Priti Patel

[Seeker_UK]

An insight into the mind of our Home Secretary. Various MPs and public figures were asked what had helped them get through a difficult year. Most of the answers are quite anodyne but...

Like. Wow. Clearly didn't understand the brief...

 

[Seanm]

An insight into the mind of our Home Secretary. Various MPs and public figures were asked what had helped them get through a difficult year. Most of the answers are quite anodyne but...

There's a rumour going round today that she's asked for a briefing paper about reintroducing the death penalty. I suspect it's nonsense but if anyone would do such a thing, it would be her.

It’s not like crime takes time off at Christmas. Why should the forces of righteousness?

 

[TheDecameron]

They love it,

 

[eternumviti]

An insight into the mind of our Home Secretary. Various MPs and public figures were asked what had helped them get through a difficult year. Most of the answers are quite anodyne but...

There's a rumour going round today that she's asked for a briefing paper about reintroducing the death penalty. I suspect it's nonsense but if anyone would do such a thing, it would be her.

Sounds as though she has a very focused work ethic...

 

[SteveS1]

Sounds as though she has a very focused work ethic...

Would she still be in position in an ET cabinet?

 

[eternumviti]

There would be no such thing.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Sounds as though she has a very focused work ethic...

Oddly, it didn’t sound that way to me at all. Or is the ellipsis suggesting we agree?

 

[droodzilla]

Professional gobshite Julie Burchill has written an ode to Priti Patel in the Christmas issue of the The Spectator (aka Der Stürmer for toffs). It might be the shittest most insane thing I have read this year:

 

[Tony L]

Good grief. That is a quite spectacular example of whatever it is.

 

[Nick_G]

Professional gobshite Julie Burchill has written an ode to Priti Patel in the Christmas issue of the The Spectator (aka Der Stürmer for toffs). It might be the shittest most insane thing I have ever seen:

C.H.A.O.S.

 

[KrisW]

Okay, I'd expect someone at the Spectator to have no truck with "meter" (sounds a bit Continental, don't you know...), but that's total garbage.

 

[russel]

Professional gobshite Julie Burchill has written an ode to Priti Patel in the Christmas issue of the The Spectator (aka Der Stürmer for toffs). It might be the shittest most insane thing I have read this year:

I feel ill after reading that.

 

[Rob998]

Professional gobshite Julie Burchill has written an ode to Priti Patel in the Christmas issue of the The Spectator (aka Der Stürmer for toffs). It might be the shittest most insane thing I have read this year:

Lol! that’s batshit cray cray. As I’ve said about La Burchill elsewhere, she’s an über gobshite monger, and she’s doing what she does best.

 

[ks.234]

Good grief. That is a quite spectacular example of whatever it is.

It’s a celebration of divisive politics, it’s adulation of a proven bully, it’s a perversion of Trumpian proportion, it’s a jackboot stomp on the moral compass of our democracy

 

[Rob998]

It’s a celebration of divisive politics, it’s adulation of a proven bully, it’s a perversion of Trumpian proportion, it’s a jackboot stomp on the moral compass of our democracy

Read it to yourself in her ridiculous helium voice, and it has all the gravitas of a turd that won’t flush.

 

[glenda]

It's an absolutely sh*t parody of Betjeman's A Subaltern's Love Song, the one which begins
"Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, Miss Joan Hunter Dunn,
Furnished and burnished in Aldershot sun".

I can't decide who I dislike most, Patel or Burchill.
Cheers
Tony

 

[Rob998]

Lazy sod could only be arsed to rephrase less than half of it.
I wish @jackbarron was in a fit state to write a critique of his old colleagues half arsed doggerel, I’m sure it would be more entertaining and of more literary merit.

 

[martin clark]

Also very clear that J Birchill doesn^^^^^ cannot read Private Eye.

Else that last stanz^^^ (actually, its not a stanza, it's a concatenation of ullulations-by-fukwit) - becomes really, really, particularly weird...


ETA:

If one really must parody Betjeman in this way, it's just.so.easy to do so & keep it on subject..

Ms Priti Patel, Ms Priti Patel,
Furnish'd and burnish'd by Immigrant Hell
What strenuous reaches as Home Secretary:
'F*ck All stuck in the real world - this is all about ME! '
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(composed while briefly vomiting)

 

[stevec67]

She must read the Eye. She's a journali...sorry, she works for a newspaper. Maybe she bats for that side, either way.

 

[Dave H.]

Although PP was involved with Conservative Friends of Israel, by far the most significant episode in her career involving ‘sunshine of far Israel’ was the one that led to her being sacked, essentially for international corruption/running her own personal foreign policy.

That that should be the thing that apparently gave her an attractive sheen in the eyes of her admirers isn’t just nauseating, it’s deeply ominous.

Still, picking up on stuff in The Spectator as an indication of how sentiments are running within Torydom is just far fetched fantasy, isn’t it? Especially when it’s arguably dog whistle stuff that I’m sure the author would deny... No, everything’s fine. Definitely.