Tories Face Call to Strip Whip da Robert Jenrick sui commenti “razzisti”
https://www.inkl.com/news/tories-face-call-to-strip-whip-from-robert-jenrick-over-racist-comments
di The-Peel
Tories Face Call to Strip Whip da Robert Jenrick sui commenti “razzisti”
https://www.inkl.com/news/tories-face-call-to-strip-whip-from-robert-jenrick-over-racist-comments
di The-Peel
19 commenti
I’m of the view our elected reps should be able to say anything they actually believe – as that’s LITERALLY the job.
God help us if neither voters or our reps dare cause offence.
It was racist, and he won’t apologise for it.
If they think this will help them beat reform they are very much mistaken.
What he said makes no sense. There’s no integration because he couldn’t see another white face…?
…or maybe what he is trying to say makes sense
I mean, he was in an area that was only like 1.4% white – what else was he expecting to find there?
Is he on Ozempic? Looking a lot less chubby than he used to.
All I can say is if you think this is bad, just imagine what Tories and Reform members say on their Telegram chats to each other…
This isn’t even the tip of the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the stuff they both believe and (more privately than on this occasion) vocalise, I’d wager.
I watched Politics Live over lunch and was struck by how little the Tories have learned and how it was like being back to the good old days.
A senior tory does something indefensibly stupid and a cast of useful idiots are sent out to repeat insulting lies to us until he inevitably backtracks and makes everyone look even dumber.
‘He was just commenting on the state of integration in this country’ just like Bernard Manning used to comment on gender politics in the home.
They do that, and he will jump to Reform and the Tories are terrified of that.
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I’m not convinced his comments were explicitly racist. I think it’s more that he was engaging in ‘dog whistling’ as has been the trend in UK politics for decades.
Is that enough to lose the whip for? I doubt it. Would doing so feed the narrative so often mined for comedy by Stuart Lee? Absolutely. Will it advance the discourse? Nope.
I’m no Tory or Reform voter, but I don’t see how what he’s said is racist? I thought the exact same after being in Small Heath in Birmingham recently. Diversity is one of the country’s strengths, but the key to diversity is a blend of cultures, not just one culture which has taken over an entire area. I don’t want to feel like I’m in a foreign land walking down a street in my own country.
The left dismissing views like this as racist is exactly why Reform are (unfortunately) going to win the next election by a landslide.
Just curious as to what he said was racist??? He’s calling for an open debate on integration
Be careful when using the word racist anytime you can as it will loose its value
Nothing racist about it, it’s a fact that large parts of city’s are overly white and others are not.
Integration is the conversation and the fact that a mix of cultures and people should be throughout city’s and not just located to one.
Segregation makes it a lot easier to do postcode lottery for resources. Unfortunate that Jenrick is dog whistling rather than confronting the problems segregation might lose to fairness and equity.
If you want to know just how racist the Daily Hail readers are they did a poll of the day titled ‘was Robert Jenrick right to complain about not seeing another white face in Handsworth’ as of now 91% voted yes which is 101043 people who voted to say they are racist!!
Anyone that thinks his comments are bad is delusional.
We’re a white country, of course it’s shocking to see segregated areas.
I don’t think we can live in a society where it’s reasonable to criticise a lack of diversity when it’s too many white people and not enough black or brown people but not visa versa.
He made a pretty reasonable point about how some areas in the U.K. lack racial diversity.
How are his comments racist and yet Hamza Yusufs repeated “white” comments are not?
Residential segregation, entire streets of businesses that only cater to and employ individual communities, no interracial marriages. People clustering along ethnic, cultural, or religious lines defeats the purposes of a multicultural society. That’s a parallel society operating within UK borders.
We should look at why in a country where 75% are white British that there are places where only 5-10% are white British. What is the cause? Is it likely financial? Is it cultural clash? It appears to be indicative of failure to integrate. If every person with a south Asian, African, middle eastern background is just as British as a Celtic/germanic background then why are we not choosing to live next to each other.
If you don’t think people in Nigeria would be very concerned if parts of Lagos were 90% white British. Or parts of Sylhet, Karachi were 95% white British. I can imagine some choice descriptors people would use.