And now we go live to Sue-Ellen Cassiana Fernandes, the daughter of Indian parents who migrated to the UK from Kenya and Mauritius respectively, who is addressing a far right collection of redneck fruitcakes in Washington DC, arguing that Johnny Foreigner is an inferior species and should be shot on sight. Or something. Sue-Ellen, who was literally named after the wife of Dallas wrong ‘un J.R. Ewing (ask your parents, kids), calls herself Suella these days and her married name is Braverman. She is one of an increasingly long line of right wing politicians whose parents came over here, in the parlance of people who hate migrants, to take the jobs of our own; people like Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel, Sajid Javed, Kwasi Kwarteng and Nadhim Zahawi, the latter of whom was born in Iraq and came here as a refugee. They, presumably, are good migrants. The rest can go back home to where they came from.
The irony appears to be completely lost on the likes of Braverman and her supporters. That they are the very people they want to stop migrating to the UK. In her own world, you wonder if Braverman would send herself to Rwanda, where she wants to be free to send today’s migrants. She’s a pretty unpleasant piece of work.
With Braverman grandstanding in the USA, it was left to a lowly home office minister to explain what his boss was up to. International laws on asylum should be ripped up because the convention was “being used by essentially economic migrants to try and claim asylum to move between countries”. Eh? Economic migrants like the parents of all the above, except horse-warmer Zahawi who as an actual refugee must be the lowest form of life, at least in Braverman’s eyes. (Actually, he is the lowest form of life, but that’s nothing to do with his ethnicity and background.)
Ah, yes, you might say, but at least the families of the current batch of Tory right wingers came here to work, unlike all other migrants, specifically all black and brown ones, who only come here to gain free houses and generous social security benefits. If you really believe what I have just written – and I can assure you, I don’t – then give your head a big wobble, have a look in the mirror and realise that, to all intents and purposes, you are Nigel Farage, the nicotine-stained man frog.
The real reason Braverman is in America is because she has presided over disaster at the home office. Having inherited a mess from her useless predecessor Priti Patel, she’s now essentially collapsed it. One reason there are so many asylum seekers in hotels is because Braverman’s department has not processed asylum claims timeously and many not at all. Another is the hard Brexit the likes of Braverman and Sunak called for, which saw the end to agreements we used to have with Europe in returning many asylum seekers. Having people like Braverman at the home office is just like the lunatics taking over the asylum, except that in Britain they’ve been in charge of it for many years.
I am not in the least bit interested in where people come from, nor the colour of their skin. If people come to the UK to work, play by the rules, to live under one law, to not demand special privileges, then where’s the problem? After all, my paternal Swedish/Norwegian grandfather was an economic migrant and my mother ‘came over here’ from the Netherlands to marry my dad. So, I’m not exactly ‘pure’, am I? But who is?
