The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel

[cupid_stunt]

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

Indeed, whereas English doesn't need to be a de jure official language, due to the reality of it being the de facto official language.

 

[tim]

It's the de facto official language.

Can you point to something official saying otherwise?

That sounds suspiciously oxymoronic to me.

 

[andysays]

English is not even the official language of the UK.

I'm sure that unfortunate oversight is something which our new Home Secretary will soon be turning her attention to.

 

[not a trot]

Is Swahili spoken by 98% of the population?

I'm willing to give it a go. At the moment I can ask for a beer in French, German, Scottish and English.

 

[Poi E]

Priti Patel's parents probably spoke a bit of Swahili, being from Uganda.

 

[klang]

.....

discussions on the NBA's refusal to implement a 4-point line should be in the -----> sports forum.

 

[klang]

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yes, Priti Patel is the sort of person who would claim a dinner at the Two Point Restaurant in Marylebone on expenses.

 

[Poi E]

Like the way you join the dots.

 

[klang]

Like the way you join the dots.

you are doing the hard work for me.

 

[Poi E]

Pointless, otherwise.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Regardless of whether there is an official language or not, I don't see how alienating senior management of many Japanese firms will encourage them to continue their investment in the UK

 

[Gromit]

Indeed, whereas English doesn't need to be a de jure official language, due to the reality of it being the de facto official language.

I like the way you are trying to make out de facto is somehow more official than de jure.

One is only official via general consent whereas the other is official by actual law.

 

[existentialist]

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



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

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

 

[cupid_stunt]

I like the way you are trying to make out de facto is somehow more official than de jure.

I am not, you twat.

 

[treelover]

She's a fucking monster

Minister worked as spin doctor for tobacco giant that paid workers £15 a month

Ken Clarke?

 

[Gerry1time]

So this is weird. On the one hand, Priti Patel is talking about how even simple drug possession should be enforced as an arrestable offence.

Home secretary Priti Patel criticised over wish for criminals ‘to feel terror’

Yet on the other hand, they've just brought in a bunch of libertarian advisors into Downing Street, some of whom are arguing for the relaxing of laws on cannabis, and one who "was poached from a current job leading policy at the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis, and has promoted the Canadian model of legalisation". Reported in that way journalists have of pointing at likely directions without explicitly saying them.

Boris Johnson ushers in radical new era of special advisers

I must say, I wonder if they know what direction they want to head in. Or is Patel providing 'tough on drugs' air cover for the changes they hope to make?

 

[treelover]

that site has an awful lot of adverts.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

So this is weird. On the one hand, Priti Patel is talking about how even simple drug possession should be enforced as an arrestable offence.

Home secretary Priti Patel criticised over wish for criminals ‘to feel terror’

Yet on the other hand, they've just brought in a bunch of libertarian advisors into Downing Street, some of whom are arguing for the relaxing of laws on cannabis, and one who "was poached from a current job leading policy at the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis, and has promoted the Canadian model of legalisation". Reported in that way journalists have of pointing at likely directions without explicitly saying them.

Boris Johnson ushers in radical new era of special advisers

I must say, I wonder if they know what direction they want to head in. Or is Patel providing 'tough on drugs' air cover for the changes they hope to make?

Why has no one asked her if those who have confessed to drug possession be given a dose of terror and spell in nick?

 

[Poi E]

Plod aren't arresting for weed. Not worth the hassle as the arrest stats get them in trouble for racial profiling.

 

[Cid]

Plod aren't arresting for weed. Not worth the hassle as the arrest stats get them in trouble for racial profiling.

I think it's probably their racial profiling of drug use that gets them in trouble for racial profiling.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

So this is weird. On the one hand, Priti Patel is talking about how even simple drug possession should be enforced as an arrestable offence.

Home secretary Priti Patel criticised over wish for criminals ‘to feel terror’

Yet on the other hand, they've just brought in a bunch of libertarian advisors into Downing Street, some of whom are arguing for the relaxing of laws on cannabis, and one who "was poached from a current job leading policy at the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis, and has promoted the Canadian model of legalisation". Reported in that way journalists have of pointing at likely directions without explicitly saying them.

Boris Johnson ushers in radical new era of special advisers

I must say, I wonder if they know what direction they want to head in. Or is Patel providing 'tough on drugs' air cover for the changes they hope to make?

It’s almost as if they’re a bunch of opportunist chancers who’ll go with whatever keeps them in power rather than any coherent policy.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

a bunch of opportunist chancers who’ll go with whatever keeps them in power rather than any coherent policy.

That is the coherent policy

 

[Poi E]

I think it's probably their racial profiling of drug use that gets them in trouble for racial profiling.

Wot I meant.

 

[AnandLeo]

Ay ay, equality and diversity!

 

[weltweit]

I haven't ever seen Priti Patel say anything intelligent, perhaps she is bright as a button but I haven't seen any evidence of this so I reserve judgement.

 

[brogdale]

I haven't ever seen Priti Patel say anything intelligent, perhaps she is bright as a button but I haven't seen any evidence of this so I reserve judgement.

She may well be more intelligent than Truss.

 

[likesfish]

Anybody who gets into power and isn't in favour of enhanced interrogation and drone strikes against dope smokers.
Is the sort of namby pamby bed wetting guarfian reading liberal who. Lost us the empire. .

Every home secetary goes crazy but usually it takes them 6 months before they start foaming at the mouth.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

More intelligent than Truss? The bar is low

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is Swahili spoken by 98% of the population?

Ndio kweli!

 

[GarveyLives]

In a possible sign of things to come, one of Priti Patel's first acts as Home Secretary appears to have been to ban the African American film maker, Tariq Nasheed, who has made a series of documentaries that chart the history of Africans in America and around the world, and de-constructs white supremacy and structural racism, explaining the origins and the impact and methodology, from entering the UK:

We need anti-racism activists like Tariq Nasheed in the UK – but the Home Office would rather let Trump in

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