Jihad Watch has been covering the now-fired former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman since the beginning of her tenure — from her “controversial” declaration that the UK was being “invaded” via the English Channel to her all-round determination to stop that invasion. But any observer knew that something was amiss, given the contradiction between Braverman’s resolve and the failure of her government to act.
As multitudes upon multitudes of mostly Muslim migrants from the Middle East and Africa invaded (and continue to invade) Britain via the English Channel, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak crowed about stopping this influx all along, but his actions were suspect. From the hundreds of millions of taxpayer pounds paid to France for its putative help to curb the entry of illegals, to the repeatedly failed Rwanda Plan, Sunak persistently insulted the intelligence of British citizens as he ignored the threat to national security that the illegals constituted.
Sunak and his predecessors Theresa May and Boris Johnson are nothing more than globalists parading in Conservative suits. They never had any intention of doing anything about the migrant invasion. Now it emerges that Braverman, with her genuinely concern about the illegals, was just spitting in the wind.
Braverman contends that Sunak agreed to a secret pact to implement key “right-wing” policies in order to secure her backing during the Tory leadership contest in 2022 – but then betrayed the country by failing to deliver.
The UK is finished. There’s no better government for its citizens to support that stands a chance of victory against the Conservatives’ even worse counterpart, the Labour Party.
“Braverman plots Tory rebellion on Rwanda plan after stinging attack on PM,” by Pippa Crerar and Rajeev Syal, Guardian, November 14, 2023:
Suella Braverman has launched an astonishing personal attack on Rishi Sunak, describing the prime minister as weak and dishonest and claiming he reneged on promises to push through a series of controversial policy pledges.
In a brutal three-page letter published a day after she was sacked as home secretary, Braverman warned Sunak that she now intends to spearhead a Tory rebellion over the government’s Rwanda plan.
“Someone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time. You need to change course urgently,” she wrote….
In her letter, Braverman said that Sunak had failed to prepare a credible backup plan and had ignored her suggestion – believed to be emergency legislation to change domestic law so that the government could ignore the ruling and the flights could go ahead.
“I can only surmise that this is because you have no appetite for doing what is necessary, and therefore no real intention of fulfilling your pledge to the British people,” she added….
Jayell1 says
Braverman’s show of thoroughly un-British intemperate bluster is her bid for the keys of 10 Downing Street posing as the ‘The British People’s Prime Minister’ after the doomed Conservative Party heads for oblivion at the next General Election – except she’s a first-generation ethnic minority immigrant and no more representative of the 85% majority authentic British people than the Indian Sunak whom she no doubt plans to unceremoniously demolish. It’s a little doubtful that too many of the British electorate will actually fall for this charlatan’s ruse since her claim to defend Mr. & Mr’s Average’s desire for protection against the tsunami of Third World immigration looks too much like a turkey voting for Christmas, and the current traitor Sunak has already set a precedent for wild promises of this sort being gratuitously broken at the first opportunity. They obviously think the British people are idiots, but they’ll soon learn otherwise.
Hoi Polloi says
I hope they all do, and very soon. All over the world, where people clear out the globalists who intend nothing but harm; it’s my fondest hope and desire.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
She was a failure as Home Secretary: essentially, all talk & no action. Only question: who in Britain is actually capable of leading Britain out of this abyss, regardless of ethnicity?
SJC says
She was not a failure, the truth is the globalist’s who are in total charge of our puppet government will NOT permit the Home Secretary to deport or block the massive hordes of Islamic, and predominately male invaders from gaining a foothold in the already swamped and sinking UK. In addition we have the loony left and their legal people doing all they can to stop any removal of these unwelcome and incompatible welfare benefit freeloaders.
