Robert Jenrick has been on a bizarre political journey. It’s made him incredibly dangerous | Owen Jones
R.It is a shameful opportunism for a political climber that struck the scandal that can have profound consequences for our democracy. The British public still knows little about Robert Jenrik, the Minister of Justice in the shadows that Kimi Badnouch watched in last year’s race in favor of the Conservative Party. This will change soon, because The explosion Among the unhappy conservatives, its occupant is safely presented under “Matthew, not if” – and Jenrik will definitely succeed her.
Jenrik’s political development reflects the path across the West from the right of the center, which either surpasses the radical right or adopted its positions. When Jenrick won the selection of Newark in 2014, it was – in the words of the Conservative Party, Anna Soubry, the near – “a”Full -fat subscriber to David CameronAfter defeating the Nigel Faraj party at the time, the Conservative Party is now almost now He praised his victory At that time as evidence that the party should resist to become “UKip Lite”. It was the conclusion that Genrik – who avoided campaigns on immigration or the European Union – had said: “You win the elections at the center.”
At the time of the referendum, Genrik was a strong opponent of Britain’s exit from the European Union, Signature of a letter This was announced that leaving the European Union “will lead us to the hardship of ministers.” Even recently in 2022, when Dimagogic and then Interior Minister Sewala Perferman announced that southern England faced a “invasion” of illegal immigrants, Genrik reprimanded his boss. “It is not a phrase I used,” He said When I was asked if she had used the wrong term, adding: “I think in this task, you have to use your language carefully.”
Well, Jenrick managed to sign Braverman significantly over the maximum language. Britain imported “hundreds of thousands of strange cultures who have a position on the medieval women,” Britain. Advertise. His ex -teacher Cameron once rejected UKIP as “a fruit cake, young or racists in the cabinet,” Genrik announces He welcomed Farage in the ranks of the Conservative Party. The rest, which was eagerly passionate It now requires Britain Leave the European Court of Human Rights. When Britain was in the grip of racist Islamic riots, Genrik Anyone who cries “God is great” to be arrested – in other words, criminalizes the most common phrase used by committed Muslims.
Is this all that he can to election before turning in a completely different direction – the Conservative Party, Care Starmer, if you will? Praferman was certainly not convinced last year, Announcement that Jenrik descends “Whoever left the party” and seemed “terrified” when she sympathized as she left the European court. But Genrik is barely unique. Think of Liz Tros, the former liberal democratic activist who carried out a campaign to survive. We are now condemning the “deep state”, and the platforms with Steve Bannon are the right -wing American strategic Praise Tommy Robinson as a “hero”, and attended this week at a right -wing conference in Hungary, is a semi -fight, as she talked about the “freedom of expression crisis in Britain”.
What Jenrik really thinks is a secondary consideration: You barely call Donald Trump a natural ideological, yet he works as a loyal port for the reasons of the extreme right. Genrik The allies claim that he was “extremist” Through his experience in the house office. Anxiously, in the correspondence that was leaked last year with anonymous The right -wing Twitter account This requires “collective deportations” and the prohibition of the Qur’an. Jenrik himself declared “a great admirer” with his tweets, saying: “We agree on what should happen.”
Like Trump, Jenrick will undoubtedly design himself as a man from people, despite all the evidence that indicates a different direction. Among its multiple characteristics It is a house in central London worth 2.6 million pounds and a terrible house: in 2020 it was accused (but it was never prosecuted) Break the lock rules After driving to the latter during the epidemic. In the same year, he canceled the civil service employees to rush through 1 billion pounds sterling property deal With the support of the Conservative Party donor, Richard Desmond, who pressed him to accelerate the development to save it 40 million pounds. The decision was later I found to be illegal. But the adoption of right -wing populism provides the protection of the sarcastic demagues of Demagues from this scrutiny, which they provide as a conspiracy to silence it.
Here is the reason that the leadership of Jenrik will be dangerous. Through the West, there is a clear political trend: drifting towards right -wing tyranny. In Hungary, democracy was destroyed by Fidesz, a supposed -right party and one -time member at The Liberal International, which was extremes in power. Its leader, Victor Urban – was like Genrich – A lawyer presented as a moderate. The Tory Jenrick faction that was dominated by a large extent, and the prevailing wisdom is that only by overcoming the right, the threat of Farageist can be dispelled.
Unlike Badenoch, who seems to be allergic to anything similar The latest video to for him Hasd after the fare repeats. Here is the big problem. The work under Starmer has shown that he will attack Farageism policies and discourse instead of presenting an alternative to a broken economic model representing the main driver of disappointment. When Jenrick has a higher function, Britain will get high -level instigators to the right -wing political discourse with a burning discourse. The Labor Party will respond through the echo of the yellow, which increases the legitimacy of the right instead of seeing it. So – like the United States – Britain is in an authoritarian swamp, Jenrik’s satirical maneuver may accelerate the proportions. “
