How sad, just as thieves, murderers and looters such as Winston Churchill and General Reginald Dyer were about to find a rightful heir to their blood-stained legacies in a brown memsahib by the name of Suella Braverman, British prime minister Liz Truss sacked her from her government. And then Truss herself resigned. Braverman’s exit excuse, according to international television reports, seems to be that the Home Secretary had sent out an email from her personal ID, giving the current UK administration a piece of her mind on its purported lack of direction and general weakness of government, the remnants of a ruthless empire that once the sun would never set on, a fact that Braverman could never seem to have been able to come to terms with. The breach of protocol was that the email was dispatched from Braverman’s personal email ID and not the official ID that the Home Secretary would have been provided with!

And just how bad was Truss’s standing internationally? Her resignation makes the pound rise against the dollar, that bad! And what was her explanartion for her failure?: that the illegal war in Ukraine has held back the entire continent and so she was not being able to deliver on her mandate, of the Conservative Party! she will hold her position as prime minister till a successor is chosen.

Braverman also had reservations against a trade deal that the UK had planned with India as “it would increase the number of Indian migrants in the UK” she believed. Expectedly, Braverman also criticised a deal that her predecessor Priti Patel had signed with India giving India an increase in work and student visas. The debate made for interesting viewing, Patel an Indian with a view, and the rather Klanish Braverman, who is also of Indian origin, though her parents had moved to the UK in the ’60s from Mauritius and Kenya. Together, Truss and Braverman prove that the UK, for all its old empires and aged royals, has lost its sense of wellbeing, leave aside its position on the world map, including being a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

Braverman’s purported breach of protocol of course wasn’t her tirade against Indian migrants, according to her worst of overstayers in the UK, and her saying she was proud of “her empire” and would “not apologise” for anything it had done in history. Ongoing disruptions in that country she attributed to ‘Guardian-reading, tofu eating workerati…’! And to think that the UK boasts an ‘unwritten’ constitution that is run by ‘convention’. 

With a new recent surge in nationalism, Bharat meanwhile must learn from people such as Braverman. Not that she matters in the larger scheme of things, as her demeanour establishes, but in the context of creating more quality job opportunities in this country, along with stricter rules for those whose education we pay for, subsidised as they are in universities, medical colleges and technical institutes. Those who avail of such facilities must have the  most stringent laws of serving the country in the most interior places, serving the people who have paid their tuition fees. The colonial hangover that any doctor with a “foreign degree” is better than the ones who have studied and gratefully served within the country must go, just in the way those whose education we pay for must know that they owe their careers and comfort to people who have broken their backs to pay for them.

As for Braverman’s overstaying allegation against Indians, the world knows that down history overstaying, by force mostly, more than anyone else, has always been the privilege of the British. The British public, though, for their part, seem to know what’s good for them–they simply couldn’t wait to show Truss and Braverman the door!