Can anyone explain to me, please, why people like Suella Braverman

[MrsSkylerWhite]

make speeches lauding the UK for the opportunities it gave their parents and themselves then try to snatch them away from others after they have benefitted from those opportunities?
Makes no sense to me, at all 🤷‍♀️
Of course, the obvious answer is that their parents arrived into the UK via legal routes.
Many of those legal routes no longer exist (very deliberately) and this Government (if it can be called such) seems to be doing it’s level best to override the asylum system (as Conservative governments have been for some years).
I welcome immigration. Our nation is what it is thanks to it. Has been for millennia.

Donald Trump the well known xenophobic racist misogynist ?

The very same! Didn’t you hear, he thinks Rishi is smart. He doesn’t mind brown people at all if they support his agenda. Expect there’ll be a dinner invite winging it’s way.

@DashboardConfessional

(It's gross. Imagine pandering to voters who, if you had been born 30 years later, would take one look at you and your family in a boat on the channel and say the RNLI should let you drown*

Exactly this, I just can't fathom her reasoning at all!

It’s pull the ladder up behind you syndrome.

Perfected by one: M. Thatcher - permed misogyny

I couldn't have put it better!

There is no point in trying to convince someone of what we are in danger of losing when they do not value it and have no understanding of history. Britain, particularly England, is a good place to live exactly because of the struggles the English people have endured over the last 1000 years. Many people in this country disdain this history. Some immigrants value it; most know nothing of it. Unless we can come together as a nation, recognise our heritage and strive to keep it alive we risk falling into the abyss where we will have no common values. And a community without common values isn’t a community at all; it is simply a collection of disparate groups.

At least she has admitted she's running for leader now.

Oh dear God.

I'm going to get a lot of shit for this, but I hate this kind of personal, vindictive posting about politicians. And I do think some of the attacks on Braverman (and Priti Patel) have a nasty undercurrent of racism and misogyny.

Let the personal attacks begin!

But her family weren't refugees why would they have been crossing the channel in a boat? It feels like there is some racial undertones to all of this. My family bought a house in Ireland and moved there from the UK, would people assume that I should have some kind of natural affinity with people crossing the channel to seek asylum?

Suella Braverman doesn't give a shit about the people of the UK, it's hardly surprising she doesn't give a shit about Asylum Seekers.

She's a lazy, thicko who would be better doing some work instead of embroiling the country in expensive, unwinnable legal cases and embarrassing us abroad.

I dunno, for a godawful abomination of a language, quite a lot of amazing literature has been written in it.

Well, that's certainly not at all misogynist.

I dunno, for a godawful abomination of a language, quite a lot of amazing literature has been written in it.

But the lack of irony is a great drawback, surely ?

Another childish post, she didn't get where she is by being a thicko Jesus Christ !

In comparison to the pp who I’m sure has scaled the heady heights of whatever they do

You don't need intelligence to succeed in today's Tory Party @lollipoprainbow.

No disagreement here. The post below a good example

So the question is, will Sunak be ousted before or after the next GE?

But her family weren't refugees why would they have been crossing the channel in a boat? It feels like there is some racial undertones to all of this. My family bought a house in Ireland and moved there from the UK, would people assume that I should have some kind of natural affinity with people crossing the channel to seek asylum?

That's exactly it though, yes there is some racial undertones from some- they won't look further from the colour of your skin, you wouldn't get a chance.

I'd happily say the same about Boris Johnson.

@GrannyRose15 ·

Keep struggling. You might understand one day. But then of course it will be too late
Too late? What does that even mean?.Why? What is going to happen?

She needs to be in place as a contender, with an established base before whenever the election is. Whoever is leader when they lose is toast. Those up us who can remember Ted "Edward" Heath will know how it goes.

She was definitely channeling her inner Enoch Powell in that speech. Just horrible