Showing posts with label Suella Braverman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suella Braverman. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Suella Braverman Launches Scathing Attack on Rishi Sunak over Rwanda Bill
Thursday, December 07, 2023
Braverman Denies Spreading Poison within Party to Get Rid of PM
THE GUARDIAN: Former home secretary refuses to back Rishi Sunak’s deportation plan and says Tories are in a ‘perilous situation’
Suella Braverman told BBC’s Today programme: ‘sometimes honesty is uncomfortable. If that upsets polite society, I’m sorry about that.’ Photograph: Justin Tallis/PA
Former home secretary Suella Braverman has denied spreading poison within her own party to get rid of Rishi Sunak.
In a combative interview after the resignation of the immigration minister Robert Jenrick on Wednesday, Braverman told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme she was a “plain speaker” and not trying to remove the prime minister.
However, she refused to back Sunak’s Rwanda deportation plan, key to fulfilling one of his five pledges to the British people, insisting “the reality and sorry truth is, it just won’t work”.
She also again warned the prime minister of the “perilous situation” the Conservatives found themselves in given his pledge to stop the boats at the start of the year. » | Aletha Adu, Political correspondent | Thursday, December 7, 2023
Former home secretary Suella Braverman has denied spreading poison within her own party to get rid of Rishi Sunak.
In a combative interview after the resignation of the immigration minister Robert Jenrick on Wednesday, Braverman told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme she was a “plain speaker” and not trying to remove the prime minister.
However, she refused to back Sunak’s Rwanda deportation plan, key to fulfilling one of his five pledges to the British people, insisting “the reality and sorry truth is, it just won’t work”.
She also again warned the prime minister of the “perilous situation” the Conservatives found themselves in given his pledge to stop the boats at the start of the year. » | Aletha Adu, Political correspondent | Thursday, December 7, 2023
Saturday, November 18, 2023
The Conservative Party Is Dead
Friday, November 17, 2023
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
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
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
How Brexit Has Changed British Politics Forever
'You Have Failed': Braverman Accuses Sunak of 'Betrayal' in Stinging Attack | ITV News
Nov 14, 2023 | Suella Braverman has accused Rishi Sunak of "betrayal" in a stinging attack following her sacking as home secretary. The senior right-wing Tory - tipped as a future replacement for Mr Sunak - said the PM had “manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver” on key policies.
In a resignation letter, she said his “distinctive style of government means you are incapable" of achieving his priorities, particularly his pledge to stop small boat crossings. Mrs Braverman urged the PM to “change course urgently”, telling him he has led the Conservatives to “record election defeats” and that his “resets have failed and we are running out of time”.
Number 10 responded to say the prime minister remains focused on stopping the boats and "believes in actions not words".
It comes amid a right-wing rebellion which has been growing in her party following a major reshuffle in which she lost her Cabinet job.
I wonder what Suella is cooking up in her cauldron for the beleaguered Rishi? Her brew is surely not yet fully cooked; it must be simmering right now. Rishi had better brace himself for the bitter concoction that awaits his dégustation. – © Mark Alexander
In a resignation letter, she said his “distinctive style of government means you are incapable" of achieving his priorities, particularly his pledge to stop small boat crossings. Mrs Braverman urged the PM to “change course urgently”, telling him he has led the Conservatives to “record election defeats” and that his “resets have failed and we are running out of time”.
Number 10 responded to say the prime minister remains focused on stopping the boats and "believes in actions not words".
It comes amid a right-wing rebellion which has been growing in her party following a major reshuffle in which she lost her Cabinet job.
I wonder what Suella is cooking up in her cauldron for the beleaguered Rishi? Her brew is surely not yet fully cooked; it must be simmering right now. Rishi had better brace himself for the bitter concoction that awaits his dégustation. – © Mark Alexander
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Braverman Plots Tory Rebellion on Rwanda Plan after Stinging Attack on PM
THE GUARDIAN: Sacked home secretary urges Rishi Sunak to change course in letter and accuses him of breaking ‘pledge to the British people’
Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman at a meeting in April 2023. Photograph: Phil Noble/AP
Suella Braverman has launched an astonishing personal attack on Rishi Sunak, describing the prime minister as weak and dishonest and claiming he reneged on promises to push through a series of controversial policy pledges.
In a brutal three-page letter published a day after she was sacked as home secretary, Braverman warned Sunak that she now intends to spearhead a Tory rebellion over the government’s Rwanda plan.
