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Perhaps ‘telling tales’ might feel more palatable..?
I appreciate she did not ‘spill the beans’, but the relish with which she publicly shamed her colleague feels, to me at least, akin to grassing someone up. I feel to label this turn of phrase ‘dangerous territory’ is perhaps rather dramatic.
I was also alluding to the revelations a while ago about her being an advocate of calling the police on neighbours for possible misdemeanours during lockdown.
I think she seems to be a very spiteful, mean-spirited and unpleasant individual.
Let (s)he who is without sin cast the first stone, sorta thing.
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I think she seems to be a very spiteful, mean-spirited and unpleasant individual.
The word you are looking for is 'Tory'.
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Perhaps 'dangerous territory' came across as a bit dramatic, maybe 'slippery slope' was more accurate. But you see where I'm coming from right? You get into these situations where discussions just become shit-flinging contests between two sides. With each side firing off any attack they can at the other side while not accepting any fault of those on their side.
On the face of it, you've got people criticising Boris' stance doing nothing about Cummings ignoring the rules while criticising Patel's stance calling out her 'colleague' for ignoring the rules.
Like I said, I get that there is more context to the situation than at first glance. But just wanted to highlight the reason for my response.
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Is it still grassing up if she's asked for her opinion on something that happened?
Surely grassing up would require her spilling the beans on the dinner he attended, as opposed to answering a question on her opinion of Ellwood's actions by a journalist.