Now we know what patriotism for our young Mahmoud – can you make fun of this to unite us instead of dividing us? | Gabi Heinspiev
In Tokkinham, on the weekend, the crowd was a sea of red and white.
The colors of England were everywhere – posted on blouses and painted on the faces, fluttering from the flags – and the mood was unambiguous. Because this was, of course, in the FIFA World Cup for women, and not some of the fateful “raising” of the “Colors”: an opportunity to remember that the cross of St. George does not belong to people who run it on hills to intimidate neighbors, and that there is still a kind of English that inspires hope, not fear. Red roses in the Runbi game, such as the football lion and the young Gareth Southgate, England in front of them, embodied a comprehensive form of patriotism: a message that their victories are for all, male, female, black, white, gay or straight.
Therefore, it was comfortable to hear the new interior minister, Shabana Mahmoud, clearly at the end of the week, the Labor Party line should always be on both English and British flags: that, as a symbol of unity, but not as a means of exception and division. “I am my homeland, not nationalist,” it is I told the sun on Sunday. And yes, it was better to have said something like that from the beginning. But it is better better than ever, which appears to be the party’s conference logo in which the Labor Party ultimately allows to communicate with the new immigration policies in the UK as it is.
The broad lines are mysterious, but in Liverpool, there is a glimmer of a new policy of affiliation: an ambition to be what Mahmoud called a “open, tolerant, generous”, who welcomes the new arrivals, while admitting that the immigrants are not the only ones who are sometimes struggled to find their feet in one of the feet. It is clear that some British voters born in the British feel isolated and isolated from the places they used to know. It is in the changing fast cities where these two groups are concentrated-often living a geographical but socially separate life-which popular politicians gain, whether from reform or independent supporters of Gaza, such as the person who commissioned Mahmoud her seat last year. In some way, the Labor Party’s mission is to help two single tribes to feel that they belong to a new British.
“Pride in the place”, it’s new Scheme in millions of pounds To invest in youth clubs, community bars and projects to build human ties, it is a promising start: the goal is not only to increase the light buildings, but also visit relationships, and encourage suspicious neighbors at times to meet. It will not be sufficient to heal open shocks in recent months – it must be an early priority for the Minister of New Communities, Steve Reed, a greater and more ambitious community cohesion program – but it is a deliberate response. However, the other side of it is the most stringent message Mahmoud brought to Liverpool Monday afternoon.
The plan of its predecessor, Evit Cooper, confirmed to make immigrants wait 10 years, not the current fiveTo search for an unlimited vacation to survive, before facing the additional obstacle to test the “good citizen”, which will fail many British born in the original born. Equivalence of permanent residence will not only require a good English language, a clean criminal record and evidence of work and pay taxes, but also preparing to demand any benefits and volunteer work. This virtuous definition and civil thought of the British are not very similar 16 % of us volunteer Once a month 10 million work at work age claims some benefits After that, most British -born British have not been able to pass the current life in the UK’s citizenship testing also on history questions as well.
As often with labor immigration policies, it is framed in punitive phrases that mean foreign workers here only here to suffer. It will undoubtedly be harsh for many, especially refugees who are currently allowed to claim global credit, and workers who get sick or have become more than need.
However, what you do is to struggle to the discussion again on the ground that has become dangerously neglected: integration, or the process of ensuring that people who are not born in Britain can belong here, which ultimately requires effort on both sides.
The biggest challenge that Mahmoud is now facing, which I have never seen in my life is the shocking height in the vehicles. It is the bloody policy and soil of those who claim that Rishi Sonak is not really English, although he is born and brought up here-a charge that does not reach his predecessor born in the United States, who suffers from Brussels, white skin, Boris Johnson-or that he is a Muslim who is mainly incompatible with British “British” life. Both are veiled arguments, not only that integration does not work, but it can be so never a job; Nothing that any immigrant does is enough. From there, it is a dangerous short step to say that the only solution is to expel them. Where faith in integration collapses, approval of immigration quickly follows.
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Therefore, it is very important that this is the place where Mahmoud drew the calligraphy, despite everything that some wish to be drawn sooner. It is important to show that integration can succeed, and that the tribal human need to belong to something can be harnessed to unite us instead of dividing us, and that the excessive national story is informed in the far right about a country in a state of war, and a more honest and lifted national story is informed.
We are not an island of strangers, with the phrase Starmer now regrets using: just an island that needs to be reminded, sometimes, who we are really.