Former Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman Defects to Reform, Denounces UK Tories as Traitors

Suella Braverman had been Secretary of the Home Office (one of the top positions in government) under former PM Rishi Sunak. She was kicked out of the office for speaking two truths the conservative party had declared heretical:

1, that unlimited third world migration constitutes an "invasion," and

2, that it is evident that the police punish native Britons much more harshly than foreign invaders, and this constitutes "two-tier policing."

So she's always been more #based than the average inbred paper-pusher in the "conservative" party.

But she was loyal to the dying Conservative Party.

Until now.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has accused the Conservatives of "betrayal" as she became the latest MP from the party to defect to Reform UK.

She is the third sitting Tory MP to join Nigel Farage's party in the last eleven days, and takes Reform's tally of MPs to eight.

At a press conference following her defection, Braverman said she had felt "politically homeless for the best part of two years" pointing to differences over areas including Brexit and immigration.

Her defection comes hot on the heels of Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell, who also left the Conservatives earlier this month.

Responding to her defection, the Conservative Party said it was "always a matter of when, not if, Suella would defect".

As you know, the dying establishment's main weapon is left's weapon of denunciation and defamation:

The party's initial statement also said: "The Conservatives did all we could to look after Suella's mental health, but she was clearly very unhappy."

They later issued a corrected statement which removed the sentence, saying the original lines were "a draft version" which had been "sent out in error".

Braverman said the reference to her mental health was "a bit pathetic" and "more signs of a bitter and desperate party that seems to be in free-fall".

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She accused the Conservatives of failing on Brexit while delivering "out-of-control immigration" and high taxes.

She said "the final straw came in the last few days" as there appeared to be a "concentrated effort, a witch hunt to hound out right-wingers".

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In addition to the four sitting Conservative MPs who have now switched to Reform, around 20 former Tory MPs have made the move since the general election, including former ministers Nadhim Zahawi, Nadine Dorries and Jake Berry.

Henry Smith - one of those ex-MPs to make the switch - said Braverman had tried to "steer the last government in a Conservative direction" but had been "very much stopped in her tracks".

Speaking to Matt Chorley on BBC Radio 5 Live, the former Crawley MP said that while the Conservative leadership "might be making noises to the right", many Conservative MPs were "quite frankly more comfortable in a much more Liberal Democrat position".

I saw a Lotus Eaters video in which they predicted -- or put down as a prediction for a 2026 prediction Bingo game -- that the "conservatives" would wither away down to their most liberal members, at which point they would just merge with the Liberal Democrats. As the BBC points out above, that's all they are now anyway.

Braverman denounced the remaining "conservatives" as cucks for the liberal globalist one-world maxi-state. Or "wets," as she called them.

She now says the Conservatives are "too weak to save themselves, let alone the country".

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She was not offered a position in Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet, and became a vocal critic of the party's record in office on immigration, net zero and what she branded "woke" thinking.

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At a press conference alongside Farage, she dismissed her former party as dominated by "centrists" and "One Nation wets".

"Wets" has a specific meaning in British politics. I guess we'd call them "RINOs."

Google AI:

In British political slang, "wets" referred to moderate members of the Conservative Party, particularly under Margaret Thatcher, who were seen as weak, unprincipled, or too willing to compromise on her strict monetarist and spending-cut policies, contrasting with her hardline "dries".

The term, used pejoratively by Thatcher and her supporters, described those who opposed her tough economic medicine and favoured more consensus or less drastic reforms, like reducing government spending and challenging unions.

Key Aspects of "Wets":

Origin: Popularized by Margaret Thatcher in the late 1970s/early 1980s to criticize internal party dissent.

Meaning: Lacking firmness, being effete, ineffectual, or weak in character and resolve.

Policy Stance: Opposed to Thatcher's radical economic agenda, including spending cuts and confronting powerful unions.

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Contrast: Directly opposed to "dries," Thatcher's loyalists who fully embraced her free-market principles.

The first video below is her full 18 minute speech. If that's too long, check out the clip from the press conference she gave after her defection. It's a lot punchier.

posted by Ace at 04:32 PM

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