mexican citizens could effectively recover the former parts of Mexico, lost to the US, by emigrating there.
Walter Sieruk says
One of the many Politically Correct idea’s which is tragically alive and well in both the United kingdom and Continental Europe and America is the philosophy of multiculturalism which many Westerners are infected by that worthless , sick and unrealistic philosophy which gave birth to multiculturalism
With its teaching of the concept that all cultures are equal, because this multiculturalism concept teaches the foolishness that all values derive their meaning within the specific social content. This folly of thinking leads, or misleads, many people to view every position as only “opinion” and that truth is only relevant to the person or society holding that view. In other words, discovering actual truth in impossible.
Multiculturalism is absurd, nonsensical and contradictory. For example, to say “finding the truth is impossible” Is a statement of contradiction. For in making that statement that is saying, in essence, “I have found the truth which is finding the truth is not possible.” It should be obvious that this “Cultural War’ needs to and should have a solidly based in and on truth and not by a worthless “war of opinions.”
With the Left Wing, with their mindset of multiculturalism, they claim that there is no absolute truth but only “opinion.” On every subject. Of course, the leftist who make that claim do so as an “absolute truth.” What a flip –flop!
Two other examples of the falseness of multiculturalism. with its teaching that everything is only “opinion.”
First is in the late 1970’s two guys said “There are so many different religions that no one can ever know the truth about religion.” They were really saying that statement so dogmatically that they were self-contradicting. For they were saying that they know the truth about religion that is not one can know the truth about religion.
Second, a shallow man in the 1980’s said when asked the question “Why do you always small talk ? You don’t ever talk about a topic that might have some value, as politics? After all , all thing are related “ That shallow man replied “There are so many different political ideas that finding the true one is unattainable and all thing are not related.” The wisdom-less man was saying that he obtained the truth which is the he can’t obtain the truth and who does can is really truthfully say that all thing are not related in he can’t find the truth. How foolish, an obvious contradiction. What is needed to counter this nonsense multiculturalism is the concept of “Absolutism.” Which a definition of this, with the scope of the topic, is “An absolute standard or principle .”
In this cultural war it’s the Bible with its absolute standards and principles to stand firm against the extreme folly and foolishness of the multiculturalism concept. In conclusion, in this War of Ideas a firm foundation for truth may be found in the Bible and not the weak folly of multiculturalism in which everything is “opinion.”
tim gallagher says
When it comes to Muslims, who have no intention of ever getting along peacefully with non-Muslims, multiculturalism has no chance of working. I’m glad that she has spoken up on the issue. It is more than most gutless politicians have done. Keep islam, the enemy of all civilised western values, out or it will seek to destroy western values and impose totally barbaric islam on everybody. There’s not a chance in the world that Muslims will fit into any non-Muslim society in a peaceful way. Other people can but not islam. islam is all about imposing a barbaric lifestyle fit only for knuckle draggers on everybody.
Wellington says
Translation of multiculturalism “failing” in the stupid age we live in: Muslims don’t assimilate, though others who move to the West do, like Hindus, Buddhists, et al.
Why not just state the effing problem outright and that is that Islam will never be in accord with a true Golden Rule for all, never gracious, never appreciative, and certainly never, and I mean NEVER, accepting of Western ideas of liberty?
Until the West en masse realizes that Islam is a totalitarian ideology (and no other major religion is), then the games will continue—and they remain deadly games for the West, which is now being destroyed from within, courtesy of mankind’s newest totalitarian ideology, i.e. Leftism (and which also hates traditional Western ideas of liberty), and from without (though more and more a “within” menace) by mankind’s oldest totalitarian ideology, i.e., Islam.
Western Civilization, easily the greatest civilization in history, is presently being eradicated by a combination of immense foolishness (e.g., the Democratic Party of the USA) and immense evil (Islam of course). I’ve run out of patience with those who can’t see this and there are tons of people in the West, not adherents of mankind’s oldest totalitarian ideology, who still do not see this. Not lookin’ good.
Wild Bill Hickok says
I disagree with you on the integrative record of Hindus, Buddhists, et al.. If you look at the US, it is most frequently characterized as a mix of ethnic/religious groups, not as the melting pot it was intended to be by some. Look at ‘Chinatown’, ‘Little Havana’. Look at the ‘Hispanidad’ which refuses to use/ learn English. Look at ‘Spanish Harlem’, ‘Black Harlem’, etc., etc., etc..
