Tag: Suella Braverman

Deck chairs

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Cabinet shuffle

dusting-off an ex-PM

an empty barrel

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by Scooj

  • I have recently tried to veer away from politics, but today has been too momentous to pass without some comment. At last, we see the back (for now) of the racist agent provocateur Suella Braverman as Home Secretary, to be replaced by the inept and underwhelming James Cleverly. His post of Foreign Secretary has been filled by former PM, architect of austerity and the EU Exit referendum (who was heard to sing ‘tum te tum’ as he returned to the door of No 10 after his resignation speech). David Cameron isn’t even an elected member of parliament and is the subject of an ongoing serious fraud investigation – furthermore Sunak has had to make him a Baron so that he can sit in the House of Lords to take up his office (there were 350 Conservative MPs Sunak could have selected from, but not a single one of them met the bar presumably). You couldn’t make it up. Other ministers and Secretaries of State have been shuffled, one of which will have direct implications for my own work. Surely, surely the Conservative party is utterly washed-up and should give the country what it wants, a general election.

Cruella

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With her Wallace grin

charmless home secretary

plays to gallery.

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by Scooj

  • I have never been a fan of Suella Braverman and her far right inflammatory racist rhetoric, but I caught a clip of a debate in the house yesterday in which she offered an insincere and inappropriately pitched ‘tribute’ to Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton and Hove, who will be standing down at the next election.

Suella Braverman seems to have a rather inflated impression of her own capabilities and wit, and came out with this toxic ‘tongue-in-cheek’ drivel, and was all the while appealing to her fellow Tories, smirking and grinning. Caroline Lucas has class, capability, competence and compassion that Braverman could never, ever achieve.

Braverman appears to be interested only in power, driven by hatred (an element of self-loathing I suspect too)

Lucas appears to be interested in justice (social, economic and environmental) and fairness, driven by compassion.

The two are polar opposites.

Lies, obfuscation and deflection

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Some civil servants

says Attorney General

are responsible

for undermining Brexit

because they are remainers

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by Scooj


Oh Dear, where do I start?

Our Attorney General is thick as two short planks, in that she is driven by doctrine/ideology and not truth, not a very good starting place for a lawyer really. This week, to deflect from more allegations of sleeze in the Tory party, she tried to create a dead cat story, saying:

‘Some civil servants are resisting post-Brexit reforms because they cannot imagine “life outside of the EU”.’

I’m not sure that she understands how the civil service works, but if you do not do your job as directed or do not do it well, then you are moved on or out, unlike the politicians who make the laws that civil servants deliver on. If Brexit is a complete catastrophe, pointing the finger at civil servants is utterly misguided.

Suella Benjamin’s unprovoked attack is also unbelievably cowardly as she knows Civil Servants are bound to remain silent on such matters and are unable to answer back, so the assertion is uncontested and pedalled as truth by the right wing media.

Michael Rosen’s (a British author, poet and political columnist) response to this despicable claim was:

Suella Braverman’s attack on Civil Servants: hands up who can think of any govt anywhere anytime attacking its own bureaucracy and/or professionals in order to appeal ‘over’ them in order to win allegiance from ‘the public’ or the ‘people’…

And he is right. What is happening in our country right now is madness. The current far right Tory government, propped up and facilitated by Rupert Murdoch, and Viscount Rothermere, is leading us down a very dangerous path. I only hope that the British people come to their senses and realise they have been duped and conned on a wave of false patriotism, orchestrated by a self-serving elite who care only about money and power.

History will see this period of Tory rule as one of the darkest periods of modern times, in which we have witnessed our own decline and fall.