I fear most people will still be oblivious. Regardless, I’m not sure how anything will change for the better.
The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel
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To be honest it's not much different to any other department's spending, and it probably was for PPE, you couldn't really spend that much on brows even if you wanted to. They have functions with catering, and take people out for drinks/dinner, and have away jollies for the staff just like any other employer. There were quite a few veterinary expenses listed in the last year which seemed a bit strange but then it is the Home Office, so they were probably for the pigs.
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Patel is sly and stupid. She's just not quite as cunningly sly as she thinks she is.
Either way, not someone people should want in cabinet but she’s hardly the only one.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Possibly. The restaurant though, £3700, even it were £100 a head that would be 37 people, which they are not taking out, twice. And £100 a head would be fairly excessive.
Not that much to cater to a black tie event or something. I'm not defending it, just saying there's nothing particularly significant that fingers Patel over and above other departments. I get a bit pissed off with these shock horror Squawkbox/Byline/Canary stories that aren't really stories at all, they're just about generating traffic and retweets over doing some actual journalism and getting the story right. Not that anyone seems to care anymore.
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beautifulbrowsandlashes.com
Now called Global Beauty Products Limited, who can be found here: GLOBAL BEAUTY PRODUCTS LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House)
Because companies merge, rebrand, split off and play all kinds of games to dodge taxes and liabilities. It's not like government departments are going to investigate the history of every single business they might spend some money with, they just buy something and write down what it says on the credit card receipt.
It's not really plausible that Patel, or anyone in the Home Office spent that much on beauty treatments in the last year and decided to stick them all on the departmental credit card in the knowledge that would be publicly accessible and audited. It's equally unlikely that Patel is trying to squirrel money out of the Home Office by using the departmental card to send money to a fake company and doing it so badly that she got busted the first time some dastardly twitter sleuth looked at the publicly available records and caught her red-handed. I'm sure there is all kinds of low level corruption going on, there is wherever there's money, but people have got to do better than this because if there is a story there it's been undermined already by nonsense about her spending 70 grand on getting her brows done. And I bet she'd far rather people were talking about that then about whether she gave the nod for the police to kick peaceful protester's heads in last night.
Late to this particular bit,but ....
... I had to check which Oxford pub it was, and ...
... and then ...
And fairly nice the Magdalen is too, entirely food-focussed though now (beer ummentioned on their website
)
Beer choice only reasonable as I recall (and I've just newly researched, as we haven't been there for a while!)
BUT!!!
£900=???
For how many people?
Even in Oxford, that's up there in Bonkers College!! ... and the Magdalen is expensive, but not normally to that level ....
(cheaper and better-beer OX pubs are also available, and we know em
)
Byline times covering it.
Home Office Fails to Explain Strange Expenses
£900 at a pub in Oxford; £5,400 in Primark. Sam Bright questioned Priti Patel’s department about some peculiar purchases, but received an unconvincing answerbylinetimes.com
... I had to check which Oxford pub it was, and ...
Byline Times said:
... and then ...
Byline Times said:
And fairly nice the Magdalen is too, entirely food-focussed though now (beer ummentioned on their website
)Beer choice only reasonable as I recall (and I've just newly researched, as we haven't been there for a while!)
BUT!!!
£900=???
For how many people?
Even in Oxford, that's up there in Bonkers College!! ... and the Magdalen is expensive, but not normally to that level ....
(cheaper and better-beer OX pubs are also available, and we know em
)
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
I feel exactly the same. Has everyone forgotten the panic buying last year? You couldn’t get soap or hand sanitizer or gloves anywhere and sex shops were giving their scrubs and gloves and hospital outfits to staff. Everyone was demanding that PPE was sourced right NOW, nobody was specifying it couldn’t come from a beauty company. I buy the Primark thing less, because I’ve seen loads of people who work with / are asylum seekers say this is total rubbish and they’ve never seen the Home Office provide stuff, but there’s always exceptional circumstances and it’s a tiny amount compared to the number of those subject to immigration control, so it would fit an exceptional circumstance. But ultimately, like you, it bothers me most we are talking about this and not other things. Under the newly proposed immigration bill, asylum seekers who arrive ‘illegally’ would be banned from making a claim. It’s absurd and it’s evil and it’s going to kill people. But far better to worry about Priti Patel’s eyebrows eh.
Not a fan of James O'Brien's politics, but he does make a good point sometimes:
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Monkeys and typewriters
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Thanks a bunch. Now I need eyebleach.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i wonder if any of her lovers have ever got with her friends
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Do you think she has any of either?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i fear so, existentialist, i do fear soDo you think she has any of either?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Well, they deserve each other, in that case.
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
Cruel Britannia
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
some of the auld sex pistols slogans seem appropriate to this new government too, eg cash from chaosFrom the band that bought you Priti Vacant:
Makes it sound like the staff that Pickman's Model used to highlight.accessing the corporate credit card for their Amazon Prime purchases.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Now here's a surprise
www.theguardian.com
Sad story on its own but shows up Patel saying they don't want video evidence of police roughing people up. So they don't want video evidence of police violence but they do want video evidence elsewhere.
Man stabbed to death at vigil for knife attack victim in Croydon
Police arrest two men at a south London hospital over death of 23-year-old named as Reece Young
Sad story on its own but shows up Patel saying they don't want video evidence of police roughing people up. So they don't want video evidence of police violence but they do want video evidence elsewhere.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
"It's different when we do it"Now here's a surprise
Man stabbed to death at vigil for knife attack victim in Croydon
Police arrest two men at a south London hospital over death of 23-year-old named as Reece Young
Sad story on its own but shows up Patel saying they don't want video evidence of police roughing people up. So they don't want video evidence of police violence but they do want video evidence elsewhere.
Which could be this government's mantra. I wonder what it is in Latin?
Ah, here you go. "Est aliud quod nobis facere"
Bit of gold leaf and a crest or two, and they're sorted.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Whatever the Latin is for 'to the scum the spoils'
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
Coat of arms to feature a cabinet of massive anchors and two brass bezants beneath a rampant liar.
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