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Charity refuses to delete clip of Holocaust survivor confronting Home Secretary


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A charity which supports torture victims has defied Home Office demands to delete a video of Suella Braverman being confronted by a Holocaust survivor over her language on immigration.

Freedom From Torture has said the Home Secretary should be “ashamed” of her “dehumanising” rhetoric and it will not be “pressured into helping her hide it” by taking down the clip.

The video shows 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Joan Salter confronting the Government minister during a meeting in her Fareham constituency in Hampshire on Friday evening.

Charity refuses to delete clip of Holocaust survivor confronting Home Secretary | Evening Standard

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Historically, the UK has been telling its empire and the world that it was God's gift to humanity. Everything about the miserable lives of colonials told them that Britain was the land of milk and honey. In Ireland in the 1830s, still under British rule and on the eve of the Great Irish Famine, our primary schoolchildren were being thought to learn by heart the following poem:    

'I thank the goodness and the grace

'That on my birth have smiled,

'And made me in these Christian days,

'A happy English child

Is it any wonder that people from Britain's former colonies and mandated territories are wanting to go to Britain. That is what Suella Braverman's family did in the 1950s, only now, like the children of so many other immigrants, she wants to pull the ladder up behind her, and forgets her own heritage.

The reality is different for both the UK and many of its immigrants. In the first place, Britain, whose social services are being exploited, cannot live up to its own imperial image and, secondly, many immigrants are disappointed in there expectations of the UK having passed through many other countries believing the UK is where they must go. They are in for a rude awakening and frequently it is their naturalised offspring who suffer the most and turn on their country of birth, especially if they have not prospered in it. 

'A happy English child' - imagine, my great great grandparents whose families were devastated by the famine learned by rote to recite that jingle and some fled Ireland later for Britain where many were treated with the same discrimination and disdain visited upon modern immigrants today. 

Nothing changes, except maybe the faces (e.g. Suella Braverman) of the intolerant, although prejudice is permanent.  

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