Show thanks not migrant disdain
■ IT looks clear that right-wing Home Secretary Suella Braverman is making a bid for Conservative leadership. It’s also clear that she wishes to churn up many of the old Brexit divisions and factions.
Already we hear Brits should be trained to pick fruit and drive lorries. Next I expect she will advocate that children should help in care homes and convicts pluck chickens, along with retraining all the malingerers to do jobs in the hospitality sector the British have shunned since the 1950s.
But if I was Ms Braverman I would be eagerly considering some of these positions for myself as it looks likely she’ll be voted out next year and the legal profession may not welcome her back!
Robert Boston, Kings Hill, Kent
■ In her speech to the far right National Conservatism conference, Home Secretary Suella Braverman attacks immigrants and insists they have placed an unsustainable strain on the UK’s infrastructure. It isn’t migrants who have placed a strain on services, it’s 13 years of brutal Tory public sector cuts. The NHS, to take just one example, couldn’t function without the contribution of migrants. The UK owes migrants a debt of gratitude not Braverman’s poisonous rhetoric. She was a child of a refugee and economic migrant, and has nothing to offer politically apart from anti-immigrant hate.
Sasha Simic North London
■ Mark Foster asks, “Are we still a democracy?” (Your
Voice, May 15). My dictionary defines democracy as “a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people collectively”.
We have a three-tier legislative system in this country: The head of state (the monarch) who is unelected, an upper house (the House of Lords), also unelected and a lower house (the Commons) which is the only elected branch of government.
So, in answer to the question, I’d ask, “Have we ever been a democracy?”
Roger Bowerman
North West London
■ The Tories really are the nasty party. They really don’t have a clue, or even care about the damage and misery they have caused.
A general election can’t come soon enough – and I hope that everyone who is eligible to vote will finally show their disdain for this utterly horrible and useless government.
Harry Wheeler Bridgwater, Somerset
■ It seems the lunatics have finally taken over the asylum with this hard-right Conservative Conference. What is alarming is to see so many ministers and ex-ministers at the event, not least Suella Braverman launching her leadership bid.
It’s a blatant attempt at a rightwing coup and if I was an ordinary, middle-of-the-road Tory supporter I’d be very worried indeed.
J Hardy, Widnes, Cheshire
■ When Braverman stands up and berates British workers she is being hypocritical. Thanks to the policies of this and previous Tory governments, thousands of British companies have closed down and those jobs have gone abroad.
Very little is manufactured in Britain any more so we’re left to buy goods from countries like China.
Tony Howard, Salford
■ So, wannabe PM Suella Braverman says jobless Brits should aspire to pick fruit, slaughter animals and drive lorries. It seems she has finally lost the plot and is devoid of any objective ideas. Braverman is well and truly at home at the latest Tory mad hatter’s tea party!
Reg Barrett, Southminster, Essex