The left want MORE immigration.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
If the Guardian has taken Sunak’s side against Braverman, one knows who has it right
I don’t see the Tories winning the next election. If Sir Kier Starmer can purge Labour of all its jihadist elements, including Sadiq Khan, he might repeat the electoral successes of Tony Blair in the 90s
Hoi Polloi says
My reaction to seeing Guardian, as well.
tim gallagher says
Things seem pretty bad in the Uk under the Conservatives, who do seem to be a bunch of soft, pathetic “wets” in Thatcher’s old terminology, but I keep thinking that Labour are almost certain to win the next election, from what i hear, and then the UK has probably had it. Down the drain it will surely go at a great rate. It does seem like a hopeless situation.
John Smith says
It’s like being on a sinking ship here in the UK, and time after time JW constantly keeps rubbing it in “how Britain is finished. I don’t reading such comments but sadly I’m beginning to believe they are true.
We don’t have much choice between our two major parties. If we vote Conservative we are going down. If we vote Labour we are still going down. The only difference, is if we vote labour we will just be going down a bit quicker.
somehistory says
I’m sorry, John. It’s tough to read things about a country one has lived in all of their lives…born and bred….and see daily how things are getting worse by the minute.
Here too, in the U.S….prices through the roof…a small pack of chicken/pork bologna nearly ten dollars. and to read of biden giving billions to ukraine and more billions to iran, and billions more to move illegals around the country and give them every advantage over the legal citizens….
And the mozlums in the government allowed to call for murder and get paid for meddling in the people’s business…
I pray daily for the promises Jesus gave us to be fulfilled, and quickly. Those promises are the only things that keep me even half way sane in this insane and devilish world.
John Smith says
This Biden administration has got a lot to answer for when it comes to the problems that your country is facing. But there is a glimmer of hope for you lot over there. At least you’ll have Trump in the white house next year, that’s unless this corrupt government manages to jail him.
It’s the same over here when it comes to inflation, everything has gone through the roof, and I can only see it getting worse. If this war in Israel escalates, who knows whats going to happen to food prices. I’ve been stocking up with food for sometime now, and I believe you and everyone else should do the same. As you are well aware the Bible does warn us about future catastrophes. There is little we can do about war, but there is a lot we can do now if it comes to famine in our lifetime.
somehistory says
John, I wonder how safe people will be when the food eventually runs out. When there is no more to buy, people will be looking for anyone they can see who may have something stored away.
We have to prepare, but still, I wonder about the hordes who will not have anything put away and go searching for those who had foresight.
They certainly won’t be willing to just go quietly, nor even offer to buy something. They’ll just take it.
The same kind of mentality, the same kind of greedy “take things they want” that I see in traffic…the willingness to put others in danger so they can run a red light, or pass in front of others, will be evident when the food runs out and the store shelves are bare.
that’s where Faith will count the most, I believe.
Hoi Polloi says
JS & SH:
It seems such a short time ago that I first heard of preppers and people mocking them. No one here mocks them now.
James Lincoln says
John,
If the UK does not quickly change its current trajectory, it is finished.
And that would be a tragedy of epic proportions.
Hank says
Rwanda policy rejected by supreme court
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/15/what-does-supreme-court-rejection-mean-rishi-sunak-rwanda-policy
S R says
Ms Braverman should not have been sacked, it’s a punishment for free speech. A simple warning was enough.
SJC says
This is the actual letter Suella Braverman sent to Rishi Sunsk after he sacked her.
I cannot display the Parliamentary Crest at the top of the letter as I am unable to copy it, but here is the entire letter.
Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP
Member of Parliament for Fareham
HOUSE OF COMMONS
The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA
14th November 2023
Dear Prime Minister,
Thank you for your phone call yesterday morning in which you asked me to leave Government. While disappointing, this is for the best.
It has been my privilege to serve as Home Secretary and deliver on what the British people have sent us to Westminster to do. I want to thank all of those civil servants, police, Border Force officers and security professionals with whom I have worked and whose dedication to public safety is exemplary.
I am proud of what we achieved together: delivering on our manifesto pledge to recruit 20,000 new police officers and enacting new laws such as the Publie Order Act 2023 and the National Security Act 2023. I also led a programme of reform: on anti-social behaviour, police dismissals and standards, reasonable lines of enquiry, grooming gangs, knife crime, non-crime hate incidents and rape and serious sexual offences. And I am proud of the strategic changes that I was delivering to Prevent, Contest, serious organised crime and fraud. I am sure that this work will continue with the new ministerial team.