“Someone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time. You need to change course urgently,” she wrote.
Dozens of Conservative MPs are poised to demand that the government quits the European convention on human rights, a move resisted by senior cabinet ministers, if the UK’s highest court rules against sending asylum seekers to Rwanda on Wednesday. » | Pippa Crerar and Rajeev Syal | Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Suella Braverman accuses Rishi Sunak of betrayal in scathing letter: Suella Braverman has launched a full-scale attack on her old boss Rishi Sunak, a day after he sacked her as home secretary. »
Suella Braverman has launched an astonishing personal attack on Rishi Sunak, describing the prime minister as weak and dishonest and claiming he reneged on promises to push through a series of controversial policy pledges.
In a brutal three-page letter published a day after she was sacked as home secretary, Braverman warned Sunak that she now intends to spearhead a Tory rebellion over the government’s Rwanda plan.
“Someone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time. You need to change course urgently,” she wrote.
Dozens of Conservative MPs are poised to demand that the government quits the European convention on human rights, a move resisted by senior cabinet ministers, if the UK’s highest court rules against sending asylum seekers to Rwanda on Wednesday. » | Pippa Crerar and Rajeev Syal | Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Suella Braverman accuses Rishi Sunak of betrayal in scathing letter: Suella Braverman has launched a full-scale attack on her old boss Rishi Sunak, a day after he sacked her as home secretary. »
Monday, November 13, 2023
Suella Braverman Sacked as Home Secretary after Article Criticising Police
THE GUARDIAN: PM fires cabinet minister after unauthorised Times article claiming police favour leftwing protesters
It is the second time Braverman has been forced out of the same job in little more than a year. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters
Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman as UK home secretary after she was blamed for inflaming tensions over Armistice Day protests and saying police favoured leftwing protesters.
A government source told the Guardian: “Rishi Sunak has asked Suella Braverman to leave government and she has accepted.”
Her dismissal is expected to form part of a wider reshuffle of Sunak’s team, with Thérèse Coffey, the environment secretary, and Steve Barclay, the health secretary, believed to be also likely to go.
While Jeremy Hunt has been tipped to be moved as chancellor, this is seen as less imminent given this month’s autumn statement. » | Peter Walker, Deputy political editor | Monday, November 13, 2023
Whether sacked or not, Suella Braverman could stir up a new Tory civil war: If the PM doesn’t get rid of her, he’ll look weak; if he does, she’ll rail from the backbenches. Is this all part of the home secretary’s grand plan? »
Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman as UK home secretary after she was blamed for inflaming tensions over Armistice Day protests and saying police favoured leftwing protesters.
A government source told the Guardian: “Rishi Sunak has asked Suella Braverman to leave government and she has accepted.”
Her dismissal is expected to form part of a wider reshuffle of Sunak’s team, with Thérèse Coffey, the environment secretary, and Steve Barclay, the health secretary, believed to be also likely to go.
While Jeremy Hunt has been tipped to be moved as chancellor, this is seen as less imminent given this month’s autumn statement. » | Peter Walker, Deputy political editor | Monday, November 13, 2023
Whether sacked or not, Suella Braverman could stir up a new Tory civil war: If the PM doesn’t get rid of her, he’ll look weak; if he does, she’ll rail from the backbenches. Is this all part of the home secretary’s grand plan? »
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Far-right ‘Defends’ the Cenotaph to the Echo of Home Secretary’s Words
THE OBSERVER: Tension built all week about the Gaza march on Armistice Day. In the end, the far-right sparked violence. Then huge peaceful crowds surged through London
Never has the Cenotaph, in its 103 years of standing sentry on Whitehall, been “defended” on Armistice Day by a Port Vale fan supping a can of Stella Artois.
“I’m here in case the jihadists get past the police, who’ll probably just let them through anyway,” said Ben Neale, 22, from Tunstall, Staffordshire. “If they do come, they’ll soon wish they hadn’t.”
As it transpired, it was some of his fellow football supporters, backed aggressively by elements of the far right, who broke violently through police lines, toppling over metal barricades, throwing missiles and temporarily forcing officers back as they surged towards the Cenotaph on the anniversary of the end of the first world war. » | Mark Townsend | Saturday, November 11, 2023
Never has the Cenotaph, in its 103 years of standing sentry on Whitehall, been “defended” on Armistice Day by a Port Vale fan supping a can of Stella Artois.
