Priti Patel

[RosaTheOwl]

I can't tell if I am being OTT but I feel like there's an undercurrent of misogyny around her situation at the moment.

I'm not defending her. I just feel uneasy with Twitter - I've got people I know following a hashtag about her plane landing and last night there was a # about "cursing" her. I just feel like this wouldn't be said about Boris Johnson.

is it just me?

[LassWiTheDelicateAir]

Oh dear. She is a poor speaker- those redundant "actuallys" and "ultimate burden of proofs"

Justine Mumsnet was on the panel too.

According to Wiki Patel in October 2010 voted for the smoking ban to be overturned; in December 2010, she signed a letter requesting that plain packaging for cigarettes be reconsidered.

[BonnieF]

Patel would have been forced to quit irrespective of her gender or ethnicity. Her behaviour was well out of order.

What didn't help her was a lack of friends and allies. She is very unpopular and widely disliked, even for an obnoxious right-wing Zionist Tory Brexiteer.

[ZooeyAndFranny]

I also don’t think there is a particularly sexist angle to this.

She is thick as mince, unpopular, has few cabinet allies and has committed an almighty fuck up.

Boris is adored by some segments of the public, adored by right wingers and is too powerful to dismiss for anything short of murder.

Priti made herself expendable.

[woman11017]

Some men think that misogyny is misogyny unless directed at tories.

Anti semitism is anti semitism unless directed at Israelis.

[squishysquirmy]

I don't think there is any sexism behind her being sacked/forced to resign (I really can't see how there could be any other outcome) but there is a definite whiff of misogeny behind some people's reactions to the story.

It is also possible that there is more to the story than we are hearing.


I wish Boris would go. It is gobsmacking what he gets away with and I can imagine very few people less suited to the role of foreign secretary than him.