Poor Suella
Braverman. It has long been her fondest dream to see a plane taking off for
Rwanda filled with unhappy, and preferably tearful, would-be immigrants. It looks
very much as if the Supreme Court will tell us all on Wednesday whether her
dream is lawful or not. One rather suspects that she would quite like to be
at Heathrow to wave it off on 25th December. There can, after all,
be few more thoughtful Christmas gifts for desperate people than a free one-way
flight to a country of which they’ve never heard. It is also looking extremely
probable that she will by then, in any event, be just another former Home Secretary, leaving
someone else to gloat over the flight, if it is indeed to take place.
The reason for her
pending departure, assuming that Sunak manages to find a tiny fragment of
backbone down the back of the settee where he usually hides his principles, is
that her second fondest dream came true just yesterday. She hoped for
disruption, violence and mass arrests and was presumably delighted when she got
some. She is probably a little disappointed that those arrested for the
disruption and violence were her supporters rather than the ones she wanted
arrested but will probably conclude that it just confirms what she said about
police bias. It is clearly unfair that the police deliberately targeted those
using violence rather than those just doing a bit of chanting. She probably
wishes that the other Suella Braverman – the one who told police to stop
messing about investigating hate crimes and concentrate on real crimes such as
violence – had never opened her mouth.