... to think that Priti Patel doesn't sound very nice?

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8022887/Home-Secretary-Priti-Patel-accused-bullying-creating-atmosphere-fear.html

Daily Mail link, but I'm listening to it on BBC Radio 5. It sounds as if Priti Patel is facing lots of complaints because of the way she treats people. Combine that with her politics, and she just doesn't come across very pleasantly. Can she last in her job treating people like this (assuming it is true).

No she sounds awful. But I don’t think she’s alone among the current government!

Understatement of the century!

I think at some point she will go to far and be secretly recorded by an aide and it being all over media and she will have to resign. Also the gaurdian has recordings of Boris big row with Carrie, I am sure that is also going to be released at some stage, people are just biding their time.

Have you been under a rock for the last few years OP? She's a heartless, unfeeling arsehole.

I can only agree with the posts above, OP!

I think I was making a gentle understatement. I somehow find it satisfying when someone who is politically awful also turns out to be horrible on a personal level.

I know someone who has already been forced out of their job because their 'face didn't fit' and gave honest, expert advice and facts when she only wanted to hear her own opinions parroted back to her.

Luckily they are excellent, recognised as being at the top of their field, and have already been snapped up in a higher paying job.

what do you expect of her? she is vile

Hello? She’s a Tory.

Can she last in her job treating people like this
It doesn’t seem to hold back many people in politics.

It isn't her job to be nice. It's her job to do her job well.
I think she's awful but no one would ever start a thread about the niceness or not of a male politician.

I've worked with people like her, blind ambition, no actual talent so surround themselves with people that only ever say yes.

If you offer a different opinion or they just take a disliking to you - you're forced out.

She wasn’t hired to be nice, she was hired to do a job.

I think she’s pretty poor at the latter to be honest, but I doubt we would see articles like the one in the OP about male politicians.

I’m beginning to wonder if the % of female a*hole politicians is higher than the male % of same? It just seems that way.

It isn't her job to be nice. It's her job to do her job well.

She's failed on both counts then.

Very true Stealth, women are still expected to 'be nice'.

How on earth did The Guardian obtain a recording of Boris and Carrie arguing? That is such an invasion of privacy, whoever they are.

labour activists next door. Never trust a next door activist...

PhilCornwall1 don't disagree - but no one has ever talked about the niceness of Cameron, Blair, corbyn or Churchill as far as I'm aware.

I know people who have worked with her. She is not at all nice.
They also tell me which male MPs are not nice, this is not a sexist thing.

but no one has ever talked about the niceness of Cameron, Blair, corbyn or Churchill as far as I'm aware.

Probably because they weren't. I've read a lot about Blair and by all accounts, he isn't very nice.

People go on and on about the perceived lack of niceness from Corbyn. Blair is seen as smarmy (creepily nice) and Cameron has always been considered nice but dim! I'll be honest, I have no answer regarding Churchill! I found him a bit short with the queen when I watched the Crown!

Neither is Patel yet here we are

I'll give you that the lack of mn threads on the niceness if Churchill (and Blair! Wow I feel old) might have a bigger factor other than them being men.

Agree Op
I really don’t like her. When I see her smug , annoying face on tv I feel irritated

There’s an ongoing war between the Civil Service and the Government.