“I’m here in case the jihadists get past the police, who’ll probably just let them through anyway,” said Ben Neale, 22, from Tunstall, Staffordshire. “If they do come, they’ll soon wish they hadn’t.”
As it transpired, it was some of his fellow football supporters, backed aggressively by elements of the far right, who broke violently through police lines, toppling over metal barricades, throwing missiles and temporarily forcing officers back as they surged towards the Cenotaph on the anniversary of the end of the first world war. » | Mark Townsend | Saturday, November 11, 2023
Michael Lambert: Sadistic Bully Braverman Targets the Weakest
Nov 11, 2023 | As winter approaches, it is said that around 10,000 homeless people in this country are living on the streets and sleeping rough. I ask why it is, when we are so clever and so advanced, why it is that, despite being so we are unable to find a way of solving the problem of the homeless.
Similarly, it seems impossible to understand, looking at the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, how resolution of conflict cannot be solved other than with military force.
It seems so wrong that so many innocent children should have to suffer the consequences of war.
Earlier this week, King Charles, when opening Parliament, seemed to treat all that he was reading with contempt. He made it very clear that he has no time for the Sunak government or their programme.
Finally, both Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman appear to be making important decisions based, not upon the nation's interests but upon their personal political futures. I believe that Braverman's description of homelessness as a lifestyle choice was crass, insensitive and stupid and that in saying so, she may well have ruined any chances of becoming Tory leader.
Similarly, it seems impossible to understand, looking at the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, how resolution of conflict cannot be solved other than with military force.
It seems so wrong that so many innocent children should have to suffer the consequences of war.
Earlier this week, King Charles, when opening Parliament, seemed to treat all that he was reading with contempt. He made it very clear that he has no time for the Sunak government or their programme.
Finally, both Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman appear to be making important decisions based, not upon the nation's interests but upon their personal political futures. I believe that Braverman's description of homelessness as a lifestyle choice was crass, insensitive and stupid and that in saying so, she may well have ruined any chances of becoming Tory leader.
Friday, November 10, 2023
Rishi Sunak Under Pressure to Sack Suella Braverman over Met Criticism
THE GUARDIAN: Opposition parties call for removal of home secretary as inquiries launched into article on pro-Palestine march
Suella Braverman in Downing Street on 17 October. She has been accused of stoking ‘hatred and division’. Photograph: Future Publishing/Getty Images
Rishi Sunak is under growing pressure to sack Suella Braverman after she ignored Downing Street advice and published an explosive article accusing the Metropolitan police of political bias.
Amid claims that the prime minister is too weak to remove the home secretary, ministers joined with senior police officers in accusing Braverman of stoking “hatred and division” before a pro-Palestinian march on Saturday.
Five opposition parties publicly called for her removal from office on Thursday after Downing Street said the Times article – in which Braverman claimed that unnamed police officers were guilty of “double standards” and “played favourites when it comes to demonstrators” – had not been signed off. » | Rajeev Syal, Peter Walker, Daniel Boffey and Vikram Dodd | Thursday, November 9, 2023
Rishi Sunak faces calls to sack Suella Braverman amid claims she has ‘lost it’: Home Secretary accused of embarrassing the Prime Minister by ignoring No 10's request to edit an article accusing the police of bias »
‘Pound shop Enoch Powell’ Suella Braverman has offended ‘just about everyone’: Northern Irish politicians join calls for PM to sack Home Secretary after her comments on Ulster and ‘hate marches’ »
Rishi Sunak is under growing pressure to sack Suella Braverman after she ignored Downing Street advice and published an explosive article accusing the Metropolitan police of political bias.
Amid claims that the prime minister is too weak to remove the home secretary, ministers joined with senior police officers in accusing Braverman of stoking “hatred and division” before a pro-Palestinian march on Saturday.
Five opposition parties publicly called for her removal from office on Thursday after Downing Street said the Times article – in which Braverman claimed that unnamed police officers were guilty of “double standards” and “played favourites when it comes to demonstrators” – had not been signed off. » | Rajeev Syal, Peter Walker, Daniel Boffey and Vikram Dodd | Thursday, November 9, 2023
Rishi Sunak faces calls to sack Suella Braverman amid claims she has ‘lost it’: Home Secretary accused of embarrassing the Prime Minister by ignoring No 10's request to edit an article accusing the police of bias »
‘Pound shop Enoch Powell’ Suella Braverman has offended ‘just about everyone’: Northern Irish politicians join calls for PM to sack Home Secretary after her comments on Ulster and ‘hate marches’ »
Monday, November 06, 2023
Protesters Call on Suella Braverman to Stop ‘Stirring Up Hatred and Fear’
Nov 4, 2023 | Protesters have called on the Home Secretary Suella Braverman to stop “stirring up hatred and fear”.
