Kemi Badenoch, a Member of the UK Parliament and leader of the UK Conservative Party, warned that mass immigration could lead to the replacement of the United Kingdom’s national identity with that of a Third World country during a recent interview on Bari Weis’s “Honesty” podcast.
Host Bari Weiss, the founder and editor of The Free Press, is a former New York Times writer who left the Times and publicly came out against the woke leftwing narrative being pushed by the paper.
Badenoch, who was raised in Nigeria, is the first black woman to lead the UK’s Conservative Party. During the discussion on immigration, she sounded the alarm on the replacement of national identity, noting that “It’s not about bringing the culture from the other place and turning the UK into the place you’ve just come from.” She continued, “If I wanted to be in Nigeria, I would have moved back to Nigeria. I don’t want to recreate Nigeria in the UK.”
This is exactly what the American left is trying to do to the United States. As The Gateway Pundit reported, it was even revealed earlier this year by a Biden State Department official that the ‘Great Replacement Theory’ is not a theory as the Biden regime is knowingly allowing criminals into the United States to change the country’s demographics.
Without using the phrase, Badenoch highlights the ‘Great Replacement’ by dismissing the idea that American and British cultures are just a melting pot of different cultures, calling it “nonsense.” She further highlights the need for developed countries like the US and UK to defend their culture and demographic makeup. “I think that means getting more migration from places that are more like-minded,” she says.
Watch:
Badenoch: If you don’t defend your culture, it will disappear. And when people come to a country, they should want to be a part of that country. We are not a hotel. We are not a dormitory, just for some people who want to make money and go off. This is our home, and we need to look after it, and that means making sure that the people who come to the country are compatible with those beliefs that, at the very least, do not damage that. I think that means getting more migration from places that are more like-minded, one, but two, making sure that those people who do come to the country— this is far more important— understand that these are the terms that they accept when they want to move to the UK.
It’s not about bringing the culture from the other place and turning the UK into the place you’ve just come from. If I wanted to be in Nigeria, I would have moved back to Nigeria. I don’t want to recreate Nigeria in the UK. And I think that there are many people who come from countries where they want to recreate what they are familiar with in the UK. That is bad for social cohesion, and it is bad for the very things that made Britain what it is. All of those things, which I call— I know you use liberal differently in the US, but there’s things that I call liberal values, you know, free speech, equality under the law.
People don’t understand how special this stuff is. Freedom, being treated the same no matter who you are, whether you’re the poorest person or the richest person, the presumption of innocence, something that’s thrown away with cancel culture; got to fight these things. And I know what it is like to live in a place that doesn’t have these things, so it’s very, very precious, and I will die to protect those things, and I don’t want the UK being turned into the sort of place that everybody else is running from. Somebody has to defend it.
Specifically, she appears to oppose mass immigration from her home country of Nigeria, which she described as a “very poor country.” Nigeria is also home to an ongoing genocide of Christians, which has killed over 100,000 people since 2009.
The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth, & Developmental Office travel advisory guidelines note some recent terrorist attacks in Nigeria:
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in June 2023, ISWA carried out an IED attack in Nasarawa State
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in April 2023, ISWA claimed an IED attack on civilians in Jigawa State
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in February 2023, ISWA bombed a local government office in Kogi State
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in 2022, ISWA claimed responsibility for attacks on Nigerian security personnel in Ondo and Edo states
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in 2022, ISWA attacked the Kuje Prison in the Federal Capital Territory in which an unknown number of prisoners escaped
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in 2022, ISWA claimed responsibility for attacks on police in Niger State, within 30 kilometers of the Federal Capital Territory
This comes as Europe is grappling with insane immigration policies put forth by the EU. It’s gotten so bad in some European countries, including Sweden, that the Swedish Minister of Migration announced earlier this year that the government will pay up to $34,000 for migrants to return to their home of origin.
You can watch the full interview here.
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