Suella Braverman elicits such huge antipathy in me that I feel the need to try to understand how such an obviously intelligent woman can espouse core beliefs which make me feel so completely negative towards her.
Her parents were both Indian in origin. Her mother, a nurse & a councillor, came here from Mauritius & her father, who worked for a housing association, came here from Kenya. A fairly ordinary background, but possibly surprising for a very right wing politician.
She is a Triratna Buddhist. They believe in Pali - the cultivation of Loving Kindness. Meditations revolve around Positivity – an other-regarding, life-affirming attitude. Receptivity and spontaneous compassionate activity. Puja is a ritual practice intended to awaken the desire to liberate all beings from suffering. I find it hard to reconcile Bravermans comments & political beliefs with these core tenets of Triratnas. It has to be said that Triratnas have generated a fair bit of adverse publicity.
She has 2 children & is married to Rael Braverman a manager for Mercedes, who is also politican, & keeps his personal & professional life well out of the spotlight. Their combined net worth is reported to be several millions.
As secretary of state at the home office Suella earns £155,817.00 per annum which is £599.30
daily. She has previously been Attorney general, reflecting her
Barrister qualifications. She has been an MP since 2015.
There is much to admire in that back story. A clever woman making her own way & being successful. It's what she says that completely alienates me;-
"It’s not racist for anyone, ethnic minority or otherwise, to want to control our borders"
"The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast, and which party is not"
"I would love to have a front page of The Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda, that’s my dream, it’s my obsession"
“We have got a lot of carrots to get people into work but we have got to add more conditionality and a bit more stick,”
"It’s the coalition of chaos, it’s The Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati"
"We cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice."
world leaders “will not be able to sustain an asylum system if in effect, simply being gay, or a woman, and fearful of discrimination in your country of origin, is sufficient to qualify for protection.”
"the Human Rights Act should be renamed the “Criminal Rights Act”
She warned of "a hurricane” of mass migration and attacked the “luxury beliefs” of liberal-leaning people"
I just don't get what game Braverman is playing. Other than I am fairly sure that the goal of that game is to be leader of the Conservative party & hopefully Prime Minister. If I'm right, god help the UK, because she isn't a team player, she doesn't believe in Cabinet ot Collective Ministerial responsibility. She believes in whatever will get her the most votes in the party & in the country.
I hope that her gamble has misfired. We are in a dreadful mess now following on from Boris & Truss. It can only get worse if Braverman succeeds.
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