Histories of the present: Jenrick reminds us of his bigotry again
The media is bad at history, even very recent history. Recently resigned Tory Minister Robert Jenrick spoke to Laura Kuenssberg on her Sunday morning and claimed that migrants don’t integrate into British society. He gave as an example the thousands who have marched calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Of course he has a point Jenrick’s Tory principles include war not peace, even if that is a minority view generally.
Following his resignation there have been attempts to suggest that his lurch to the right is a recent thing. It isn’t.
When he was Communities Minister in 2021 Jenrick has announced in the Sunday Telegraph that he planned to make any changes to historic statues and monuments subject to planning laws.
In doing so Jenrick used Trumpian language. Anti-racist protesters are a ‘baying mob’ while democratically elected local councillors are ‘cultural committee’ of town hall militants and woke worthies”. If we were to lower ourselves to Jenrick’s level what he is actually proposing is to over ride local democratic processes with decisions by a coterie of racist Tory Ministers.
Jenrick is part of a Tory Great Moving Right Show and it could end up moving very far right indeed based on present performance
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