Politicians stoking divisions over ethnic identity could lead to civil war in Britain, Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch has warned. The Telegraph has the story.
The Conservative Party leader said pandering to certain communities for short-term electoral gain was contributing to unnecessary political conflict.
Badenoch told BBC Radio 4’s England’s Identity Crisis that attacks on Englishness in recent years, such as criticism of Empire or “phrases such as white privilege”, had spawned a backlash of “ethnonationalism”.
In an interview recorded before tensions erupted over the police’s response to the murder of Henry Nowak, she said: “This is not a racist country.
“But now we are seeing more and more hostility to people of every ethnicity, whether they’re English or not English, because people are bringing political conflict into an area where we didn’t have political conflict. And it’s the political conflict, I think, that is creating this tension.
“This is why it’s really important that politicians understand this properly and have policies that make a difference, rather than use the political conflict as a way to get some votes from one particular community. Parties which do that, politicians who do that, they may get to benefit in the short term, but in the long term, that’s how you end up with civil war.”
Badenoch spokes with Nowak’s family on Thursday, when they told her they wanted to see a return to “common-sense” policing. She met Mark Nowak and Lucy Ross, as well as Katie Woodcock, the murdered teenager’s stepmother, and pledged to create a “positive legacy” for the Southampton University student.
Nowak was arrested and handcuffed as he lay dying while his Sikh killer, Vickrum Digwa, who had stabbed him five times, was treated as a victim by officers. Digwa had falsely claimed he had been subjected to racial abuse.
Police forces are under pressure to scrap race action plans after the National Police Chiefs’ Council told officers they should not be “colour blind” and should treat people differently depending on their ethnicity.
Pushed in the radio interview on a timeframe for civil war, Badenoch insisted it would not be “any time soon” but warned that the next generation was inheriting some “very complicated” challenges.
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Yesterday I was at the T20 cricket matches.It was sponsored by KIA.
At one point a KIA drove around the pitch at slow pace, followed by a man in a dress with a huge rainbow wig and a rainbow flag further followed by a small number of people.
It was bizarre, almost cult-like. Ignored by most people.
Badenoch is an anchor baby dumped on us by her mother. Britain is the world’s dustbin and she’s a glaring example of that.
Nigerian woman says there may be civil unrest as Sikh kills Polish teenager as English police sacrifice their own people and the state calls all concerned English far-right scum. Not long now.
She’s got a bloody cheek!
I wonder if Ms Badenoch has any comments to make on the fact that Zaker Choudhry, the new Lord Mayor of Birmingham, while his swearing-in ceremony in May 2026 included Urdu speeches and an Arabic Islamic prayer to reflect his Pakistani-Kashmir heritage and the city’s diversity (photo of the elderly mayor with his impressive beard and regalia on www).
And here’s the new Mayor of Islington, with a crew of Third World Ethnics beside her. “Cry, The Beloved Country”
British-Nigerian Roseline Ogunro Inaugurated As New Mayor Of Islington • Channels Television
And here is another Nigerian mayor, of Hammersmith & Fulham, named JANET ADEGOKE, with a remarkably similar smile to the Tory leader OLUKEMI ADEGOKE. In Africa, loyalty is to clan, not country. Nothing to do with Third World Nepotism, of course:
Nigerian and Black Mayors in the UK: A Legacy of Leadership and Representation – NigeriaMag
So the Nigerian Wannabe British PM “pledged to create a “positive legacy” for the Southampton University student.”
The sheer brass neck of it is just staggering. Who the H*lll does she think she is?
Can we start giving a weekly prize for “Bloated Sense of Entitlement”?
Different immigrant groups have had hugely varying degrees of success in integrating, not being disruptive, keeping their noses clean and contributing economically. In general the degree of success is predictable based on the state of the countries/cultures/regions they have come from.
But if we’d had next to no immigration, we would not have any of these problems and we’d not be wasting time and money trying to dig ourselves out of a hole. It would be a less divided country, and a more prosperous, peaceful and law abiding one.
Yet no mainstream political party other than Reform has credible plans to even stop further immigration let alone address the issues we’ve already got. None of them have apologised for what had been done in the past or said it was a mistake. This started in 1945.
It’s possible there are some ways to mitigate the damage, but I think it’s probably too late and it won’t happen. That is the sad reality as I see it.
Honestly I hope it does.
“But now we are seeing more and more hostility to people of every ethnicity, whether they’re English or not English.. “
Oh. Interesting. Didn’t she just a couple of weeks ago say you didn’t have to be White to be British or English? Now it’s an ethnicity which means you do… it’s in the genes.
“… because people are bringing political conflict into an area where we didn’t have political conflict.”
We didn’t have the political conflict until you Mistress Badenough and your bedfellows in the political cesspit with your ideology-uber-alles made it so.
No self-awareness or introspection the political blob.
This anti-white racism is obviously a completely different animal to the other, mainstream racism, as the former has its origins in Critical Race Theory which stems from neo-Marxism. What also sets the anti-white racism apart from the regular type is that the people pushing and enabling it are ( predominantly ) white men in positions of leadership. The people bearing the brunt of this racism are ( primarily ) white men, especially when it comes to DEI. This peculiarity speaks to the extent and impressive efficacy of the woke mind virus: that a white man would be sufficiently indoctrinated and in thrall to an ideology so as to be more than happy to enact and adhere to policies which would see him discriminating against his own kind, and never even question the fairness of it.
