That Priti Patel speech [title edited by MNHQ]

[BertrandRussell]

Just that.

She's not perfect, but I don't care.

I've been the victim of a weird number of crimes in the past several years and the streets are getting very scary. These motorcycle gangs are well and truly in charge in my neighbourhood.

Pp- tories have taken off the police off the streets (austerity) and now want to replace some of it.

They must have found the magic money tree...

@EntropyRising and dont you wonder whether government policy over the past 10 years might have contributed to the rise in crime? Slashing police budgets will do that.

@EntropyRising and dont you wonder whether government policy over the past 10 years might have contributed to the rise in crime? Slashing police budgets will do that.

Yes. I blame Teresa May.

The tragic thing is that she's perfectly fine with being used as a useful idiot for the far right. She'd be sent back home too.

How she avoided charges of misconduct in public office I will never l know.
She is not a politician. In no part of her world view does the needs of thers, entirely separate from her own angle amount or count for anything. At the heart of her reason for being is power, notoriety and money. She could be repping for The Green Party, spout she lived whales and have Hreta round for soya lattes if she got where she wanted.
She is what is vile about politics s right now. The type of self serving, give a fuck merchants that want to pick the best bits of what's on the buffet for themselves and leave not even a crumb for the rest.
That she has risen to this position makes me wonder what a corrupt world we live in at the moment. Morally, politically and economically.
Opportunist who is loving the fact she can step into the light and ot hide a single prejudice or her avarice.

Yes. I blame Teresa May.
She's hardly the first or only one to blame.

She is a strong woman from a non-white, non-Christian background who is very successful. Surely she should be seen as a role model of what disadvantaged women can achieve in this country. Why should we look up to her just because of her ethnic and cultural/religious markers?

@viaLatvia

She actively voted against others having that same opportunity. I posted the voting record a couple of pages ago.
I certainly wouldn't want any daughter of mine growing up to be anything like her!

And I say that as young mixed-race, disabled woman who is well aware of what disadvantage does to people in this country. I do not need, nor want such a lecherous twit for a role model...

She's been sacked for lying to the previous PM. Probably helped her get in to BoJo's cabinet. She's proved herself untrustworthy by her deeds and her voting record. I don't give a shit that she's from an immigrant background, or that she's a non white female. I'll judge her on her actions, not a few tired soundbites.

Oh dear ViaLatvia

I will never admire her for her melanin levels, her faith or ethnicity.

I would admire her for her values, belief system, morals and in turn her behaviours and actions as an ethical public servant...oh wait

I don't give a shit that she's from an immigrant background, or that she's a non white female. I'll judge her on her actions, not a few tired soundbites.

As a woman from a non-white background I second this.

Her smirk though. Its like seeing the school bully get voted iin for head girl cos the teachers voted for her and that smirk is "fuck you all very much, now, let's be having your lunch money"

lola, yes! Exactly!

@violetrose28

love her or hate her, she's got 'future Prime Minister' written all over her.
I said the same thing about Boris a decade ago and everyone laughed at me.

Yes I said the same about Boris! Now you mention Priti...

I don't think she'd have been brought back in unless the Conservative party thought she'd be a good candidate for PM

Unless they didnt think

Oh im confusing myself now

Basically the tories think she'd be a good candidate for PM!

It doesn't matter if it's Iggle Piggle standing up there, it's the lack of substance and transparency that's the problem.

Out of interest how has the Tory party decided which crimes are worthy of their attention?
Rape convictions are at an all-time low.
Domestic violence is at an all time high.
Clearly those aren't worthy then.

They're driven by populist media stories that catch the attention of parts of the country they want to woo.
Yes county lines is a terrible crime. But so are others that equally deserve attention (but are less headline grabbing).

And how exactly does this fit with cuts in police forces, prison services, mental health services, council services for vulnerable adults and children etc?

Yet more soundbite diatribe. The speaker is irrelevant.

www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2019/oct/01/tories-reveal-themselves-as-party-of-lawlessness-and-disorder?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0QHRvtiff2ueL2jMQ65_NFS-XFyhZwhlwzwdwBuAePPyHit7zUBQvmdRk#Echobox=1569960445

Hilarious article - spot on 😂

The Tories don't decide which cases to prosecute because that's the responsibility of the CPS, and if they decide not to prosecute in rape questions, that might be because the evidence is too weak or too old or too circumstantial or biased to have a chance in court. Many DV victims won't proceed because they can save their tormentors. But county lines gangs are organised crime, targetting your child and mine, cynically, in areas where the economic and employment prospects are dull. And once heavy drugs have a platform, it escalates. This comes from a tiny picture-postcard Cornish village, which has a serious heroin issue a few miles away. Priti Patel and every other hard serious enforcer of the law gets some qualified support from me.