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

547 replies

newnamethanks · 19/10/2022 10:34

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

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BustyDisplay · 19/10/2022 17:33

vera99 · 19/10/2022 17:18

Our government has become a huge, abominal, destructive farce probably without equal in the developed world. They need cleaning out and a quick general election now, please.

She’s in the FWBO (friends of the Western Buddhist Order which has now changed its name to Triratna following a sex abuse scandal - the founder turned out to be molesting young, teenage followers). Like the US Republicans, the Tories have descended into populist rhetoric of the worst kind, appealing to the nastiest of prejudices in the electorate. We’re not quite at the Marjorie Taylor Greene level of frothing insanity yet, but give it time…

Bye bye Cruella.

Sorebackandibs · 19/10/2022 17:34

Good riddance. A Poundland Priti Patel.

lovescats3 · 19/10/2022 17:37

She's a Tory what do you expect?

AlecTrevelyan006 · 19/10/2022 17:37

vera99 · 19/10/2022 17:33

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

Regrets? I’ve had a few
but then again
Tofu to mention

Sorebackandibs · 19/10/2022 17:38

vera99 · 19/10/2022 17:05

She's an active member of a weird Buddhist cult started by a sex pervert (now dead) whom the organisation still laud as venerable. They also have a weird festival called Buddhafields where a lot of folks walk around naked. I've met some of them - very creepy.

Braverman is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Community (formerly the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order) and attends the London Buddhist Centre monthly. She took her oath of office on the Dhammapada.

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/21/sangharakshita-guru-triratna-buddhist-dark-secrets

www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a45261/holy-hell-buddhafield-documentary-will-allen-interview/

I don't think the Buddhafields festival in UK is affiliated with this cult is it?

Globe22 · 19/10/2022 17:39

Grant Shapps to replace her! What a farce!!

vera99 · 19/10/2022 17:39

BustyDisplay · 19/10/2022 17:33

She’s in the FWBO (friends of the Western Buddhist Order which has now changed its name to Triratna following a sex abuse scandal - the founder turned out to be molesting young, teenage followers). Like the US Republicans, the Tories have descended into populist rhetoric of the worst kind, appealing to the nastiest of prejudices in the electorate. We’re not quite at the Marjorie Taylor Greene level of frothing insanity yet, but give it time…

Bye bye Cruella.

Johnson dog whistled he had been got at by the "Deep State" and chucked the Jimmy Saville slur at Sir Keir. Standard Trumpian playbook. Dom has got his shit stirrer out...

Dominic Cummings
given Gvt docs, incl OFF-SEN, are routinely circulated by top no10 & CABOFF officials by gmail and whatsapp DAILY, the idea that sending a draft WMS via gmail = sacking/resignation offence is laughable.
clearly fired by PM / Hunt

BustyDisplay · 19/10/2022 17:40

Sorebackandibs · 19/10/2022 17:38

I don't think the Buddhafields festival in UK is affiliated with this cult is it?

She’s a member of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, founded by one Sangharakshita, real name Denis Lingwood. (Abused his teenager followers).

hesbeingabitofadick · 19/10/2022 17:40

AlecTrevelyan006 · 19/10/2022 17:37

Regrets? I’ve had a few
but then again
Tofu to mention

I don't know...The Government is in crisis and you two just aren't taking it seriously. 😂

Catlady2021 · 19/10/2022 17:41

Grant Shapps Home Secretary!

RedToothBrush · 19/10/2022 17:41

Geri Scott at geri e l scott
Jeremy Hunt, asked outside the 1922 Committee this evening, whether he was acting as de facto PM, said: “If only life were that wonderful.”

Hunt tells the 1922 Committee, according to someone in the room, “this would be really interesting shit if I wasn’t in the middle of it”.

