Priti Patel deserves her own thread

I agree absolutely Jamila. She is the victim of her own totally unacceptable behaviour and in no way is she being used as a sacrificial lamb. Given how much is swirling around in the political stratosphere it could be argued that everything is a distraction from the prime fact that this government is in complete disarray.

Sorry Cindersdad
(just a blip)

Don't worry, Cinderdad, the other matters won't go away, this is just a blip, soon to be dealt with and then forgotten.

Do you really think it's a 'petty indiscretion' CelticRose?

We can keep it up though cinders

I don't think it is unfair because she is more of a loose cannon - but it is a pity that a woman from an ethnic minority has proved to be so incompetent, stupid and naive when she could have been a shining example of what can be achieved.

I think she is probably about to be sacked. Unfairly perhaps but it will detract from Brexit, Boris, Panama Papers and Sexual Harassment all of which are more important.

True celtic

Celtic whose ‘petty indiscretions’ are you referring to?

Strange how the Cayman scandals have been knocked off the top news in favour of such a petty indiscretion made some time ago. Has she taken the hit in order to give tax payers something else to be outraged about and to take their minds off the private millions stashed. It would seem that Benjamin Franklyn is wrong... death is certain, but taxes aren't.

Underhand is a very understated description of her lying, scheming, dangerous, ill judged, arrogant behaviour. - you are being too kind ?

Apparently she's been ordered to return (from Uganda?) and is on her way back now.
One thought is that she's been trying to get Israeli backing for a leadership bid.
How a minister can have high level meetings with a foreign government without an agenda and briefings from the UK government I can't understand. Definitely very underhand.
Hopefully about to be sacked.

I agree with your general point Maw but what makes these two cases even more egregious is that they concern highly highly sensitive areas of foreign policy - Iran and Israel/Palestine with all the potential for disaster on the world stage.

My money’s on Alistair Burt being promoted when she’s sacked

What gets me is the sheer incompetence and naïve amateurism of people who have a huge amount of power, to whom we pay a lot of money and in whom we are expected to trust, but who seem to lack either intelligence, discretion or any moral compass.
Piss ups and breweries spring to mind. (Boris, Hunt, May too) Line em up against the wall

Toast

Wonder what is discussed at cabinet meetings!!!

Wonder if Maybot will ever get a grip. Suggestions are that she has zero power now and the cabinet is a totally lose canon. Certainly appears that way.

Or they're all journalists. Who typed the other one?!

There all journalists.

Who’s Robert Hutton?

Robert Hutton saying Number10press confirms Prime Minister learned about Priti Patel's plans to give aid money to the Israeli army from the BBC today.

Oh! two posts in between mine and the one that me for a second or two

for a couple of seconds there.
Got it now

Tom Newton Dunne says she has admitted two more unauthorised meetings with senior Israeli officials since her return from Israel in August.

Robert Preston tweeting "So I'm hearing Priti Patel likely to be sacked within hours. That would be two cabinet ministers gone in a week."