Suella Braverman accuses Tories of betrayal as she defects to Reform UK
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The MP was unveiled as Reform's latest recruit by leader Nigel Farage at a rally, bringing the number of the party's sitting MPs to eight.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.

She becomes 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.

Unveiled at a rally in London, Braverman told Reform supporters she had also resigned her Tory membership of 30 years, adding: “I feel like I’ve come home.”

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

  • mjr@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Proceeds to list zero policies 😀

    I listed three. You might like to pretend they’re not policies or something, but Reform put them in their manifesto.

    We’re using gas for the next 50 years whether it’s Reform or the Greens. That curries more favour with the US or Qatar than it does Russia. You’re reaching for that to be a “Putin policy”

    Really? Are you seriously claiming that Putin doesn’t want the UK buying gas for longer? As that’s the difference between Reform and the others: Reform would build more new gas power stations, prolonging the dependency mistake, while most of the other parties will phase it out more or less quickly.

    Scrapping the licence fee…

    Not only, but also scrapping the BBC because they believe on-demand TV has replaced it. That’s what they wrote.

    And I notice you don’t disagree that Putin would want the UK out of the European Defence Fund.

    What would Putin oppose? Let’s see… the top three from Reform’s site:

    • stopping the boats (I know, I know)
    • defend our borders
    • deport illegal migrants

    Don’t make me laugh! Why would Putin oppose those? Putin would love all of them, along with anything else that makes the UK more isolated and causes squabbles with its neighbours or diverts funds from NATO-level defence to petty little border patrols. That’s why he’s paid Reform politicians like Nathan Gill so much.

    • makingrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      Which three? Which three are Putin policies? I’m not addressing the rest of your response until you name which three Reform policies are Putin policies which got us to where we are.

      • mjr@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        You’re just showboating because we’ve had nine Putin-friendly Reform UK policies so far:

        1. building more gas turbine power stations
        2. cutting stamp duty on the biggest properties
        3. pulling out of the European Defence Fund
        4. cancelling our human rights act
        5. repealing the Equalities Act
        6. “scrapping” the BBC
        7. stopping the boats (any method that really does it will be basically either impossible or illegal)
        8. defending our borders (more insular isolationism is what Putin really loves)
        9. deporting illegal migrants (which would quickly become an ICE-style scandal deporting natives who look different and dwarf the Windrush scandal)
        • makingrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          building more gas turbine power stations

          Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

          cutting stamp duty on the biggest properties

          I don’t think oligarcs are too concerned about a few extra thousand pounds to pay! Btw… Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

          pulling out of the European Defence Fund

          Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

          cancelling our human rights act

          Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

          repealing the Equalities

          Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

          “scrapping” the BBC

          As I already said, it’s the licence fee, not the BBC. The licence fee is unfit for 2026 and it should be scrapped.

          stopping the boats (any method that really does it will be basically either impossible or illegal)

          How is that a “putin policy”? Russia are the ones behind it - look at Baltic/Russian borders for illegal crossings facilitated by Russia and Belarus. Not a Russia friendly policy at all. You’re wrong.

          defending our borders (more insular isolationism is what Putin really loves)

          Listen to yourself. Which country in the world doesn’t defend their borders? Wrong

          deporting illegal migrants (which would quickly become an ICE-style scandal deporting natives who look different and dwarf the Windrush scandal)

          How tiresome. Is that Russia friendly? No. Wrong again!

          • makingrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I’ll save you replying to my requests for linkage. You were likely referencing their 2024 manifesto. I still disagree that those are “Puitin policies”, we clearly have different viewpoints and won’t persuade one another.