You don’t have to agree with everything Nigel Farage said this week about immigration, Islam, and multiculturalism to think he opened up a subject that needs discussing. And when are we going to discuss these things if not in an election campaign? Yet most Conservatives have said little on these issues, even though I find them very much on the minds of Tory voters – actual, potential, and (perhaps especially) previous.
It’s not hard to see why. Get your words wrong and the Left will jump on you and call for you to be cancelled. It’s easier to stay quiet – especially when past statements about multiculturalism, not just by Tories, but the likes of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Trevor Phillips, are seemingly now beyond the pale.
