Suella Braverman: A National Disgrace
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🗓️ 26 October 2022
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No one sums up how utterly rotten Rishi Sunak's Conservative government is than Suella Braverman. The only reason he's reappointed her Home Secretary - after she resigned in disgrace last week - is because he needed the support of unhinged right-wingers to stop Boris Johnson getting on the ballot paper. Here's why Braverman sums up how utterly wretched and toxic this government will be.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, I'm not a man of faith, but as I've grown older, I've increasingly asked myself, |
| 0:05.5 | do some people simply lack souls? And as a case in point, I give you Suella Braverman, who in this |
| 0:12.4 | timeline of horrors, which I regret to inform you, we remain tracked in, has been appointed |
| 0:17.4 | or more specifically reappointed, Home Secretary, just a few days after she was |
| 0:22.2 | forced to resign in disgrace. Now, this one politician, Suella Braverman, tells you all you need to |
| 0:28.7 | know about Rishi Sunak, his hard right government, how it intends to govern, and what it intends |
| 0:35.1 | to do. Now, Braverman was reappointed by Sunak, who in his grand |
| 0:39.5 | opening speech as Prime Minister, promised integrity and humility. Now, only a week after she was |
| 0:46.8 | forced to resign for two breaches of the ministerial code. Now, these weren't technicalities. |
| 0:53.4 | I, in fact, I'd like to call my first witness, Tim Shipman, |
| 0:56.4 | the chief political correspondent of the Conservative supporting Sunday Times. As he put it, |
| 1:01.2 | she committed no less than two breaches of the ministerial code, emailing cabinet papers |
| 1:05.2 | from her ministerial account to her private Gmail account, and then to fellow right-wing Tory MP |
| 1:09.9 | John Hayes, and someone |
| 1:10.9 | she thought was his wife, oopsie, daisy, it wasn't. They reported her. That's why she got in trouble. And then she lied about the circumstances of it to the then-prime minister, Liz Tross. Now, the only reason Braverman has been appointed, re-appointed, to a position she's monstrously unsuited for. It's not because of her talents. She doesn't have any. It's not because |
| 1:10.2 | it'll be good for the country. appointed, re-appointed, to a position she's monstrously unseated for. It's not because |
| 1:28.3 | of her talents. She doesn't have any. It's not because it'll be good for the country. Obviously, |
| 1:32.1 | it won't. Is because Rishi Sunak thought to himself, I need to stop Boris Johnson getting on |
| 1:39.1 | a ballot paper because he might beat me amongst Tory members, given who they are. And if |
| 1:43.9 | Sirela Braverman comes out |
| 1:44.8 | and endorses me, which she did, then hopefully that will stop that from happening. Now, I know that, |
| 1:51.6 | Rishi Sinek knows that, Scylla Braverman knows that. So let's just drop the pretenses on this, |
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