Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK
7 months ago by MonsterMonster to c/unitedkingdom
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.
So many to choose from! How about building more gas turbine power stations (thereby increasing demand for gas, pushing the global price up and benefitting Gazprom even if they don't buy directly from them), cutting stamp duty on the biggest properties (including most of those bought by Russian oligarchs) and pulling out of the European Defence Fund? All straight from the last Reform manifesto and I'd bet Putin would be in favour of those, wouldn't you?
If you don't like those, there's stuff like cancelling our human rights, repealing the Equalities Act and "scrapping" the BBC.
I suspect Reform would also open the floodgates to more Russian government funding, Nathan Gill style and otherwise, but they're not daft enough to put that in their manifesto.
Maybe you could say which Reform policies would Putin oppose? There's some he probably wouldn't care about either way, but oppose?
Agree....
Farage and pals are totally hanging out of Putin's arse and a lot of what they do and say will no doubt make him happy, especially when it comes to support for Ukraine.
Not sure which of their policies are the same as Putins though
Their leader is a Putin man.
(Sorry this Led By Dockers video seams to only be on Facebook and Instagram)
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