P.K. Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Back to Priti Vacant Patel you simply can't throw your weight around (hah!) when dealing with educated people who have employment rights. Which means she's stupid to think she could.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojomonkey Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, Rog said: Worked for me and with great success! Kudos for admitting that you're easily led. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rog Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 1 minute ago, mojomonkey said: Kudos for admitting that you're easily led. Of course I'm easily led! It's virtually impossible to have been married for forty-five years without knowing when to put up and shut up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir nige Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 1 hour ago, P.K. said: Back to Priti Vacant Patel you simply can't throw your weight around (hah!) when dealing with educated people who have employment rights. Which means she's stupid to think she could.... bercoff....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 12 minutes ago, sir nige said: bercoff....... Did anything come of that? Because unlike Priti Vacant Patel it would seem not.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rog Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, P.K. said: Did anything come of that? Because unlike Priti Vacant Patel it would seem not.... Well the poisonous ?little POS isn't in line for the traditional seat in the Upper House and Andrea Leadsom made her opinion very clear that was not contradicted in The House today after PMQ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 6 minutes ago, Rog said: Well the poisonous ?little POS isn't in line for the traditional seat in the Upper House and Andrea Leadsom made her opinion very clear that was not contradicted in The House today after PMQ! Unusually for a tory Bercow was very much his own man. Unlike brown-noser Leadsom.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rog Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Just now, P.K. said: Unusually for a tory Bercow was very much his own man. Unlike brown-noser Leadsom.... Oh do behave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 19 minutes ago, Rog said: Oh do behave. You're clueless. Leadsom tried to make a name for herself as the one to root out bullying in Whitehall. It fell on it's arse. Hence the continued bitterness at someone who is now long gone. Stupid woman.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Whitewash on the way: There may be blood.but it probably won’t be Patel’s. For now, an investigation has been promised into whether she has broken the ministerial code, but swift endorsements from Michael Gove – the minister for the Cabinet Office, which will conduct that investigation – and the prime minister suggest the outcome is already secure. The message seems clear: Priti’s safe. It’s also clear that we have entered a new phase of No 10’s conflict with the civil service: “unprecedented” is a word we are quickly wearing out. Yvette Cooper, the chair of the home affairs select committee, declared that “to end up with one of the most senior public servants in the country taking court action against one of the great offices of state shows a shocking level of breakdown in the normal functioning of government”. She’s right: it is shocking. But civil servants aren’t surprised. While bullying allegations have been mounting up against Patel for years, which she has denied, this is only a part of a “wider pattern of behaviour”, as Rutnam said in his statement. This goes way beyond bullying. Any of the tens of thousands of civil servants who have strained every sinew to respond to the contradictions and convolutions of Brexit will tell you this has been a conflict years in the making. That the latest and worst skirmish has taken place at the Home Office is symbolic given its prominence as arguably the government’s busiest Brexit-facing department. Even before properly facing down the multiple icebergs of a new border inspection regime, a new immigration system and claims of institutional racism, Brexit has already made the Home Office one of the most hazardous workplaces in government. In 2018-19 alone, 2,102 civil servants at the Home Office took time off work because of mental ill-health – at a cost of more than £12m. Add to this toxic landscape the presence and tactics of arguably the government’s most combative senior minister, and it should surprise no one where these particular chickens have first come home to roost. Not even the prime minister may be able – even if he wanted – to adequately chlorinate them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freggyragh Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 I’m very sceptical about any of these ‘bullying’ allegations. It seems quite the fashion to accuse people of it. Don’t need to look any further than the accusations made against Cregeen. I don’t believe for a minute that either Patel or Bercow are bullies - just a bit vain and demanding to work with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rog Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 12 minutes ago, P.K. said: You're clueless. Leadsom tried to make a name for herself as the one to root out bullying in Whitehall. It fell on it's arse. Hence the continued bitterness at someone who is now long gone. Stupid woman.... Oh do behave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir nige Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 1 hour ago, P.K. said: Did anything come of that? Because unlike Priti Vacant Patel it would seem not.... yes....read the report....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilp Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 3 hours ago, P.K. said: Unusually for a tory Bercow was very much his own man. So much so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.K. Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 2 hours ago, sir nige said: yes....read the report....... What report and what effect has it had on Bercow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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