Citizenship is not just about having a passport.
It is a commitment to a country and the people in it.
A country belongs to its citizens. It is nothing without them.
We cannot treat their needs or concerns as secondary or inconvenient or of a lower priority than anyone else’s.
People should not be made to feel guilty for questioning levels of immigration, legal or illegal, if it is changing the place they know and love.
And government should not be shy of doing whatever it takes to change things.
If people don’t want their taxes to pay for foreign criminals to be in our jails or on our streets, those criminals should be removed.
If they want local people to have priority for housing, for benefits, for school places, we must make that happen.
Our country is not a dormitory for people just here to make money or a hotel for those passing through.
It is our home and no one else will look after it.
https://www.kemibadenoch.org.uk/news/kemi-badenochs-renewal2030-leadership-launch-speech
The foundation of our society is not the individual; it is the family.
Whether it’s the family we’re born into or the family we build.
My family is everything to me. It’s everything to most of us.
Sometimes government just doesn’t get family.
It wants to help with childcare, not because it loves children, but so their mums can get back to work quickly.
We need to celebrate families.
We need to place them at the centre of our policies and our actions.
For the good of society, not for the good of the Treasury.
[Citizenship is not just about having a passport.
It is a commitment to a country and the people in it.
A country belongs to its citizens. It is nothing without them.
We cannot treat their needs or concerns as secondary or inconvenient or of a lower priority than anyone else’s.
People should not be made to feel guilty for questioning levels of immigration, legal or illegal, if it is changing the place they know and love.
And government should not be shy of doing whatever it takes to change things.
If people don’t want their taxes to pay for foreign criminals to be in our jails or on our streets, those criminals should be removed.
If they want local people to have priority for housing, for benefits, for school places, we must make that happen.
Our country is not a dormitory for people just here to make money or a hotel for those passing through.
It is our home and no one else will look after it.
https://www.kemibadenoch.org.uk/news/kemi-badenochs-renewal2030-leadership-launch-speech
The foundation of our society is not the individual; it is the family.
Whether it’s the family we’re born into or the family we build.
My family is everything to me. It’s everything to most of us.
Sometimes government just doesn’t get family.
It wants to help with childcare, not because it loves children, but so their mums can get back to work quickly.
We need to celebrate families.
We need to place them at the centre of our policies and our actions.
For the good of society, not for the good of the Treasury.]