Sue-Ellen with J.R. in "Dallas"
Back in the seventies, London resident, Uma Fernandes, was a big fan of the American soap opera "Dallas". In 1980, she gave birth to a girl and decided to name her Sue-Ellen after the famous "Dallas" character Sue-Ellen Ewing. It was a way in which Uma could declare her devotion to the show.
Somewhere along the track that daughter slightly altered her first name and Sue-Ellen Fernandes is now known as Suella Braverman - Britain's current Home Secretary. She belongs to the right wing of The Conservative Party and has said some pretty outrageous things in the last year or two about immigration, education, asylum seekers, pro-Palestinian rallies and The Labour Party.
Braverman
I remember her sitting at The Conservative Party conference this autumn. She was meant to be listening loyally to her leader's keynote speech but her body language said something else. It said, "I am not really interested" and "Look at me for it is my firm ambition to become the next Tory party leader". It was crystal clear.
Today she decided to target homeless people. Apparently, she has hatched vague plans to clear tents from our city streets. Some homeless people use them simply to shelter from the elements but Sue-Ellen thinks they are messy symbols of the fecklessness of homeless people. She described homelessness as, and I quote - "a lifestyle choice".
This is quite outrageous because it is obvious that the rise in homelessness over the last decade has directly grown out of the callous neglect of the Tory government in which she is now a key minister.
Referring to Sue-Ellen's speech, Labour frontbencher Lisa Nandy said: “Even by this government’s standards, this is disgraceful. Imagine looking at the housing and homelessness crisis you’ve presided over and thinking, ‘let’s take away their tents’.”
Sue-Ellen doesn't seem to be the sharpest pencil in the box even though she read law at Queen's College, Cambridge. There's an innate brutishness about her and in this she seems to revel. She doesn't mind stirring up hornets' nests and in many ways her political playbook seems to owe much to the worst of Trumpish Republicanism in modern day America.
It is just plain cruel and ignorant to pour scorn upon the homeless and threaten to take away their tents just as it was cruel and ignorant to threaten to send asylum-seekers and other immigrants to Rwanda. I would rather have Sue-Ellen Ewing in charge of this country's home affairs than Sue-Ellen Braverman even though the former was just a fictional character in a soap opera.
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