As you know, I accepted your offer to serve as Home Secretary in October 2022 on certain conditions.
Despite you having been rejected by a majority of Party members during the summer leadership contest and thus having no personal mandate to be Prime Minister, I agreed to support you because of the firm assurances you gave me on key policy priorities. These were, among other things:
1. Reduce overall legal migration as set out in the 2019 manifesto through, inter alia, reforming the international students route and increasing salary thresholds on work visas;
Include specific ‘notwithstanding clauses’ into new legislation to stop the boats, i.e. exclude the operation of the European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights Act and other international law that had thus far obstructed progress on this issue;
Deliver the Northern Ireland Protocol and Retained EU Law Bills in their then existing form and timetable:
4. Issue unequivocal statutory guidance to schools that protects biological sex, safeguards single sex spaces, and empowers parents to know what is being taught to their children.
This was a document with clear terms to which you agreed in October 2022 during your second leadership campaign. I trusted you. It is generally agreed that my support was a pivotal factor in winning the leadership contest and thus enabling you to become Prime Minister.
For a year, as Home Secretary I have sent numerous letters to you on the key subjects contained in our agreement, made requests to discuss them with you and your team, and put forward proposals on how we might deliver these goals. I worked up the legal advice, policy detail and action to take on these issues. This was often met with equivocation, disregard and a lack of interest.
You have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies. Either your distinetive style of government means you are incapable of doing so. Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises.
These are not just pet interests of mine. They are what we promised the British people in our 2019 manifesto which led to a landslide victory. They are what people voted for in the 2016 Brexit Referendum.
Our deal was no mere promise over dinner, to be discarded when convenient and denied when challenged.
I was clear from day one that if you did not wish to leave the ECHR, the way to securely and swiftly deliver our Rwanda partnership would be to block off the ECHR, the HRA and any other obligations which inhibit our ability to remove those with no right to be in the UK. Our deal expressly referenced
‘notwithstanding clauses’ to that effect.
Your rejection of this path was not merely a betrayal of our agreement, but a betrayal of your promise to the nation that you would do “whatever it takes” to stop the boats.
At every stage of litigation I cautioned you and your team against assuming we would win. I repeatedly urged you to take legislative measures that would better secure us against the possibility of defeat. You ignored these arguments. You opted instead for wishful thinking as a comfort blanket to avoid having to make hard choices. This irresponsibility has wasted time and left the country in an impossible position.
If we lose in the Supreme Court, an outcome that I have consistently argued we must be prepared for, you will have wasted a year and an Act of Parliament, only to arrive back at square one. Worse than this, your magical thinking – believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion – has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible Plan B’. I wrote to you on multiple occasions setting out what a credible Plan B would entail, and making clear that unless you pursue these proposals, in the event of defeat, there is no hope of flights this side of an election. I received no reply from you.
I can only surmise that this is because you have no appetite for doing what is necessary, and therefore no real intention of fulfilling your pledge to the British people.
If, on the other hand, we win in the Supreme Court, because of the compromises that you insisted on in the Illegal Migration Act, the Government will struggle to deliver our Rwanda partnership in the way that the public expects. The Act is far from secure against legal challenge. People will not be removed as swiftly as I originally proposed. The average claimant will be entitled to months of process, challenge, and appeal. Your insistence that Rule 39 indications are binding in international law – against the views of leading lawyers, as set out in the House of Lords – will leave us vulnerable to being thwarted yet again by the Strasbourg Court.
Another cause for disappointment – and the context for my recent article in The Times – has been your failure to rise to the challenge posed by the increasingly vicious antisemitism and extremism displayed on our streets since Hamas’s terrorist atrocities of 7th October.
