Suella Braverman is noted for her use of robust language, for example on refugees, for which Gary Lineker rightly criticised her. She has also been critical of tofu eaters, Guardian readers and a blob of activist lawyers and lefties (although she claims that these last points were not her words but simply appeared in an e-mail referring to her)
Even so she is keen to defend the right, and definitely her right, to be offensive.
In The Times, where she is occasionally to be found writing comment pieces she notes (13th March) that she has ordered police not to record non-crime hate incidents in most cases. She argues that ‘people are perfectly entitled to say things about politics,gender and religion that others find offensive’. Of course she has mind the ‘rights’ of transphobes and islamophobes here.
She also defends humour, satire and personally held views,irreverence and mockery.
One hopes therefore that the police will stop arresting people for protesting about the Royal Family.
In the meantime in the spirit of Ms Braverman one can only echo Gary Lineker’s tweet that her words on refugees have some comparison to the demonising language used in Nazi Germany,and indeed elsewhere where the far and fascist right have held power
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