‘Britain’s most precious asset is our diverse and cohesive democracy’, trilled the opening of a government social cohesion plan just two years ago. The very fact the plan had to be created may have suggested otherwise, but back then, the captains of the multicultural state were at least still trying to keep appearances up.

Multiculturalism now expects ordinary Brits to channel the Blitz spirit just to live in their own country.

Multiculturalism now expects ordinary Brits to channel the Blitz spirit just to live in their own country.

Two years later, following scores of appalling crimes by asylum seekers, ever more revelations about the rape gangs, Islamist terrorism, country-wide anti-immigration riots and blatant electoral sectarianism, those going to bat for multicultural Britain can scarcely muster the strength to lie anymore. Just compare the opening to the government’s new community cohesion strategy, released this week. ‘By any fair standard’, bleats none other than the Prime Minister himself, ‘Britain can be proud about of [sic] its approach to social cohesion’. Far from an ‘asset’, Britain’s ‘diversity’ is now understood only as a problem to be ‘approach[ed]’. The public, meanwhile, are implored forlornly to be ‘fair’, rather than exacting, in how we judge this.

Even before one gets to the policy measures in this plan – many of which look deeply draconian – the PM’s foreword paints a revealingly grim picture of how the state now views the nation it governs. The world is now so ‘dangerous’ and so ‘volatile’ that we are in an nothing short of an integration ‘emergency’, Sir Keir openly admits.

 Starmer may be no Churchill, but he nonetheless hopes to issue a rallying ‘Call to Action’ to the British public, for ‘quiet act[s] of defiance against the forces of division’. What is this ‘whole of........

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