The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel

[killer b]

I honestly dind't think of it as misogyistic tbh, just darkly amusing.

I know you didn't, no-one posts shit up here thinking 'ha this sexist meme will really get them laughing!' do they - can you see why it's dodgy though?

 

[teqniq]

I know you didn't, no-one posts shit up here thinking 'ha this sexist meme will really get them laughing!' do they - can you see why it's dodgy though?

I think maybe you're reading too much into it. I know you don't care much what my FB friends think about it but rest assured that if any of them thought it was misogynistic they would have let me know straight away in no uncertain terms.

Would you care to explain to me why you think it's dodgy please?

 

[killer b]

I think maybe you're reading too much into it. I know you don't care much what my FB friends think about it but rest assured that if any of them thought it was misogynistic they would have let me know straight away in no uncertain terms.

Would you care to explain to me why you think it's dodgy please?

Because it sexualises her in a way which simply wouldn't be done to a man. Could you imagine a male minister being cast as a butch leather-boy if they were being criticised for bullying staff? No chance.

 

[two sheds]

not that I'm interested in the argument but ... like this?

 

[killer b]

not that I'm interested in the argument but ... like this?

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That was presumably made when there was rumours swirling around about Haigh's sexuality, and is solidly homophobic.

 

[teqniq]

Because it sexualises her in a way which simply wouldn't be done to a man. Could you imagine a male minister being cast as a butch leather-boy if they were being criticised for bullying staff? No chance.

See the pic I posted on the Cummings thread, and i suspect Cummings is a bit of a bully. You may not like that either but it is pretty apposite. A venal group of ne'er-do-wells you could not possibly hope to meet.

 

[two sheds]

That was presumably made when there was rumours swirling around about Haigh's sexuality, and is solidly homophobic.

You may be right, no idea sorry

 

[killer b]

See the pic I posted on the Cummings thread, and i suspect Cummings is a bit of a bully. You may not like that either but it is pretty apposite. A venal group of ne'er-do-wells you could not possibly hope to meet.

I can't see anything on the last couple of pages of that thread, so you might have to be a bit more specific

 

[killer b]

Actually, forget about it. I'm off to bed and I cba debating misogynist tropes with people who won't see them for what they are for more than one evening.

 

[ddraig]

 

[Badgers]

The Priti Patel report was on the Boris’s desk as early as April. That means not only that he elected to sit on its findings for 7 months, but that he chose to release it on anti bullying week.

 

[andysays]

Tory MPs have learned their lines well:

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Perhaps encouraging that Johnson feels the need to say it.

Johnson calling her "the prittster" is ridiculous and hilarious in equal measure.

It makes her sound like a tube of child-friendly glue.

 

[maomao]

She probably is very popular with Tory MPs. Bullies tend to be very socially succesful people. I've worked with people like that. In fact I've rarely worked anywhere that didn't have someone like that.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The way that her sycophants bang on about her being a hard worker. What does that even mean, to work hard?

 

[existentialist]

The way that her sycophants bang on about her being a hard worker. What does that even mean, to work hard?

It means you're not competent enough to do the job in a reasonable amount of time?

 

[SpookyFrank]

'I didn't know you weren't supposed to push dog turds into the

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

The tory membership as it currently exists will not back a non-white candidate for leader IMO. This is something that seems to be overlooked by commentators talking up Patel's or Sunak's prospects, even when they're mentioning Patel's own racism as a selling point.

Patel in particular I doubt would even want the job. I file her alongside Raab as a person who seems perpetually terrified of the level of authority she already has.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The way that her sycophants bang on about her being a hard worker. What does that even mean, to work hard?

Vastly overrated. IME most busy people are merely disorganised. Disorganised or single mothers.

 

[killer b]

The tory membership as it currently exists will not back a non-white candidate for leader IMO.

Normally I'd agree with you, but Sunak's polling numbers are wild. There doesn't seem to be any specific Tory member polling i can find, but he's the most popular politician in the country by some distance, and most popular among tory voters. Id imagine that popularity will cross into the membership.

 

[Dogsauce]

The way that her sycophants bang on about her being a hard worker. What does that even mean, to work hard?

I guess it’s analogous to a quote from a friend of mine about music (specifically applied to what people said about local bands on some forum):

“There are good bands, and there are bands that ‘work really hard’”

It‘s the sort of thing people say when there are no other merits to highlight.

Which reminds me, are the Tories still doing that laughable rolling-up-the-sleeves thing to project ‘hard working’ or is it all badly executed power stances these days?

 

[Maggot]

The radio news had a vox pop with some of her constituents yesterday. Most of whom said favourable things, including one who said 'She was fine when I had dealings with her, so I don't think she's a bully.' (or words to that effect). She's not accused of bullying her constituents FFS!

 

[frogwoman]

Tory MPs have learned their lines well:

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Perhaps encouraging that Johnson feels the need to say it.

The prittster ffs.

 

[Serene]

Which reminds me, are the Tories still doing that laughable rolling-up-the-sleeves thing to project ‘hard working’ or is it all badly executed power stances these days?

This is true. They also scruff their hair up on top to make it seem like they have been working really hard.

 

[frogwoman]

I thought Boris always looked like shit because he was trying to go for the endearing scruffy 'loveable clown' look.

 

[Pickman's model]

I thought Boris always looked like shit because he was trying to go for the endearing scruffy 'loveable clown' look.

Drinker. His personal hygiene not the best I hear

 

[keybored]

“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.”

That's her chances scuppered then.

 

[Serene]

That's her chances scuppered then.

True. As she smirks like Damien.

 

[andysays]

The radio news had a vox pop with some of her constituents yesterday. Most of whom said favourable things, including one who said 'She was fine when I had dealings with her, so I don't think she's a bully.' (or words to that effect). She's not accused of bullying her constituents FFS!

That's what I thought when I saw all her fellow cabinet ministers queuing up to say how great she was to work with.

 

[Pickman's model]

That's what I thought when I saw all her fellow cabinet ministers queuing up to say how great she was to work with.

Work with but not work for

 

[Pickman's model]

True. As she smirks like Damien.

Damien hirst, as he chops up another animal to sell

 

[PD58]

A mate of mine who once was quite high up in the HO told me it was very difficult to get change but if one was to succeed a 'rude approach' would get you nowhere...I wonder if Smith, May and Rudd had similar issues i.e. are the upper echelons of the HO systemically sexist or is it her approach?