Michael Gove insists Suella Braverman is ‘first-rate politician’ as pressure mounts over reappointment

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  1. If she is a first rate politician I’d hate to see what a third rate one according to Gove is. Despicable party.

  2. Any endorsement from that scrotum-faced arse-wagon should be seen as the worst possible indictment upon the person it was made.

  3. Maybe she is, although I do have my doubt, but that in no way exonerates her for her deliberate security breach.

    She needs to be removed. End of.

  4. Its like Suella thinks resigning to avoid an investigation is some knd of cheat code.

    Or maybe resigning-with-the-promise-of-a-job-by-the-next-prime-minister-allegedly is the real cheat code here.

  5. I assume in his head he’s defining “politician” as “person who subverts people and systems to achieve their own aims” rather than “public servant”.

  6. When you have Michael Gove wheeled out to defend someone; *then they are fucked*

    Anyone remember ‘*form a square around the Pritster*’?

  7. I don’t think the email asking the incorrect recipient to delete the email is the smoking gun people seem to framing it as. That’s fairly standard practice if an email has been sent to the wrong person. Nail her for everything else she has done, absolutely, but asking someone to dispose of something they shouldn’t be in possession of doesn’t prove it was an attempt to ‘cover up’.

  8. She’s first rate at managing to stay in power despite being completely fucking incompetent.

    By the standards of this Tory government, that makes her a first-rate politician.

  9. As John Crace points out in his [political sketch](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/27/tories-unite-in-their-perforated-defence-of-leaky-sue), we now have a Home Secretary whose position is so indefensible that they cannot be allowed out to defend themselves:

    > it’s one thing for the prime minister and his outriders to lie on her behalf. They can claim they were misinformed. But it’s a bad look for the home secretary to lie on her own behalf. So she’s holed up indefinitely, waiting for the crisis to pass.

  10. She is a first rate cunt like the rest of you Tories, Michael.

    ***None*** of you Tory fucks are even third-rate politicians, let alone first.

    Criminals, liars and cunts. That’s all the Tory party is full of.

  11. Next week; Gove stabs her in the back, up to the hilt

    Two weeks: Gove is sacked for showing disloyalty to the party

    Next month: Gove is reinstated and no one knows why

  12. Please. She’s not even second rate.

    How the hell she ever became a barrister is a mystery. How she became Attorney General isnt, she was given the role by someone equally as stupid and promoted above their ability

  13. Gove… The man who insisted we didnt need to listen to experts.

    They really dont give a shit about anyone but themselves and their own.

    She should never have been reinstated and along with Truss and Kwasi should be removed from the party or at the very least forced into a by election and let the public decide their fate.

  14. Guys a world class liar. He will quite happily tell you something that is obviously false with conviction and an unflinching lack of shame.

  15. She’s barely competent and intent on inflicting American style “culture wars” rhetoric on uk political discourse. She’s cancer.

  16. This lays bare the divisions in the Tory party in a way that makes clear we are going to continue to have dysfunctional government at least until there’s an election.

    I doubt Sunak is stupid; her appointment wasn’t because she’s competent, I think everybody knows that by now. There have been enough people who know her publicly stating that she wasn’t especially good at her day job as a lawyer to infer that. It’s also worth bearing in mind that her views on immigration, as the person in charge of immigration, are diametrically opposed to the Government’s apparent growth and “levelling up” agendas since our ageing population is not going to be able to fix our ailing economy long term without importing youth and skills from abroad. Japan is the archetype to look to in this regard. There is no objective reason for her being in post, even before we get to her breach of the ministerial code and her dangerous bone-headedness.

    She’s in post because she’s a wing-nut and the other wing-nuts in the part love her and don’t like Sunak. If she goes, they may be liable to start going rogue. Again.

    It’s ridiculous.

  17. Please please keep her there. I really want to see how far the rabbit hole goes. Idiotic “anti woke” rhetoric, lost trust of MI5, security breaches on email, general all round cunt and shit human, it could be glorious. There hasn’t been a good treason trial for ages, we could be in for a good one.

  18. So we have probably one of the biggest names in the Tory party out defending Braverman … Braverman sacked by Wednesday.

  19. I don’t know if she’s a first-rate politician, but she seems to be a fourth-rate human being.

  20. That’s because Gove himself is a third-rate politician who believes himself to be first-rate, and recognises a rough equality with Braverman.

  21. Like Gove has a moral compass and is a good judge of character……

    She’s just another talentless liar, like the rest of the cabinet.

  22. I’m sorry but no. If I did that working whrr I work is be in jail faster than the damage could spread. Why is she not in chains right now?

  23. Lying Tory protects incompetent Tory. Imagine if they cared as much about the country and its people as they do about themselves are their vile party

  24. The fact that Gove himself is somehow regarded as an intellectual powerhouse and savvy operator tells you how hard they’re now scraping the bottom of the barrel.

  25. Ah there we go. Gove has been just a tad too reasonable and on the money the last week or so. This is actually really helpful to remind us all and clear up that he’s a fucking drip-nosed ghoulish Tory piece of shit.

  26. She was fired, for a stupid and potentially dangerous blunder. She’s not a first rate anything, she’s a fucking liability.

    Sack her immediately.

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