Tories face call to strip whip from Robert Jenrick over ‘racist’ comments

Is he on Ozempic? Looking a lot less chubby than he used to.

I watched Politics Live over lunch and was struck by how little the Tories have learned and how it was like being back to the good old days.

A senior tory does something indefensibly stupid and a cast of useful idiots are sent out to repeat insulting lies to us until he inevitably backtracks and makes everyone look even dumber.

‘He was just commenting on the state of integration in this country’ just like Bernard Manning used to comment on gender politics in the home.

I’m no Tory or Reform voter, but I don’t see how what he’s said is racist? I thought the exact same after being in Small Heath in Birmingham recently. Diversity is one of the country’s strengths, but the key to diversity is a blend of cultures, not just one culture which has taken over an entire area. I don’t want to feel like I’m in a foreign land walking down a street in my own country.
The left dismissing views like this as racist is exactly why Reform are (unfortunately) going to win the next election by a landslide.

Nothing racist about it, it’s a fact that large parts of city’s are overly white and others are not.

Integration is the conversation and the fact that a mix of cultures and people should be throughout city’s and not just located to one.

I don’t think we can live in a society where it’s reasonable to criticise a lack of diversity when it’s too many white people and not enough black or brown people but not visa versa.

He made a pretty reasonable point about how some areas in the U.K. lack racial diversity.

Residential segregation, entire streets of businesses that only cater to and employ individual communities, no interracial marriages. People clustering along ethnic, cultural, or religious lines defeats the purposes of a multicultural society. That’s a parallel society operating within UK borders.

We should look at why in a country where 75% are white British that there are places where only 5-10% are white British. What is the cause? Is it likely financial? Is it cultural clash? It appears to be indicative of failure to integrate. If every person with a south Asian, African, middle eastern background is just as British as a Celtic/germanic background then why are we not choosing to live next to each other.

If you don’t think people in Nigeria would be very concerned if parts of Lagos were 90% white British. Or parts of Sylhet, Karachi were 95% white British. I can imagine some choice descriptors people would use.

I’m very anti Conservatives, so I’d love to be able to say see, typical Tories, but on this occasion, I think he just used very poor wording.

I sat and thought about it, if it was anyone else who wasn’t either a Conservative or Reform supporter would I have considered it racist? The answer is no, I’d of told them to think of a better way to say it because of how highly wound up everyone is these days, so I’m going to reluctantly give him the benefit of the doubt on this one.

They won’t do that because it’s unofficial party policy

At this point man he might as well defect to Reform. Tories are infested with wet liberals stuck in the early 2000s.

But did he say anything most of reform and the tories don’t think is true? That seeing a whole city where the majority group of a country is not the majority is a sign of “failing integration”? I’d honestly be surprised if this isn’t what most of them thought, so why are they all clutching their pearls?

I don’t think his comments were bad at all and certainly not bad enough to lose the whip.

A serious party would remove his whip (and Cleverly) for obvious and pubilc plotting against the leader.

I don’t know how to exercise a “strip whip from Robert Jenrick”. My dad was a modest man, he used a belt and he administered it by himself.