How do you solve a problem called Suella

What can Rishi do with her? Thursday's Newscast was all about the Home Secretary, who – I was disappointed to learn – is pleasant and personable. I say 'disappointed' because her views and interventions and general vitriol are so odious.

First ...

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(this week; her trail of destructive stupidity goes back much further including such ridiculous populist nonsense as the wasteful and self-defeating [not to say illegal] Rwanda policy)
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... it was 'hate marches'– an irresponsible ...

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There are a few hate-filled people on the Palestinian side, but it takes two to tango and they won't get to exercise their hatred (in terms of actual violence) unless there's a counter-demonstration (which Braverman, for self-serving political reasons, is taking care to stir up).
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...and bare-faced attempt to foment disorder. And fomenting disorder isn't in the job description of Home Secretary.

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It worked. She must be proud of herself.
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Then it was 'a lifestyle choice'  – a heartless and stupid contribution to the politics of homelssness. And heartless stupidity isn't in the job description of Home Secretary.

Then came the kicker: her unconstitutional attempt to undermine Mark Rowley, in her letter to The Times on Thursday. The  editor of GB News, speaking on that edition of Newscast, said he had received numerous phone calls from people who couldn't understand what was wrong with what she had said. What was wrong with it  was that she is Home Secretary and it's not her job to stir up trouble by undermining the police force who have an incredibly sensitive situation to police. The fact that consumers of GB News don't see what's wrong with it is simply a reflection of the degree of political naivety of those consumers. Not surprising really: the politically naive express politically naive opinions.

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Nick Robinson, although not always entirely convincing in his  expressions of shocked propriety,  had some interesting things to say about who was sending what coded messages to whom in Thursday's The Today Podcast. 

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She's behaving like a  spoilt teenager, pushing the envelope of tolerability further and further in order to get a reaction form the people who have her best interests at heart: "Aren't I awful?". She wants to be sacked, to become a martyr on the back-benches and whip up support from her extreme right-wing chronies.  And for her it's Win:Win: if she's sacked she becomes more of  a right-wing pin-up; if she's not sacked after so bare-facedly defying No.10's authority (by trampling on the ministerial code ...

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Media interviews, speeches etc

8.2 In order to ensure the effective coordination of Cabinet business, the policy content and timing of all major announcements, speeches, press releases and new policy initiatives should be cleared in draft with the No 10 Press and Private Offices at least 24 hours in advance. All major interviews and media appearances, both print and broadcast, should also be agreed with the No 10 Press Office. 

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...and not making the required edits before submitting her letter for publication) then the PM is shown to be weak. Either way she has a head start in the post-election race to ba leader of His Majesty's Opposition.

The last word goes to Dominic Grieve, a good man thrown out of the party by a brainless nincompoop who should never have got his hands on the levers of power. Grieve wrote, in the Independent: 

Suella Braverman must resign now

The home secretary has undermined the independence of the police and weaponised Remembrance commemorations for her own political ends. She must not be allowed to represent us at the Cenotaph on Sunday, writes former attorney general Dominic Grieve

In haste

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Update: 2023.11.14.12:30 –  Added PS

PS Well, she didn't; I don't think it was ever likely that she would; yesterday she was sacked (by telephone, according to Jacob Real-Smug, speaking on last night's News – Bad Form, he thought).

Taking his cue from Gordon Brown's Government Of All the Talents Rishi Sunak has announced another GOAT, but with a twist that makes it all his own: it's a Government of the Absolutely Talentless, starring the author of the Brexit debacle and the pointless and self-defeating austerity programme..