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Home secretary criticised for tweets vowing to restrict use of tents by homeless people ‘many of them from abroad’
Home secretary criticised for tweets vowing to restrict use of tents by homeless people ‘many of them from abroad’
The difference between Braverman and a pantomime villain is that she actually has the power to make this stuff happen. It remains to be seen if these are just empty words, but it’s definitely worth reporting that a government minister intends to start putting people in prison for being destitute.
Well it’s mostly empty words so far. Most of the things she said she’s going to do have no basis in Law - as I suspect she suspect she knows - she hasn’t got much in the table in terms of changing that, in the little time she has left.
She’s not above performative cruelty, but the reality she says lots horrible things and enacts few of them.
True, I doubt this would actually happen - she’s likely whipping up the right wing Tory members as a prelude to her leadership campaign.
Still, it’s a government minister saying this dirge, not just a random powerless backbencher.
Not enough room in prison. Perhaps they could build some sort of accommodation where you could concentrate all these people. They could be housed and work, all under one roof.
Call it ‘House of Work’ or something similar.
Giving then useful work would make them free of all their other problems.