... 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).

She inspires feelings if such anger in me, and what is with that constant smirk?

I’ve never met a nice Labour voter so...

She's already lost a Cabinet post once but came back to a bigger one. See also Gavin Williamson.

Ken Clarke was a huge supporter of BAT too.

She’s a bit grasping and second rate but then so are the majority of the current cabinet.

Hello? She’s a Tory.

You're aged 3, right?

I’ve never met a nice Labour voter so...

What a silly statement that is. Nothing like saying millions of people aren't nice.

Between her Cummings and Bojo we are literally fucked! These people are dangerous, and we shouldn’t underestimate the damage they can do. Look at how Jeremy Cunt fucked over the NHS (and particularly the junior doctors). Our Country is being destroyed by total bloody idiots who don’t have a clue what they are doing and don’t care anyway.

I don’t think we’re literally fucked!

Fair assessment OP. She's not alone though, it's a government of the Not Very Nice. Just as well it's not a requirement.

’I don’t think we’re literally fucked!’

Boris is doing his best ...

amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/21/priti-patel-hostile-environment

The Guardian article makes reference to her permanently smirking face......

She's the perfect Tory Home Sec - nasty, arrogant and thick as mince.

I think she is future PM material.

Christ Almighty That really would be the day I'd go and claim political asylum somewhere.

I think loads of Ministers are "not nice" to their civil servants. I used to hear lots about tempers and rudeness.
Nice ones were not very common. Hague was apparently nice when a DWP minister years ago. Would personally thank staff.

Told this story before but she told my husband that people on NMW are lazy and dont want to work

Please note she wasn’t talking about the economically inactive or unemployed or part time or anything else

Just people on NMW

That's not surprising considering she co-wrote a book on how idle British workers are, which stated that 'Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football and pop music.'

As with people in business, those in politics who bully their staff are natural bullies at home too and / or are trying to distract from their own incompetence and / or villainy.

When it comes to politicians, it seems that civil servants are deprived of the normal employment rights against bullying
That's oppressive, but all civil servants can do is quit

Cummings is another who has been repeatedly criticised for outrageous of bullying his staff
So it's not just because Patel has no penis.

Priti Patel has something unusual in common with BJ:
both have been sacked for dishonesty

In business, that's usually a career killer, which often makes you unemployable,
but in this government it appears to be a career asset

Effective leadership requires taking people with you and also making most of their skills. Ignoring advice from experienced civil servants sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Future PM??? Even though we appear to have collectively chucked our brains out of the window where politics are concerned surely we'll never be reduced to this? She was will overstep the mark at some point, hopefully in the near future.

Well our current PM has previously been sacked for dishonesty so nothing surprises me any more.

I do think Dominic Cummings is the bigger problem though.

The whole thing is more Orwellian than Orwell and more Thick of It than Thick of It. Especially Cummings, it's really as if Armando Iannucci made him up.

There is an article about PP in the daily fail today. Reading the comments everyone thinks she's marvellous

And that’s the truly frightening thing, this country seems to moving further to the right every day.

Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen

What she means is that the children of middle class and wealthy Indian parents (and particularly migrants to other countries) aspire for their children to doctors or businessmen.

Perhaps Priti Vacant doesn’t know or care that less than half of children in India between the age 6 and 14 actually get a chance to go to school.

When I hear of Priti Patel abusing verbally civil servants (and ditto John Bercow), I think of people who are rude to waiting staff - they do it because they can't answer back in kind.