Ben Harnwell

They came in, they contributed, they put their head down, they assimilated, and they contributed.

There is something about Islam and the character of Islam

itself that is oil and water when it comes to Western values.

They're not coming now, as I said, they're not coming to contribute, they're coming to conquer.

And they are coming with the expectation that we will yield to their sensibilities.

And they have that expectation because we are being betrayed by our political class.

So what are we going to do about it?

Well, the contribution that I myself have been involved with is at the monastery of Trizulti, specifically, which is the academy for the Judeo-Christian West, popularly known in the press as Steve Bannon's gladiator school.

Just to say a few words about that, that project itself grew out of something called the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, which I founded in the European Parliament in 2011.

That was really created as a project.

Dominic Cudmore, who is here, was in Valeria's, Dominic.

He was actually a great help in that nearly 20 years ago in getting that project off the ground.

Dominic, a real surprise to see you here today.

I'm very happy to give you a hat tip for your contribution on that.

The point about this, why did we set this up?

The programme has evolved somewhat.

since 2008 but fundamentally it was to put the spine back in to christian democracy those were the days when i was slightly more naive and believed that what the center right was lacking was spine in fact i i now realize that that's not true at all the center right is part of the enemy of of defending these values because it's performative it goes through the motions especially at election time of dropping the platitudes that we want to hear

And the moment they are elected, they get down to betraying us.

And the point there at the betrayal is this.

I started off with this speech, the note by Toynbee about the 19 out of 21 civilizations.