Priti Patel deserves her own thread

Make that 12 meetings

She is known to be “thick” - not my words, and has been tipped as a possible PM

What, I wonder, were her meetings about?

Remember the Peter Principle "Every employee tends to raise to their level of incompetence" Certainly holds true for PP and others.

Do any of them know what they are doing?

I had high hopes for PP particularly with regard to her addressing the problems we are having with the overseas aid programme. I'm disappointed that she too seems to have fallen from grace.

I cannot accept her lying. That should be a sackable offence. But TM cannot leak any more ministers or she will be sitting all on her lone-ee-o.

'She is known to be “thick” - not my words, and has been tipped as a possible PM'; isn't that requirement for the job?

Her meetings were basically ‘Hello Israel, what would you like us to do for you?’ She is a huge supporter of Israel. Given the complexities of Middle East politics, it’s easy to see the potential for harm.

Why hasn't she been sacked already?

Because May is too weak.

I think Boris should be on his way out too. His 'gaffe' this time or, as I like to call it 'misleading statement' (because this man cannot even lie straight in bed) may mean that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s sentence in Iran may be increase!

Talk about the ship of state. It is actually being driven toward every iceberg around.

I told DH that she had said:
British workers are among the worst idlers in the world

and he asked if she was including herself in that number.

The title really bugs me, sorry. Priti Patel 'deserves' nothing - but the sack.

She really is a nasty, supercilious, piece of work in a position she would never be in if May had a stronger government.

Agree Jura.

She is also the politician who came out and blatantly admitted, in a talk to the IOD a few weeks before the referendum, that one of the advantages of leaving the EU would be cutting back on "the costs of employment" - i.e. maternity leave, parental leave etc. Sadly this did not get as much publicity as it should have done.

I know Jess but she is part of the far-right, neoliberal gang who have been driving the Tories away from any sense of the old Conservative values and toward as society with few rules and regulations because all they are interested in is a few people getting very rich.

She will continue, as Boris does, to try and move the position of the Government in the direction they desire and May is too fragile to be able to stop people like her, or any of these people who have driven us towards Brexit, not because it would be good for the country but because it will be good for them and their friends.

Priti is a prat and Boris is an embarrassment.

Absolutely GGMk2

PP and BJ - the faces we are presenting to the world. Both liars and both jeopardising our future international relations - it would be funny if it weren’t so serious. We are staggering into the abyss - TM cannot keep going surely- we are now at the tipping point.

What PP did deserves a much harsher condemnation than her bring a prat.

PP has been caught out lying and thus should be sacked, but as May is losing MPs like autumn leaves (or should I say conkers?) PP is unlikely to do anything. Her authority is non-existent and she is being made to look foolish and weak.

I thought she was supposed to be far right and very Christian. So what was she talking about in 12 meetings? A friend says she is also very corrupt....

I read that Patel is was “open” to giving aid to the Israeli army!!!

That has actually been confimed by Number 10, that she wanted to divert Foreign Aid money to the Israeli army in illegal occupied territories - and for that she has to be sacked- no question.

Bloody hell!!

Now Johnson -

Green - extreme pornography
Fallon -resigned dodgy sexual dealings
Blimey I could go on and on.

It is getting ridiculous

The latest news is that Patel didn’t just meet PM Benjamin Netanyahu, she came back and formulated policy, including a new plan to give British aid to the Israeli army’s humanitarian efforts. No10 told us yesterday that May had summoned Patel to a meeting and reprimanded her by “reminding her of her obligations under the ministerial code”. May has even asked for the code to be clarified on overseas representation. Cabinet Office ethics chief Sue Gray will not be investigating either Patel or Johnson, but she is investigating whether a minister talked about a sex toy years before he was a minister. This all shows that as well as an independent system for sex harassment complaints, we need a truly independent system in Whitehall for investigating breaches of the ministerial code.

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