And by the by: if Western Civilization is easily the greatest civilization in history, then why is it being eradicated? And let’s rephrase that last question: no doubt it’s changing, but is it being eradicated? I’m not too sure about that.To be sure, our present power elites are doing their utmost best to achieve it (whether on purpose, or out of stupidity, for either of which they should be booted out of power), but they will not be in power very much longer. People aren’t blind, you know! There already is a significant majority against mass migration. Things will, therefore, change. Look at our system as a crude oil tanker: it takes a significant amount of time and effort to come to a halt, or to change direction. And another word of wisdom: ‘under pressure, everything becomes fluid’. People will find ways to ward off mohamedanism. Look at this site, for example, with its message that mohamed never even existed. Now that’s a kick in the b*** if ever I’ve seen one.
Wellington says
Wild Bill Hickock: I understand your point about how different groups keep to themselves but even when so (and going back a century or not even that long ago in American history you did have Polish, Irish, Italian, Chinese neighborhoods, etc.) but none of these groups, contra Muslims, adhered to any ideology, religious or otherwise, that was supremacist as Islam’s followers generally are (and the Muslims who are not are bad Muslims) and thus wanted to remake the United States into something that it wasn’t. Muslims do. Muslims in large numbers, and CAIR stands as only one example here, would like to replace the Constitution with Sharia. Ditto for the constitutions of many other Western nations. Hell, Muslims aplenty state this with regularity. When have different ethnic groups or those from other religions wanted this?
Yes, more recently, and because of self-defeating and stupid Leftist ideology, many coming to America don’t value America as immigrants of old did, such as my Polish grandparents most certainly did. But this is a recent failure and can be reversed. What cannot be reversed is Islamic supremacist ideology which seeks Islamic dominance over all of mankind (e.g., Sura 8:39—“until all religion is with Allah”). Hindus and Buddhists don’t push their religion on others the way Muslims do. If you want to “join up,” fine, and if you don’t, that’s fine too. Not with Muslims.
As for Western Civilization being eradicated, well, just because something is the greatest doesn’t mean it can’t end. The glory that was Greece did. Rome did. The British Empire, though with faults was still, as George Santayana (not British but of Spanish birth and later teaching at Harvard) observed, the most decent empire in history, but it also is no more. So, something being great does not ensure it will never cease to be. Right now, the West is primarily being destroyed from within by Leftism and unless this trend is reversed, and I appreciate your optimism that it will be, descent will continue into oblivion. W.H. McNeill wrote The Rise of the West, which was published in 1962. Most everything at that time pointed to the West remaining paramount throughout the world, though Marxism had indeed reared its ugly head to thwart this, and of course the rise of non-Western states has also mitigated against this dominance. But now, just some three decades after the fall of Marxism’s most powerful entity, the West no longer looks dominant and, indeed, one could now write a tome entitled “The Descent of the West.”
Well, descent doesn’t mean eventual termination. If you are correct, and I hope you are, then the West at its best will make a comeback. I surely hope it does. It could but the forces against it—Leftism, Islam and standard authoritarianism—will not go quietly into the night. Time will tell. Thank you for your reply.
SB1234 says
I agree with you, the problem is not multiculturalism but the specific culture of Islam. Their holy book says woman are a possession. Case in point the Islamic women have to cover themselves so that the guy looking at her doesn’t loose his marbles. How about teaching the fool that he needs to control his hormones? This is 22nd century, gone are their beduin days. On the other hand Sikh men wore the turban, when Sikhism started to camouflage themselves. That’s why some Sikhs nowadays don’t wear it any more. Allowing Pakistanis to scream
Pakistan zindabad on the streets in UK cities is not multiculturalism, it is suicide. Allowing them to celebrate Eid in their homes and inviting their friends and neighbors to celebrate with them is multiculturalism!
Bugs B. says
If that’s your conclusion, then why don’t you act on it?
Joe Kool says
There never was or never will be any intention of integrating, the muslims dont understand why the English dont convert to islam, because to them, Christianity is a false religion.
James Lincoln says
Different ethnic groups can add richness to a host country In regards to music, dance, cuisine, art, etc.
But these ethnic groups must embrace, love – and prioritize – the basic culture of the host country.
Otherwise don’t come.
OLD GUY says
Muslims/islamic migrants come to conquer not to assimilate into your Society.
James Lincoln says
Yes, OLD GUY.
JK says
When muslim becomes in minority, they want secularism. When they are in majority, they want sharia & islamic nation. In islam Democracy is not.