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Braverman says immigrants should integrate
because 'multiculturalism as end in itself' could lead to 'disaster'
Immigration
turned out to be a relatively small portion of Suella Braverman’s speech to the
NatCon conference, but in the passage that did cover it she made two main
arguments. Here are excerpts.
Braverman,
the home secretary, said legal migration numbers had to come down. She implied
they were unsustainable at their current level. She said:
While
illegal migration is rightly our priority given the acute challenges we face in
the Channel, we must not lose sight of the importance of controlling legal
migration too.
I voted and
campaigned for Brexit – indeed I’m a proud Spartan - because I wanted Britain
to control migration. So that we all have a say on what works for our country.
High
skilled workers support economic growth. And where the labour market has acute
or structural shortages, as with the NHS, it is of course right that we should
have an immigration system agile enough to plug those shortages.
But we need
to get overall immigration numbers down.
And we
mustn’t forget how to do things for ourselves. There is no good reason why
can’t train up enough truck drivers, butchers, fruit pickers, builders, and
welders …
It’s not
xenophobic to say that mass and rapid migration is unsustainable in terms of
housing supply, public services and community relations.
She said the immigrants should integrate, because
“multiculturalism as an end in itself” could lead to “disaster”. She said:
My parents came
here through legal and controlled migration.
They spoke
the language. They threw themselves into the community, embraced British
values.
When they
arrived they signed up to be part of our shared project because the UK meant
something distinct. Integration was part of the quid pro quo …
The
unexamined drive towards multiculturalism as an end in itself, combined with
identity politics, is a recipe for communal disaster.
We cannot
have immigration without integration.
And if we
lack the confidence to promote our culture, defend our values, and venerate our
past, then we have nothing to integrate people into.
We have a
nation, and more than that, a national character to conserve.
We are not
unique in wanting to conserve it.
Other
leaders in countries such as Italy, Denmark, Poland, Greece, and Austria are
increasingly seeing things the same way.
Conservatism
is order or it is nothing.
Most of the
speech was about Braverman’s view of Conservatism. I will post on that shortly.
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