The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel
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GarveyLives
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14 July 2021: Home Secretary Priti Patel: "From today, anyone possessing one of these deadly weapons unlawfully will face the full force of the law."
Six months later ...
11 January 2022: LBC buys deadly 21-inch blade to expose loophole in 'pointless' zombie knife law
"Police officers have revealed that laws introduced last year to tackle lethal blades are “pointless” and frustration is growing that officers are unable to take these dangerous weapons off the streets."
Six months later ...
11 January 2022: LBC buys deadly 21-inch blade to expose loophole in 'pointless' zombie knife law
"Police officers have revealed that laws introduced last year to tackle lethal blades are “pointless” and frustration is growing that officers are unable to take these dangerous weapons off the streets."
bemused
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My favourite thing about Patel is for years she built her brand as the straight-talking, no-nonsense, send them back, lock them up a Tory wet dream. When mere months into becoming Home Secretary she's now constantly one of the least liked MPs on the Conservative Home poll and any article in the Daily Mail about her comments section is litter with her former fanboys calling her a weak loser.
Nonsense vs. reality.
Nonsense vs. reality.
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NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
My Mum had a huge carving knife that was like a small machete, and it could have made for a pretty fearsome slashing weapon, especially given the slight curve in its blade. Doing a quick Google search, I can find a very similar knife available to legally purchase. Not a bad price at £40 either. Who needs punch daggers or short swords when you can get a 35cm blade fairly cheaply from a butcher's supply shop?
So what are these "new laws" actually supposed to do then? Apart from being another legal cudgel to use against disadvantaged communities? I'm pretty sure it's been illegal to run around all tooled up for a lot longer than since last year.
So what are these "new laws" actually supposed to do then? Apart from being another legal cudgel to use against disadvantaged communities? I'm pretty sure it's been illegal to run around all tooled up for a lot longer than since last year.
Exclusive: Home Office staff ‘mingled and drank prosecco’ during lockdown
Staff in Priti Patel's department had drinks and snacks to celebrate a Home Office policy leading the six o'clock news in March 2021
BCBlues
Lend us a Twenner
John Crace was delightfully direct today
Can't paste a link I'm afraid as I've forgotten how to do it on my phone.
Vacant and vicious: Priti Patel’s tone-deaf problem with Ukraine refugees
Home secretary gives Commons a conflicting account of UK’s handling of refugee crisis
It is quite a good dig. I'm surprised to learn in there that the Speaker has allowed an urgent question tomorrow so that Pretty Vacant can show herself up as a nasty peice of work again.
Anger as Priti Patel says Labour MPs cannot be trusted with Ukraine security advice
Home secretary was defending claim that ‘security advice’ rules out more generous offer to refugees
www.independent.co.uk
Is Priti Patel vicious or stupid? It’s a fine line for Ukrainian refugees | John Crace
The home secretary’s mix of incompetence and cruelty has come to the fore in this war
Rhetorical question.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Why the binary?Is Priti Patel vicious or stupid? It’s a fine line for Ukrainian refugees | John Crace
The home secretary’s mix of incompetence and cruelty has come to the fore in this warwww.theguardian.com
Rhetorical question.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
welovebadgers
Active Member
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Thatcher was competent but malicious
welovebadgers
Active Member
Clearly the exception.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
It’s not necessarily an exclusive or.
If I were asked ‘Beer or whisky?’ I would definitely have two drinks in front of me upon replying.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh two beers
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
She's the fucking biological weapon.
And why does she think only women might carry them?
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
She doesn't. This is purely play acting. She is happy to do this in such a serious context because she doesn't actually care about the context at all. Her real concerns are firmly elsewhere and much much closer to home.She's the fucking biological weapon.
And why does she think only women might carry them?
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
teqniq
DisMembered
Yes indeed. I should have added that this was her keynote speech at the vermin's yearly conference, playing to the gallery.
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
I don't know whether to be horrified at her incompetence or grateful she's not my dentist.
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
He doesn't need to send more Biological weapons, Brexit has been delivered.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Immigration bill vote tonight, unsurprisingly all the good stuff like sending immigrants abroad approved with flying colours.
Back to the Lords for another review then it'll be law I think.
Back to the Lords for another review then it'll be law I think.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
I thought it was to the Tory party. How the fuck do you get away with a donation like that ?
Tell me like I'm 5, I really don't get it.
Tell me like I'm 5, I really don't get it.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I don't get it either. If we were sitting in judgement on some foreign power, this would be considered an absolutely blatant example of naked corruption.
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