The new bureaucratic, left-wing class are launching a progressive assault on our nation and borders, a new report argues.
Kemi Badenoch’s Renewal 2030 campaign has released a report ‘Conservatism in Crisis: Rise of the Bureaucratic Class’.
The report seeks to diagnose why Britain’s economy is stagnating and why it threatens the very future of the Conservative Party.
It also explains how a global realignment in politics, lower growth and social polarisation is affecting the whole of the West.
The authors outline how a “key” and “single most harmful part” of new progressive ideology and the bureaucratic class is “assault” and “hostility” on the nation state.
The bureaucratic class dislikes the nation state for two strong reasons.
First, there is hostility as the nation “presents an alternative mechanism of power”. The report explains that through democratic elections within a state, and political power, the bureaucratic has its powers reduced.
“In the absence of such democratic accountability, the state will almost inevitably expand due to the interaction between officials and the bureaucratic class in the private sector. There will almost always been agreement to increase the size and scope of the state, passed on to either taxpayers directly, or consumers indirectly through higher prices,” the authors explain.
Second, there is hostility as the nation state is “inevitably discriminatory” because, by definition a nation requires borders.
Therefore, it creates a “strong divide between the (privileged) citizens within and the (marginalised) foreigners without.”
“Since the progressive ideology is built upon tearing down such privileges, they are deeply uncomfortable with migration controls and judging migrants on what they bring to the host society,” the report says.
This is made worse across the West as enforcing border control involves a host of other realities the progressive ideology declares itself against.
Kemi Badenoch’s Renewal 2030 released a new report into the existential crisis threatening the future of the Tory party
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Indirectly it discriminates on the basis of race, religion, class and therefore, the reality of modern European state is that any policy to limit migration “can be decried as xenophobic, racist, Islamophobic, classist and so on.”
Badenoch’s report argues the “hatred” for borders was summed up in 2019 when the Labour party conference voted to “campaign for free movement, equality and rights for migrants; reject any immigration system based on incomes, migrants’ utility to business, and number caps/targets; ensure conditional right to family reunion; scrap all hostile environment measures, use of landlords and public service providers as border guards, and restrictions on migrants’ NHS access; close all detention centres; end no recourse to public funds policies.”
The authors point out that ideological hostility to the nation state is “unprecedented in the history of Western thought.”
They continue: “The nation state is the core pillar on which the modern West was built, and is implicit in almost all conservative and liberal political thinking.”
