As she outlined her credentials and sought to shrug off claims that the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom must be he who can loudest shout ‘Brexit!’, Theresa May admitted that bitterness and strife are the way of today’s Conservative Party, pointing the finger squarely at asylum seekers and immigrants.
Brushing aside questions about her rival Michael Gove – suggesting that ‘What Michael Gove says and does is of no consequence to me’, even as Gove was busily embarking upon his con sequential – May summoned her many years of experience as Home Secretary to condemn the ‘bitter and vindictive’ manoeuvrings of migrants of all shapes and varieties.
Noting that Britain needs to pull together now more than ever, she began her speech wondering why anyone earning less than £18,600 a year is allowed to express a political opinion in the current climate, given that in line with her policies, they are already deprived of more basic rights such as the right to love or establish a family. According to May, many of these lowliest members of society are fundamentally opposed to the integrity of one-nation conservatism, and what is worse, some are migrants or the abettors of migrants.
She said that the very ideas of immigration and asylum seeking serve as strains upon the Tory faithful, adding that there is no reason whatsoever why scores of deaths in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, for instance, should have to weigh on the minds of Conservative politicians.
This was one point which found Gove in firm agreement. Giving a press conference of his own on the other side of Westminster, he reminisced on the Thursday of the EU referendum, recalling that a news item about Syria had disrupted his supper as he sipped from a glass of warm milk before his 10:30 pm bedtime.
Growing stern, May advised that asylum seekers ‘know exactly what they are doing’ when they put their homes in the way of bombs and subsequently flee for other countries. She took a moment mid-speech to argue that unlike the race across the Mediterranean, the outcome of the race for the Tory leadership will be predicated on neither wealth nor strength, a remark perceived as a slight on the rugged masculinity of Liam Fox.
But reaching her conclusion, May warned that external stresses of all sorts are not conducive to a resolution of the current crisis, arguing that a homogeneous society and homogeneous points of view are the best ways towards stability with her as leader. She vowed that in the future all asylum seekers affecting the inner harmony of the Conservative Party will find themselves deported, and certainly not before being illicitly taken and held in deportation centres.