Andrew Mitchell, speaking outside the ‘22, declines to praise Liz Truss instead focussing on Jeremy Hunt as a “grown up” in the room. He says markets have responded well to Hunt’s appointment and adds: “He’s really got a grip of the issues and he’s going to resolve it.”

hesbeingabitofadick · 19/10/2022 17:41

interesting to see DomCum crawl out from under his rock...🤔

IrisVersicolor · 19/10/2022 17:43

hesbeingabitofadick · 19/10/2022 17:40

I don't know...The Government is in crisis and you two just aren't taking it seriously. 😂

Who says they’re not taking it cereally?

vera99 · 19/10/2022 17:43

Sorebackandibs · 19/10/2022 17:38

I don't think the Buddhafields festival in UK is affiliated with this cult is it?

It is - clothes are optional.

Buddhafield is a collaboration of Buddhists involved with the Triratna Buddhist Community: some of us are members of the Triratna Buddhist Order. We live all over the UK, but we run a programme of camping activities in the South of England, focused around the teaching and practice of Buddhism and Buddhist meditation. We are perhaps best known for organising our own Festival and for the Buddhafield Cafe, which goes to festivals and fairs like Glastonbury, Sunrise and The Green Gathering. As well as this, we run an annual programme of meditation retreat camps and we cultivate on our own land.

www.buddhafield.com/about

thebuddhistcentre.com/search/node/buddhafields

Catlady2021 · 19/10/2022 17:43

I also think she’s seen what a shit show the government is and can’t see any other way out ,other than to resign and let someone else carry the can.
Easier option.
I also reckon Liz wants to go but won’t publicly admit it.

PerkingFaintly · 19/10/2022 17:44

AlecTrevelyan006 · 19/10/2022 17:37

Regrets? I’ve had a few
but then again
Tofu to mention

I'm now giggling hysterically.

When I wake up this will all have been a dream, right?

hesbeingabitofadick · 19/10/2022 17:44

@PerkingFaintly That was Bobby Ewing, not Sue-Ellen. Grin

CPL593H · 19/10/2022 17:45

vera99 · 19/10/2022 17:33

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

😂Can someone blast "Should I stay or should I go?" at LT every time she opens her mouth?

vera99 · 19/10/2022 17:45

hesbeingabitofadick · 19/10/2022 17:40

I don't know...The Government is in crisis and you two just aren't taking it seriously. 😂

very good.... and what a slur for anybody to make - barking mad and just plain wrong on so many levels. Literally, anything can happen now - why would this tragic farce calm the bond markets quite the opposite?

Sorebackandibs · 19/10/2022 17:46

vera99 · 19/10/2022 17:43

It is - clothes are optional.

Buddhafield is a collaboration of Buddhists involved with the Triratna Buddhist Community: some of us are members of the Triratna Buddhist Order. We live all over the UK, but we run a programme of camping activities in the South of England, focused around the teaching and practice of Buddhism and Buddhist meditation. We are perhaps best known for organising our own Festival and for the Buddhafield Cafe, which goes to festivals and fairs like Glastonbury, Sunrise and The Green Gathering. As well as this, we run an annual programme of meditation retreat camps and we cultivate on our own land.

www.buddhafield.com/about

thebuddhistcentre.com/search/node/buddhafields

No way! Ex dp went to this and said it changed his life 🤣🤣

ddl1 · 19/10/2022 17:46

Everyone: No Prime Minister could appoint a worse Home Secretary than Priti Patel.

Liz Truss: Hold my beer,

daisychain01 · 19/10/2022 17:46

IrisVersicolor · 19/10/2022 17:23

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

She also did this weird nervous giggle when she was asked whether she would be leading the Conservatives to the next General Election.

And when she finally showed up in the HoC yesterday after doing her disappearing action, she was wearing an inappropriate smirk as if to convince herself and others that she's the boss, even though she is waaay out of her depth.

vera99 · 19/10/2022 17:47

Nish Kumar
@MrNishKumar
Suella really put the "tofu" into the phrase "that's how to fuck everything up"

vera99 · 19/10/2022 17:48

Sorebackandibs · 19/10/2022 17:46

No way! Ex dp went to this and said it changed his life 🤣🤣

hmm, "ex" seems to be important in that sentence. 😁

RestingMurderousFace · 19/10/2022 17:54

LizzieSiddal · 19/10/2022 11:08

Yvette Cooper’s response was magnificent. I want her as our next Home Secretary. Well I’d rather like her as PM but that won’t happen.

Hear, hear!