Suella Braverman. Is she always like that or is she unwell?

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Dear Lord above, I've seen people removed and banned from pubs for less. She's the Home Secretary. What have we come to?

She is/used to be veggie herself and has eaten tofu loads!

that made me laugh

John Crace AT JohnJCrace
Just wondering when Hunt realises that the problem wasn't just Kwasi and Suella. It's the whole Truss madness

Angela Richardson MP AT AJRichardsonMP
Ditto

And a third, threatening to risk being kicked out the party over fracking....

That vote on fracking either isn't happening OR Truss is resigning tonight.

I’ve always been so disappointed Cooper didn’t run for leader. I like Keir but it’s true he’s a bit Mark Darcy - dependable but dull. Cooper is fragrant.

Suella - well she’s just weird - hypocrisy, sex cult and all.

Fiver says she smiles while she resigns. She’s the world’s most inappropriate smiler.

Need to make dinner. NO FAIR.

I want to watch Tory meltdown

What a thing to resign over... it's not great but it's mixing up your email accounts is hardly crime of the century - she won't be the first or last...

It's almost as if she wanted to manufacture a reason to go. Her letter certainly seems to read that way - she clearly wanted out

Such a shambles. How I wish this were all some sort of simulation/game so that I could actually enjoy watching the party finish tearing itself apart. Unfortunately there are too many real people suffering at the hands of these useless egomaniacs. Surely this is it now and an election has to happen.

Inadvertently used personal email account with the aim of garnering support?

That reads as 'I downloaded some high security documents to leak them to one person, but accidentally hit Send All instead'

Suella Braverman has resigned and been replaced by Grant Shapps

She's a Buddhist'? makes her thinking seem even more awry.

Relax, everyone, it’s all going to be fine: Grant Shapps is the new Home Sec. what could possibly go wrong.

Fun fact Mick Jones, the Clash’s former guitarist, is his cousin.

vera, you are bringing all the top trivia tonight!

This thread has moved on a bit since this morning...

I didn't hear her say anything about strikers, I totally support the strikers

This is absolute bullshit. Liz Truss herself says they support "the Strivers not the Strikers" and referred to Unions as "militant".

Absolute bollocks putting your fingers in your ears and ignoring all of the stuff you know full well is indefensible..

Grant Shapps is a nasty person. Or Michael Green is, or whatever name he has used.

Weird fanatical cult-like Buddhists founded by a sexual abuser of huge proportions - had he not died he would have no doubt gone to prison. The rest of the Buddhist world wants nothing to do with them.

@RedToothBrush , let them eat takeaway.

yes, hardly anyone refers to that bullying scandal anymore.

Well it’s a weird sex cult type of Buddhism. The founder was sexually abusive.

Last year, the Observer published the findings of a report produced by nine members, who call themselves the Interkula, which found that of 423 Triratna followers who responded, 13%, said that either they, or someone they knew, had “experienced sexual misconduct by either Sangharakshita or other Triratna order members, in past and recent times”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/15/new-attorney-general-suella-braverman-in-controversial-buddhist-sect

Alexander Brown at alexofbrown
So far today the home secretary has quit, a Downing Street adviser was suspended for allegedly briefing Javid was "shit", the prime minister u-turned on pensions, the Government essentially called a vote of confidence in itself and two more ministers were put on resignation watch

Nick Robinson at bbcnickrobinson
I wonder what first attracted at liztruss to the idea of appointing at grantshapps - the leading organiser of backbench rebellions & at RishiSunak backer - to be her new Home Secretary?

Thats brutal. And from a bbc journo.

Snap

Suella Braverman: "I fought the Quorn, and the Quorn won".