Editor’s note:  This piece was written prior to very relevant information being discovered regarding the threatening letter incident which ended up with the perpetrator, who had also sent fake ‘chemical weapons’ to parliamentarians being imprisoned.  There was a good deal to suggest at the time that this threatening letter was a hoax but it turned out to be real but done by one lone nutter rather than any organised group.  Much of this article which has recently resurfaced is now out of date.

It’s normally a good rule of thumb that when a British government minister is in trouble and the Prime Minister says: ‘I have every confidence in them’, it is likely that that minister is on their way out. This has been the situation with regards to Amber Rudd the now ex-Home Secretary.

Although the press is linking this resignation to the Windrush scandal, whereby first generation migrants from Britain’s former colonies in the West Indies, many of them hard working and loyal individuals, were removed from the UK, this is not the main reason she has gone. Amber Rudd has resigned because she did not tell the whole truth about the situation regarding removal targets for illegal immigrants to Parliament.

Amber Rudd denied that there were targets for removals when there was evidence that there was such a target. Personally I have no issue with targets for removals of illegals and I don’t think it should be ten or twenty or whatever percent, it should be all of the illegals. If illegals are in the United Kingdom then the presumption should be that they are removed to their countries of origin or to whichever country will take them, we should not be just removing 10% of them and calling it a success, we should be clearing all these criminals out.

Amber Rudd misled Parliament and that, and not the scandal created by the media and race baiting MP’s like David Lammy over the issue of Windrush, was what did for Ms Rudd. Lying to or misleading Parliament when asked questions about an issue is an absolute no-no in the British constitutional system and rightly so.

Amber Rudd was a particularly appalling and authoritarian Home Secretary, on a par with or even worse than her predecessor Theresa May, now the Prime Minister. Ms Rudd presided over an increasingly authoritarian and incompetent Home Office which saw the Home Secretary threaten gaol terms for what she referred to as ‘far right material’. She oversaw and did not seem to disapprove of increasing crackdowns on free speech and presided over a border control system that has not secured our borders nor done much to remove those illegal migrants who slip past border control to enter the UK.

However there is the possibility that Amber Rudd’s replacement could be a similar or worse nightmare than Ms Rudd has been. According to Sky News, the ‘bookies favourite’ for elevation to the post of Home Secretary is Sajid Javid, currently the Secretary of State at the Department of Housing Communities and Local Government. This should worry anybody concerned with both freedom of speech and the concept of equitable policing. Sajid Javid has presided over a department that has spunked millions of pounds on various politically correct guff and on Islamic organisations such as the Tell Mama organisation who were granted £1.9 million in February of this year. A person who sees nothing wrong with giving so much of our money to groups like Tell Mama, which exists in large part to tell British people to ‘shut up’ when it comes to discussing the issue of the problems that Islam has brought to Britain, is in my view not suitable for such high office.

There are also, as this blog highlighted, character issues surrounding Sajid Javid, character issues that came to the fore over the  ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ furore of a few months back. During that period Sajid Javid claimed to have received one of these infamous ‘Punish a Muslim’ day letters and published a picture of what he said was the actual letter that came to his office. However it wasn’t long before eagle eyed users of social media spotted that the picture that Mr Javid was hawking round and whining about was not of the actual letter in question but merely a publicity picture of a ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ letter put out by the Tell Mama. When Mr Javid was called out on this falsehood he quickly deleted the Tweet and made a lot of lame excuses for not showing the real letter such as he wanted to hide the original letter for security reasons. This excuse plainly did not wash with some observers including myself as I know how easy it would have been for either the minister or one of his flunkies to redact the identifying details on this letter. Other commentators such as Shazia over at Alt News Media also questioned Mr Javid’s account of the story about the receipt of the letter.

