That much seems to be evident from the launch yesterday of a new “year-long commission” to fix “deepening polarisation” in British society. It is to be led by Pakistani-heritage Sajid Javid, the former Conservative cabinet minister, and the former Labour MP Jon Cruddas.
I’m being generous in assuming stupidity, but that was my first reaction to the commission’s website which opens with the assertion that, “The UK is a thriving, multi-ethnic and multi-faith democracy where most people in towns, cities, and rural areas get on with each other”.
This is straight out of the Fraser Nelson playbook, which is perhaps not surprising as Nelson is on the 22-member commission, along with other dubious characters such as Sunder Katwala, Caroline Lucas and Tim Montgomerie (he of Reform fame).
The obvious fatuity of the opening statement would be laughable, and
one can only suppose that those who would endorse it are short on the
brain cell count, unless one accepts that darker forces are at play and
the nation, once more, is being outrageously gaslit....<<<Read More>>>...
