Farage must undo Kemi’s police diversity quotas
The next steps for Reform
Kemi Badenoch made an incalculable error yesterday morning when she decided to weigh in on ‘two-tier’ and Farage’s use of the phrase ‘White lives matter’ (transcript here). Badenoch said that it s time to ‘bring back equality under the law’ and that we should not be ‘splitting people into different groups’, that race should not be a factor when it comes to hiring people.
Her error here is not just that she has chosen to rhetorically align herself against a politician who is criticising anti-white discrimination – a phenomenon for which there is masses of incontrovertible evidence (grooming gangs, diversity quotas, the recent murder). It is that Kemi herself is part responsible for two-tier justice, in fact, in both the police and the courts she is a principal architects of anti-white discrimination. The following excerpt is from her 2023 ‘Inclusive Britain’ report which was published under her name in 2023 when she was minister for women and equalities:
The progress we have made in criminal justice is strong. The stop and search disparity between the black and white ethnic groups has decreased substantially from 8.8 times higher in the year ending March 2020 to 4.9 times higher in the year to March 2022. But stop and search remains a vital tool to tackle the most serious crimes, which can disproportionately impact ethnic minorities. I am also pleased to report that as of December 2022, we now have the highest proportion of ethnic minority police officers since records began and following our campaign launched in 2022 to broaden the diversity of the magistracy, more than 1 in 5 of those who applied to be magistrates were from an ethnic minority background.
When Badenoch was attacking Farage yesterday she said:
“That case (the murder of Nowak) shows that something has gone very horribly wrong with policing and I think I know why. I think that in 2020, 2021 there was a response to the George Floyd murders, that is over corrected and caused a lot of problems”
Badenoch was still Minister for Women and Equalities when the Tories lost power during the 2024 election. Her government implemented policies which directly endangered teenagers like Henry Nowak by imposing top down ‘monitoring’ on ethnic disparities in stop and search (which is the only way you could plausibly manage to halve the gap between black and white ethnic groups in just two years).
Could Nowak have survived if the vermin who murdered him had been stopped and searched by the police the week before? Knife crime in London increased by over 50% between 2021 and 2024, a period which covers the entire time that Kemi was in charge of Women and Equalities. Her attack on Stop and Search was a continuation of policies which began with Nick Timothy during the Theresa May government, who Kemi Badenoch has chosen to serve as her shadow justice secretary. Neither Neptune’s oceans nor the perfumes of Arabia will be able to wash off the blood that soaks their hands.
Badenoch doubled down on Timothy’s legacy by introducing more diversity quotas in the judiciary and in the police. She wanted to bring in ‘scrutiny at a local level’ over stop and search which would have further distributed power away from the democratically accountable police and towards bogus community stakeholders who would have inevitably steered away from punishing criminals. She empowered the very people who want Britain to be divided and ‘multicultural’ instead of assimilated into a national polity. If she had any sense at all she would have stood well back from this issue.
To take advantage of this Reform must do something that is not simply a hardening of rhetoric. Late last night Reform released a policy document outlining an ‘Equal Treatment Act’ which will ban the Kirpan and legal changes to prohibit anti-white discrimination in the public sector.1 Much of it is praiseworthy, although there is not nearly enough emphasis on Kemi’s role in two-tier justice.
The document could also be improved by having more specific detail about how DEI will be expunged throughout the system – as anti-White discrimination in the public sector is now so widespread that it is culturally ingrained, and so changing the rules from above will not solve the problem. Discriminatory hiring can happen because one member of the Team says they are ‘uncomfortable’ at the thought of hiring a White man for a job if a black candidate has interviewed. The experience of Trump II also shows that institutions will put up a fight to keep their DEI, particularly if they believe (as many of these organisations will vis Reform) that your government is only a temporary problem which will be resolved once the Establishment party is reelected. Here is a free suggestion: political appointments to be sent from Westminster into various regional public sector organisations with a mandate to enforce bans on DEI at a ground level and interview staff members for evidence of unofficial discriminatory practices.
Reform’s paper also identifies Race Action Plans as an issue and sets out a plan to introduce statutory bans on keeping them. These are incredibly unpleasant documents and being forced to renounce them will be psychologically wounding for DEI thugs. They are also used as reference points internally to compel action on increased ‘data collection’ and introducing models to force the promotion of BAME officers, so they are not merely symbolic.
But Reform does not need to wait until they win a general election to take action against Race Action Plans and other DEI practices, because they already control many councils across the country and this gives them limited power to fight a guerrilla war against DEI. Reform PCCs (where the body has not yet been abolished) and Mayors who have some sort of oversight could threaten to sack Chief Constables if they do not tear up their Race Equality Plans within months.
There will be a myriad of other strategies that Reform local councils can use to apply pressure to achieve these ends without necessarily inviting legal challenges. Farage should simply make it clear that he expects all Reform local government to apply this pressure and then reward local councillors who are innovative and effective, copying best practice from where it works.
One glaring structural weakness that the public sector has is that a lot of the delivery of public services relies on ‘co-production’ between various governmental and non-governmental bodies, which means that the Police will try to get the local council alongside the NHS and the schools to sign up to their latest Plan. Much could be achieved by simply threatening to withhold these permissions.
Farage can distinguish himself from Badenoch and from the Restories by using his new strength in local government to turn Reform into an insurgent political party which directly challenges the machine when and where discrimination against White people is being practiced. Nobody makes the intellectual case for anti-White discrimination in 2026 like Kemi did in 2023. It continues on in the form of BAME only internship schemes behind a veil of embarrassed silence. Keir Starmer simply denies that it exists.
Force the DEI thugs out into the open to defend the principle of discriminating against white people in employment. Reward your supporters and let them feel like they are striking a stake into the heart of Woke. Our revenge will be their weeping.
Reform should be wary about being dragged into a debate about religious freedom, as the legality of the Kirpan is irrelevant to the issue of minorities being overrepresented in knife crime and a circuitous debate about religious freedoms, secularism and ‘integration’ moves from actions to values. All Reform voters already know where they stand on anti-White discrimination and they do not need an extended conversation about the abstract societal values which facilitate it.