The home secretary, Suella Braverman, has described rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice” while defending her decision to restrict the use of tents by homeless people on the streets of Britain.
According to Whitehall insiders, Braverman plans to crack down on tents that cause a nuisance in urban areas such as high streets – amid growing numbers of rough sleepers and what the government considers a rise in antisocial behaviour.
The home secretary has also proposed the introduction of a civil offence, which could lead to charities being fined if they provide homeless people with tents, the Financial Times reported.
Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Braverman defended her proposals, saying: “The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.
“Unless we step in now to stop this, British cities will go the way of places in the US like San Francisco and Los Angeles, where weak policies have led to an explosion of crime, drug-taking, and squalor.
The UK has one of the most vile governments in the industrialized world.
Right, and it just so happens that more and more people are “choosing” to be homeless since the cost of living has deepened (never mind over a decade of Tory enforced austerity that came before it), and despite the fact that hundreds of rough sleepers die every year, mostly due to freezing temperatures and/or related illness…
It’s also a classic Tory projection move how in California the problem is due to policy, but where she makes the policy, it’s anything but… 🙄
San Diego passed a camping ban a few months ago. We are challenging it in court, but they’re doing the same hateful shit out here too.
many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice
Not so much a dog whistle, as a dog fog horn.
Hateful woman. Each time I think her policies can’t get any more evil she outdoes herself.
“Genuinely homeless” lol
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Par for the course with this woman and her party. She wants to send refugees off to Rwanda and believes many asylum seekers who claim asylum under grounds of persecution (IE being gay where you could be executed) are bullshitting and so should be sent back to be killed.
Staying alive is just a lifestyle choice though.
Versus people who are recreationally homeless i guess?
Keep in mind that it´s simply a lifestyle choice, nothing more.
“If you see a homeless person with a funny sign, they probably haven’t been homeless very long.” - Chris Rock
Cunt.
Just in case anyone is concerned, Bretherman is insane and has absolutely no idea or indeed any interest in what the “British people” want. And her and her useless excuse for a government are just biding their time until they get unceremoniously kicked out of office.
She has repeatedly claimed that “the people” are interested in immigration despite the fact that polling data shows that most people couldn’t give a flying rats backside about immigration.
The only people who care about immigration are the sort of people who get upset if somebody with slightly different coloured skin walks past them in the street. Or they hear previously unknown language that they suspect might be foreign or possibly Welsh. I.e morons
Unfortunately for everyone large swaths of the British public support her and her insane racist bullshit and will no doubt support this because they are lead poisoned narcissistic scum
Let me guess, she’s a Tory.
She’s as Tory as you can get
You misspelled cunt. It’s ok, i won’t hold it against you.
“They’re the same picture.”
The Tories used to be a bunch of out of touch weirdos who were obsessed with financial prudence above all else. Never giving any money to anybody. Unless they were already rich obviously
They were unpleasant for sure, but at least their political philosophy was fundamentally understandable even if it was undesirable.
This current lost are just awful for the sake of being evil. They don’t have any policys, they don’t have any concept of financial prudence, they’re just racist. That’s it at this point, that’s the entirety of their political image. Racism. They’re not Conservative anymore, they’ve managed to morph into something worse.
Edit, added a word
As it becomes more obvious that the right wing has nothing to offer ordinary people, right-wing politicians retreat into incendiary populist rhetoric. The easiest way for them to generate votes without offering anything positive is to select minority groups to blame for people’s problems and to offer to oppress these minorities. It’s part of how conservatism lurches towards fascism when the going gets tough.
Of course the going is only tough because the conservatives mismanage the economy. Which is hilarious in a kind of depressing way because they’re supposed to be the party that is all about the economy. They essentially believe in corporate self-regulation. If the corporations will regulate themselves then the government barely even need to exist.
That ideology seems to have gone out the window. Not that was ever any good but it did at least mean that they would probably leave minority groups alone, they wouldn’t be supported in any particular way, but then again no one was supported.
Of course at this point a minority group is anybody who doesn’t have six figures in their bank account
Cunts are my favourite animals! Your derogatory language is an insult to them.
My apologies. I hope to not confuse that cunt with any of the fairer sex. I mean no disrespect to women, just that one cunt.
They call it the Nasty Party for a reason.
Its a line that worked well for blair, i don’t know why Starmer doesn’t make use of it, it’s apt.
Cunt. To go after people that have already lost everything. She probably wants to freeze them to death this winter. Instead of being human and helping them.
Wow, this heifer really has zero concern for possible repercussions to her actions or her words.
Shall the Brits return to the days of the houses that lent you a rope to drape over for the night before you go back to your wandering homelessness? At least a rope to drape over at night wouldn’t be as much of an eyesore as a tent, right?!?
People should just start camping out on her property by the thousands just on principle.
Sleeping on clotheslines was the source of the term “hungover”.
Lifestyle choice, see?
Well in that case being hungover is practically a British institution.
The whole point of drinking is to do it to excess. If you can remember your name at the end of a night out it’s a failure.
The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people,
Great! So we will build tons of public housing, right?
many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.
Oh- Oh… Oh…
This fucking pariah of an mp needs to be taken out of office now.
Guillotines, what we need are Guillotines.
Blatant cruelty and using xenophobia to mask it. Thats some vile shit.
I’m not up to date with the online discussion of British politics. Is Cruella Braverman a thing already or do we need to make it happen?
That and “Suella de Ville”. And she’s fully deserving of either title. I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but where other politicians I dislike feel like they’re either doing the wrong things for the right reasons, or they’re selfish, corrupt or incompetent, Braverman feels like she gets off on the cruelty and is a genuinely evil person.
Definitely already a thing, she is a real piece of work…
If you want to ruin your weekend, hers is a rabbit hole to go down…