ROBERT JENRICK has branded the scenes at Parliament this week a “disgrace”.
Speaking to Patrick Christys on GBNews, the former Immigration Minister said: “I think it's very bad, and this is an urgent situation that finally needs to be grasped by the government and by all of us in Parliament.
“What we saw in Parliament this week was a disgrace. It was a dark day for democracy because you had the Speaker of the House of Commons encouraged, cajoled by the Leader of the Opposition, into changing the procedures in our own parliament, the mother of Parliament, because of threats and extremism. And you had precious few members of parliament having the guts to stand up and say that the root cause of this is Islamist extremism.
“And it's not about being nice to each other. It's not about the quality of discourse on social media. It is about fighting extremism everywhere we find it with all that we've got.”
Outlining how he’d deal with the escalating problem, he continued: “There's some things we could do straight away and would have the most immediate effect. One would be to throw out of the country all of those people who are here on visas, who are extremists.
“I started doing that as immigration minister and I want to see that done much more because a visa is a privilege, it's not a right and if you are engaging in extremist activities or anti-Semitism, you've got no right to be here. Secondly, we should be taking Prevent much more seriously and implementing the reforms in full, as quickly as possible.
“And thirdly, we've got to slow down the pace of legal migration because that is a major issue facing our country and it's leading to the country changing fast, too fast and too difficult to properly integrate people into our country. The other thing of course, which goes without saying is the police should be enforcing a zero tolerance approach wherever they see these problems we've and we know that isn't happening.”
