There’s an excellent article by Tom Slater the editor of Spiked Magazine on the furore that has erupted over the Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s criticisms of multiculturalism. The tribe of political liberals, most of whom have never and will never have to live with the consequences of the failures of multiculturalism, have dished out truckloads of invective against Ms Braverman, much of it extremely racialised due to Ms Braverman’s background.

Mr Slater said of the criticisms that Ms Braverman had had from the posh liberal classes:

There’s a foul, racialised undertone to this. The shock and horror some commentators reserve for ethnic-minority politicians who happen to hold more conservative views on immigration, asylum or multiculturalism has a whiff of ‘how dare you?!’ about it. They never accuse Braverman or Priti Patel of being ‘ungrateful’, but if we’re honest the vibe is not a million miles off. The unwitting implication is that it is somehow illegitimate for even second- and third-generation immigrants to be sceptical of mass migration or state multiculturalism. Those with an immigrant background must think the same, goes the unspoken logic, otherwise they are weird and inauthentic, perhaps trying to ingratiate themselves with golf-club racists.

Well said Mr Slater. He’s correct in saying what he has said. The posh Left liberals do indeed clutch their pearls when a person from a minority goes off the reservation and doesn’t go along with what is expected by the liberal left of them. As a Jew with centre right viewpoints I get subjected to similar criticisms from those who believe that I should go along with idiocies such as ‘refugees welcome’ just because a lot of Jews in the past landed in Britain as refugees from oppressors such as Russian Tsars and a Uni-testicled Austrian madman. For the record I hate the ‘refugees welcome’ movement and I hate it for its naivety and because it is having the effect of importing into Britain thousands upon thousands of people who really hate Jews. There are good and cogent reasons for me to be wary of mass immigration and the policy of top down multiculturalism and I see nothing wrong with Ms Braverman thinking along similar lines.