The ongoing stupidity of Home Secretary Priti Patel
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GarveyLives
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cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
That was a mistake, someone misheard 'damn Priti.'
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Am I right in hearing on the news yesterday that Priti fucking Patel was basically calling Braverman a class A attention seeking right wing cunt?
Through the looking glass now.
Sorry. 'Dame' Priti. When did that happen ffs.
when bojo retired
she just pissed braverman is stealing her thunder
GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
She has more time to concentrate on her singing career ... as she has just been eliminated from the Conservative Party leadership contest in the first round of voting.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
(we don't have a shocked pikachu emoji? ::shocked pikachu:: )
Is that level of humiliation a guarantee of defection to Reform do you think?
breadandcircuse
"The time is always right to do what is right"
It gives her more time to go hunting for those missing 'g's' at the end of her words. They're probably down the back of a sofa.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
If only we could rid the world of snobbery so easily.
breadandcircuse
"The time is always right to do what is right"
I'm no snob.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
So what's wrong with the way she speaks?
Silas Loom
Man with glasses
Guess she picked the wrong day to quit smirking.
breadandcircuse
"The time is always right to do what is right"
For someone in her former position, who has the benefit of media training etc, she grinds my gears dropping the g off the end of her words. The same as Beth Rigby. How is that being snobbish?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I can't speak for breadandcircuse, but I do find her speech affectations to seem quite fake. That, and the patterns of speech she has that sound like something out of The League of Gentlemen, just rub me up the wrong way. I don't think it's snobbishness - I'll listen to Mick Lynch's proper Sarf London style very happily...because it comes across as genuinely congruent to the sort of person he is (or, at least, that I perceive him to be).
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
It's the least bad thing about her imo. And you can't separate that stuff from class, therefore, there's an element of punching down - not towards her, but others who drop their gs, vowels etc.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
It irritates me a lot more to hear one posh person after another reminding us why we're listening to them and not someone else in the first place - because they went to the "right" school, were related to the "right" people etc.
breadandcircuse
"The time is always right to do what is right"
No, I've never punched down on others. She and Rigby are media trained and have no reason not to adapt their speech with training. Both middle class at the least with Rigby being the daughter of a head teacher. Do not try and make this as if I am punching down on others as a class thing, something I have not done.
I agree that there are worse things about her, to say the least, but she gets right up my nose with her speech.
breadandcircuse
"The time is always right to do what is right"
I have no problem with people's real accents, and the more that we hear from those who do not speak as if they were born with a plum in their mouth the better. This is not my gripe though with her. As existentialist described so eloquently, it sounds fake, and to me, it's just laziness to not finish your words properly. That is nothing to do with class.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Oh, come on...all politicians are fake. This is the least worst element of her many and various faults. Let's stick to the politics, eh?
Silas Loom
Man with glasses
Dropping the terminal g is an upper class affectation, anyway - huntin’, shootin’ and fishin’, and so forth.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
This is a day when we should be laughing at her failure to attract support from her peers, partly because some see her as too "woke" and partly because some see her a too "fash". That tells us a great deal about the issues facing the coalition that is the Conservative and Unionist party.
Is "fash" fashionable or fascist?
LakieLady
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I think it's an affectation, as the rest of her speech is pretty standard RP. It's a form of inverted snobbery.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Speaking as a Salfordian, when I sound my 'g' at the end of a word, I get this weird extra "schwa" syllable. So it comes out as thinkingə
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