Is diversity our strength?
by Tom Jones, Artillery Row:
On the failings of multiculturalism.
Has multiculturalism failed? Last month Suella Braverman was lambasted for suggesting so when she argued:
Multiculturalism makes no demands of the incomer to integrate. It has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it. They could be in the society but not of the society.
Braverman’s comments were unusual. A frontline politician was making a coherent political and moral case — a “civic argument”, in her words — about the effects of “Uncontrolled immigration, inadequate integration and a misguided dogma of multiculturalism”.
The reception was predictable. Like every speech that suggests immigration policy isn’t coming along just fine thank you very much, it was greeted by the usual attacks from opponents. They imply it would be an act of monstrous inhumanity to reduce immigration to the levels the electorate have voted for, consistently, since levels first rose under Tony Blair.
As events abroad once again cause a spike in ethnic tension on Britain’s streets, we should be reminded that Braverman is right that multiculturalism has failed — even if she is 20 years behind the curve.
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