In contrast, can anyone think of a situation where a black person has been in a position of leadership and has deliberately discriminated against fellow blacks in order to favour white people? I can’t imagine a scenario would ever be allowed to exist;
“Our elites lost the plot. They abandoned Martin Luther King Jr’s commonsensical anti-racism. They started, over a 30-year period, to turn a… Read more »
The “elite” whites hate and fear the white working class
I think he nails it. Indisputable, as far as I’m concerned;
”A lot of people feel uncomfortable about saying this publicly but there is simply no denying it. We have to speak honestly about this issue: equalities legislation, which was ostensibly about making sure there were no second class citizens created a racial hierarchy of citizenship where people are treated differently because of the colour of their skin.
Some of us have been pointing this out for a long time. I believe the evidence for this claim is now incontrovertible, no matter how uncomfortable the subject may be for some people.
Equalities legislation must be amended or scrapped and replaced with something that restores the principle of equality before the law. Indeed, you’d think equality before the law would be the very central principle of any law on equality. This must become a minimum basic commitment for any party that seeks to form the next Government. Any party that fails to make this commitment has failed in its basic duty of understanding the catastrophic damage that has been done to race relations in this country by a decade of woke insanity.” Konstantin Kisin.
I usually find myself agreeing with him on most issues and he is a fearless and effective speaker
Kemi is absolutely right to call out probably the most pernicious and infuriating term in this whole identity madness, that being ‘white privilege’.
As her own lineage (GP and head of publishing company father, professor mother) illustrates, the idea that the vast majority of working class whites – many of us only one or two generations from absolute grinding poverty – have had a head start in the game of life is clearly foolish.
It won’t lead to civil war because it’s deliberately provoked and managed by the establishment to divide us just enough to make it impossible to organise and oppose them, but not so much as to get out of hand.
Just look at how quickly and ruthlessly they throw ordinary mums in jail when they feel they need to and how quickly everyone else gets the message and pipes down.
Bang on.
Common sense policing would require the abolition of the College of Policing – a Conservative government’s creation.
An alleged Conservative government though.
When all the lights go out because of Net Zero. Refrigeration fails and food spoils. Cold hungry people in the dark aren’t going to be too happy either. “Interesting Times”
Sadly nothing as drastic as that will happen.
It’s just going to be a gradual degrading of living standards and civil liberties which we will grudgingly get accustomed to.
which we will grudgingly get accustomed to….replaced by…..which the sheeple will demand more of.Watch out Nigel, someone is stealing your clothes.
But they don’t fit very well.
I would like to know the reason for the downticks – or am I missing something?
The Nigerian Wannabe PM still has supporters … incomprehensible but true.
Thanks. Yes, baffling.
But very few electoral votes.
Hmmm. Although I think she has a bigger dick.
If she wasn’t the front for a history of useless bastards who allowed this country to be torn asunder by mass immigration and favouritism to particular groups, which is the route cause of the trouble, we might listen to her. But she is still the figurehead for that same cabal of individuals, the ones who allowed fake immigration on dodgy work visas, fake nationality because of timing of birth, fake weddings and the collapse of our border due to illegal entry. Go away, madam, your party has done nowhere near enough purgatory for the damage they caused on immigration, failure to deliver Brexit, signing us up to destructive carbon targets and so much more. You promised the same ‘change’ time and again in previous elections and we foolishly believed you, but never again.
So says a Nigerian woman, who in many countries would not be allowed to be Prime Minister, who was conveniently born here but then taken back home to grow up in Nigeria and then further schooled in the USA and whose first utterings in the Commons once elected to Parliament were all about doings things for Nigeria. The only plus is that it was not heath tourism to scam the NHS and taxpayers that brought her mother here, but the wealth to have a birth here.
100%. Send her back.
Bravo, Gezza! Well and bravely said, not afraid to tell the truth!
Her “first utterings in the Commons once elected to Parliament were all about doings things for Nigeria”.
How does that benefit Britain in any way? The Tory members need their heads examined for electing her to represent British Conservatives, and should give her the boot to rectify their Weedy Wet Liberal mistake.
The two photos of her that most stick in my mind are an “official” photo of her standing in her ungainly way between two tall White Men at a World Economic Forum meeting, and another of her pointing a British Army rifle at point-blank range at the chest of a British Army cadet, as if itching to pull the trigger and live out a Nigerian Civil War Fantasy.
Her aim in inflicting herself upon Henry’s grieving family is first to jump on any bandwagon for political gain, and secondly to persuade them to join the whole Globalist Elite trying to “dampen down” the White People protesting about White Genocide, including threats from Starmer to repeat at Southampton what he did to hundreds of British Patriots protesting against the murder of children at Southport.
It’s cringeworthy.
You mean the “Nigerian PRINCESS”
The gap toothed Nigerian Ogenoke giving us a lecture on ‘ethno nationalism’, the same idiot who had nothing to say about Nowak’s murder by a Black and the police. No questions to Starmtrooper on the matter in Pharmament.
Badnotch is part of a pattern with the Convict party – a poorer version of Rishi Knickknack, the billionaire born in a box in the middle of a New Delhi highway. Another DEI hire that has failed.
The Convicts are done as a national party.
Yes, she needs to be lectured about Nigerian “Ethno-Nationalism”, and told that Nigeria needs more Chinese or Brazilians or Pakistanis in their government.
The wokists are already at war with the British people.
It’s time we woke up and faced the fact.