A group of campaigners gathered outside the Home Office in Westminster on Saturday in opposition to Ms Braverman’s comments on refugees and tents in public spaces.
Weyman Bennett, co-convenor of ‘Stand Up To Racism’ said the Home Secretary should “put some handcuffs on herself and hand herself in to the nearest police station”.
The group of peaceful protesters called for Ms Braverman to “stop the hate” as they heard speeches, sang songs and chanted outside the Home Office in central London.
Speaking at the protest, Mr Bennett told the PA news agency: “We’re here because there’s a racist running the Home Office. Suella Braverman is a bigot and is enabling the far-right to attack our basic democratic rights.
READ the EXPRESS article here.
UN rebukes Suella Braverman over her attack on refugee convention: UNHCR defends 1951 convention after UK home secretary’s speech on ‘uncontrolled and illegal migration’ »
'Inhuman' Suella Braverman condemned by LGBT asylum seekers who say they cannot leave UK: Zain and Monsur have both lived openly in the UK without fear of persecution. Sky News spoke to them on what could potentially happen if they were sent back to their respective countries where LGBT communities »
A group of campaigners gathered outside the Home Office in Westminster on Saturday in opposition to Ms Braverman’s comments on refugees and tents in public spaces.
Weyman Bennett, co-convenor of ‘Stand Up To Racism’ said the Home Secretary should “put some handcuffs on herself and hand herself in to the nearest police station”.
The group of peaceful protesters called for Ms Braverman to “stop the hate” as they heard speeches, sang songs and chanted outside the Home Office in central London.
Speaking at the protest, Mr Bennett told the PA news agency: “We’re here because there’s a racist running the Home Office. Suella Braverman is a bigot and is enabling the far-right to attack our basic democratic rights.
READ the EXPRESS article here.
UN rebukes Suella Braverman over her attack on refugee convention: UNHCR defends 1951 convention after UK home secretary’s speech on ‘uncontrolled and illegal migration’ »
'Inhuman' Suella Braverman condemned by LGBT asylum seekers who say they cannot leave UK: Zain and Monsur have both lived openly in the UK without fear of persecution. Sky News spoke to them on what could potentially happen if they were sent back to their respective countries where LGBT communities »
Charities Criticise Suella Braverman for Claim Homelessness Is ‘Lifestyle Choice’
GUARDIAN INTERNATIONAL: Crisis, St Mungo’s and other groups write to home secretary to say blaming people for being on the streets increases their risk of harm
Union Street, Birmingham. A letter to the home secretary from charities said homelessness is caused by poverty, which is caused by policy decisions. Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian
Homelessness charities have criticised the home secretary after she described sleeping rough as a “lifestyle choice”, sparking a widespread backlash.
Organisations including Crisis, Centrepoint, St Mungo’s and Pathway responded to Suella Braverman’s purported plans to crack down on the pitching of tents in urban areas, which she largely blamed on individuals “from abroad”.
A letter from the charities reads: “Sleeping on the street is not a lifestyle choice. Laying blame with people forced to sleep rough will only push people further away from help into poverty, putting them at risk of exploitation. At the extreme end, we will see an increase in deaths and fatalities, which are totally preventable.
“People sleeping rough frequently experience violence and abuse. The impact on their physical and mental health is significant. The average age of death for people experiencing homelessness is just 45 for men and 43 for women. This is not a life people choose.” » | Tom Ambrose | Sunday, November 5, 2023
Suella Braverman is a heartless, uncaring, unfeeling woman of privilege! She should be thoroughly and utterly ashamed of herself! That woman should be sacked! If Rishi Sunak had gonads, she would be – forthwith! Were I to be in Sunak’s position, she’d be gone!
These poor homeless people are living on the streets because they have fallen on very hard times, in large part, I would imagine, because of harsh, Tory policies of austerity which were introduced by those two ultra-privileged gits, Cameron and Osborne! They are the ones who started the welfare-slashing fest!
Had this prime minister anything about him, were he to have any political nous, he would devise a strategy to get these people off the streets by giving them a little start in life. That would be the compassionate thing to do, the Christian thing to do, the humane thing to do!
