Former Deputy PM Condemns ‘Dictatorial’ Braverman Rwanda Plan

THE GUARDIAN: Damian Green says call for legislation to override legal obstacles is ‘most unconservative proposal I’ve ever heard’

Damian Green invoked Xi Jinping and Putin in his criticism of Braverman’s idea. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA Media
A former deputy prime minister and Conservative MP has attacked Suella Braverman’s latest plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as “unconservative” and “dictatorial”, as the former home secretary continues to divide her party with her outspoken interventions.

Damian Green, who also served as an immigration minister, said on Friday that Braverman’s proposal to pass a law to get around the legal obstacles to the Rwanda plan identified earlier this week by the supreme court would be “the most unconservative proposal I’ve ever heard”.

Green was responding to an article by the former home secretary in Friday’s Telegraph, in which she suggested parliament should pass a new emergency law to override several pieces of domestic and international legislation. The article is the former home secretary’s latest intervention as part of what allies say will be a “grid of shit” for the government after her dismissal on Monday.

Green told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “This is the most unconservative proposal I’ve ever heard. You know conservatives believe in a democratic country, run by the rule of law. Dictators like Xi [Jinping] and [Vladimir] Putin would prefer to have the state completely untrammelled by any law.” » | Kiran Stacey, Political correspondent | Friday, November 17, 2023

Suella Braverman is a hard-hearted woman. There's a very good word for her in the English language. Alas, it would be unseemly for me to publish it.

This heartless woman doesn't belong in the Conservative Party. The Party is in danger of being destroyed by her – in danger of being thrown into the dustbin of history! That woman would have surely felt at home in the Third Reich!

The woman needs to be starved of the oxygen of publicity. The Telegraph is giving her far too much oxygen. In publishing so many of her articles, that newspaper is beginning to resemble the popular newspaper in Hitler's Germany, the Völkischer Beobachter, Hitler's mouthpiece! [Click here Britannica and here Wikipedia to learn more.]

If the Conservative Party wants to survive and thrive again, I would suggest that it turn back from extreme right-wing policies and become a one-nation party once more. Brexit has ripped this country into shreds. Just like Humpty Dumpty, it has had a great fall! And just like Humpty Dumpty, it needs to be glued back together again, not torn even further apart by harsh, divisive, ill-thought-out, far-right, populist policies put forward by numpties like Suella Braverman! – © Mark Alexander

Ignorance and Dhimmitude! The Burqah? Muslimah’s Choice, Says Stupid Conservative Minister!
MAIL ON SUNDAY: Banning the burka would infringe a woman's right to 'choose each morning when you wake up what you wear', Cabinet minister Caroline Spelman said today.

The Environment Secretary claimed it was 'empowering' to be able to choose your own outfit, and this must not be taken away.

It came after the immigration minister, Damian Green, resisted demands from within the Tory party to ban the burka - which critics claim is actually a symbol of oppression.

Mr Green said a ban would be 'rather un-British'* and run contrary to the conventions of a 'tolerant and mutually respectful society'.

This is despite a YouGov survey that found that 67 per cent of voters wanted the wearing of full-face veils to be made illegal. Female minister insists women must be able to choose their own clothes as ban on burka is ruled out >>> James Slack, Home Affairs Editor | Sunday, July 18, 2010

*It is also very un-British to wear such a ridiculous garment! – © Mark

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British Dhimmitude! Burka Ban Ruled Out by Immigration Minister
THE TELEGRAPH: Britain will not follow France by introducing a law banning women from wearing the burka, the immigration minister has ruled.

Damian Green said such a move would be “rather un-British” and run contrary to the conventions of a “tolerant and mutually respectful society”.

He said it would be “undesirable” for Parliament to vote on a burka ban in Britain and that there was no prospect of the Coalition proposing it.

His comments will dismay the growing number of supporters of a ban. A YouGov survey last week found that 67 per cent of voters wanted the wearing of full-face veils to be made illegal.

Mr Green used a wide-ranging interview with The Sunday Telegraph, his first since taking up his post at the Home Office in May, to issue a “message around the world that Britain is no longer a soft touch on immigration”.

He said the summer would see a major crackdown on the main streams of illegal immigration — including sham marriages, illegal workers and people trafficking — and confirmed that this autumn the Government would set an overall cap on migrants entering Britain from outside the European Union.

His firm decision to rule out a burka ban will disappoint some Right-of-centre Tory MPs, including Philip Hollobone, who has tabled a private member’s bill that would make it illegal for anyone to cover their face in public.

