Thread by @atatimelikethis

Dominic Raaaab.
Unique among foreign secretaries in ignorance and stupidity.

#Raab yesterday, while defending an indefensible bill which hands statue damage a longer sentence than rape...in the NEXT SENTENCE, undermined everything Churchill stood for after the war.

How? Why?

This was Churchill in 1948, after the war talking of what was needed to ensure the evil could never happen again

“In the centre of our movement stands the idea of a Charter of Human Rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law.”

The European Convention on human rights ECHR

And this is Raab yesterday, straight after he was:
tough on Statue Criminals,
tough on the causes of idle statue damage.

" If we restrict trade to countries with ECHR-level human rights we're not going to do many trade deals with the growth makets of the future. "

This is no surprise. People who make bad decisions, say evil things, don't suddenly wake up to themselves.

I think this is the 872nd time I'm attaching this ⬇️

Some have questioned my rape comparisons, the questions are legitimate.

I did check, I didn't clarify.

This comparison isn't easy since there are three categories of rape which carry max sentences and only one category of statue damage

Note, my last sentence is already absurd

Of the 3 categories of rape, I considered which are most analogous to the category of statue damage.

Obviously I concluded none were.

But, forced into a decision, I would exclude extreme psychotic rape or rape designed to torture

I include rape as a crime of passion.

Since the statue damage was a reaction not premeditated this seemed fair.

Well, as fair as this ludicrous comparison.

And on that basis against a max sentence of 9 years for category 3 rape, I believe this thread is correct.

For the record

This Government is tough on statue damage

And

Tough on the causes of statue damage.

Provided those causes are women or black people protesting about the same Government's contribution to the incredible growth in bias in society resulting from their rhetoric.