This morning the fast-shrinking and ageing membership of the Conservative Party took a step further towards their political grave. The party once led by the Marquess of Salisbury is to be led by a 44-year-old African woman, born Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke, now known as Kemi Badenoch.
“Isn’t it great that we are the first party to have a black leader: another glass ceiling shattered,” boasted the chairman of the Conservative 1922 Committee, announcing the result.
Tory members interviewed during the campaign could offer few coherent reasons for their choice, beyond vague comments about needing a “fresh” approach.
In what was seen as an important intervention during the campaign, former minister Michael Gove promoted Badenoch, saying that Jenrick’s main weakness was that he “looked like a typical Tory politician”.
The assumption seems to be that opting for a black leader will be a stunning propaganda victory, wrong-footing Labour, who have never elected anything other than White male leaders.
By that logic, having replaced Boris Johnson successively with a White woman, an Asian man, and an African woman, the next Tory stunt in a few years’ time should be to search for a transsexual leader?
What can we expect in policy terms?
Yet more empty gestures against ‘wokeism’, but no substance. Talk about the immigration crisis, but no commitment to dealing with it. Waffle about crime, but avoidance of the reality that the multiracial society has failed and that it’s time for ‘remigration’.
The moments leading up to announcement of the result this morning were telling. First we heard from the party chairman Richard Fuller, who was part of the poisonous faction among the Young Conservatives who collaborated with the BBC and the poisonous Marxists of Searchlight in a ‘witch-hunting’ attack on racial nationalists. This was the start of woke Toryism in the 1980s.
After Fuller’s opening remarks, the result was announced by Bob Blackman, chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee – an organisation whose name reflects its origins in the Tory rebellion against coalition with Lloyd George in 1922 – a rebellion that was partly inspired by the success of Mussolini’s fascist revolution in Italy. Today’s 1922 Committee is thoroughly committed to multiracialism, and Blackman himself has been one of the main architects of a strategy to build support among Hindu voters.
Badenoch and Jenrick were two of the most craven pro-Zionists ever to contest a Tory leadership election, and under Badenoch the party will continue to be one of the most dedicated Israel First organisations in the ‘democratic’ world.
We can also expect empty words about Ukraine: Badenoch will never face up to the fact that for fourteen years (including the crucial year of 2014) her own party was in power and was consistently feeble in the face of an increasingly evident threat from Moscow. Numerous senior Conservatives and their supporters in the business world had a corrupt relationship with the Kremlin. This shameful conduct encouraged Putin in the view that the West had become so cowardly and decadent that he could invade Europe with impunity.
The Conservative Party that once governed the greatest Empire the world has ever seen, is now led by an African.
Conservatism is bankrupt. It’s now up to nationalists to set out a clear and courageous course for national and racial renewal.