Andrew Bolt: Suella Braverman sounded a warning we need our own government to hear

The torrent of new arrivals and mad multiculturalism is threatening Western countries like ours – and it’s time our politicians dare to face the facts.

Luckily Suella Braverman isn’t white. She could give a stunningly honest speech on the mass immigration and mad multiculturalism now threatening Western countries like ours.

Braverman, Britain’s Home Secretary, is the daughter of Indian immigrants, yet sounded a warning on Tuesday we need our own government to hear, after it just added a record 454,300 new immigrants, net, in one year.

That’s more people than Canberra and Albury combined, and Braverman said something no Labor or Liberal politician dares: “If immigration is uncontrolled, it makes it harder for society to adapt and accommodate new cultures and customs, and for communities to meld together.

“Uncontrolled immigration, inadequate integration, and a misguided dogma of multiculturalism have proven a toxic combination for Europe.”

Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman gave a stunningly honest speech. Picture: AFP

Braverman noted an extraordinary figure – Britain and Europe have taken in more immigrants in the last 25 years than in all the time before.

Then add the extra challenge of illegal immigrants from countries much poorer, and very different. Britain had 100,000 land in boats in the last five years.

Europe had 330,000 in 2022, and the US just had nearly three million in one year.

“It has been too much, too quick, with too little thought given to integration and the impact on social cohesion,” said Braverman.

“If cultural change is too rapid and too big, then what was already there is diluted. Eventually it will disappear.”

Think of our own new arrivals: how can we integrate so many people so fast?

That’s even harder when so many politicians and officials tell them Australia Day is shameful, this land is “stolen” and the people here are “racist”?

This attack on patriotism is suicidal when nearly 30 per cent of Australians were born overseas, and we need them to fall in love with their new country.

As Braverman said: “Far from being an ugly emotion, patriotism stirs people to heroism and to kindness.

“It is the belief that we have specific obligations to others precisely because they are our fellow countrymen. It creates a shared identity and a shared purpose.”

But look at us. A shared purpose? When we now fly three flags – two of them race ones? When nearly 900,000 Australians told the last census they speak no English, or speak it badly?

Braverman has dared tell the West to slow this torrent of new arrivals, to stop it washing away the ties that bind. We need Liberal or Labor politicians to say the same.

Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Suella Braverman sounded a warning we need our own government to hear