The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel

[MrCurry]

Cummings breaks lockdown rules with impunity and receives PM’s backing. Priti nasty Patel breaks ministerial code with impunity and receives PM’s backing.

Looks ever more like a thug regime where the functionaries have zero accountability as long as they still serve a useful function to the thug-in-chief.

 

[The39thStep]

then again matey has resigned because of Johnsons response - not the most ringing endorsement

. Of course . In my experience of investigations at work the ‘on balance’ remarks he made set out mitigation and give leeway to a possible appeal . If I’d have written the report she’d have been out the door .

 

[The39thStep]

Cummings breaks lockdown rules with impunity and receives PM’s backing. Priti nasty Patel breaks ministerial code with impunity and receives PM’s backing.

Looks ever more like a thug regime where the functionaries have zero accountability as long as they still serve a useful function to the thug-in-chief.

True but you honestly expect anything different?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Cummings breaks lockdown rules with impunity and receives PM’s backing. Priti nasty Patel breaks ministerial code with impunity and receives PM’s backing.

Looks ever more like a thug regime where the functionaries have zero accountability as long as they still serve a useful function to the thug-in-chief.

It's why I think there'll be no post-brexit clearout of useless ministers. Johnson faces no consequences for employing loyal morons in the great offices of state, so why would he change tack now? Any kind of half-decent politician would only show him up, or even as in the case of Sunak one who seems just about competent but able to put on clothes properly and operate a comb. If Javid's corpse were not still warm I doubt Sunak would have survived as long as he has.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's why I think there'll be no post-brexit clearout of useless ministers. Johnson faces no consequences for employing loyal morons in the great offices of state, so why would he change tack now? Any kind of half-decent politician would only show him up, or even as in the case of Sunak one who seems just about competent but able to put on clothes properly and operate a comb. If Javid's corpse were not still warm I doubt Sunak would have survived as long as he has.

now sunak's said that (non-military and non-nhs) public sector workers will foot the bill for spaffing all those billions on corrupt contracts i think it's safe to say that by the time johnson departs rs's goose will be well and truly cooked. certainly by the end of april (as matters stand) his vaunted and misbegotten reputation for competence will be in shreds.

 

[brogdale]

now sunak's said that (non-military and non-nhs) public sector workers will foot the bill for spaffing all those billions on corrupt contracts i think it's safe to say that by the time johnson departs rs's goose will be well and truly cooked. certainly by the end of april (as matters stand) his vaunted and misbegotten reputation for competence will be in shreds.

You'd think, but they've got no-one else, have they?

 

[Pickman's model]

You'd think, but they've got no-one else, have they?

natural party of government MY ARSE

 

[brogdale]

natural party of government MY ARSE

(paid enough) I reckon that Sunak could actually put my bins out on the correct day; the rest...?

 

[Pickman's model]

(paid enough) I reckon that Sunak could actually put my bins out on the correct day; the rest...?

yeh but he'd put all the other bins out with them

 

[brogdale]

yeh but he'd put all the other bins out with them

Thought you were going to say he'd subcontract out to one of Dildo Harding's cowboy corporate shells at £3.6m/bin.

 

[Pickman's model]

Thought you were going to say he'd subcontract out to one of Dildo Harding's cowboy corporate shells at £3.6m/bin.

don't call her dildo, it makes her sound better than she is

 

[not a trot]

don't call her dildo, it makes her sound better than she is

At least a proper dildo is useful.

 

[SpookyFrank]

now sunak's said that (non-military and non-nhs) public sector workers will foot the bill for spaffing all those billions on corrupt contracts i think it's safe to say that by the time johnson departs rs's goose will be well and truly cooked. certainly by the end of april (as matters stand) his vaunted and misbegotten reputation for competence will be in shreds.

That kind of bullshit counts as competence among tory chancellors. Sunak has successfully propped up the housing market and the financial sector at vast public expense and that's all that really matters.

 

[Pickman's model]

That kind of bullshit counts as competence among tory chancellors. Sunak has successfully propped up the housing market and the financial sector at vast public expense and that's all that really matters.

until it crashes in the new year because there are no passporting arrangements.

we're approaching a time which will make previous times of hardship like the thatcher recession of the early 1980s, the dotcom bust of 20 years ago and the financial crash of 2008 look like a tea party. whole swathes of the economy will be found in ruins when the furlough tide ebbs out in march. well-known companies will disappear forever from the high streets and from the internet too. and this won't be only 'the proles' being affected, this will be the first great shock in living memory which takes large numbers of the middle classes with it too. there'll be a wave of repossessions to rival and eclipse anything seen in the 1990s. and rather than learn the lessons of 2008 sunak - or his successor - will not speculate to accumulate, investing in young people and jobs, they will go back to the failed politics of austerity. the lost decade we've just had will be but the precursor to a decade of horrors we haven't seen yet - johnson's not shoving money at the armed forces for nothing, you know.

 

[stavros]

don't call her dildo, it makes her sound better than she is

At least a proper dildo is useful.

There is a halfway house:

 

[GarveyLives]

Here, the Home Secretary successfully manages to read out a 30 second public relations statement saying that she is "sorry" for abusing her staff in the workplace:

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[gosub]

 

[The39thStep]

and curiouser and curiouser forner top civil servant ( who might have his own axe to grind tbf ) states

 

[GarveyLives]

Here, the Home Secretary successfully manages to read out a 30 second public relations statement saying that she is "sorry" for abusing her staff in the workplace:

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"It’s arrogant and driven by her thirst for power and superiority.

“It is a statement of invincibility and a declaration that her ‘bullying’ approach is very unlikely to be modified by the current findings.”

Priti Patel Struggles To Apologise – Again

 

[editor]

 

[Jay Park]

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pertinent

 

[andysays]

Boris Johnson 'asked for Patel report to be palatable', source claims

Boris Johnson is facing questions about whether he tried to tone down an independent report which said Home Secretary Priti Patel broke the ministerial code by bullying staff.

Downing Street has insisted the conclusions of Sir Alex Allan's investigation were "entirely his own". But a Whitehall source told the BBC that Sir Alex resisted pressure to make the findings more "palatable".

In light of the findings, Ms Patel gave a "fulsome apology" and said there were "no excuses" for her conduct. But she said she was not "supported" at the time claims were made by her department and that "issues were not pointed out to" her.

Gotta love those "no excuses, but it was someone else's fault" apologies...

 

[dessiato]

She was always going to get away with it. Johnson had signalled this very clearly when he said he would back her, before the investigation was concluded.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Here, the Home Secretary successfully manages to read out a 30 second public relations statement saying that she is "sorry" for abusing her staff in the workplace:

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'I'm sorry you felt that way' is the classic gaslighter's apology.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

The barbarian shithole rag The Scum accidentally lets the cat out the bag about the nature of capitalism

 

[Treacle Toes]

and curiouser and curiouser forner top civil servant ( who might have his own axe to grind tbf ) states

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Where is this from?

 

[The39thStep]

Where is this from?

released through the FDA union for civil servants’

 

[Artaxerxes]

Anti bullying week last week as well.

 

[not-bono-ever]

 

[two sheds]

They won't mind being told to fuck off at every available opportunity then.