... 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).

A friend of mine has had to spend a considerable amount of time with Ms Patel.

She is indeed nasty, apparently. Also widely considered to be thick and incompetent.

And likes to decorate places with large photographs of herself

She is the worst of all worlds. Thick, incompetent, unempathetic, unimaginative, cruel and a liar who takes no responsibility for her actions. And now very powerful.

However I remember all the discussion about John Bercow being a bully and Gordon Brown throwing things and having tantrums. So not just women are criticised for this although they do tend to be more so.

Gordon Brown was also hard to work with ( so I read once ) and I'm sure many more male politicians are the same.
My MP is a well known 'ERG ' member and he appears in the conservative club demanding free drinks apparently! ( friend of a friend works there) he is an arrogant one and not nice to work for too so I've heard.
I bet all that power and money addles their brains.

I would have the impression the brown was a nitpicky perfectionist who would make you work until 7pm on Christmas Eve because there was earl to be done. I never got the impression he was nasty. But I’ve never met him either.

Downing Street were saying how nice John Major was compared to Tony Blair

We met John Major and he was lovely. This was in Cornwall on holiday and my DD offered him a bite of her cornish pasty

I like John Major too and he was an adulterer. (Though that's not as bad as the Iraq war...) I like it when he pops up and weighs in.

I didn't know John M was adulterous ! Mind you I had my hands full bringing up kids in the 90 s so I wasn't that into politics ( no Internet available either)

I care less that she is unpleasant than the fact the seems to be utterly stupid. She talks literal nonsense at times. I heard her interviewed on the radio yesterday and at one point she was just saying words-they didn't mean anything at all as a sentence.

However I also think some of her views are deeply unpleasant.

Anyone who thinks the death penalty is a good idea should be a million miles from government, she’s a vile piece of work.

Major used to be my MP, he was a great constituency MP and one of the nicest men ever.

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

Part of her job is forming a productive working relationship with the Permanent Secretary of her department. She's clearly failing there. You don't get to say "it's just not the right fit" at that level.

Oh no The80sweregreat (yes they were weren't they!) - I had a panic then that I'd slandered him, but have double-checked. Edwina Currie sensationally revealed they'd had a long and saucy affair when she published her diaries later. As I recall it made him go up in people's estimation and be seen in a new light but it was still cheating on his poor wife.

The80'sweregreat-John Major had an affair with Edwina Curry!

Blooming heck - I def think the death penalty would be a good idea for eg serial paedophles.

Wtf @HelgaHere1??

Can she last in her job treating people like this

I highly doubt that treating people with fairness and compassion is viewed as a requirement for being in Boris Johnson's cabinet. In fact I imagine it would hold her back considerably if she suddenly developed a moral compass overnight. I don't imagine the fact that she's widely considered to be incompetent and a proven liar will be much of a hindrance either, she and the PM have a great deal in common.

Rousette I wanted to put the Michael Spicer video up but didn’t know how. It’s bloody scary that she doesn’t seem to know the difference between terrorism and counterterrorism. Hysterical sketch.

Awful woman.

Because she's a woman and minority we can't comment on her fairly obvious failings? Bit of a double standard.

She got fired from her last post for lying. In an environment where lying is like breathing. Think that says a lot tbf...

I listened to the BBC5 interview this morning; she was awful. Sounded so unrealistic and plain nasty imo.

My 'favourite' was when they pointed out that 20% of the workforce was comprised primarily of students, the retired, the disabled, the sick/potentially dying, etc ... and she refused to acknowledge that actually those people aren't really capable of stepping up and filling all those positions, just kept spouting that they comprise 20% of people who can fill jobs!

She's fucking deluded.

So did Bozzer though. And she is a woman - so we can bitch, cancelled out by minority’s. If she come out as queer or (other) she will be golden.

@StealthPolarBear there are loads of threads about Male politicians being dicks. Its nothing to do with her being female. She's a nasty piece of work, who has now got a platform to enable her to negatively affect millions of peoples lives. I'm ashamed to be part of a country that voted for this. The statement on the foreign office chills me to the bone.

LeMaFe... yes, a lot of his stuff is on Youtube. My absolute favourite is him being Boris's earpiece when he said a speech in front of Police cadets. I couldn't stop watching it. "Activate Susan" has become a phrase in our house!

I called out Cameron when he was being particularly unpleasant to Jeremy Corbyn during PMQs. It's fine to disagree on politics, but it's unkind (and on the verge of bullying) to mock someone just because of what they wear. Cameron & Patel are birds of a feather. Not very bright, not very competent, and rather unpleasant.

Priti Patel
Priti Patel
If she doesn't scare you
No evil thing will
To see her is to
Take a sudden chill
Priti Patel Patel

The curl of her lips
The ice in her stare
All innocent children
Had better beware
She's like a spider waiting
For the kill
Look out for Priti Patel
At first you think
Priti is the devil
But after time has worn
Away the shock
You come to realize
You've seen her kind of eyes
Watching you from underneath
A rock!
This vampire bat
This inhuman beast
She ought to be locked up
And never released
The world was such
A wholesome place until
Priti, Priti Patel

She is so vile she even makes Boris look good. Probably why he chose her. I would imagine the tick list for chosing his inner circle to be something along the lines of:

Vile ✅
Incompetent ✅
Has been sacked in the past ✅
Loathing of the hoi polloi ✅
Owner of off shore funds ✅
Hater of EU ✅

Have I missed anything?

I'd forgotten about Edwina curry!
My memory is definitely going these days.