Suella Braverman fired; Cameron replaces her
Suella Braverman was just starting to grab my attention. Then just like that – poof! – she’s gone. But she may return in some other capacity in the future, particularly as a challenger for the role of head of the Conservatives.
Braverman was the UK’s Home Secretary, and the reason I noticed her recently was that I was listening to a YouTube clip of a British radio show and caller after caller mentioned agreeing with an article she’d written criticizing the police for using a double standard in dealing with the recent anti-Israel protests. Braverman had claimed that the police favored the pro-Palestinian wing. The callers were also particularly incensed with the fact that a big demonstration had been held on what is known in Britain as Remembrance Day (Veterans Day here). Braverman obviously is a populist hero to a large group of Brits who are fed up with what’s happening in their country.
And so apparently she had to go, according to the central wing of the party. But did Sunak have to bring Cameron back?:
While her removal was no surprise, it was the appointment of Cameron which caused shock in the party. It was welcomed by more centrist lawmakers but loathed by some on the right who described it as the ultimate “Brexit surrender”.
It seems like a great big F-U to the Brexit crowd. It gives Labour – which seems to already be way ahead in polls – a ready-made opportunity to further criticize:
The Labour Party has consistently held an around 20-point lead in the polls, and [PM] Sunak has failed to reduce that gap.
He tried to relaunch himself as a representative of “change” at his party’s conference last month, when his message was overshadowed by a poorly communicated decision to cancel part of the country’s biggest rail project.
Labour had called Sunak weak since Braverman’s article was published on Wednesday. Now, opposition lawmakers said his decision to appoint Cameron was an act of desperation.
Lawmaker Pat McFadden, Labour’s national campaign coordinator, said: “A few weeks ago Rishi Sunak said David Cameron was part of a failed status quo, now he’s bringing him back as his life raft.”
What a mess. When strong conservative voices are needed, Britain gets this. On that same radio show I was listening to – before Bravermn’s sacking – the callers were also already calling Sunak weak and gutless. I can just imagine what they’re saying now.
NOTE: By the way, the Sunak/Braverman spat is an example of an altercation between two people of East Indian ethnicity, a little bit like our own Haley/Ramaswamy spat. Braverman was born in London and her husband is Jewish; he came to the UK as a teenager from South Africa, also has lived in Israel, and has relatives in the IDF.
I might see Vivek next Sunday. I might ask him what’s going on between him and Nikki; other than the fact that she’s been bribed with $8m by the military-industrial complex.
niki does have the reverse magic eightball, adopt issues your base doesn’t want,
suella pulled support from the last prime minister whose name escapes me, she didn’t last long enough to be memorable,
if a vociferous horde in your streets on remembrance day isn’t reason to act, then when will it be,
I think England is on the steep part of the slide to being over. Once you react with fear to Islam they will seize on that and exploit it. Between fertility and terror they will win.
The Tories are going to get absolutely shellacked in the election next year. Destroyed. In all the years they have been in charge all this woke garbage has gotten worse. They are truly useless. They make the Republicans look strong by comparison.
Their future needs to be people like Braverman and Kemi Badenoch not Sunak and Cameron.
I’m Ready for Rishi to be run clear to the back benches. The Conservative Party is the Capitol Hill / K-Street Republicans on steroids, ever betraying their voters and the common good.
Never underestimate Britain (even though things do seem a bit iffy at the moment—they’re trying to feed the ali-gator but they’ll surely have to wake up at some point…won’t they?)
Yes, the Tories are in trouble—and rightly so—but it seems to me that Labour is in worse trouble.
(I could of course be wrong about that…)
P.S. miguel: Liz Truss.
Related, from the Israeli ambassador to Britain:
“…Demonstrations do not represent UK street;
“Israeli Amb. to the UK says the British govt. understands the magnitude of the Hamas massacre, public does not support Islamic extremists.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380259
(The question, though, is how accurate is it….)
“they’re trying to feed the ali-gator” Good one, Barry M.!
It doesn’t seem that Tories have been able to put up an actually conservative government since the inimitable Margaret Thatcher.
OTOH…there’s this rather sobering assessment…
“London Has Fallen; UPDATED”—
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/11/13/london-has-fallen-n591974
H/T Powerline blog….
Thanks barry, but she didnt long enough to matter
UK voters throwing the Tories out of power and in their place installing an even more leftist Labor will be a case of jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
The UK has its own Uni-Party. Equally aligned with WEF.
I had assumed Braverman was Black (that is, of African ancestry), because her first name didn’t sound Hindu or Muslim, but I see now that her parents came from Kenya and Mauritius, but were part of the Indian population there. Her maiden name was Fernandes, which suggests some Portuguese (Christian) ancestry on her father’s side (her mother was Hindu Tamil).
British politics didn’t go through the big switch that America did, with corporations and the comfortable moving to the Democrats and regular people moving (perhaps) to the Republicans. There were indications that something like that might be going on over there — Tony Blair’s New Labour and then Brexit — but Labour is traditionally too strongly tied to the labor unions and the working class, and the Tories are too thoroughly associated with the toffs and swells for the parties to switch constituencies. There’s not likely to be any conservative populist movement unless an awful lot changes.
Former PM James Cameron is coming back as Foreign Secretary to replace James Cleverley, who is replacing Braverman as Home Secretary. Cleverly is Black (African) on his mother’s side. This latest reshuffling may remind people of Liz Truss’s ouster a year ago for attempting a Reaganite program of tax cuts. The party fathers didn’t like that either.
@ Neo > “criticizing the police for using a double standard in dealing with the recent anti-Israel protests”
I can’t recall now where I read it, but someone asked a British cop why they only arrested the pro-Israel people and he admitted it was because they didn’t fight back.
Remember that the government enforcement arm that is allowing Palestinian protests to be violent and destructive is the same one that arrests women for praying silently outside abortion mills.
excellent post by Myers.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/13/the-perils-of-suella-derangement-syndrome/