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

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BowermansNose · 20/02/2020 11:11

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).

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BowermansNose · 29/02/2020 10:51

The difference between DA and PP is that PP has a record of being a bully. Diane Abbott’s greatest crimes seem to be sending her child to private school, getting her numbers wrong once in a interview, and being a black woman

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Frazzled2207 · 29/02/2020 10:54

The statement from pr seems to suggest he has no interest in a financial settlement. Go him!

Mydogatemypurse · 29/02/2020 11:00

I have never heard her say anything nice. Personally I think she has tunnel vision and her views are narrow minded and dangerous. She doesnt come across as looking at the bigger picture and seems to have a distaste of less fortunate people. She comes accross bullish and naive. So yes I agree with you.

longwayoff · 29/02/2020 13:18

And she is a proven liar who was sacked for it. Let's see how she does this time.Hmm

1forsorrow · 29/02/2020 13:21

The statement from pr seems to suggest he has no interest in a financial settlement. I thought that when I heard about it. I'm sure he could have got a nice settlement for keeping his mouth shut, going public makes that unlikely. Should be interesting.

Alsohuman · 29/02/2020 13:22

Pleasant change to see someone with principles who can’t be bought. Bet that’s shaken the government to the core.

1forsorrow · 29/02/2020 13:27

Does offering him a financial inducement to go indicate they think he has a case?

fedup21 · 29/02/2020 13:28

I predict they'll settle with him before it gets to court. No way do the Tories want the details of this being broadcast.

I hope he doesn’t settle.

1forsorrow · 29/02/2020 13:30

Alsohuman, I agree. Not everyone can afford principles so I don't condemn people who because of their commitments would have to take the pay off but fantastic that someone who can afford to do follows through.

His union is backing him so he has support. I wonder if Andrea Leadsom is going to comment, she was fast enough to condemn Bercow.

1forsorrow · 29/02/2020 13:31

fedup from what I just read he has said he was offered a settlement and turned it down. The Cobra meeting might be about more than whatever the coronavirus is now called. I'd just got used to Covid 19 and they changed it.

FudgeBrownie2019 · 29/02/2020 13:36

I'm really hoping he doesn't settle because the Tories desperately need the shakeup he can orchestrate.

fedup21 · 29/02/2020 13:39

I wonder what will happen then!

Will BJ sacrifice Priti Patel?!

Alsohuman · 29/02/2020 13:41

He must have a rock solid case, presumably he stands to get more in damages from a victory in court than from a pay off. I so hope he wins.

AdoptedBumpkin · 29/02/2020 13:43

Sounds like Ms Patel, and possibly Dominic Cummings, have forced him out. This Government really scare me.

Alsohuman · 29/02/2020 13:49

If he wins, it’ll mean curtains for Patel and quite possibly for Cummings too. That should give Johnson and his merry men pause for thought.

AdoptedBumpkin · 29/02/2020 13:57

Let's hope he wins then. Patel has a really disturbing look in her eyes.

Roussette · 29/02/2020 14:03

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/philip-rutnam-resigns-priti-patel-bullying-allegations-home-office-latest-a9366126.html

In case you want to hear his statement. He sounds really quite emotional come the end, well... you would be if you'd had a career for 33 years and been forced out by a bullying nasty Home Secretary. I hope this means curtains for her. And that ragbag scruff Cummings.

Roussette · 29/02/2020 14:04

And no... he isn't taking a payout. He didn't want one so that he could protect the other members of the Home Office, he decided to go public instead.

Thenextstorm · 29/02/2020 14:06

In case you want to hear his statement. He sounds really quite emotional come the end, well... you would be if you'd had a career for 33 years and been forced out by a bullying nasty Home Secretary. I hope this means curtains for her. And that ragbag scruff Cummings.

Totally agree

Southwest12 · 29/02/2020 14:12

Philip Rutnam was my DG back when I was in the civil service. He's a good person, and one well used to dealing with difficult Ministers, so says a lot about Priti Patel's behaviour.

1forsorrow · 29/02/2020 14:14

Southwest12, thanks for that. It is always good to hear something from people who know what they are talking about.

C00kiesandCr3am · 29/02/2020 14:19

Think I’d rather have somebody like him as my boss that PP. Sounds like a hideous working atmosphere. Hats off to him for doing the right thing.

Alsohuman · 29/02/2020 17:22

I heard an interview on the radio with Bob Kerslake, former head of the civil service, he said Rutnam is a highly experienced and respected civil servant and if he couldn’t cope with Patel, nobody could.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 29/02/2020 17:29

I don’t think it matters about her being nice but it does matter her being competent - that seems questionable

She is in a male world being ruthless is fine for males and considered at top level politics to be a necessity for some roles so women have to be too and fight agains misogyny

I wouldn’t be surprised if she become leader of the party at some point

Leighhalfpennysthigh · 29/02/2020 17:31

Haven't read the thread properly yet (sorry) but from some of the responses am I right in thinking that-

Calling out a politician who happens to be Asian and female for her lack of skill at doing her job, lying which led to her losing her previous job and obvious inability to do her job - is racist. Whilst...

That same politician publicly stating that British people would rather be footballers and rockstars than doctors and accountants (or whatever the professions) isn't racist?

Righto. I'll go back to reading this now.