BRACE yourself – thur’s been a tweet. This weekend, the Home Secretary shared her thoughts on Twitter about how to clean up Britain’s high…
BRACE yourself – thur’s been a tweet. This weekend, the Home Secretary shared her thoughts on Twitter about how to clean up Britain’s high streets.
Deciding whether or not to put sugar in your tea, or choosing to go on a park run or to the pub on a Saturday afternoon – or opting for or against getting a Gousto box – these are lifestyle choices. Being homeless is just the latest social status this Tory government has decided must be a “lifestyle choice”. Earlier this year, professional ex-soldier Johnny Mercer told struggling former soldiers that deciding to drop into a foodbank to fill their children’s bellies was also a matter of “personal choice” and didn’t tell us anything interesting or significant about the impact of poverty in the UK.
It’s tempting to think nobody could be dumb enough to believe what the Home Secretary just tweeted out – but Braverman shows every sign of meaning every word she says. Sunak’s longing for a more buccaneering approach to financial life is the corporate mirror of Braverman’s lifestyle choices. This was only one of Sunak’s follies last week. Political interference in operational policing is now a good thing, apparently – though I seem to have overlooked the strenuous objections of Scotland’s Tory MSPs.
If Remembrance Day isn’t an “appropriate” moment to reflect on what the 20th century has taught us about human suffering, and the pity and injustice of war – then I’m not sure when could be.
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