LONDON Suella Braverman’s the number one goal was to send asylum seekers coming across the English Channel by boat to Rwanda. He even named it his obsession and dream at a meeting of the ruling Conservative Party recently.
According to him, immigration is a hurricane, bringing millions of migrants to British shores without restrictions.
On Monday, Braverman was fired. He was the Minister of the Interior Rishi Sun too from the government for a year. So, as a member of the government, he did not have time to hear when the British Supreme Court decides tomorrow, Wednesday, whether the government can really send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
If Braverman’s own parents were to aspire to Britain now under his rules, they would hardly make it.
Braverman’s parents of Indian background arrived in England in the 1960s. As colonists, they entered the country easily. Braverman has called himself a child of the British Empire.
– My parents were born in the British Empire. They arrived in the country full of admiration and gratitude for what Britain did for Mauritania, Kenya and India, where our roots are, Braverman said earlier for The Times.
Braverman followed his nurse mother into politics as a member of the Conservative Party. The family lived in one of London’s most multicultural suburbs, Brent. He was able to study law at Cambridge University and Paris.
Brits of Indian background do better than Caucasians
Braverman describes his own parents as part of an ambitious generation of Asians who pushed their children to succeed.
It can be seen in today’s Britain. In the light of the statistics, British people of Indian background do excellently compared to other minorities, but even compared to whites. 73 percent of ethnic Indians own a home. 69 percent of white Britons own their own home.
In the GCSE final exam of primary school, Indians do much better like white people. And households of Indian background have more wealth than households of other ethnic groups, is evident from the statistics.
Braverman considers today’s immigration to be very different from that of his parents. In his opinion, immigrants used to try to integrate into society, but not anymore. In September, Braverman said in a speech that today’s multiculturalism has failed because, he said, it allows immigrants to live apart from the culture of their new country.
According to Braverman, homelessness is a lifestyle choice
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was sometimes under fire for his home minister’s strong stances. But immigration was not Braverman’s fate. Neither is his recent comment that homeless people sleeping on the streets is a lifestyle choice.
What brought him down was that he harshly criticized the police. Braverman attacked the police In a comment from The Times last week without permission from the Prime Minister’s Office. He criticized the police for acting biased in the protests caused by the war in Gaza and for defending the demonstrators who support the Palestinians.
Braverman also called the huge protests in London hate marches.
The entire political elite was dismayed. Politicians from far and wide considered Braverman to have interfered politically with the police’s authority, which politicians have no right to do.
The former prime minister was dug up from mothballs
Braverman’s firing and the new ministerial appointment illustrate the divisiveness that the Conservative Party and, on the one hand, Britain as a whole suffers from.
In Sunak’s big ministerial roulette, the surprise choice for the new foreign minister is a former prime minister who left politics David Cameron. Former Foreign Minister James Cleverly was appointed Minister of the Interior.
Cameron was quickly appointed a member of the House of Commons so that he could be given the job of minister. With Cameron’s election, Sunak moves his party, which has lost popularity, from the populist right wing towards the center.
Part of the party people are alienated from Cameron, who represents the moderate middle line, who during his prime ministership organized the referendum that led to Britain’s exit from the EU. Cameron, who was in favor of remaining in the EU, resigned himself when the result of the referendum was revealed.
Even Cameron does not follow the same line as Sunak, who supported leaving the EU. Cameron has criticized the British leadership for, among other things, reducing development aid.
The Reuters news agency quotes an unnamed EU diplomat who says that Cameron’s appointment can improve EU-British relations.
Braverman may compete for the leadership of the party
The British researcher saw an opportunity in Cameron’s appointment. The politics professor interviewed by Uutistoimisto AP Tim Bale Queen Mary University said Sunak’s decision to appoint Cameron was desperate. The party is in danger of being in the opposition in the next election due to a sharp drop in popularity.
The fired Braverman, on the other hand, is hardly silent. He has already promised to speak when the time is right.
Many are praising Braverman, who has adopted a Trumpian speaking style, as he aspires to lead the Conservative Party when the opportunity arises. The events of the last few days are likely to increase his popularity on the right wing of the party – and the whole of Britain – where immigration is strongly opposed.