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In June, Braverman used secondary legislation – which is subject to less parliamentary scrutiny – to allow police to restrict or shut down any protest that they believe could cause “more than minor disruption to the life of the community”.

A cross-party parliamentary committee said this is the first time secondary legislation has been used to make changes to the law that have already been rejected by Parliament. Akiko Hart, interim director of Liberty, which launched initial legal action in June and now has received permission from the High Court to sue the home secretary, described the move as “the latest power grab from this government", adding that "we all want to live in a society where our government respects the rules – but the home secretary has done the opposite."

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Braverman, daughter of Christie Fernandez, a Kenyan man of Indian descent who for some reason has a Hispanic name. Who managed to get a British passport right before the Mau Mau uprising, in which Kenya gained independence from the British colonies, which was started due to the terrible conditions in the British concentration camps in Kenya. Upon arriving to the UK he landed a job as head of a Housing Association. Now, his daughter wants to go back to Africa to set up British concentration camps again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Clearly he did too good a job of integrating her into the prevailing culture of the time of self-hating.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'd prefer to see her facing a fight with a tank full of hungry sharks, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If the provisions that were snuck in were shut down by the house of Lords does that mean the commons passed it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The government quietly ditched its plans to help refugees learn English

Suella Braverman's attack on immigrants and refugees “not learning the language” came after the government quietly broke its promise to help people learn English, openDemocracy can reveal.

This week both the home secretary and the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson, publicly condemned people for not speaking English after arriving in the UK.

But openDemocracy has discovered that the government ditched its 2018 pledge to publish a strategy to “improve our strategic approach to English language provision”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lee Anderson is a moron larping as a Nazi, and should be sent to Kenya.