{"id":12550,"date":"2023-04-05T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2023-04-05T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T09:57:45","slug":"inadvertently-speaking-truth-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=12550","title":{"rendered":"Speaking truth to power"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twitter account of the British Government’s Home Office<\/a> is normally a conduit for the worst ideas dreamt up by the alleged government’s most authoritarian and repressive ministry.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

As such it tends to repeat and amplify the dog-whistle racism and xenophobia embodied in the hostile environment<\/em><\/a> that has characterised its attitude to non-British people, particularly if they are not white, since the Home Secretary was one Theresa May<\/a>, who later went on to do bad prime minister impressions in the Westminster Palace of Varieties.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The post of Home Secretary is currently occupied by one Sue-Ellen Cassiana “Suella” Braverman<\/a>, a woman of no discernible talent other than being incompetent and nasty.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Braverman is currently on her second term of office as Home Secretary, having been initially appointed as such under the premiership of one Elizabeth Mary Truss on 6 September 2022. However, like her boss, Braverman did not last long in post, resigning because she had made an “honest mistake<\/em>” (a likely story. Ed.) by sharing an official document from her personal email address with a colleague in Parliament, an action which breached the Ministerial Code<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

On 25 October, Braverman was re-appointed as the home secretary by the prime minister Rishi Sunak, in direct contradiction of his promise of \u201cintegrity, professionalism and accountability<\/em>\u201d. Does someone who broke the Ministerial Code have any integrity or professionalism?<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Since her re-appointment, has continued with hostile policies towards refugees and asylum seekers with a modern take on the reintroduction on the prison hulks of two centuries ago to house these people<\/a> before they are deported to that shining beacon of human rights known as Rwanda.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Yesterday, the Home Office’s Twitter account finally admitted how dangerous the Home Secretary was, calling her “one of the greatest injustices in modern Britain<\/em>” and calling for her end.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Tweet\r\n\r\n

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The Twitter account of the British Government’s Home Office is normally a conduit for the worst ideas dreamt up by the alleged government’s most authoritarian and repressive ministry. As such it tends to repeat and amplify the dog-whistle racism and xenophobia embodied in the hostile environment that has characterised its attitude to non-British people, particularly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,34],"tags":[16,10,22,20,35],"class_list":["post-12550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12563,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions\/12563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}