The Full Clip of Suella Braverman Just Highlights How Unfit for Office She is
Home Secretary Suella Braverman has shamed herself (again) by using the Home Office to demand that a charity deletes footage of her reacting to a Holocaust survivor, who spoke up about Braverman using hateful far-right narratives about ‘invaders’ when referring to asylum seekers.
The justification of Braverman demanding — in an authoritarian manner — that Freedom From Torture delete their tweeted video clip is that it didn’t show the full exchange with 82-year-old Joan Salter, who said Braverman’s language about asylum seekers was reminiscent of what the Nazis used to justify murdering her family. Braverman’s interaction with Mrs Salter, who received an MBE for her work on Holocaust education, was at a public meeting in the right-wing MP’s Fareham constituency. Freedom From Torture helps survivors of torture by providing therapy and support.
Braverman’s justification (hiding behind the Home Office’s Twitter account) is absurd for a number of reasons. In all media — not just social media (where there are limits on both word count and video length), exchanges are routinely truncated. Journalists covering everything from council meetings to court cases to parliamentary debates to Question Time spats will only include the most salient bits. This is to do with space (just like with Twitter…
