Kemi Badenoch has given a speech to the Alliance for Responsible Citizens conference. You can read it for yourself. At last, she lets us really know how she thinks.

She has often trotted out the cliche that “Our United Kingdom is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-faith success story” and other words to that effect. She genuinely believes it. It is not lost on her, though, that most former-Tory voters do not share her view. It’s abundantly clear that Britain is not a “multi-ethnic, multicultural success story” and voters are sick of hearing this shtick.

Ms Badenoch, though, thinks the voters are wrong. “It’s not liberal values that are the problem”, she says. “It’s weakness”. Her central thesis is that we are failing to defend our liberal values. Fancying herself as an engineer, she thinks this is something that can be fixed with social engineering.

So how do we defend? Conservatives are the guardians of western civilisations. We do need to defend what we have, but many have forgotten how to do so. It requires bravery and not endless compliance at the threat of legal challenge.

So I’m going to give you a brilliant example of a woman who has done this. She is known as Britain’s strictest headmistress and runs the Michaela School, the best school in our country. Her name is Katharine Birbalsingh. The Michaela School is secular. However, religious tolerance was being exploited to harass and bully others. This led to segregation and tensions, with some students beginning to pray in the playground, violating school rules, pressuring their peers to follow religious practices they hadn’t before, like wearing a headscarf or stopping choir practice.

In response, Katharine banned those prayer rituals to restore order and refused to provide a dedicated prayer space, aiming to maintain the school’s secular environment and treat all pupils equally. The response was an orchestrated attempt to destroy her reputation and her school. She was sued by one child’s parents. The BBC ran a headline saying the school made being Muslim seem toxic. Most politicians are afraid of that sort of headline for fear of being labelled Islamophobic. Most teachers would have relented the minute they were challenged. Katharine Birbalsingh took her case all the way to the High Court and she won. Katharine showed how you defend western civilisation.

Again another Tory leader lavishes praise on Birbalsingh, one of their mates from the Spectator dinner party circle. Were this 2001, back when there was still a chance of turning things around, I’d be right behind her, but if Badenoch thinks this marginal tinkering is going to repair Britain, she is quite simply away with the fairies. She has no concept of how bad things are.

I could go deep on this speech, but that would be unnecessary. Badenoch is now completely exposed for what she is. A clueless, breathtakingly arrogant lightweight.

Britain most certainly is not a “multi-ethnic, multicultural success story”. Mass immigration has been an unmitigated disaster. It was a disaster before the Boriswave and now it’s becoming a national emergency. It has turned our cities into irredeemable slums. It has shredded the social contract. It has torn the social fabric to pieces. It has demolished our high trust civilisation. It has made britain a colder, more hostile place. It has wrecked our communities. It has driven down our wages.

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