Braverman Says Tories Will Lose

While amateur PM Rishi Sunak desperately tries to appeal to voters - any voters - in a bid to shore up what is left of the Tories’ poll ratings, with his latest pack of lies being that there is a war on the motorist, and he’ll take long-term decisions to reverse it, his supposedly loyal lieutenants are already resigned to losing the next General Election, and losing it badly.

Sunak says there are loads of anti-motorist measures out there; what he means is that a heck of a lot of pedestrians get killed and seriously injured on the roads every year, and that he’d rather not address that problem if he can persuade gullible car drivers to vote for him. That’s how barrel-scraping his agenda has become. So it’s no surprise his ministers are on manoeuvres.

One of those manoeuvring while failing completely to not have an Oh What A Giveaway moment is Suella Braverman, for some reason elevated to the rank of Home Secretary. Ms Braverman has proved to be utterly inept in the role, talking the talk and not even starting to walk the walk. She is all mouth and little else, save for blaming others for her shortcomings.

But she is good at getting her press releases recycled by the right-leaning part of our free and fearless press, who are just as desperate as the Tories to stop The Blue Team losing the next election. Today’s Suella Special has been given to the Mail on Sunday, where it has been given front page treatment. The No Surprise At All is that it’s still someone else’s fault.

While Kemi Badenoch, also admitting that the Tory game is up by pitching for the leadership with a press release to the increasingly desperate and downmarket Telegraph - “Badenoch piles pressure on Sunak to quit ECHR” - Ms Braverman’s backers at the MoS are going Full Dacre today.

“Home Secretary lets rip at ‘pampered, out-of-touch’ celebrities and says what millions have been thinking … DON’T LECTURE US FROM ST TROPEZ ON MIGRANTS, ELTON … In a no-holds-barred Mail on Sunday interview, the Home Secretary fired back at the likes of Sir Elton John and Gary Lineker, branding them members of a ‘virtue-signalling elite’ who lecture the British people ‘from their villas and private jets’”.

The article, given an “Exclusive” tag, mainly because no-one else wanted it, has Ms Braverman claiming “What we are seeing here is out-of-touch pampered elites, lecturing us on how we should think about very, very serious issues affecting the majority of British people, such as illegal migration”. Suella Braverman calls Out Of Touch on someone else No Shock Horror.

There was more. “These people don't have to wait in a queue to see a GP, they can just go private [like you]. They don't have to worry about trying to afford a car or buy a house [ditto]. The vast majority of British people are directly affected by the unprecedented scale of illegal migration [like how, perchance?]. My job is to think of them first ahead of a virtue-signalling, elitist view from Hollywood Central [Elt? Gary L? Hollywood Central? Er, no]”.

But the Oh What A Giveaway moment could not be postponed for long. “Ms Braverman, one of the frontrunners to succeed Rishi Sunak as Tory leader, said she didn't 'have a problem with anyone flying in private jets or having villas around the world' but suggested they do not speak for the majority”. YOUR OWN PARTY LEADER IS THE ONE DOING PRIVATE JETS.

Anyhoo, do go on. “What I have a problem with is these privileged people [like your party leader] telling the British people how they should think. I find that rank hypocrisy and condescending, lecturing tone incredibly inappropriate [better tell Rishi, then]. These pampered elites are trying to look compassionate and sound virtuous [ditto]”. Then comes another giveaway.

“Last night, Ms Badenoch made a bid to seize the initiative from Ms Braverman by raising the prospect of Britain leaving the European Convention on Human Rights”. Two Bald Men Fighting Over A Comb revisited, with the added implicit honesty that the Tories are screwed.

Problem is that, after 13 years of this shower, so is the country.

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