Should Robert Jenrick join the Ku Klux Klan?

 

I am white English but I really couldn't care less about a person's colour. We're not living in Birmingham Alabama, are we? Perhaps Robert Jenrick, the Conservative shadow minister, should join the Ku Klux Klan.

As a white Englishman, I don't believe that I have much in common with Jenrick, either socially, politically, or economically. I believe Jenrick originated from Wolverhampton but grew up in a better part of Wolverhampton, so he probably didn't see many black faces. 

A black lady that I know, who is a dear friend, and who originates from Wolverhampton, once told me that they were the only black family on their street and people used to piss through the letterbox of their family home.  Doesn't it make you proud to be British!

Jenrick seems to play the race card all the time to score political points. In December 2023 he resigned his position as Minister of State for Immigration, because he didn't think the government's Rwanda scheme went far enough to tackle illegal immigration. In fact, this costly political gimmick didn't tackle illegal immigration at all, and the only beneficiary, seems to have been the Rwandan government who got billions of British taxpayers' money for doing nowt. In July 2023, it was reported in the press that this miserable little sod; the father of three children, had ordered staff at an asylum reception centre designed for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Kent, to paint over wall art depicting cartoons and animals from the Jungle book and Micky Mouse, in order to provide a less welcoming atmosphere for the children. Jenrick could have fallen out of a story by Charles Dickens.

This idea that there is some kind of cohesive homogenous white British society, was always myth. Very often the white British population can't get on with one another for a variety of reasons - culture, social-class or regionalism. England is one of the most divisive class-ridden societies in the world. The Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, observed: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him."

The English middle-class poet Stephen Spender, wrote in an early poem, "My parents kept me from children who were rough." Eric Blair's (George Orwell) mother, stopped him playing with the plumbers' daughter. Orwell and the poet Philip Larkin, originated from dire English middle-class backgrounds that inculcated prejudice against Jews, the coloured subjects of the British Empire and the working-class. Larkin's father was a supporter of the British Union of Fascists, and his son, detested the trade unions and was appalled at the arrival of emigrants from the Caribbean and Asia. Many of these would finish up working in NHS hospitals, which over the years, has relied heavily on immigrant labour for doctors and nurses. Many of these nurses from the Caribbean were brought to England by Enoch Powell, when he was a Conservative government health minister.