This Tory government is a disgrace. It needs to be kicked out of office! A.S.A.P. This is the very same government that is itching to slash taxes for the super-rich!
If God really does exist, it is to be hoped that the fires of Hell are already being stoked in preparation for these cruel, political fraudsters. – © Mark Alexander
Homelessness charities have criticised the home secretary after she described sleeping rough as a “lifestyle choice”, sparking a widespread backlash.
Organisations including Crisis, Centrepoint, St Mungo’s and Pathway responded to Suella Braverman’s purported plans to crack down on the pitching of tents in urban areas, which she largely blamed on individuals “from abroad”.
A letter from the charities reads: “Sleeping on the street is not a lifestyle choice. Laying blame with people forced to sleep rough will only push people further away from help into poverty, putting them at risk of exploitation. At the extreme end, we will see an increase in deaths and fatalities, which are totally preventable.
“People sleeping rough frequently experience violence and abuse. The impact on their physical and mental health is significant. The average age of death for people experiencing homelessness is just 45 for men and 43 for women. This is not a life people choose.” » | Tom Ambrose | Sunday, November 5, 2023
Suella Braverman is a heartless, uncaring, unfeeling woman of privilege! She should be thoroughly and utterly ashamed of herself! That woman should be sacked! If Rishi Sunak had gonads, she would be – forthwith! Were I to be in Sunak’s position, she’d be gone!
These poor homeless people are living on the streets because they have fallen on very hard times, in large part, I would imagine, because of harsh, Tory policies of austerity which were introduced by those two ultra-privileged gits, Cameron and Osborne! They are the ones who started the welfare-slashing fest!
Had this prime minister anything about him, were he to have any political nous, he would devise a strategy to get these people off the streets by giving them a little start in life. That would be the compassionate thing to do, the Christian thing to do, the humane thing to do!
This Tory government is a disgrace. It needs to be kicked out of office! A.S.A.P. This is the very same government that is itching to slash taxes for the super-rich!
If God really does exist, it is to be hoped that the fires of Hell are already being stoked in preparation for these cruel, political fraudsters. – © Mark Alexander
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Palestine Protests Are "Hate Marches" - Suella Braverman
Suella Braverman calls pro-Palestine demos ‘hate marches’: Home secretary claims protesters want to ‘erase Israel from the map’ by chanting in support of Palestine »
Monday, October 30, 2023
Braverman: Pro-Palestinian Protests Are 'Hate Marches'.
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Michael Lambert: Failing Home Secretary Demonises Migrants
Sep 30, 2023 | Suella Braverman as Home Secretary presides over a Home Office which is in disarray. 1000 Met police officers are under investigation, only 5% of crime is solved and the borders are in chaos.
Immigration is a constant problem which Rishi Sunak has pledged to solve. Given the weakness of Rishi Sunak, she is the most powerful woman in the country. Braverman invokes memories of Germany in the 1930's! In recent years the rights of UK citizens have been much reduced, whereby the UK is now a police state. It is even an offence punishable by imprisonment to hold a sign which may offend the authorities.
Last week Braverman went to Washington to deliver a speech to the right-wing think tank American Enterprise Institute. It was a speech just a few days before the Tory party conference designed to boost her claim to be the successor to Sunak.
The speech and subsequent interviews were racist and dishonest. She presented dogwhistle arguments about the threat of migration and how it is the biggest threat that the world currently faces.
Her Rwanda policy involves swapping asylum seekers in the UK for 'vulnerable' deportees from Rwanda, another terrible deal which has cost the British taxpayer £140 million.
Braverman, by removing and restricting rights and by imposing restrictions, is turning the UK into a fascist state.
Immigration is a constant problem which Rishi Sunak has pledged to solve. Given the weakness of Rishi Sunak, she is the most powerful woman in the country. Braverman invokes memories of Germany in the 1930's! In recent years the rights of UK citizens have been much reduced, whereby the UK is now a police state. It is even an offence punishable by imprisonment to hold a sign which may offend the authorities.
Last week Braverman went to Washington to deliver a speech to the right-wing think tank American Enterprise Institute. It was a speech just a few days before the Tory party conference designed to boost her claim to be the successor to Sunak.
The speech and subsequent interviews were racist and dishonest. She presented dogwhistle arguments about the threat of migration and how it is the biggest threat that the world currently faces.
