I’m no fan of the Home Secretary. Not the ‘job’ as such, that’s quite important, but our current person in charge of police, homes and… immigration!!! And to be honest, I find her a bit too ‘Conservative’ for my particular tastes, a bit too anti-everybody, a bit too ‘send ’em off to Rwanda’-y and a bit too Brexity. But that’s just me. I don’t have to love her, just put up with her and all the good work that she does. Or doesn’t do.

But what she does in her spare time is not for me to say. Though does appear for everyone else to say. Particularly tossers, who always have a lot to say.

She drove too fast and got caught. Which immediately gets my sympathy. Even horrible hard-righters have a right to speed.

Now here’s an interesting irony. The speeds on our roads are set by boroughs, and some are set by government. But the Home Office is in ultimate charge. So if some are too slow (they’re ALLLLLLL too slow) then she really should do something about it. Rather than effectively breaking her own legal limits.

Anyway, Cruella got flashed, got a ticket, and was offered a ‘speed awareness course’. Just like everyone else. So she asked someone in her office if she could have a ‘one on one’ version of the course. Rather than the group bore-a-thons that the rest of us endure. And I get that. Because she’s famous, and because its really embarrassing for a minister to be mixing with us normal law-breakers.

Yet this is a red line. For Kier Starmer and his acolytes. Wes Streeting was on the news calling for Braverman’s head. Starmer insists on her resignation, but that’s all he ever says about anyone. “This needs to come before the ethics committee!!” “We need an investigation!!” “This is a clear breach of the ministerial code!!!” they cry.

To which I can only ask ‘why?’ Why waste time, effort, energy and MY money on absolutely nothing? Just to try and score a few pathetic political points. This isn’t Boris and his lockdown parties, its not watching porn during a parliamentary session, nor joining a conference with a bunch of ‘nationalists’, its not even sexual assault. Just, ‘I’d rather do this on my own’. Speed awareness courses are a perfectly legal option. They’re not ‘hiding the crime’ or ‘looking for a way out’, they’re just self-inflicted punishment by boredom on those duped into thinking their insurance company won’t know. Cos they will. Have these people got nothing more important to worry about?

There’s a million reasons to pick on and hate Suella Braverman. This ain’t one of them.

Happy Monday