Daily briefing being led by Priti Patel

failings
Yes, you should pronounce the g
But not I dailing

And yes, discuss the failings but not the accent.

Failing - do not pronounce the g

It is irrelevant anyway.

Yes eleothan!! They do. It is irritating.

And whilst we are on the subject of Patels failinGs - anybody got a clue as to how to how many tests have been carried out?

Sounds approximately twelvty to me although I could be wrong.

According to Patel (now trending as Pritiawful) it is

300044,900074. Not a number that slips off the tongue with ease, except of course the Bully of the Home Office.

She has a job to do to inform us what is happening. Who care what she looks like, how she speaks? There is more to worry about than dropping a g at the end of a word. Keep the spite in your own mind.

From the age of 8 to 13 I lived in Romford - a very "working class" area of outer east London, and I guess you would say I have a slightly cockney (or some might call it "estuary English") accent. I have a friend who is very cockney but she doesn't drop the gs at the end of words.

Commenting about the dropped gs is nothing to do with being snobbish or it being because Patel is a Conservative. I mentioned Sadiq Khan and he's Labour, and Beth Rigby is a political commentator, so nobody knows her political affiliations.

And, by the way, I don't recall any of the people who have accused some Gransnetters of snobbery complaining about this:

"At last week’s leadership launch, the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg and then Sky’s Beth Rigby asked him [Johnson] about accusations that his campaign was a “chaotic mess” and then about his character. Johnson’s response was not to provide a riposte to the concerns among his former colleagues about whether he is “fit to be prime minister”; it was to laugh at Rigby’s accent."

lully and when people on here were laughing and in your words spiteful about Abbott?

What goes around comes around.

Oh dear, Diane isn't a very attractive woman or is she?

I can hear my mother:

"Two wrongs don't make a right"

Not that I was horrible about Dianne, but those who were, were accused of being racist even if they were only criticising her maths.
Now, is that the same here? Oblique racism but criticising Priti's facial expressions and accent?

I think she probably meant 344,974. It was a strange mistake to make because I remember my children being taught place values at primary school.

I don't believe it's spiteful to criticise Patel for her response to the question about the shortage of PPE. Over 30 NHS staff have now died from Covid-19, including one doctor who had previously complained about the lack of PPE.

Patel couldn't even bring herself to acknowledge the problem or even apologise. She said "I'm sorry if some people think …" as though the shortage is a matter of opinion rather than fact.

I agree growstuff. While I’m rolling my eyes at the absurdity of Patel’s delivery I am incredulous that she chose to qualify her lacklustre apology - medical staff are dying, the nursing, care and medical professions have repeatedly raised serious concerns and she still can’t bring herself to hold her hands up and say ‘we are truly sorry’. As for Hancock’s comments about PPE - it absolutely beggars belief that he could be so insulting. Their disdain for the NHS shines through loud and clear.

All MPs get 10k pay rise for expenses during covid crisis And said now is not the time to give nurses a pay rise says Prti Patel And the way she avoided apologising for the lack of PPE She is just a snout in the trough. Cow

Grany your post is nowhere near accurate.

Well what is this
metro.co.uk/2020/04/09/mps-given-extra-10000-work-home-coronavirus-pandemi-12531786/

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'Now is not the time to discuss pay rise for nurses', says health secretary

It’s not a pay rise, IPSA have said that if necessary MPs can increase claims for their office / working from.home expenses upto £10000. On. example given was that of constituency office workers working from home needing a printer or lap top, Constituents need help more than ever at the moment and it’s good that this will help that to continue.

We’re expected to believe that they don’t already have laptops or printers for working at home? What about the rest of us who now have to work in that way for essential services - do we get £10k for ‘expenses’? Of course we don’t - we include it in our tax returns as Im sure they will also do.

Thanks for reminding me SirChenjin. I'm one of the self-employed who isn't eligible for any government help :-(.

I've had to change to working online rather than face to face (and still only retained about a third of my business). I had to buy a webcam, microphone and upgrade my broadband.

I've started doing my 2019/20 tax return and must remember to include them. I must admit it would have been nice to have been given a couple of hundred pounds to cover the cost.

I agree with suzie though. MPs haven't just been given a £10k handout. Just think how much they'll be saving on travel!

Travel costs savings that they could offset against the cost of these (already in their possession) laptops and printers? Again, as the rest of us are doing...

Sir that doesn’t make sense. They have to claim travel costs so if they’re not travelling there’s no claim.

Exactly - which means that the money saved on travel could go on funding this ‘additional’ expense instead - in addition to the £26k they already have for this purpose. Conveniently the rules on evidence required to prove it’s being spent on office equipment etc are being relaxed...

I thought she was very impersonal showing no real sympathy for those who had passed due to the pandemic. She was like a robot most of the time and I just couldn't take to her.

Exactly the same as I thought.
She just seemed so cold.

That was levelled at T May all the time wasn't it? However some people appear warm and charming ( Tony Blair, David Cameron) but it doesn't automatically make them better people.We are all different, some will sob at the drop of a hat and others appear indifferent, even when they're not.
Some politicians are good at putting on an act when needed, others less so, and not all are great public speakers either.

Yes, true.

Hitler was a brilliant public speaker, so I've read.