This speeding ticket fixation is an insult to the electorate
INFLATION is currently at 8.7 per cent. Ongoing strikes continue to cripple our public services and this year alone a staggering 4,431 migrants have landed on our shores, with channel crossings estimated to reach up to 56,000 by the end of the year.
You would think these problems would be more than enough to keep our politicians and media elite busy. However, that is clearly not the case.
Over the last week, the news cycle has been saturated with stories of the Home Secretary and a speeding ticket she received. Suella Braverman has been at the centre of a media frenzy for asking civil servants to help her attend a private speed awareness course.
On this point, the Home Secretary is clearly right. There would have been a time when common sense would dictate the need for ministers to not distract from the public agenda by having paparazzi pressed up against the glass of a speeding course centre. Nonetheless, for our politicians, many of whom have received speeding fines themselves, their priorities lie elsewhere.
Angela Rayner gave an impassioned speech in the House of Commons, asking “how many strikes” the Home Secretary must have before she is finally struck off. The Labour Deputy Leader, who has been bleating about this non-issue for days, has been treating this matter with such importance that it beggars belief. For a self-professed socialist, it is a wonder that she is not more concerned with the cost-of-living crisis or the crumbling NHS.
EVEN Tobias Ellwood, a prominent Tory backbench MP, has bizarrely attributed Braverman’s decision to pay her speeding fine to increasing the Conservative Party’s unpopularity.
All throughout the week, we have heard “calls for the Home Secretary to resign”.
But calls from who? Who really cares? Does any person truly concerned with the stability and wellbeing of this country really believe that one of the most senior members of the Government should resign over this trivial matter?
Thankfully, the Prime Minister did not bow to pressure. After considering the evidence and consulting with the ethics committee, Rishi Sunak concluded that Mrs Braverman’s conduct “did not amount to a breach of the ministerial code”.
Unsurprisingly, idle busybodies are incensed.
The Liberal Democrats accused the Prime Minister of a “cowardly cop out”. Oh the irony. Instead of carrying on their faux outrage, maybe they should be more concerned with the fact their leader believes a woman can “quite clearly” have a penis.
Focusing on such an inconsequential matter is an insult to ordinary Britons struggling to make ends meet. Moreover, it does a great disservice to the electorate who are pondering which direction this country’s future must go.
How can people decide which party to vote for when opposition parties are tying themselves up in knots over a mere speeding fine? Does the country not face any real problems?
THIS country’s productivity is so poor it’s a wonder we can still afford to keep funding our public services. Forecasted economic growth is estimated to be 0.4 per cent for the year, only narrowly avoiding a recession. And all the while our public spending keeps climbing, with the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio now at 88.9 per cent. The UK’s anaemic growth should worry us all.
Clearly, things need to change. And it must start with the priorities of ourWestminster elite. I am by no means a fan of our Home Secretary. I have been openly critical of Suella Braverman’s performance in the Government, but it is clear to me that the strange fixation on her speeding ticket is laced with ulterior motives; chief amongst them to further destabilise the Government, as Sunak continues to climb in opinion polls.
As Labour’s lead over the
Tories shrinks to its narrowest margin since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, the opposition is undoubtedly worried.
This entire story is much ado about nothing. Suella Braverman asked to do the speeding course in private. And when she couldn’t, she chose to take the points instead.
The electorate will see through this senseless witchhunt. And if the opposition and their acolytes don’t wake up, they may be in for a surprising turn of events.
‘The electorate will see through this senseless witch-hunt’