Priti Patel Doing Her Job

PP has awful politics and is terrible at her job.

However, as a PP says:
The comments on SM are totally wrong and are because she is female and non-white. Just like Theresa May used to get, and Diane Abbott does too.*
^This

I know what they did was a crime, but the trafficking they did wasn't the forcing people against their will type into the UK. They people they smuggled into the UK wanted to come here and were willing to pay someone to smuggle them in

So telling people you have a well paid job for them, so they want to come, then them ending up in prostitution is ok? Because that covers the above description.
And why are we happy to welcome so many men from these countries, where are their wives and DCs, parents , who is providing for them. The men clear off to another life. Nice for them.

she knows that a brown woman wouldn't get much support from the average Tory voter

I don't know that I've really seen any evidence of this. It seems like the kind of thing certain Labour supporters believe which is not accurate and is leading them to misread the political landscape at the moment.

Criticism of policies, or even personal character, are fine, but in general I think it's sully to criticise political figures being present for photo ops. To some extent it's part of their jobs and while there are some that push it into bad taste, that doesn't seem to be the case here.

I don't know that it's reasonable to expect that people will not notice or comment on things like the clothes of public figures. People just notice - and it's not always women either. Women have it harder in terms of clothes though, men if they want to can fly under the radar whereas women's clothing has a lot more scope for going wrong. But in either case to me there is a difference between people noticing and commenting in a meaningless gossipy way, and doing so in a mean-spirited way, or to discredit them in their jobs.

I do think non-white conservatives can get a certain amount of special flack from the left, though I'm not sure it's deliberately targeted.

What is frustrating is that because of some of these mysoginistic comments she will now garner sympathy.

Comments about her should be focussed on her despicable politics, dubious intelligence and generally racist attitude. The same way they would be applied to a male politician who behaved similarly to her. Making criticsm of her gender-specific just undermines the other very valid criticisms of her.

I believe Ms Patel is a great HS. People dislike her because she a woman of colour. I feel she is firm and fair. I think this country has been a soft target because of our liberalism. However, people have grown tired of Tiny Blair's Open door policy over the years without infrastructure implementation put first. Enough is enough.

There's nothing wrong with her shoes per se, but they don't seem to match the rest of her outfit in that picture.

I'm sorry but it doesn't make up for all the awful things she has overseen.

This woman causes a visceral reaction whenever I hear her name or see her. I used to consider myself a feminist so I highly doubt it's because of her sex. I'm not white, so I highly doubt it's because of her race. She's just a hateful person with disgusting views, and yes I hate her.

Talking about her shoes, race, looks etc. is not on. She is a massive bellend for everything she stands for though. Awful, awful woman.

A bill on which hundreds of people and organisations have worked, not PP. Also a bill that excludes protection for migrant women.

She oversaw the passing of the domestic abuse bill into law, which made post separation coercive control, suffocation and strangulation into crimes and saw children recognised as victims of domestic violence in their own right. Men can no longer claim "sex game gone wrong" and therefore get away with murder by raping after (and therfore get away with rape, by murdering after).

For that, she has my thanks and my gratitude.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/priti-patel-accused-of-breaching-ministerial-code-for-second-time More

blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2017/11/10/leaving-by-the-back-door-priti-patel-and-the-crisis-of-corruption/ or this

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/priti-patel-gas-contract-corruption-nigeria-process-industrial-development-b1759441.html e.g.

No she’s not good. She’s evil and corrupt.

Priti Patel is the best Home Secretary for decades. She is actually prepared to tackle human trafficking & illegal immigration rather than hide behind the pathetic hand-wringing we have seen from her useless predecessors. I hope she is brave enough to actually change the law to allow her to remove more of these individuals faster.

I know what they did was a crime, but the trafficking they did wasn't the forcing people against their will type into the UK. They people they smuggled into the UK wanted to come here and were willing to pay someone to smuggle them in.

I don't know if that makes it any "better".

But either way Patel is a politician, since when do politicians attend arrests?

[quote Flaxmeadow]So what's the story? Are the arrested men proven to be traffickers or are they just illegal immigrants to be deported?

They have been charged with people trafficking.

www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/people-smuggling-network-dismantled-as-alleged-ocg-leaders-are-arrested-by-the-nca?fbclid=IwAR3Enbu6_L9tM7YhzTJRduH-tGWRh3YNQUYo34NLsNsvBK9yxyWLBVJm-z0[/quote]
Gosh, the sentences these people receive are pitiful! No wonder they think it's worth the risk.

Some people genuinely can't distinguish between people traffickers and refugees: they're all the same homogenous bunch. They don't see the deaths or the bonded labour.

Or they just don't pay attention: even Adil Ray thought it was an immigration raid rather than a raid on a human trafficking network triggered by a National Crime Agency investigation.

She is a vile human being !

She openly supports and admires the RSS who are a facist movement.

Lying treacherous bully