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The Owen Jones Podcast

Suella Braverman: A National Disgrace

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Suella Braverman has already been forced to resign once for her behaviour in office, and now she's embroiled in allegations that - after she was caught speeding - she tried to get civil servants to arrange a one on one speeding awareness course to avoid embarrassment. But the real scandal of Braverman goes so much deeper.

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0:00.0

Now this is a government stuffed full of the gruesome and the ghoulish.

0:04.1

People whose political career has been founded essentially on human misery.

0:09.1

Now I don't think that's an exaggeration. Throughout the 13-year life,

0:12.6

it's been a long 30 years of this government, it's been based on whipping up bigotry

0:16.4

and targeting countless vulnerable groups, benefit claimants, disabled people, migrants,

0:22.9

refugees, Muslims, trans people, we really could go on. And no politician,

0:29.6

epitomises building their political careers solely from making the life of people in,

0:35.8

let's be honest, very, very difficult circumstances, even more difficult,

0:39.6

and making citizens fear and hate them more. No one is more guilty of this than Suella Bravenman.

0:47.3

Let's just talk about Bravenman's latest fiasco. Last summer, the current home secretary,

0:53.0

which is ridiculous, Suella Bravenman, who's then Attorney General,

0:57.2

that is chief legal adviser to the government, was court speeding.

1:00.8

Now she's given an option. Either she paid the fine with points on a license

1:05.0

or do a speed awareness course. Now what did this minister allegedly do?

1:11.9

She allegedly asked her civil servants to help arrange a course without any other participants,

1:17.2

just one on one, because she knew they'd go, hang on a minute, isn't that the Attorney General,

1:22.8

who's here with us because she's been court speeding, and probably get a fair whack from some

1:27.9

tabloid over there from leaking said information. Now the allegations are that the civil servants

1:33.7

refuse to do so. Why do you ask? Because it's grossly improper. It's a personal issue.

1:39.2

What the hell does she think she's doing, asking civil servants to arrange a one-on-one

1:44.5

speeding awareness course to avoid personal embarrassment? So she ended up paying the fine.

1:49.0

Now let's just listen to what Bravenman says. Last summer I was speeding, I regret that.

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