It’s civil servants v Boris Johnson over Priti Patel’s bullying. Who’s going to believe the known liar?
Priti Patel: smug as ever – perhaps because she’s got Boris Johnson making sure she’ll remain as Home Secretary no matter what is said against her.
Civil servants are now lining up to condemn Home Secretary Priti Patel, while she has support from liars like Boris Johnson and other former – disgraced – ministers like Liam Fox.
A civil servant writing in The Guardian tells us: “Civil servants are supposed to silently get on with it while ministers take the flak… But this very British convention of public life… is now being shredded by an emboldened administration still flexing its muscular majority.
“More colleagues are now coming forward with further allegations against Patel during her time as an employment minister in 2015. That’s in addition to claims that she, as international development secretary, openly called her staff “fucking useless”.
“So it might not be a stretch to say that this feels like like a sort of #MeToo moment for the civil service. Those who, like me, have been around government for several years reckon more allegations are on the way. There may be blood.”
But the writer says it probably won’t be Ms Patel’s.
Yes, there will be a Cabinet Office investigation – but the minister for the Cabinet Office, Michael Gove, has already given her his support.
Not only that: Boris Johnson told MPs he was “sticking by” Ms Patel during Prime Minister’s Questions, saying she was “delivering change, putting police out on the street, cutting crime, and delivering a new immigration system”. He is a known liar, of course.
Oh, and how about this endorsement?
Distinct feel of @patel4witham critics hunting as a hungry pack. Opportunistic coalition of the faceless and the useless. Great to see the Prime Minister @BorisJohnson sticking by her.
— Liam Fox MP (@LiamFox) March 4, 2020
Liam Fox was, if I recall correctly, the very first member of the Conservative government from 2010 onwards who was forced to resign in disgrace.
That is the kind of support she is getting.
Ms Patel may stay on as Home Secretary – let’s face it, it seems clear that Johnson is rigging any investigation in her favour – but she’ll never live down the scandal.
Civil servants don’t make this kind of fuss about nothing.
And she has already been forced to resign from a previous Cabinet job after she tried to carry out her own foreign policy, independent of even the Tory government’s.
As far as This Writer is concerned, she is poison. If she stays, she’ll become a symbol of Tory government bullying, lies and corruption.
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The rot set in with the egregious Michael Howard who got rid of the head of prisons when he was responsible for the service and despite later humiliation he slithered back into public office. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/prison-chief-wrongly-sacked-says-howard-1344734.html
I’m ancient so I’m old enough to remember when ministers took responsibility for their departments. But with the colostomy bags in charge answerable to higher powers – Scummings (under orders from Washington), Patel (Tel Aviv) and Johnson (Moscow) – we can forget any sense of honour amongst the thieves.
Isn’t it interesting that Harold Wilson (and earlier Labour PMs) suffered a campaign against him from the security services on the basis that he was receiving orders from Russia (he wasn’t) – and now many people believe the Tories are taking their orders from foreign powers, but there won’t be any investigation, will there?