'Suella Braverman isn’t being brave, she is being deliberately divisive'

03 April 2023 , 20:44

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Suella Braverman's mandate seems to be ‘create conflict and chaos’ (Image: PA)

Thew role of a Home Secretary is to oversee issues of national security and ensure there is peace and harmony between all the different communities that make up the United Kingdom.

Not if your name is Suella Braverman.

Her mandate seems to be ‘create conflict and chaos’.

Under the guise of actually giving two hoots about the poor, disadvantaged and forgotten young girls who end up as victims of child exploitation, she decided to home in on one single community and lay all the blame there.

“British Pakistani men see women in a demeaned and illegitimate way,” she stated, saying she would crack down and stamp out this ‘heinous behaviour.”

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Suella Braverman in the House of Commons (UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Imag)

Even when a reporter pointed out that an in depth Home Office report in 2020 concluded that it is white men under the age of 30 who are most likely to be grooming gang perpetrators, she ignored the EVIDENCE and continued to fan the flames of the Far Right stereotype of ‘Muslim grooming gangs’.

“Look at me,” she seemed to be thinking, if indeed she does any thinking, “I’m not woke, I’m telling it like it is.”

Don’t get me wrong, we have all seen the high-profile mugshots of these so called ‘Muslim’ men in news reports - all as hideous on the outside as they are on the inside in places like Rochdale and Rotherham. These stories have been shocking and disgusting but they aren’t the whole picture.

There have also been young vulnerable Asian girls who have been groomed and exploited by these gangs. In the rush to blame ‘Muslim’ gangs systematically targeting poor white girls, these Asian victims have been forgotten.

But it really isn’t a colour issue. It’s about how to protect vulnerable young girls from exploitative nasty scum whatever their background, race or religion.

And Braverman isn’t being brave, she is being deliberately divisive and, as a nation, surely we deserve a better Home Secretary than that?

Anila Baig