Suella Braverman has reacted to a photo in which she was pictured standing on a guide dog’s tail at the Tory party conference.

The Home Secretary issued an “apology to all dogs” after she took to the stage at a Blue Collar Conservatism reception on Tuesday (3 October).

Ms Braverman was pictured with her foot on a guide dog’s tail.

The dog, named Inca, was at the conference with Guide Dogs UK, who are campaigning for a ban on pavement parking.

“I don’t think any dogs were harmed in the filming of my visit,” Ms Braverman said.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPA
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    218 months ago

    “I don’t think any dogs were harmed in the filming of my visit,” Ms Braverman said.

    Although she did later eat a puppy for lunch. Which didn’t get in the top ten of the worst things she did that day.

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      8 months ago

      Yeesh. If Braverman said nothing at all, it would have been better than trying to make a joke of it.

    • @snacks
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      28 months ago

      the fluffy ones are more tasty

    • @peg@lemmy.world
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      58 months ago

      I hear she hates her immigrant parents, Jewish husband, and herself for not being white.

  • @spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
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    108 months ago

    As a foreign observer, the UK seems to have seen the clown show going on in the “United” States and decided they want in on the ridiculousness. It’s a sad time to be alive.

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      8 months ago

      Exceptionalism. We had the ridiculousness down pat before yous were a country you knob 😂

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      As usual the difference between the US and UK is that the US clown show is over the top and overstated all-signing-all-dancing slapstick, while the UK clown show is the kind of cringe delivered entirely deadpan that you watch through your fingers because it’s too embarrassing to watch any other way, and that we will nervously laugh at the next day while wondering just how badly we’ll feel the consequences.

      But they both do the job of totally fucking everyone but their donors over.

  • @guriinii@lemmy.world
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    58 months ago

    Some of this reads like satire, absolutely bizarre, much like most of the things coming out of this conference.

    • @tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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      8 months ago

      In most of the UK yes, subject to local council byelaws - eg. locally the rule is if you can’t get a wheelchair past, you get a ticket (although enforcement is basically non-existent).

      In London it is actually illegal.