Mr Hollobone, the MP for Kettering, said this weekend that he would refuse to hold any constituency meetings with women wearing burkas. >>> Patrick Hennessy, Political Editor | Saturday, July 17, 2010

Not a pair of balls between them! – © Mark

UK MP Calls for Immigration Limits
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: Britain should adopt Australian-style limits on immigration in light of the global financial crisis, the UK opposition said on Wednesday.

Opposition immigration spokesman Damian Green said figures showing one in seven pupils in British primary schools does not speak English as a first language illustrated the need to curb immigration.

"These shocking figures illustrate how difficult life is for many teachers because of the government's long-term failure to control immigration," the Conservative Party MP told the Daily Mail.

"They show why we badly need an annual limit on immigration.

"Australia has a limit which it has just reduced because of the recession - Britain should be able to do the same thing. >>> © 2009 AAP | Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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Police State UK: MPs Threaten to Disrupt State Opening of Parliament
THE TELEGRAPH: MPs are threatening to disrupt this week's State Opening of Parliament in protest at the arrest of the shadow minister Damian Green.

The signal for a week of unrest in Westminster came after the Leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, said that she was "very concerned indeed" at the threat to "fundamental principles" posed by the affair.

She called on Michael Martin, the Speaker, to order a formal inquiry into the decision to allow a police search of Mr Green's Parliamentary office. Mr Martin was under pressure from MPs on all sides to issue an apology after personally allowing the police access to the Commons.

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, faced further criticism for refusing to intervene in the row or apologise to Mr Green, the Conservative immigration spokesman. Instead, she used a television interview to defend the police's tactics.

She claimed that it would be "Stalinist" for politicians to intervene in the inquiry – a reference to how Mr Green's arrest had been compared to state control during the Soviet era. Mr Green, who had made a series of embarrassing disclosures after receiving leaked Whitehall documents, was arrested and had his property searched last Thursday in an operation involving 20 police officers. He was bailed on suspicion of conspiring to break the archaic law of "misconduct in public office".

It has emerged that MPs were privately discussing whether to protest during the debate on Wednesday's Queen's Speech if Mr Martin did not act. Senior Conservative figures said they might even organise a walkout from Parliament if the authorities did not apologise.

In The Daily Telegraph on Monday, Denis MacShane, a former Labour minister, describes the affair as "a mammoth breach in the core democratic doctrine of parliamentary privilege." >>> By Robert Winnett and Richard Edwards | November 30, 2008

THE TELEGRAPH: Damian Green Arrest: Video Footage of Police Search Released

Video footage of counter-terrorist police officers searching the Parliamentary office of a senior Conservative minister has been released.


The release of the footage on David Cameron's personal website has escalated the stand-off between the Conservatives and the authorities. Officers are seen being confronted by a senior Tory MP and preparing to search Damian Green's confidential files.

The video shows Andrew Mackay, Senior Parliamentary and Political Adviser to the Conservative leader, entering Mr Green's office and confronting the officers carrying out the search. He is asked to leave. A police camera used to photograph evidence is clearly visible.

Dominic Grieve, the shadow Home Secretary, said: "These pictures document a dark day for democracy. They show Officers from the Metropolitan police searching the office of Damian Green - an MP who was guilty only of doing his job.

"MPs are not above the law. But they must be allowed to bring the Government to account and to put into the public domain information which may be uncomfortable for Ministers." >>> By Robert Winnett | December 2, 2008

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Police State UK: Outcry as Anti-terror Police Arrest Top Tory MP over 'Immigration Leaks to Media'
MAIL Online: David Cameron today led a furious outcry at the arrest and detention for nine hours of the Conservative Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green.

The Tory leader called the police operation 'extraordinary and frankly rather worrying', while former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis compared it with the arrest of opposition in Zimbabwe.

Mr Green had his home, his Commons and constituency offices searched over claims that he leaked confidential Government documents.

The arrest, in an operation described by Mr Green's colleagues as 'Stalinesque', plunged the Tories into an unprecedented row with the police and the Government.

Furious party officials said the move was of such a sensitive nature that Downing Street and the Home Office must have been notified.

Extraordinarily, it emerged that Mr Cameron, Boris Johnson and Commons Speaker Michael Martin were all informed about the raids. Yet No 10 insisted the Prime minister and Home Secretary had no advance knowledge.

But one senior backbencher said the arrest 'smacks of a police state'. >>> By James Chapman and Ian Drury | November 28, 2008

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