Views that were once shunned from British politics are gaining ground
‘Pop Con’ badges at a stall seen during the launch of the ‘Popular Conservatism’ movement , no UK nation will be led by a white man. And yet last week we saw senior Conservatives trying to tell us that whenAs Britain has become more racially heterogenous, and actually more at ease with itself, the top of politics appears to have started to entertain ideas which a decade or more ago would have been instantly ostracised.
But right now, like the proverbial drunk at the bar, the Conservatives don’t even recognise they have a problem. Indeed they’ve become convinced that their own voters and members will punish them for even recognising racism, hence their hesitation in instantly condemning Frank Hester.
The pedigree of this sort of politics overall is longer still. The darkest day in race relations in British postwar history is of course. When people remember that fateful speech in Birmingham in 1968, it was primarily for Powell’s revolting language. But it was his argument, not the florid language, which has not only endured, but become acceptable. Powell argued that the British national character could not survive with the rates of immigration as they then were.
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