The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel

[HoratioCuthbert]

She's mouthing terms she doesn't really understand - "you've got to have burden of proof" (repeated about a thousand times). Er, no, we have "burden of proof" - that's how our criminal justice system works.What you're ineptly trying to say, Priti bloody scary Patel, is that we need to have proof beyond doubt.

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It’s funny as fuck

 

[editor]

Now the stupid Tory fuckhead wants to let the government read everyone's private messages

Tory home secretary says government should be allowed to read people's WhatsApp messages

 

[StoneRoad]

Now the stupid Tory fuckhead wants to let the government read everyone's private messages

Tory home secretary says government should be allowed to read people's WhatsApp messages

isn't that covered by the "snoopers' charter" ?

(Not that I agree with any sort of general snooping !)

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

'I want criminals to feel terror' - Priti Patel

Asked about her views on capital punishment - after she previously made comments in support of it - Ms Patel said: "I have never said I'm an active supporter of it and (what I said) is constantly taken out of context."

In 2011, Ms Patel spoke about the death penalty on the BBC's Question Time, where she said: "I do actually think when we have a criminal justice system that continuously fails in this country and where we have seen murderers, rapists and people who have committed the most abhorrent crimes in society, go into prison and then are released from prison to go out into the community to then re-offend and do the types of crime they have committed again and again.

"I think that's appalling. And actually on that basis alone I would actually support the reintroduction of capital punishment to serve as a deterrent."

Since when did it become acceptable to be so rubbish at telling lies?

 

[Gromit]

She sure loves the deterrent angle doesn't she.

I'm sure in her mind she thinks it's possible to scare people out of doing crime.

The reality is that for some the fear is a thrill.
For others the fear is secondary to other concerns.
For some nothing as rational as consequences is considered in the heat of the moment.

 

[SpookyFrank]

She'd be terrifying if I thought she was capable of actually doing anything.

 

[StoneRoad]

My prime objection to the death penalty is that it is not reversible.
The justice system - in any country- will make mistakes, even in murder cases.

 

[Chilli.s]

Would be nice if politicians could be scared into being more efficient and less self serving.

 

[Poi E]

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posted above. too early.

 

[2hats]

Fortunately she is incompetent. Though that does make reintroduction of the death penalty purely for misfeasance in public office very tempting.

 

[Poi E]

'I want criminals to feel terror' - Priti Patel



Since when did it become acceptable to be so rubbish at telling lies?

Since when did a minister saying the state should inflict terror on its citizens pass without comment? The BBC are complicit in this shit.

 

[tim]

Since when did a minister saying the state should inflict terror on its citizens pass without comment? The BBC are complicit in this shit.

It's the BBC reporting her comments in the Daily Mail, not an interview they had with her in which they could have challenged her opinions.

Anyway, I'm capable of forming my own opinions of her, without guidance from the state broadcaster

 

[Rivendelboy]

'I want criminals to feel terror' - Priti Patel



Since when did it become acceptable to be so rubbish at telling lies?

Does she think she's Batman?

This kind of rhetoric is just infantile. Even tories ought be embarassed, in their withered souls

 

[stavros]

Since when did it become acceptable to be so rubbish at telling lies?

07:20 on 24 June 2016.

 

[gawkrodger]

from this weeks popbitch

There's an unofficial test that a certain branch of the Civil Service conducts to make sure its briefing documents are written clearly enough so that even ministers of limited intellect are able to grasp them by a third reading.

For a while this was known as the 'Amber Rudd Test'. However, when Ms Rudd found herself promoted to the Home Office, those in the service felt it was maybe a little improper to name the test after someone who held one of the Great Offices Of State. So they changed it.

To the 'Priti Patel Test'.

Thanks to her surprise promotion last week, they're currently on the look-out for a new replacement.

 

[Artaxerxes]

'I want criminals to feel terror' - Priti Patel



Since when did it become acceptable to be so rubbish at telling lies?

She does know about pre-modern crime levels and the brutality and inhumanity of punishments doesn't she?

Or did they just not terrorise hard enough?

 

[SpookyFrank]

from this weeks popbitch

How about the 'Dominic Raab test'?

Oh shit, wait...

 

[editor]

Bad news for Brit expats if Spain decides to adopt the same policy

Priti Patel said only skilled, English-speaking workers will be welcome after Brexit.

The new home secretary has rolled out plans for a new point-based immigration system when Britain leaves the European Union.

She said decisions would be based on what someone can contribute rather than where they come from and pledged that she would be “tougher on those who abuse our hospitality”.

“We’ll give top priority to those with the highest skills and the greatest talents — to attract who add the most value to our economy.

“Those skilled workers will only be able to come here if they have a job offer from an employer registered with the Home Office and if they can speak English.”

Priti Patel says only “skilled, English-speaking workers welcome”

*thread title edited to more inclusive, umbrella compendium of Patel's stupidity.

 

[Rivendelboy]

Maybe I'm also priti stupid but what does highest skills mean Ffs?

 

[SpookyFrank]

English is not even the official language of the UK.

 

[Pickman's model]

English is not even the official language of the UK.

but it is an official language of the sakha republic

 

[cupid_stunt]

English is not even the official language of the UK.

Of course it is.

 

[Pickman's model]

Of course it is.

right. so you can point to something official saying it is?

 

[cupid_stunt]

right. so you can point to something official saying it is?

It's the de facto official language.

Can you point to something official saying otherwise?

 

[SpookyFrank]

It's the de facto official language.

Can you point to something official saying otherwise?

Can you point to something official saying the official language of the UK is not Swahili?

 

[Pickman's model]

It's the de facto official language.

Can you point to something official saying otherwise?

i'll take that as a 'no' then

 

[cupid_stunt]

Can you point to something official saying the official language of the UK is not Swahili?

Is Swahili spoken by 98% of the population?

 

[cupid_stunt]

i'll take that as a 'no' then

I'll take that as a 'no' then.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Anyway, I look forward to all the talentless offspring of international tycoons, oligarchs and autocrats being shown the door immediately after brexit.

 

[Gromit]

Can you point to something official saying the official language of the UK is not Swahili?

Welsh is the only de jure official language in the UK.