Let’s put the record straight about Priti Patel
Now she has been knocked out of the Conservative leadership contest, let’s put the record straight about Priti Patel.
The BBC is telling us nonsense like she had a reputation for being a “law and order Conservative” – the woman who tried to run her own pro-Israel foreign policy against that of then-prime minister Theresa May, and got kicked out of May’s cabinet for it!
Law and order? Patel’s only interest was in doing as she pleased.
But she clearly didn’t please her colleagues in the Parliamentary Conservative Party. Only 14 of them voted for her.
First place in the contest went to Robert Jenrick with 28 votes – twice as many as Patel, followed by the far-right Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat and Mel Stride.
Perhaps those who voted for the other five candidates remembered the moment when Patel railed against “do-gooder” “activist lawyers” that prompted a knife attack against one such lawyer in their office.
She tweeted information that could prejudice a major criminal trial and then deleted it, fearing criminal action against her for contempt of court. This was while she was also facing possible prosecution for contempt of court over another case. Is that “law and order” Conservatism?
She hid behind Parliamentary privilege to call Jeremy Corbyn a racist – the one MP in Parliament to have voted against every piece of legislation that could possibly have a racist use, possibly forgetting that she herself supported Theresa May’s unlawfully racist “hostile environment” policy.
She supported football fans who booed protests against racism.
She created prejudiced policies to frustrate or undermine inquiries into the deaths of people held at her immigration detention centres, in breach of human rights laws.
She was accused of breaching the Ministeral Code for the second time in her Parliamentary career (the first being the Israel fiasco) by accepting a lucrative position with a global communications firm before receiving the all-clear from an anti-corruption watchdog.
She approved plans to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face a trumped-up criminal trial. Fortunately, the extradition was prevented and Mr Assange has now been freed to return to his Australian home.
She was told to stop lying that refugees coming to the UK were merely “economic migrants” looking for easy money by the high commissioner of the United Nations’ refugee agency.
She was accused of bullying civil servants – and let off by Boris Johnson in the face of the evidence.
The list goes on and on.
This Writer is glad she has lost – and I hope (forlornly, I suspect) that this will signal the end of her career. “Law and order Conservative”? Don’t make me laugh.
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A lot of truly dreadful people get a ‘discount’.
They are so dreadful that we simply cannot be expected to remember it all.
Many thanks for this article.