Shazia at Alt News Media said:

On the 9^th March TellMama blogged on their website and shared an image of the letter which was then used by Sajid Javid who claimed that he had also received the letter. The picture of the letter Javid allegedly received was nothing more than a cropped copy of the one TellMama released.  He soon deleted the picture from his social media after many people called him out on the fact that he was sharing someone else’s letter and not an actual image of his own letter. The excuse he gave was that his letter contained personal information and he felt the need to crop it, which is total bullshit. If he had received a letter, he could very easily have blacked out the ‘personal’ content he didn’t want to share.

Britons should have a lot that we should be concern about when it comes to the idea that Sajid Javid should be Home Secretary. How likely is it that someone who has hosed down censorious and sometimes dishonest Islamic groups with millions of pounds of public money as Mr Javid has will protect the free speech of British subjects? I believe that it is highly unlikely, based on Mr Javid’s record at the DCLG, that he will protect our rights to speak freely. If he can sign off massive grants to groups like Tell Mama, who are favourable to the idea of censorship of counter Islam speech, then there is little chance that he will respect the inalienable right for British subjects to speak freely on the matter of Islam.

We should also be worried about the character issues that his involvement in the Punish a Muslim day hoax highlighted. If a minister can obfuscate to the public over the matter of a mere and obvious hoax threat letter and falsely claim that a publicity picture is the actual letter he received then what else would he dissemble about? After the incident with the false claims regarding the alleged letter, can we trust him on anything else such as migrant numbers, police policy, border control or any other of the myriad responsibilities that the Home Secretary has to contend with? I think not. A man who is prepared to dissemble about this hoax letter may also dissemble on other much more important issue. It’s a similar situation to politicians who cheat on their spouses because if a politician is prepared to lie to their wife or husband then they would probably lie to the electorate as well.

As for the other candidates that Sky News has claimed are likely successors to Ms Rudd, many of them do not fill me with much confidence. Only Karen Bradley and James Brokenshire seem half competent as neither Michael Gove or Jeremy Hunt have exactly stellar ministerial records. Mr Hunt has failed to tackle waste and inefficiency in the National Health Service, failed to curb NHS political correctness and done little to stop the abuse of the NHS by those from overseas who have never paid into the NHS pot. Michael Gove was once a person I admired for he did at least try to deal with the left dominated Education Department. But Mr Gove was not strong enough to evade the same snares that the Leftists set for him, as have been set for other Education Secretaries who have tried to bring intellectual vigour back to the UK’s schools and colleges. It would take a person with the character of Thatcher or Churchill and the guile of a Lloyd George to sort out Britain’s leftist dominated education system and Mr Gove is plainly not of such a calibre.

Out of the choice between Mr Brokenshire and Ms Bradley, Ms Bradley looks like the better bet. She’s kept her head down as far as the media is concerned as much as possible during her time as Northern Ireland minister, which is interesting as this as this has seemed to be a bit of a poison chalice of a post for obvious reasons. Mr Brokenshire will I believe suffer from his previous departure from the Northern Ireland post on ‘health grounds’, appointment to such a high position may cause questions about whether he is fit for the job. It is also likely that his prior involvement in immigration policy as minister for security and immigration, could also come back to haunt him, especially if there are any skeletons or questionable memos lurking in the cupboards of the Home Office.

I’m glad that Amber Rudd has gone, she was a truly useless Home Secretary, she did nothing to protect our country or our rights or to ensure that we have police and justice systems that are honest, impartial and uninfluenced by political fads. However I fear that with Rudd gone, Theresa May could appoint someone either as equally useless as Rudd. We do not need the Home Office to be run by ex ministers who have failed at previous high profile posts, such as Michael Gove or someone like Sajid Javid who has not only spunked our money on censorious Islamic groups, but cannot, it seems even be trusted to tell the whole truth about an alleged threatening letter.

It’s obvious that Theresa May has a dearth of high quality political talent from which to chose the next Home Secretary and we are liable to get either a ministerial retread or someone who equally unsuitable for the job. This is likely to give Britons the worst of all possible worlds when it comes to the politician who is supposed to not just oversee the police forces that are meant to protect us, but also a minister who is unlikely to be motivated to protect our rights.