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should distinguish between "competency" and "being a grifter", patel, in current politics, is probably one of the most competent, up coming, and to be quite honest, frightening politicians the Tories have.
she's slick, happy to say what people want to hear and does it convincingly; smart enough to get into a place for them to hear it. she's so well attuned to current linguistics of right populism and aware of how to wield them in a way which leaves many labour mps tripping over themselves it's hard to ignore.
anyone denouncing her for being "thick" or "lesser" is unconsciously/consciously playing into the same tropes dianne abbott gets but from a different trajectory. so often the comments about women or minority women MPs, are tied up in perceptions of unconscious bias, and leave any valid criticisms of their political/ material damage which may be intertwined lacking and easy to dismiss/ counter.
ironically, as she often does to her verbal critics across the chamber