Her Rwanda policy involves swapping asylum seekers in the UK for 'vulnerable' deportees from Rwanda, another terrible deal which has cost the British taxpayer £140 million.
Braverman, by removing and restricting rights and by imposing restrictions, is turning the UK into a fascist state.
Friday, September 29, 2023
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Refugees: UK Home Secretary Braverman Questions Asylum for 'Simply Being Gay or a Woman' - BBC News
Sep 27, 2023 | Fearing discrimination for being gay or a woman should not be enough to qualify for international refugee protection, the UK home secretary has said.
Addressing a US think tank on Tuesday, Suella Braverman questioned whether the application of the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention is "fit for our modern age". Laws have morphed from helping those fleeing persecution to those fearing bias, she argued.
Labour accused her of having "given up on fixing" the asylum system.
Related video and comments by me here.
AUF DEUTSCH:
London will UN-Flüchtlingskonvention einschränken: Verfolgung müsse wieder gut begründet werden, sagt die britische Innenministerin Suella Braverman. Ihr Vorstoß ist auch eine Reaktion auf Entscheidungen britischer Gerichte. »
Addressing a US think tank on Tuesday, Suella Braverman questioned whether the application of the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention is "fit for our modern age". Laws have morphed from helping those fleeing persecution to those fearing bias, she argued.
Labour accused her of having "given up on fixing" the asylum system.
Related video and comments by me here.
AUF DEUTSCH:
London will UN-Flüchtlingskonvention einschränken: Verfolgung müsse wieder gut begründet werden, sagt die britische Innenministerin Suella Braverman. Ihr Vorstoß ist auch eine Reaktion auf Entscheidungen britischer Gerichte. »
Migration ‘Existential Challenge’ Says Home Secretary Braverman
Related here, including my own comment.
Here follows my new comment on Braverman’s utterances:
What is there about these immigrants like Braverman that make them want to deny to others the very privileges that they themselves have been afforded? Where would she be today had Britain viewed in such a cruel way her family’s application for immigration status to this country?
In many ways, she is right in saying that multiculturalism has been a failure. That, I would not deny. But where she is making a grave mistake is in conflating the two things: granting people who might be persecuted for something, perhaps for being gay, and bringing into the country ‘wholesale’ people of other religious backgrounds, ethnic backgrounds, with totally different outlooks on life — something which successive governments have done with no consideration of its impact on the country’s rich Christian heritage — is something quite, quite different.
The people were not asked if they wanted their own way of life and customs swamped by alien religions, ways of life, or customs. Governments just opened the floodgates to let them all in, because they needed the workforce for business and commerce. Perahps they would have been better off encouraging young women to stay at home and give birth! Hasn't a lack of procreation been our Achilles heel? Doesn't feminism, perhaps, have much to answer for?
Ask yourselves which given name is the most used for new born babies in modern Britain. The answers to these questions might alarm you! Then, ask yourselves what this means for Britain’s future.
But please, let us not allow Suella Braverman try and re-write the 1951 Geneva Convention. It doesn’t need re-writing. What needs to be done is for it to be respected; and, furthermore, for governments to behave responsibly.
One of the greatest failures of multiculturalism has been the attempt to mix other faiths with our own (however nominal it is), and especially trying to mix Islam with it. This is where multiculturalism has failed as an experiment. It hasn’t failed because we have given sanctuary to people in fear of persecution.
By the way, the problems of trying to mix Islam with Christianity are many and varied. Over the lifetime of this blog — it has been up and running for nearly 22 years! — I have pointed out the pitfalls countless times. But seemingly nobody wanted to listen. More especially politicians. Nothing would come in the way of the execution of their grand multicultural experiment!
In very simple terms, the greatest problem of trying to mix Islam with Christianity stems from the FACT that Islam is one organic whole. It does not respect or differentiate between the temporal and the spiritual. That means to say, it respects no separation of mosque and state, no separation of Church and state, no separation of the religious from the political. Whereas Christianity, by contrast does. Not only does it, it is its sine qua non! “…Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.” [KJB: Matthew 22:21]
Only in the past few days, in a trial in France, a Muslim on trial for terrorism, stated this in a French court! He said that Islam is not compatible with democracy! [« L’islam n’est pas compatible avec la démocratie » (Source)]
Suella Braverman needs to rethink her strategy on asylum seekers, especially on asylum seekers in grave danger of persecution, among whom are very many gays. They need this country’s help and protection. – © Mark Alexander
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