Kemi Badenoch
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549 appearances
8 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 9 Jun
Kemi Badenoch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And one of the things that I'm determined to do is ensure that we talk about what is happening in our country. And it is a lot easier for me to say it than many other people. Because of your identity. Because of my identity.
And as much as I hate identity politics, I know that I can go out and say some things and challenge the people who would try and pretend that I was a racist or whatever, just more effectively. And that is helpful. It's not the reason why I am the leader, but it is helpful. And, you know, I have some crazy, really, really crazy attacks. She's the face of white supremacy. You really look like it.
Yeah, yeah. I know. There are some people who they don't even know how to respond when something different happens. Sometimes it's jealousy or they can't explain why you are not following the templates which you've been told to follow, that this is what you do. You're a black woman, you should be going to the black woman's room and doing black women's groups and things like that.
Why are you not doing that? And the two sides that do this are black people on the left and white racists. Those two, they're both, both sides of the same coin. The black racists and the white racists both do the same thing of this is not where you're supposed to be. Yes, they both want separatism and you've got to fight it, whatever the person who's advocating for looks like.
And one of the ways that liberalism has been hacked is that you get people who should not be advocating for segregation being the ones pushing for it. oh, we need our own spaces. We need to preserve, you know, all this sort of segregationist nonsense.
Exactly. That's what I say, that a lot of bad ideas were the cloak of the civil rights movement. And many people don't want to challenge them. We've seen race relations exploited in this way. We've seen, you know, all of the wins that gay people have had.
being exploited by those who want to do all sorts of actually what I would call very, very predatory behavior, exploiting children, and they're using gay people as a cover. It's awful. And we need to make sure that we go back to a point where people can see what is real and what isn't real. And that requires a lot more free speech and a lot more proper conversations.
So I think that people have... degraded a lot of what we call Western culture into it's just food and what you wear. Culture is a lot more than food and drink and clothes. It's norms, it's customs, it's behavior, it's tradition, it's what you hand down to your children, you know, expectations of behavior. And
You will often find people saying that there's not really anything like British culture or American culture. We've just absorbed things from all sorts of other places. So there's nothing wrong with us absorbing more. This is nonsense. 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 and 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 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 society. 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, those things that I call liberal values, you know, free speech, equality under the law. People don't understand how special this stuff is. Freedom, that 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.
Well, one of the things I've said is that what we tried previously didn't work. So we got to have a new policy platform. One of the things that we never quite finished was the third country deterrence, which was sending people who were claiming asylum, but really were economic migrants to a different country for processing. And that was supposed to be Rwanda.
But a lot of the things that Nigel Farage has talked about are just wishes. So sending people to France, for example, We've had deals with France. We've tried to do that. France doesn't want these people either. So simply saying we'll send them to France doesn't make any sense. And what I say about him is that he can see the problems that we can see. So his diagnosis of many things is not wrong.
but he has never tried to actually fix things so he doesn't understand the system and there's an assumption that all you other people who are in government you just didn't want to do it and so when we come in everything will be fine and what i say is we know why these things didn't work we had different arguments we had disagreements and my side didn't necessarily win those arguments now i'm in charge we can start doing things so for example the intimidation that you talked about this was something that i thought was a moral outrage
And I talked about it in my speech in Washington, that you take a liberal value like the right to protest. It's very special. And then you have people saying, oh, we're just protesting. We're just protesting. But actually what they are doing is intimidating Jews. If you're just protesting, why are you ripping down posters of missing children. How could you do that?
If all you were talking about was other people's freedoms, you would not want to remove the freedoms of those who want to talk about their families. You know, just last week, I was speaking to the mother of a hostage, Emily Damari's mother, Mandy. It's unbelievable what people are going through. What kind of human being are you to rip down
a poster of a missing child, of missing mothers and children. And it's very obvious to me what is happening. It doesn't mean that everybody on the protest feels that way, but it's quite clear that many people used those protests as a cover for anti-Semitism. It was very clear. And that should never happen. Why did we allow it to happen is a more interesting question.
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