I come to bury Suella, not to praise her. Rishi thought he’d rid himself of the curse, only to have her pen a 3-page, full-frontal, hardcore assault on the little twit the very next day. Not exactly a ‘love letter’. And yet… and yet…

Suella Braverman said a lot of horrible things which upset ever-such-a-lotta-people. Nasty things about foreigners. Rotten things about (allegedly) peaceful marchers. She had radical things to suggest about all sorts of groups and individuals, including the police.

And the ‘correct stance’ to take on Cruella was one of righteous indignation, disgust and affirmation of a lot of values to which many people think they should agree but most privately hate. Making many people a touch hypocritical for holding a private view which they’d never utter in public.

But Suella did. She was, for all her rather numerous faults, honest. She called it as she saw it. There were no gilded lilies in Braverman-world. She didn’t like the boat people; send them to Rwanda. She hated the ‘hate marches’, so name them so. She questioned the police tolerance to radical left wingers? Call it out.

She spoke for the ‘Tory Right’ but not only for them. She resonated with a lot of people and what they really thought. I’m not saying ‘nice people’ necessarily, but a lot of them. And if you upset the entire Labour Party you must be doing something right. Right?

And here’s the thing about Rwanda. It is horrible. Nasty. Totalitarian. Tortuous. And they send refugees to third countries of unspecified human rights records. Not that their own are so marvellous. Yet isn’t that the point? We don’t actually want to send loads of people there every week, the air fares alone would be punitive. We want to stop the boats from coming. Stop the traffickers. And Rwanda is there as a deterrent to do just that. We tried threatening refugees with putting them on a barge in Dorset, but when that fiasco sank in a sea of Legionaire’s Disease, we got nasty and threatened to keep them in horrible hotels in Hastings. And that failed to stop the boats coming, or worse, sinking, so Rwanda is the ultimate threat. You just have to get it past the European Court of Human Rights, the United Nations, the Supreme Court and everyone else who knows me. How hard can that be?

The answer to which is: Suella was hard enough to get it done, Rishi isn’t and hence didn’t.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx