[davidjay]

This might be one Braverman comes to regret. Ayo Ghorkali and so on.

Where's Joanna Lumley when you need her?

It makes no odds; they're the wrong kind of veterans.. We're into machine guns in Times Square territory now, provided the machine gunners were white.

[Spoonman]

No words...

Nepalese security guards who protected British embassy staff in Afghanistan, and who were airlifted to safety in the UK in August 2021, are now in detention and facing deportation.

Thirteen security guards – 11 Nepalese and two Indian – were brought to the UK as Kabul fell to the Taliban. Some were granted indefinite leave to remain while others have been awaiting decisions.

One of the guards, Bam Bahadur Gurung, a 37-year-old Nepalese national, worked in Afghanistan for more than a decade, first as a security guard and later as a supervising guard at the British and Canadian embassies in Kabul.

He received confirmation on 17 February 2022 that his application for permanent immigration status in the UK had progressed and biometrics were being arranged so his application could be progressed as quickly as possible. However, in June 2022 he received an email from the government’s Afghan Resettlement Team saying that his evacuation had been “a gesture of goodwill” and that he was not deemed eligible to stay in the UK as part of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme.

On 27 March 2023 Gurung was among the group rounded up by the Home Office, then arrested and detained.

“I was getting ready for work when I was arrested. I am in a state of shock and am very sad about what the UK has done to me,” he said, speaking from Brook House immigration removal centre near Gatwick airport. “I helped to protect British embassy staff in Kabul for many years. None of us have criminal records. My dream is to remain in the UK and serve in the British army.”

He said that some of the group had been told by Home Office officials they would be forcibly removed from the UK on 11 April....

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... eportation

What did I say about doing this shit in our name?

...I am in a state of shock and am very sad about what the UK has done to me...

That's right. What we've done to him.

Braverman and her cronies have put themselves beyond human consideration. They need exterminating. Right now.

The next time UK troops are being deployed for "war" or some sort of active service overseas, you can be sure of one thing - when the same UK armed forces are looking to recruit locals in the area to help them, they'll either know that if they work for the UK forces, that when their work is finished and that they're at a point that their lives & the lives of their families are in danger,the UK government will only be too willing to drop them like a sack of fresh shit once their usefulness to them is finished - or those opposed to the UK's armed presence will be more than willing to inform them. That's some projection of soft power on the world stage, right there.

[Yug]

It's only the depth that varies

A civil rights group has threatened legal action against the home secretary for refusing to implement all of the recommendations of the independent Windrush inquiry.

The Black Equity Organisation (BEO) is seeking a judicial review following Suella Braverman's announcement in January to disregard three of the 30 reforms the government agreed to implement.

The scrapped recommendations were to establish a migrant's commissioner, run reconciliation events and increase the powers of the independent chief inspector of borders and immigration (ICIBI).

In legal papers sent to Ms Braverman, the charity called the decision "unlawful" and a "chilling attempt" to limit scrutiny of the Home Office...

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/home-sec ... s-12850923

Wasn't Secretary of State for Home Affairs one of the 'great' positions within the British government once? It seems to have degenerated into a hidey-hole for criminal clowns just lately.

[Andy McDandy]

I remember David Waddington describing it as the most challenging of the GOOS, as it was the least glamorous, and with the most impact on people's lives. "Sorting out problems" was how he summed it up.

That was well before Justice was calved off into its own ministry (my thoughts on which are that the MoJ comes from the same place as PCCs - someone's been watching too many films), so that took the law and prisons off its books. Which leaves police, public order, security and immigration. All of which elicit a reaction in certain people of "make life uncomfortable for brown people".

No politician would be seen dead criticising the security services, because they, along with special forces and armed police, have that James Bond/SAS aura of heroism around them. To a lesser degree the police - unless imposing budget cuts on provincial plod. As seen with the reaction to the Casey report, Westminster politicians of all stripes are reluctant to condemn the Met. Mainly because you do not fuck with those who guard you while you sleep.

Which leaves cracking down on That Lot. Protesters, immigrants, enemies within, all scum and all needing a good kicking.

[Yug]

Every time she opens her stupid big gob...

Pakistan’s foreign office has criticised British Home Secretary Suella Braverman for “discriminatory and xenophobic” comments after she said that British Pakistani men “hold cultural values at odds with British values”.

In an interview with Sky News on Monday, Braverman also alleged British Pakistani men worked in child abuse rings or networks that targeted “vulnerable white English girls”.

Pakistan’s foreign office spokesperson Mehnaz Baloch on Wednesday condemned Braverman’s remarks which, he said, painted a “highly misleading picture signalling the intent to target and treat British Pakistanis differently”...

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023 ... y-pakistan

Is this Mk II Dorries really the best Sunak can come up with for the job of Home Secretary? It's getting embarrassing now.

[Yug]

Braverman's Home Office.

Banking checks on accounts opened by people suspected to be living in the UK illegally have been restarted by the Home Office, as officials relaunch a controversial hostile environment policy that was suspended following the Windrush scandal.

The current accounts will be closed in a new data-sharing agreement with the financial sector. The initiative is part of a package of measures designed to deter illegal migration and illegal working, by making it harder for people without confirmed immigration status to be paid...

