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Priti Patel

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RosaTheOwl · 08/11/2017 16:30

I can't tell if I am being OTT but I feel like there's an undercurrent of misogyny around her situation at the moment.

I'm not defending her. I just feel uneasy with Twitter - I've got people I know following a hashtag about her plane landing and last night there was a # about "cursing" her. I just feel like this wouldn't be said about Boris Johnson.

is it just me?

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Muddlingalongalone · 08/11/2017 19:37

Haven't properly seen the news since lunchtime but I commented at work today that it was other women mps being quoted as coming out to condemn her i'm sure the men thought the same
I think we might have a woman pm but fundamentally Westminster is still terribly undiverse

PricklyBall · 08/11/2017 19:29

Resigned rather than sacked (aka "left alone in the library with the revolver, Carruthers, we know we can trust you to do the decent thing.")

There was no way she could stay in the job having done what she's done - you just do not go off-piste over foreign policy, particularly not foreign policy over Israel, and get away with it. What is so hard to work out is why she thought she could get away with it.

(With Boris, I presume May only puts up with him because she'd rather have him in the tent pissing out. And I think the one thing that unites Tories is sheer self-preservation - they know that they're hanging by a thread, dependent on the DUP, and a leadership contest would bring the whole house of cards down. Boris isn't going to challenge because he doesn't want to go straight into a no-confidence vote and then losing a general election.)

But I agree we can (unfortunately) look forward to a misogynistic and racist shit-storm. (And as Irene said, it's quite possible to be right-wing and on the receiving end of misogyny and racism).

nomad5 · 08/11/2017 16:48

I can't really understand why she's likely to be sacked but BoJo lives another day. Probably because she has breached ministerial code and the devious blonde one has avoided doing this so far???

Also presumably because cutting Priti loose is not as dangerous Theresa May politically as firing Boris... In terms of someone ready to knife her to get the top job

Although why the fuck anyone would WANT to be UK PM given the state of things right now .....is unclear!

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RosaTheOwl · 08/11/2017 16:41

Oh I know she's done wrong, it just seems like the stuff pointing out Boris errors is all factual and the stuff about her isn't.

I'm not saying she's only being targeted, I'm just noticing a difference between how people - men and women - are expressing their anger.

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IrenetheQuaint · 08/11/2017 16:39

It's quite likely. It's entirely possible both to be a ghastly right-winger with horrible views and the target of racist/sexist abuse (c.f. Sarah Palin).

However, she has clearly contravened the Ministerial Code if the allegations about her are true, so I don't have much sympathy with people saying she is only being targeted because of her race and sex.