I have become hoarse urging you to consider legislation to ban the hate marches and help stem the rising tide of racism, intimidation and terrorist glorification threatening community cohesion. Britain is at a turning point in our history and faces a threat of radicalisation and extremism in a way not seen for 20 years. I regret to say that your response has been uncertain, weak, and lacking in the qualities of leadership that this country needs. Rather than fully acknowledge the severity of this threat, your team disagreed with me for weeks that the law needed changing.
As on so many other issues, you sought to put off tough decisions in order to minimise political risk to yourself. In doing so, you have increased the very real risk these marches present to everyone else.
In October of last year you were given an opportunity to lead our country. It is a privilege to serve and one we should not take for granted. Service requires bravery and thinking of the common good.
It is not about occupying the office as an end in itself.
Someone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time. You need to change course urgently.
I may not have always found the right words, but I have always striven to give voice to the quiet majority that supported us in 2019. I have endeavoured to be honest and true to the people who put us in these privileged positions.
I will, of course, continue to support the Government in pursuit of policies which align with an authentic conservative agenda.
Sincerely,
Giella Bravernar
Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP
Member of Parliament for Fareham
SJC says
Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP
Member of Parliament for Fareham
HOUSE OF COMMONS
The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA
14th November 2023
Dear Prime Minister,
Thank you for your phone call yesterday morning in which you asked me to leave Government. While disappointing, this is for the best.
It has been my privilege to serve as Home Secretary and deliver on what the British people have sent us to Westminster to do. I want to thank all of those civil servants, police, Border Force officers and security professionals with whom I have worked and whose dedication to public safety is exemplary.
I am proud of what we achieved together: delivering on our manifesto pledge to recruit 20,000 new police officers and enacting new laws such as the Publie Order Act 2023 and the National Security Act 2023. I also led a programme of reform: on anti-social behaviour, police dismissals and standards, reasonable lines of enquiry, grooming gangs, knife crime, non-crime hate incidents and rape and serious sexual offences. And I am proud of the strategic changes that I was delivering to Prevent, Contest, serious organised crime and fraud. I am sure that this work will continue with the new ministerial team.
As you know, I accepted your offer to serve as Home Secretary in October 2022 on certain conditions.
Despite you having been rejected by a majority of Party members during the summer leadership contest and thus having no personal mandate to be Prime Minister, I agreed to support you because of the firm assurances you gave me on key policy priorities. These were, among other things:
1. Reduce overall legal migration as set out in the 2019 manifesto through, inter alia, reforming the international students route and increasing salary thresholds on work visas;
Include specific ‘notwithstanding clauses’ into new legislation to stop the boats, i.e. exclude the operation of the European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights Act and other international law that had thus far obstructed progress on this issue;
Deliver the Northern Ireland Protocol and Retained EU Law Bills in their then existing form and timetable:
4. Issue unequivocal statutory guidance to schools that protects biological sex, safeguards single sex spaces, and empowers parents to know what is being taught to their children.
This was a document with clear terms to which you agreed in October 2022 during your second leadership campaign. I trusted you. It is generally agreed that my support was a pivotal factor in winning the leadership contest and thus enabling you to become Prime Minister.
For a year, as Home Secretary I have sent numerous letters to you on the key subjects contained in our agreement, made requests to discuss them with you and your team, and put forward proposals on how we might deliver these goals. I worked up the legal advice, policy detail and action to take on these issues. This was often met with equivocation, disregard and a lack of interest.
You have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies. Either your distinetive style of government means you are incapable of doing so. Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises.
These are not just pet interests of mine. They are what we promised the British people in our 2019 manifesto which led to a landslide victory. They are what people voted for in the 2016 Brexit Referendum.
Our deal was no mere promise over dinner, to be discarded when convenient and denied when challenged.
I was clear from day one that if you did not wish to leave the ECHR, the way to securely and swiftly deliver our Rwanda partnership would be to block off the ECHR, the HRA and any other obligations which inhibit our ability to remove those with no right to be in the UK. Our deal expressly referenced
‘notwithstanding clauses’ to that effect.
Your rejection of this path was not merely a betrayal of our agreement, but a betrayal of your promise to the nation that you would do “whatever it takes” to stop the boats.
