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Friday 10 November 2023 17:25 GMT
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Rishi Sunak looks like a scared schoolboy in all of this
Rishi Sunak looks like a scared schoolboy in all of this (PA Wire)

The recent statement from No 10 (about Suella Braverman) is both illogical and flawed in equal measure. How can you have full confidence in someone if they defy and embarrass you?

This is now turning into a farce. Rishi Sunak looks like a scared schoolboy in all of this, where even is he?

He needs to show he’s in charge and sack the home secretary immediately, that would close all this out. This delay further undermines and belittles him.

Dale Hughes

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How have we sunk so low?

Rarely, if ever, did I agree with George Osborne when he was a chancellor of the exchequer. However, I find myself in total agreement now. Rishi Sunak must sack Suella Braverman.

The home secretary’s weaponisation of Remembrance Day is utterly disgraceful. Thanks to her hateful rhetoric we shall now see far-right thugs descend on Whitehall and possibly other London locations. How have we sunk so low as a country that these execrable individuals are called patriots and enjoy headlines across the media?

I am pleased that the peace march is going ahead and wish good luck to any readers who are attending, along with all those at the cenotaph and the local memorials tomorrow.

Robert Boston

Kent

Gone are the ‘good’ days

Remember the “good old days” when the Conservative government just bumbled along from one crisis to the next. When we excused incompetence with a shrug of the shoulders and a sigh of “that’s just Boris!” When prime ministers came and went as often as local buses.

Well, those days are disappearing fast! Theresa May once warned her party not to appear as “the nasty party”, I cannot imagine how she feels now as she sits on the back benches and watches such a vicious, intolerant faction lead her party.

Our civil rights are under threat in a way that would have been unimaginable in the recent past. Protest is vilified as undermining the state and, as many commentators have pointed out, access to the truth is disappearing in a blitz of propaganda and distortion. I shudder to think where all this is heading.

John Dillon

Birmingham

A right to demonstrate peacefully

The Royal British Legion is absolutely correct in reminding politicians that we have the right to demonstrate peacefully against the brutal war in Palestine. 

It is not acceptable to support Hamas. Their barbaric attack on 7 October needs to be condemned in the strongest terms. The hostages must be released and the perpetrators (and their evil sponsors) brought to justice.

The USA, UK and others also need to persuade Israel that it is not acceptable to punish the people of Gaza. Find and bring the perpetrators to justice – but do not condemn the whole Palestinian population to continued unimaginable suffering. 

The police indicate that most protesters want to demonstrate peacefully. They are pressing Western governments to search for a peaceful solution and to stop the annihilation of Gaza.

The Act of Remembrance is solemn and I am sure everyone we are remembering wanted peace and justice in the world. This means that demonstrations against this brutal conflict are entirely right and proper in this period of Remembrance.

In contrast, Suella Braverman seems to be deliberately inciting hatred and undermining the police. Her statements are totally unacceptable and mean that she is not fit to be part of any government, let alone hold the distinguished office of home secretary.

Malcolm Munro-Faure

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Don’t waste the money

The Independent’s readership owes Adam Forrest a debt of gratitude for providing us with an informative summary of Nadine Dorries’ blockbuster “The Plot”.

Dorries has, for once, done something in the public interest. Providing insights which prove to be much of a detriment to her own party, the floundering Boris Johnson and a confirmation of the Tory party chaos.

One of the more interesting of the many glimpses into Tory party infighting and dysfunctionality was Johnson’s curious self-appraisal as a poisonous snake – a creature that many might view as best retained in isolation rather than in No 10.

Should anyone have been tempted to buy what appears to be an early and verbose epitaph on a dying Tory party they can, thanks to Adam’s article, keep their hard-earned and inflation-ravaged money in their pockets. There is little more that we need to know.

David Nelmes

Newport

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