Suella Braverman And The Reverse Kellyanne

Many in the UK derided Kellyanne Conway, then Counselor to Combover Crybaby Donald Trump, when she defended then White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s use of a flat-out lie as “alternative facts”. How they laughed! We didn’t do that sort of thing in Britain. Well, in 2017, maybe we didn’t do so much of it. But in 2022, the Tories do. Frequently. Blatantly.

Suella Braverman

The new twist given by alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and his coterie of ineptitude is that, instead of the Spicer and Conway method of lying and passing it off as facts, they also take actual, provable and well documented facts and declare them to be mere opinions.

To no surprise at all, the latest exponent of the “reverse Kellyanne” has been one Suella Braverman, elevated by Bozo to the post of Attorney General, a role to which she appears totally unsuited, especially when it comes to any task that requires the deployment of significant intellectual capacity.

So let’s look at how Ms Braverman shamelessly deploys a combination of “reverse Kellyanne” and “non-reverse Kellyanne”, along with a sprinkling of malevolent abuse, deflection, and flagrant false equivalence, beginning with her appearance on the BBC Radio 4 World At One yesterday.

It was put to her “This Government keeps doing things that others judge to be illegal. We can go back to prorogation, Partygate, the Northern Ireland Protocol, deporting asylum seekers. I wonder how comfortable you feel with the reputation this Government has guilt up with regard to lawbreaking”.

What say that Government’s most senior law officer? Get ready: “Well, with respect I think that’s a BBC view, if you don’t mind me saying, that the UK Government is somehow is always malevolent and the EU is always acting as the honest broker … when it comes to our international reputation, we only have to look to our partners in Ukraine”. Full house! BINGO!!

Kellyanne Conway

Three of those four issues had nothing to do with the EU. It’s not a view. And what Ukrainians think of us has sod all to do with it. This was not an isolated occurrence: she appeared before the interrogation of ITV political editor Robert Peston later, with rather similar results. Here’s the exchange.

Peston (for it was he): “Theresa May, for example, told the Prime Minister that if he signed this Northern Ireland protocol, we would end up in just this crisis. So you can’t invoke the principle of necessity. You’ve plainly broken the law”. Pesto grounds his argument in fact. So you know what’s coming.

Ms Braverman: “That’s just not right, Robert, and I’m afraid I’ve got to say that this is your ‘Remainiac make believe’, if I may put it that way, that the EU is always in the right … the reality is that there are strains, there are severe problems ongoing within communities in Northern Ireland. The Northern Irish economy is lagging behind the rest of the United Kingdom”. ENOUGH!

Facts are make believe! Plus a claim about the Northern Ireland economy that is, you guessed it, another flat-out lie. Also, Femi Oluwole had a question for Ms Braverman which she won’t be answering any time soon. “Here's DUP Sammy Wilson explaining in Oct 2019 that Johnson's deal would separate Northern Ireland from the UK. So despite being pro-Brexit, he rejected the Tory Brexit because it would lead to where we are now. Is he a ‘remainiac’ too, [Suella Braverman]?” Another example of Tories ignoring reality.

Perhaps, now that Lord Geidt has been revealed to have resigned as Bozo’s ethics advisor because he was asked by the PM to sanction “a deliberate and purposeful breach of the Ministerial code”, the “reverse Kellyanne” will be put out there once more in defence of a Government which has now demonstrated that it is totally out of control.

Suella Braverman is paid out of your taxes. Thought you’d like to know.

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