The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel

[Marty1]

Seems a little ott this

Ott seems to be getting normalised.

I think many people are unfortunately becoming increasingly vulnerable to tribal media type hyperbole.

 

[two sheds]

Ott seems to be getting normalised.

I think many people are unfortunately becoming increasingly vulnerable to tribal media type hyperbole.

Yep you for one, particularly far-right media hyperbole

 

[existentialist]

And that is being polite.

It's also a terrible slur on fucking idiots everywhere.

 

[philosophical]

I was going to reply to your point until I read maomao's post, and I think he has it spot on.

We might all think she's disgraced, but it is a mark of the overweening self-regard she appears to hold herself in that she, really, couldn't give a fuck about what anyone thought about her Israel adventures - as far as she is concerned, she was right, and anyone saying otherwise is Just Plain Wrong. And not just on the Israel thing.

That seems to run through quite a lot of her behaviour, like writing through a stick of rock, and I think she's just got a very bad case of Politician Disease - the illness that says you must never, ever admit you're wrong, or that someone else has a point. And she's a critical case of that.

I notice that she's now claiming that she no longer holds the views on the death penalty she publicly held less than a decade ago. I don't believe her on that, either - she blows with the prevailing political wind, and she will be well aware that the appetite for the kind of viciousness she specialises in has diminished, so she's toning it down. I'd bet dollars to donuts that, given one iota of an opportunity, and she'd be back in among it with the "hang 'em high" brigade like she never left.

A vile specimen of humanity.

Next time you hear her speak, count how many times she says 'obviously'.
Her self regard is disproportionate to her ability.
Yet she is in power, it's all really fucked up.

 

[existentialist]

Ott seems to be getting normalised.

I think many people are unfortunately becoming increasingly vulnerable to tribal media type hyperbole.

You have no idea just how right you are about that

 

[Fedayn]

Anyone with more than one brain cell.

Not you then.

 

[existentialist]

Not you then.

A low blow...!

 

[brogdale]

Ott seems to be getting normalised.

I think many people are unfortunately becoming increasingly vulnerable to tribal media type hyperbole.

Says Staines fanboy.

 

[Marty1]

You have no idea just how right you are about that

Quite

 

[Sasaferrato]

Not you then.

 

[Marty1]

It’s amazing how het-up people can get over a blue passport.

 

[B.I.G]

It’s amazing how het-up people can get over a blue passport.

Its amazing how right wing people in poverty can be.

 

[existentialist]

I

It’s amazing how het-up people can get over a blue passport.

It's amazing how het up people can get over a burgundy passport.

 

[maomao]

Are they going to bring back those cut out bits with the name hand written on the paper behind them? It's not a proper British passport without them.

 

[Marty1]

I

It's amazing how het up people can get over a burgundy passport.

Yes, you do appear to be in a tiff over the whole shebang.

 

[existentialist]

Yes, you do appear to be in a tiff over the whole shebang.

And your mum smells too.

 

[gosub]

Well apart from sacking the civil servants and replacing them by Johnson/Cummings yes-men is a decided slide into totalitarianism. At least civil servants would provide some sort of check on their more lunatic actions.

Not sure but would guess senior civil servant at Home Office was probably involved in Windrush scandal

 

[Marty1]

Not sure but would guess senior civil servant at Home Office was probably involved in Windrush scandal

Apparently so.

As the most senior civil servant in the Home Office, Sir Philip, who was knighted in 2018, presided over the department during the Windrush scandal.

Who is Sir Philip Rutnam? Civil servant who quit Home Office — Evening Standard

From the West Coast rail fiasco to the Windrush scandal, Sir Philip Rutnam faced controversy in his civil service career before apparently becoming embroiled in a row with the Home Secretary.

apple.news

 

[Supine]

 

[Streathamite]

True, but the fact he's gone all out to say he won't settle indicates that he REALLY wants his day in court.
In fact, his whole statement was extraordinary. I have never seen a public statement from such a senior mandarin worded as strongly as that

To add to this: this is possibly a huge crack in the wall of the ruling class. Between the wing that know they are that class, and publicly conceal it but covertly relish it, and the wing that reeks of class privilege, but whose whole schtick is about pretending to be the exact opposite - a radical populist insurgency.

 

[Marty1]

I was going to question that tweet’s ‘educated guess’ - but then I noticed the account has a blue check mark, so I guess it can be taken seriously rather than tabloid

 

[tim]

SUPPORT THE MANDARINS: FIGHTING FOR JOBS!

 

[A380]

Instead he was more interested in cosplay.

Tom Windsor in working uniform earlier...

 

[A380]

What union are the civil service big cheeses in, is it FDA?

Most are in the FDA, some choose to stay in the PCS.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Ott seems to be getting normalised.

I think many people are unfortunately becoming increasingly vulnerable to tribal media type hyperbole.

Lol

 

[SpineyNorman]

Its amazing how right wing people in poverty can be.

You and marty have far more in common than either of you would ever acknowledge or admit. Both vile bigots but at least he knows what he is.

 

[SpineyNorman]

I was going to question that tweet’s ‘educated guess’ - but then I noticed the account has a blue check mark, so I guess it can be taken seriously rather than tabloid

Yes, when compared to your totally evidence based analysis that's definitely not just designed to support your far right agenda you can really see the contrast.

Me too, seems a bit flimsy tho. Sounds like he doesn’t like PP and has heard some bad things about her and has decided to take a strop emptying the contents of his pencil case onto the office floor before slamming the door behind him.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I fear it won't.

And the thing is (to address the comments upthread), this isn't about sympathy for a civil servant - it's about a government minister blatantly behaving like a cunt. It doesn't matter who she's doing that to, it's bang out of order.

But she's a well known shady fucker and was given the HS job anyway. This is not a government that cares about public opinion.

 

[Sprocket.]

I wonder how many picket lines Rutnam has breezed through in his career?

 

[not-bono-ever]

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