Suella Braverman Sacked as U.K. Home Secretary After Weekend of Anti-Semitic and Far Right Conflict in London
variety.comNaman Ramachandran U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sacked Suella Braverman from the position of Home Secretary after a tumultuous weekend of marches and protests in London.
The remit of the office of Home Secretary includes law enforcement in England and Wales. On November 8, in an op-ed in the The Times of London, Braverman wrote in the context of the “pro-Palestine movement” that “hate marchers” would use November 11, Armistice Day, “to parade through London in yet another show of strength.” Armistice Day, also known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the U.S., is commemorated every year to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany. “Unfortunately, there is a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters.
During Covid, why was it that lockdown objectors were given no quarter by public order police yet Black Lives Matters demonstrators were enabled, allowed to break rules and even greeted with officers taking the knee?
Right-wing and nationalist protesters who engage in aggression are rightly met with a stern response yet pro-Palestinian mobs displaying almost identical behaviour are largely ignored, even when clearly breaking the law?
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