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The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel

Yesterday's Mirror had it that she was in trouble - to the point of being at risk of the chop - for not defending Cummings over his jaunt up north, but there wasn't much sign of it today. More's the pity.
Couldn't sack her in the middle of the BLM protests.
 
Yesterday's Mirror had it that she was in trouble - to the point of being at risk of the chop - for not defending Cummings over his jaunt up north, but there wasn't much sign of it today. More's the pity.

She was busy defending the clusterfuck that is quarantine. Leaked memo to border force agents says with regards to the forms that must be submitted at the border, they will only attract attention if people put their names down as Mickey Mouse or address as Buckingham Palace, so that’s Nonce Andrew in trouble again should he pass a border...
 
She was busy defending the clusterfuck that is quarantine. Leaked memo to border force agents says with regards to the forms that must be submitted at the border, they will only attract attention if people put their names down as Mickey Mouse or address as Buckingham Palace, so that’s Nonce Andrew in trouble again should he pass a border...
There must be some sort of clownavirus that affects these twats - they're all the bloody same, pulling fanciful and (on current track record) unfeasible promises out of their backsides every time they hit a new adversity.
 
She wielded the victim card in Parliament today, regarding receiving racist abuse in her youth. It didn't seem to answer the question in the slightest, so Dick and Dom will be proud.
It was an absolute face-palm shocker of a moment: Flo Eshalomi (Vauxhall MP) was saying the UK has a structural racism problem and suggested the Government didn't understand it and didn't know how to deal with it. Patel proved her right by ignoring the question and saying "yeah, well I got called a p**i when I was a kid."

Matt Handjob then also blatantly ignored a question at the daily briefing about why black people were more likely to get fined for breaches of the lockdown. He nearly fell apart when the journo (Haroon Saddique of the Guardian) ticked him off for saying his name wrong. They don't know how to deal with race and just fall apart whenever they're questioned about it.
 
Wait, what?

Answering questions about recent protests linked to the death of George Floyd in the US, Ms Patel turned her fire on Keir Starmer for supposedly not breaking with the policies of his predecessor.

She said: “I’m saddened that the leader of the opposition has effectively failed to depart from the divisive, hateful, racist politics of its former leader.”



Ms Patel did not make clear exactly which of Mr Corybn’s policies she regarded as racist.




 
Wait, what?




I know most people will have seen this already, but this is the question from Florence Eshalomi that prompted this escalating series of ministerial rants:

Vandalism and violence should never be accepted. I too pay tribute to the hard-working officers who have been on the frontline, including officers from my borough of Lambeth, who are often the first to be called whenever there is a protest because of our proximity to central London. Does the Home Secretary actually understand the anger and frustration felt by so many people? Does the Home Secretary recognise that this protest is being led by young people? Does the Home Secretary recognise that there is structural inequality, discrimination and racism in our country? Does the Home Secretary recognise that people want to see action from the Government?

My son turned three yesterday. I do not want to have to wait until he is a teenager before we see changes in this country. Will the Home Secretary and the Government act now? Black lives matter, and we need to see the Government doing something about that.
 
Wait, what?




To be fair this is on the back of several years when the tories had to do nothing but say 'yeah but Jeremy Corbyn hates Jews' and whatever heinous catastrophe they'd created that week would somehow go away as a result. Hardly a surprise if she still falls back on that big red button now, it's not like independent thought is an option for her.
 
The supererogation of successive home-secretaries is plain to see. Just by being there they can claim their beneficence. After all they made it that far, and that is the point. We shall all be converted to the cause: be it ever so worn down. Hatred of others will make it embraceable as we embrace our own helplessness.
 
Going well then...

It's a Cunning Plan. They're going to sneak everybody out of her department, one by one, until there's only her left. And then the PM will announce that the bullying allegations clearly can't be true, because how could Priti "vacant" Patel be bullying herself?
 
The paper said senior civil servant Helen MacNamara is refusing to exonerate Ms Patel from some of the allegations of bullying, despite Boris Johnson’s aides reportedly wanting to say the inquiry found no conclusive evidence.

This riles me on a number of levels. The main one being, why have a fucking enquiry If you want it fixed? Why spend that money? Just state that you have looked into it and it was all tickedy-boo? These cunts have no grasp at all how much a pound is worth, yet they are entrusted with the finances of the bloody country.
 
There is an inescapable truth here.

If the report contained nothing that remotely incriminated or compromised Patel, they would be only too happy to have it released, and allow the whole business to be consigned to the dustbin of history.

Since they seem to be prepared to invest quite a lot of political capital in continuing to try to suppress it, the implication would seem to be that, whatever it contains, it must be worse than the reputational loss they're incurring by quite so blatantly trying to do so.
 
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