Following Kemi Badenoch’s speech, journalists are hysterically insisting that she is definitely English, and condemning anyone who disagrees as an evil racist. Times Radio just tried to force Richard Tice to say it several times (he dodged the question).
Of course, Kemi called herself Nigerian in 2016, and as recently as 2024 went further, saying she was Yoruba and speaking of her ‘ethnic enemies’ in the north (of Nigeria).
But today you are vile if you agree with her. This is part of what woke is—a constantly shifting set of speech codes to which you must always adapt in order to signal your status and total adherence to the Ideology.
And of course the Tories presided over the total wokification of Britain, so we shouldn’t be surprised that they are happy to push Kemi’s new narrative at their conference.
Whether it’s important that Kemi is Nigerian is a separate question. But we can’t even get to that, because it’s not about truth, it’s about pledging allegiance to the Ideology by lying about whatever they want, whenever they want.