Priti Patel just happened to have a meeting with Israeli PM. It’s the sort of thing that happens all the time…
Yes, it is nasty to kick a person when they are down, but Priti Patel lied to us all about the nature of her “holiday” in Israel last summer and there are questions still to be answered about her loyalties.
Nobody just happens to have a meeting with the Prime Minister of the country they are visiting on holiday. Ms Patel enjoyed a pre-arranged meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu – but we don’t know whether Foreign Office security procedures were followed because we don’t know whether the Foreign Office knew about it. That’s just one of the questions that will need to be answered.
In the meantime, people have been lining up to express their <ahem> sympathy with Ms Patel’s situation:
I sympathise with Priti Patel. When I was 12 our holiday in Bognor was spoilt when we bumped into Menachem Begin and couldn't get rid of him
— Mark Steel (@mrmarksteel) November 7, 2017
I know just how Priti Patel feels Nicolae & Elena Ceaușescu kept appearing like magic at every beach we went to holiday Isle of Wight 1970s
— Secret Musician (@molesteeth) November 7, 2017
Not on holiday, but sometimes see Silvio Berlusconi by the tea van outside Wickes in Catford
— Running Past 💚 (@running_past) November 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/cpd32/status/927991625820844032
bloody well nearly broke my neck falling over Imelda Marcos' shoes she left outside my tent camping holiday New Forest 1980s
— Secret Musician (@molesteeth) November 7, 2017
Was in Butlins Barry Island trying to sing karaoke but couldn’t hear the music as Rev Ian Paisley was chatting at the bar
— Dave Newton 🏴🏉🏒🇮🇪 (@KipperBedwas) November 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/steveevets26/status/927979263973904384
We stepped over a prostrate Neil Kinnock on Brighton Beach.
— Beaubodor (@beaubodor) November 7, 2017
I spotted Gorbachev at a bus stop near Neath.
— Baroness Suki Saboteur of Woke-ing and Volgograd🧡 (@SukiStockwell) November 7, 2017
Used to get really annoyed when Yasser Arafat would sit with his feet in our paddling pool, his caravan wasn't even next to ours, bloody liberty
— Kevin Murray (@BigKevi) November 7, 2017
We woke up to two weeks of Shimon Peres and his entourage hogging the best sunbeds in Benidorm one summer
— EuroDel #Rejoin (@arzydel) November 7, 2017
We had Manuel Noriega. He regularly showed up on the Isle of Wight carrying bags of sherbet dips for the kids. Liked a rave.
— Nick Stevenson 🇺🇦 IT'S NOT OVER 'TIL IT'S OVER (@NickStevenson63) November 7, 2017
Imagine my embarrassment on witnessing David Ben Gurion’s swim shorts flying off whilst coming down the flume at Butlin’s Minehead.
— Chris Gill 〓〓 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@ninefor22) November 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/garyashley5/status/927909989997580288
Yitzhak Rabin used to phone my father any time of day or night for home made beer tips.
Kept the whole house awake, real pain.— Martyn Peel #FBPE (@martynpeel) November 7, 2017
We met General Franco on so many family holidays to Girvan when I was a kid I'm suspicious of the coincidence.
— Kevin (@KALAccountants) November 7, 2017
I once fought Idi Amin over a sun lounger.
— Chris Gill 〓〓 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@ninefor22) November 7, 2017
Well, as you explained before, his nickname is Pol Pot Black so had to be expected.
— Chris Gill 〓〓 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@ninefor22) November 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/Brendan_Surrey/status/927857107130601474
Imagine my surprise walking around Rhyl with an Ice-cream when out of the blue, Idi Amin with a copy of Chat!
— Reece de Ville (@devillefilm) November 7, 2017
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Mustn’t let this one die a death because I believe that not only Patel, but also May and Johnson have all told barefaced lies to both Parliament and the Country.
Hilarious twitter posts?
………..hang her
What a cracking selection of tweets. If Priti Patel has to appear in front of a commons select committee about this affair she might present them as evidence that “these coincidental meetings can happen to anyone”.