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[DanEFC92]

Unfortunately, it's Emily Thornberry saying it - who is herself as incompetent as the day is long.

Ad hominem.


Just how many gaffs can this man get away with, I scream, into the void.

 

[Tubey]

Ad hominem.


Just how many gaffs can this man get away with, I scream, into the void.

Maybe so, but it's still true.

Johnson is unbelievably bad like, but likewise I wouldn't let Thornberry handle making a cup of coffee, let alone foreign affairs.

 

[orchard]

WhataboutThornbury-jism.


Yea, the Tories are very poop like, I just don't fancy living like a North Korean which would obviously be the case if there weren't any bent useless spiv's destroying our Kingdom.

Maybe so, but it's still true.

Johnson is unbelievably bad like, but likewise I wouldn't let Thornberry handle making a cup of coffee, let alone foreign affairs.

 

[Blue 1]

Seriously, though. How has Patel not been sacked?

The absolute state of this government.

 

[joey_macmo]

Seriously, though. How has Patel not been sacked?

The absolute state of this government.

She’s going tonight apparently, probably doing it late so the papers will miss it

 

[davmaher]

Seriously, though. How has Patel not been sacked?

The absolute state of this government.

I think Patel will go if only so that May can give the impression of being strong and ruthless when she needs to be.

 

[Walken]

Seriously, though. How has Patel not been sacked?

The absolute state of this government.

Isn't patel the idiot who didn't understand what the death penalty was?

 

[davmaher]

Isn't patel the idiot who didn't understand what the death penalty was?

Wouldn't be surprised. I know she came out in favour of it on Question Time, but when it was pointed out to her later on that it would go against her in the role of International Development Secretary she somehow managed to find her conscience and change her mind.

 

[Tubey]

Wouldn't be surprised. I know she came out in favour of it on Question Time, but when it was pointed out to her later on that it would go against her in the role of International Development Secretary she somehow managed to find her conscience and change her mind.

Amazing that isn't it. What's also amazing is that she lobbied for tobacco companies before being an MP and then coincidentally was against plain packaging for cigarettes when an MP.

She pays her husband a full-time wage to 'run her office' when he has two other jobs, because why not eh? She also voted against same-sex marriage, because of course she did, and voted for Brexit, because of course she bloody did. And idolises Thatcher, because of course she does.

She's literally everything I can't stand and I'd happily see her fall over in the street and get shat on by a pigeon.

 

[tsubaki]

Seriously, though. How has Patel not been sacked?

The absolute state of this government.

The only people May can safely sack for their misdeeds are her allies, the rest of them (Patel included) pose too much of a threat to her and to the country to be put on the backbenches. May needs to take them out (if for our sake rather than hers) - but it would require a Corbyn-like patience that she does not possess, plus of course for her to realise that she actually has the means to take them out (ie: the clear Parliamentary majority to stop Brexit, or at least the sort of Brexit that Johnson / Fox / Gove / Patel / DD would serve up).

 

[Blue 1]

The only people May can safely sack for their misdeeds are her allies, the rest of them (Patel included) pose too much of a threat to her and to the country to be put on the backbenches. May needs to take them out (if for our sake rather than hers) - but it would require a Corbyn-like patience that she does not possess, plus of course for her to realise that she actually has the means to take them out (ie: the clear Parliamentary majority to stop Brexit, or at least the sort of Brexit that Johnson / Fox / Gove / Patel / DD would serve up).

Aye, was a rhetorical question, really.

But why wasn't Amber Rudd sacked for being found in contempt of court? Probably due to her tiny majority I guess.

 

[Groucho]

Isn't patel the idiot who didn't understand what the death penalty was?

Eh, what? Seriously?

 

[orchard]

It's like may's privatised the government and they're all free to make their own personal deals on the back of Brexit.

 

[Blue 1]

At least Priti Patel won't be on QT anymore, grinning like a smug bellend wondering how the hell she got there. Political oblivion beckons.

Seeing as she subverted official channels in order to represent the interests of a foreign government, shouldn't the police be involved?

 

[orchard]

Taxi for May:

Exclusive: No 10 knew about Patel meetings

The JC understands that Ms Patel was told by Number 10 not to include extra meetings so as not to embarrass the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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  Number 10 instructed Development Secretary Priti Patel not to include her meeting with the Israel foreign ministry official Yuval Rotem in New York on 18 September in her list of undisclosed meetings with Israelis which was published on Monday, the JC has learned.
  
  Ms Patel listed 12 meetings in the statement, and the emergence of two more last night is thought to have made her sacking imminent.
  
  But the JC understands, from two different sources, that Ms Patel did disclose the meeting with Mr Rotem but was told by Number 10 not to include it as it would embarrass the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
  
  In addition, the JC can reveal that although Ms Patel’s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not authorised in advance, the British government was made aware of it within hours.
  

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https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/no-10-knew-about-priti-patel-israel-meetings-1.447605