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... nts-closed

Why is she, and her boss in Number 10, so desperate to see the Conservatives lose the next election. Even the mindless tory-voting simpletons of Torytown aren't comfortable with shit like this. Far from listening to The People, she's shitting all over British Values by playing up to the minority of cunts who are saying what she wants to hear. And this minority is nowhere near big enough to get the Tories over the line. It just remains to be seen how much damage these human vermin can get away with inflicting before they're booted out.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Reset.

She isn't Conservative, she is BNP pretending to be Conservative, like the six-bob knob, Patel and even at times Sunak.

The Conservative party is where the Labour party would have been if we hadn't seen the writing on the wall after 2019. Infiltrated, perverted and doomed. They are appealing to a lesser and lesser percentage of the electorate but their lack of political intelligence blinds them to the fact.

[Andy McDandy]

Potentially because they only meet with and consult with the faithful, and this is after Johnson's purge. SpAd gatekeepers, constituency association dinners, cossetted think tank and hedge fund rich kids.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

[Bones McCoy]

Reset.

She isn't Conservative, she is BNP pretending to be Conservative, like the six-bob knob, Patel and even at times Sunak.

The Conservative party is where the Labour party would have been if we hadn't seen the writing on the wall after 2019. Infiltrated, perverted and doomed. They are appealing to a lesser and lesser percentage of the electorate but their lack of political intelligence blinds them to the fact.

Maybe they're relying on heir client press to keep the public onside.

If the headlines describe her as a patriot, how many will plough through to paragraph 19?

[davidjay]

She's increasingly reminding me of the tame Muslim from Glasgow that Tommy Robinson used during his EDL days.

[Crabcakes]

I suppose taking the Occam’s razor approach, as she is really fucking stupid and also an absolutely abhorrent person, she genuinely believes that most people really do think like she does and that the ‘silent majority’ is both real and a genuine majority of all people, and that people only say they have different ‘woke’ views so they don’t look bad in public.

Or, as it turns out in anonymous polls. Or elections.

[Oboogie]

It's red meat for the racists and xenophobes. It doesn't need to appeal to the majority, it needs to appeal to enough people in the 80 odd swing seats which will determine the outcome of the next election. Braverman is pumping out the lines which helped win the last election and the Brexit referendum. I'm not convinced it will work this time, but I'm not sure what else she's got.

[davidjay]

It's red meat for the racists and xenophobes. It doesn't need to appeal to the majority, it needs to appeal to enough people in the 80 odd swing seats which will determine the outcome of the next election. Braverman is pumping out the lines which helped win the last election and the Brexit referendum. I'm not convinced it will work this time, but I'm not sure what else she's got.

She, and the rest of them, have got nothing else worthwhile. The economy's knackered, Brexit is a disaster, they're a nonentity abroad. Their only hope is culture wars and Labour supports THEM!!! Them of course, being a movable target. This week it was peedos, last week it was men in little boats, next week it will be trans, or benefit scroungers, or people who put the bins out on the wrong day. It's all they have.

[Oboogie]

It's red meat for the racists and xenophobes. It doesn't need to appeal to the majority, it needs to appeal to enough people in the 80 odd swing seats which will determine the outcome of the next election. Braverman is pumping out the lines which helped win the last election and the Brexit referendum. I'm not convinced it will work this time, but I'm not sure what else she's got.

She, and the rest of them, have got nothing else worthwhile. The economy's knackered, Brexit is a disaster, they're a nonentity abroad. Their only hope is culture wars and Labour supports THEM!!! Them of course, being a movable target. This week it was peedos, last week it was men in little boats, next week it will be trans, or benefit scroungers, or people who put the bins out on the wrong day. It's all they have.

Of course they've got nothing else, they know they're heading for defeat and they're running scared.

[Andy McDandy]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/row-deepens-o ... 06566.html

Appears that she didn't contact Essex police over the pub raid, and she has form for saying things that aren't backed up by the facts.

Also appears that police are sick of her messaging: alternately "we will come down hard on purveyors of hate crime, we are the most wonderful and tolerant nation", and "no, not like that" if and when the police do take action.

[Youngian]

Didn’t hear this dog whistle to Mail readers but some black callers to LBC this morning did

[Andy McDandy]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/uk-coastguard ... 43598.html

Before her time in the Home Office, but very on brand.

Basically, coastguard boats ignored vessels carrying migrants that got into trouble and, in some cases, sank. In a case quoted, both British and French authorities passed the buck to each other while human beings drowned. Statements from the coastguard and Home Office are thoughts and prayers bullshit, while FOI requests for more detailed information have been blocked under the "vexatious requests" rule. Fucking disgusting.

[Youngian]

Wonder if the Tories have any mariners in their ranks since Ted Heath went yachting. Think Penny Mourdant just saw a uniform in Mr Benn’s favourite shop.

[Bones McCoy]

Wonder if the Tories have any mariners in their ranks since Ted Heath went yachting. Think think Penny Mourdant just saw a uniform in Mr Benn’s favourite shop.

These days they're more likely to be investing in convenience flagged shipping lines.