Even if the explanation isn't bullshit, you have to wonder why the Home Office waited so long before coming up with this supposedly benign explanation.
Nothing wrong with being a reality show contestant or with being stupid or both
TBF, comparing Patel to game show contestants...well, they don't generally have the power to wreck lives, pass draconian legislation, or cheerlead the goons into attacking defenceless and peaceful people, regardless of any intellectual equivalence (or lack of) between them and Patel.
Either that or she realises and doesn’t care
She has the attitude of someone who is utterly oblivious to how stupid she comes across as, so I doubt it.
My feeling is that Patel, like the others in cabinet, don’t care how they come across as long as they get their way. Getting their way will have benefits to them. So, while they may not understand the impacts of their actions, it doesn’t matter to them. They are sly rather than stupid.
I suspect they do
They do have a certain low cunning. But as I've said before, when I was young I thought politicians had knowledge and intelligence denied us lesser mortals. But as I've grown aulder I've realised that they're in fact really fucking stupid. And it's not a new thing - look at Churchill and his long list of utter failures paid for with other people's lives. The current administration are stupid even by the standards of politicians.
Are you 14?
"used to"
If I met you halfway, it would still be way out.
Not nearly as thick as she seems.
’This lot’ means the current government as in Priti Patel, the subject of this thread.
Maybe in some (admittedly convoluted) way this lots shamelessness is a good thing, in that perhaps here in this country the illusion of politicians being responsible selfless public servants has lingered far too long, whereas most of the world know full well they live in kleptocracies. Maybe.
