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Priti Patel Doing Her Job

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Flaxmeadow · 20/05/2021 12:53

Priti Patel, our Home Secretary, has been photographed attending the arrest of suspected people traffickers in London . Great you would think, the prosecution of organised crime, modern day slavery being rooted out and made an example of.

Yet ATM on SM there are masses of comments where Priti Patel is being described as a Nazi, Goebbels, evil bitch, ugly faced cow, Fascist, concentration camp guard, child murderer, and so on. She is even being criticised for her shoes, the type of footwear many South Asian heritage women wear. Also accused of masturbating (she has her hands in her pockets in the photo)

Most of these comments are from men. Why so much hate for a woman doing a tough job?

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HelloOldSport · 20/05/2021 13:39

@Flaxmeadow

I can't wish her bad enough tbh, and put a curse on her a couple of months ago, hope it works

Not that I believe in any of that silly old nonsense, but isn't the problem with cursing people that it can easily be returned 'back in your mouth'. You must know this? Superstition is not the way forward Dev, its a load of backwards tripe. We need to move with the times

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Flaxmeadow · 20/05/2021 13:39

I can't wish her bad enough tbh, and put a curse on her a couple of months ago, hope it works

Not that I believe in any of that silly old nonsense, but isn't the problem with cursing people that it can easily be returned 'back in your mouth'. You must know this? Superstition is not the way forward Dev, its a load of backwards tripe. We need to move with the times

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Erikrie · 20/05/2021 13:36

All those oh so lovely senior male civil servants just couldn't take that the bullying was coming from a brown woman.

Indeed.

FFSFFSFFS · 20/05/2021 13:34

I've posted about the treatment of PP before on this board and been generally howled down.

I find it amazing that of all the politicians she is the one that has been targeted as the bully by all those lovely and delightful civil servants who have been in charge of the Home Office.

I'm sure she was a bully. But I am also sure that so are most of the male politicians.

All those oh so lovely senior male civil servants just couldn't take that the bullying was coming from a brown woman.

picturesandpickles · 20/05/2021 13:29

Look at what she is doing to travellers, how racist she is Yes, agree these are racist policies, very concerning. I wouldn't personally use 'she' but those policies are disgraceful.

TomatoesAreFruit · 20/05/2021 13:29

I am not a fan of Priti Patel, in the same way I am not a fan of some far-left Labour politicians.

But agree - the comments about her are often misogynistic and racist.

LobotomisedIceSkatingFan · 20/05/2021 13:28

I can't think of a reason on earth for her to be there, grandstanding like an idiot in that jacket. Bizarre self-aggrandisement as per.

I do feel for TM, who was attacked to a ridiculous degree for making the fundamental error of not being Thatcher.

picturesandpickles · 20/05/2021 13:28

I wouldn't use the words that get used because they are hateful words, but I think Patel's policies are vile.

I agree though that female politicians get a terrible time. The number of death threats Diane Abbott got was astounding.

Erikrie · 20/05/2021 13:27

She seems pretty rational and reasonable to me. I'm not why there's so much hate. Probably a mixture of being a Tory and a woman.

Devlesko · 20/05/2021 13:27

I'm a woman and agree with their comments.
Look at what she is doing to travellers, how racist she is.
I can't wish her bad enough tbh, and put a curse on her a couple of months ago, hope it works. Evil woman.
HTH

Ereshkigalangcleg · 20/05/2021 13:25

She's being targeted with this degree of hate, because she's female. if it were a male, the language would be different and the level of hate less.

Agree. This isn't about her politics for me, the misogyny is appalling.

LobotomisedIceSkatingFan · 20/05/2021 13:23

^Maybe so.

She's fucking appalling at her job though, and a pretty awful person to boot. I've never voted Tory, but do remember the days where you least had to have a modicum of intellect/general competence to be Home Secretary of the UK: I mean - it's a biggie. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs it ain't.

AssassinatedBeauty · 20/05/2021 13:22

I seriously disagree with Priti Patel and intensely dislike her politics. 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.

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Flaxmeadow · 20/05/2021 13:19

We know the terrible price some trafficked people have paid. We know that it isn't just people from abroad who are exploited, even murdered, at the hands of greedy ruthless trafficking gangs. A message needs to be sent

I WANT my Home Secretary to look like this, as suspected slave traders are carted off to the cells.

Priti Patel Doing Her Job
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FindTheTruth · 20/05/2021 13:11

*she not it

FindTheTruth · 20/05/2021 13:11

She's being targeted with this degree of hate, because she's female. if it were a male, the language would be different and the level of hate less.

Lowhum · 20/05/2021 13:03

I know some people in RL who dislike her for specific reasons, but some dislike her just because she is Conservative.

I think she very much being targeted because she is a woman in this role.

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