failed politician the media adore

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Given the collapse of the Conservative Party, the BBC should of course be inviting experts on to explain what’s happening. At the same time, “twice-sacked” Tory minister with several axes to grind Suella Braverman may not be the most enlightening person to listen to right now:

 

Braverman: failing upwards

We don’t know if you’ve ever been justifiably sacked, but if you have, we’re almost certain you weren’t subsequently invited to events to speak as an expert on the career you were rightly ejected from. Politics is far from a normal career, of course, although that’s arguably because it’s filled with far-from-normal people – chief among them Braverman:

As reported by the Guardian:

Her first departure, just weeks into the role under Liz Truss, was officially labelled a resignation, but in fact Braverman had no choice but to step down for sending an official document from her personal email to a fellow MP, a serious breach of ministerial rules.

The piece noted of her second sacking:

Sunak’s decision to sack Braverman brings down the curtain on a turbulent and often controversial tenure, one succinctly and accurately summarised by her Labour counterpart, Yvette Cooper, in the Commons on Thursday: “No other home secretary would ever have done this.”

“This” was writing an opinion piece in the Times that accused the police of being inherently biased towards left-leaning protests, including clumsy comparisons with Northern Ireland, which caused genuine anger.

Tories like Braverman seem to have forgotten that the first rule of maintaining a police state is that you keep the police on board. This is arguably a good thing, as we’d be in a much worse state of affairs if the Tories were competent. Because they’re not, all they can do is lash out at the failing country they’ve spent the past 14 years failing:

Braverman claims she regrets backing Sunak. We’re sure that’s true: we’re less sure if there’s anything a Tory wouldn’t express regret over given their record of abject and public failure:

Personally, we think that this is the worst thing she said:

Not the part where she started frothing at the mouth; the part in which she likened Starmer to a peanut – Britain’s favourite legume.

Peanuts are flavoursome and reliable – all the things Starmer isn’t.

Good right-wing banter would be to compare him to a souffle – a soft, European trifle which always fails to rise.

Good god, does she not even understand the country she pretends to be patriotic about?

If it wasn’t for the BBC and the mainstream media propping these Tory goons up, people would have seen through them a long time ago.

Local fiasco

The person interviewing Braverman was none other than Laura Kuenssberg. Would you believe that both she and the BBC have received additional criticism for their coverage of the local elections? Particular criticism was attached to this tweet:

What transpired was a swing towards Labour:

The Savanta survey reported on by the Standard on 2 May had Khan getting 42% and Hall receiving 32%, although to be fair this was less of a gap than the 22 point lead YouGov predicted.

People weren’t happy, anyway:

Knowing that the YouGov poll existed and reading Kuenssberg’s tweet again, we’re going to be annoyingly contrarian and say that for once she wasn’t wrong. Because she’s been unfairly rewarded throughout her career, however, a bit of unfair criticism can only balance things out.

It won’t be alright on the night

Election night did generate some quality screengrabs anyway:

Labour taking over from the Tories might not fundamentally change much, but it should mean we don’t see as many frothing weirdoes on our screens – be they failed Tory ministers or failing BBC presenters.

Featured image via BBC 





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