not-bono-ever
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Doing the rounds of shouty anti snowflake types atm
The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel
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ruffneck23
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Might have? He's sueing her for constructive dismissal, so i think it's fair to say he does
philosophical
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Yup I was being too subtle
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Is it a war on 'woke' or just the people who happen to work in the same building as her?
This is taken from Martin Fletcher's article in the NS
... “She’s always seen herself as a future leader,” a former Tory cabinet minister of centrist persuasion told me. She has cultivated the support of Asian, Jewish and other big party donors like Jon Moynihan, Peter Cruddas and the Bamford family. She and Michael Gove were the only cabinet ministers invited to Rupert Murdoch’s wedding to Jerry Hall. She is a good glad-handler, and has an appeal to those grass-roots Tory members who pick the leader that Johnson’s more rarefied heir apparent, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, may lack.
“I don’t think it’s preposterous,” the former minister said of the idea that Patel could eventually become party leader. “If Priti can appeal to the party faithful as an anti-immigration, tough-on-law-and-order candidate, and do it with a winsome smile, she could have a strong chance.”
But, he added: “It affronts and offends me that someone like her can be a senior politician... She’s jolly, but fundamentally dim, mediocre, insecure and out of her depth in any of the roles she occupies.”
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How Priti Patel became unsackable
... “She’s always seen herself as a future leader,” a former Tory cabinet minister of centrist persuasion told me. She has cultivated the support of Asian, Jewish and other big party donors like Jon Moynihan, Peter Cruddas and the Bamford family. She and Michael Gove were the only cabinet ministers invited to Rupert Murdoch’s wedding to Jerry Hall. She is a good glad-handler, and has an appeal to those grass-roots Tory members who pick the leader that Johnson’s more rarefied heir apparent, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, may lack.
“I don’t think it’s preposterous,” the former minister said of the idea that Patel could eventually become party leader. “If Priti can appeal to the party faithful as an anti-immigration, tough-on-law-and-order candidate, and do it with a winsome smile, she could have a strong chance.”
But, he added: “It affronts and offends me that someone like her can be a senior politician... She’s jolly, but fundamentally dim, mediocre, insecure and out of her depth in any of the roles she occupies.”
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How Priti Patel became unsackable
teqniq
DisMembered
Whoops. I suspect this is not going to 'go away'. Until perhaps she does, that is.
www.theguardian.com
Officials ‘blocked access to witness’ in Priti Patel inquiry
Sir Alex Allan made repeated attempts to interview former top Home Office civil servant Sir Philip Rutnam, but was stymied
Larry O'Hara
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Without endorsing any of Patels politics I do find it fascinating that those liberals monstering her choose to blatantly ignore her gender, ethnicity and her not being Oxbridge. Which rather shows those affecting support for people in the above three categories deserve to be forcefed Guardian supplements till it chokes them...
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Not enough for a Spectator column - you need to be more direct, and you absolutely have to say "woke" nowadays.
this isn't ok really, is it.
Larry O'Hara
Well-Known Member
Which part of “without endorsing any of Patels politics” don’t you understand? Or can’t you read sentences yet?
Because I object to attacks on her which utterly ignore the normal politically correct tick boxes, I’m an aspiring Spectator journalist? How utterly crass and ignorant of my actual views.
your post does indicate where you belong: in Private Eye pseuds corner. Off you trot.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
"the normal politically correct tick boxes"
As I said, eff off to the Spectator, where they will tell you to rejig it a bit to match modern tropes. You might manage to get something in - they already have a lot of people saying the same mind, I'd advise adding some particularly unusual piece of conservative prejudice, that might help.
Larry O'Hara
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You can eff off yourself: it is disgraceful that an ignoramus like you is a moderator. I’ll not waste more of time as you are clearly incapable of reasoned discourse rather than insults. Come to think of it, you might get a job with the Trump 2024 team: I am sure your superior Intellect and ability to answer opposing views with meretricious abuse would almost guarantee you a job.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Patel is of Indian-Ugandan origin. She is a woman. She never went to Oxbridge. And she is a despicable fucking cunt.
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teqniq
DisMembered
Five of my friends on FB liked it (stolen from Twitter). Three of them thought it was funny, all of them are female. If the polular consensus is that it's unacceptable I'll remove it though no-one had anything negative to say about the Boris/Cummings image in a similar vein that I posted on the Cummings thread. Anyway I've always had Hancock down as a gimp.
I don't care what your friends on facebook think tbh. Think through it for yourself - is it ok to be casting powerful women as dominatrices?
teqniq
DisMembered
It's dark parody, sign of the times perhaps.
it's an age-old misogynist trope. you know this, surely?
teqniq
DisMembered
I honestly didn't think of it as misogyistic tbh, just darkly amusing.
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
You're quite right, dominatrices take part in consensual activities for pleasure. Priti Patel's part in the government's fucking the country very different.
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