At every stage of litigation I cautioned you and your team against assuming we would win. I repeatedly urged you to take legislative measures that would better secure us against the possibility of defeat. You ignored these arguments. You opted instead for wishful thinking as a comfort blanket to avoid having to make hard choices. This irresponsibility has wasted time and left the country in an impossible position.
If we lose in the Supreme Court, an outcome that I have consistently argued we must be prepared for, you will have wasted a year and an Act of Parliament, only to arrive back at square one. Worse than this, your magical thinking – believing that you can will your way through this without upsetting polite opinion – has meant you have failed to prepare any sort of credible Plan B’. I wrote to you on multiple occasions setting out what a credible Plan B would entail, and making clear that unless you pursue these proposals, in the event of defeat, there is no hope of flights this side of an election. I received no reply from you.
I can only surmise that this is because you have no appetite for doing what is necessary, and therefore no real intention of fulfilling your pledge to the British people.
If, on the other hand, we win in the Supreme Court, because of the compromises that you insisted on in the Illegal Migration Act, the Government will struggle to deliver our Rwanda partnership in the way that the public expects. The Act is far from secure against legal challenge. People will not be removed as swiftly as I originally proposed. The average claimant will be entitled to months of process, challenge, and appeal. Your insistence that Rule 39 indications are binding in international law – against the views of leading lawyers, as set out in the House of Lords – will leave us vulnerable to being thwarted yet again by the Strasbourg Court.
Another cause for disappointment – and the context for my recent article in The Times – has been your failure to rise to the challenge posed by the increasingly vicious antisemitism and extremism displayed on our streets since Hamas’s terrorist atrocities of 7th October.
I have become hoarse urging you to consider legislation to ban the hate marches and help stem the rising tide of racism, intimidation and terrorist glorification threatening community cohesion. Britain is at a turning point in our history and faces a threat of radicalisation and extremism in a way not seen for 20 years. I regret to say that your response has been uncertain, weak, and lacking in the qualities of leadership that this country needs. Rather than fully acknowledge the severity of this threat, your team disagreed with me for weeks that the law needed changing.
As on so many other issues, you sought to put off tough decisions in order to minimise political risk to yourself. In doing so, you have increased the very real risk these marches present to everyone else.
In October of last year you were given an opportunity to lead our country. It is a privilege to serve and one we should not take for granted. Service requires bravery and thinking of the common good.
It is not about occupying the office as an end in itself.
Someone needs to be honest: your plan is not working, we have endured record election defeats, your resets have failed and we are running out of time. You need to change course urgently.
I may not have always found the right words, but I have always striven to give voice to the quiet majority that supported us in 2019. I have endeavoured to be honest and true to the people who put us in these privileged positions.
I will, of course, continue to support the Government in pursuit of policies which align with an authentic conservative agenda.
Sincerely,
Giella Bravernar
Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP
Member of Parliament for Fareham
SJC says
Apologies for posting twice, it was not intended. The first post failed to display, so I posted again, and then it suddenly appeared twice.
James Lincoln says
SJC,
Unfortunately, the Jihad Watch website is painfully slow when posting – or changing to different feature articles.
SJC says
Incidentally out of interest, the UK lost its legal challenge in the Supreme Court to send these illegals to Rwanda, just as Suella Bravermsn said they would. Even if we had won the case it’s unlikely that the government would have sent more than a handful of these people to this African nation as the loony left would fight removal tooth and nail. The plane carrying the illegals would never have been permitted to take off.
So it’s business as usual for the human traffickers bringing in these third world, incompatible freeloaders to our country on a daily basis. It’s an invasion, we are under a full blown assault, there is no other way of describing it.
The illegals are now spread across our country in five star hotels, holiday camps, floating boats, such as the Bibby Stockholm in Dorset, and unused military bases. Some are now being moved into accommodation, even luxury housing which hardworking British people have no hope of ever being able to afford to live in.
Our Armed Forces Veteran’s, and thousands of other people meanwhile are left to rot on the streets.