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Tony Nicol's avatar

You are right to draw attention to the racist aspect of criticising Braverman, Nick, but I do take issue with your statement that no-one would dream of deporting Deadwood. Sajid Javid made it fashionable for passports to be taken away from British citizens, and I have since made the statement on more than one occasion that Johnson's passport should also be withdrawn, preferably when he was out of the UK. I recently suggested the same course of action should have been taken during Braverman's photo-op in Rwanda, and I would see no problem with doing the same to Deadwood, were he not such an inconsequential twat that I doubt anyone listens to him anyway. Other than that, I believe your post to be thoughtful and well timed. I may have RTd that Braverman/Auschwitz one, I will have a look and delete it, if I did.

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Frank Colson's avatar

Thanks for these observations. Braverman is extremely adept at using her ethnicity as a weapon in what is, I think we would agree, her bid for leadership of the Conservative Party. Her Brexit stance is not an opportunistic one, but stems from her very peculiar reading of the role of the ECJ in the administration of property law in the UK. A reading which is shared by many in the Law profession, who warmly advocated Leave in 2016. We know that members of the Indian and other diasporas voted Leave some because they confused UK immigration policy towards them as being driven by the counting of people coming in under 'Free Movement' as immigrants when their legal status was different. And of course the impact of 'austerity' on their circumstances. Yes Braverman's actions are profoundly unchristian, but that is not a criticism she would recognize.

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