In the news

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I'm just changing this to say, fuck Priti Patel.

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Yeah we don't need any more death camps for brown people.

Not for her, either, but the sooner she ceases to have any kind of power over other people, the better.

^ Yep

In other news, very happy to see 'Wagatha Christie' in the news again, because it is my favourite bit of scandal naming ever.

Loving the timing of announcing £15bn of defence spending the day before £15bn of public sector wage freezes

Ministers coming forward to say "She was always lovely to me!"

Well, yes, she didn't bully peers, she bullied subordinates. She would humiliate them in front of other people, one civil servant collapsed afterwards and they paid out £25k without it going to tribunal.

'You know what they say about being nice to all the right people on the way up? Sooner or later, you're going to meet them coming down.'

Those people don't need the people on the way down. It is a nice saying, but some people get away with this behavior their whole lives, because they have enough £ / resources to avoid "commoners".

Having said that, I doubt her internal mind state is good and happy. Perhaps being her is unpleasant enough?

I am looking around a bit and keep seeing 'reports of bullying'. But are there any specifics out there of what she actually said and did? It's so easy to go tribal when you aren't forced to empathise with the victim by being told exactly what they had to go through.

Unpleasant enough for her doesn't mean she should be inflicted on everyone else though.

She did marketing and PR work for big tobacco and mining. Her conscience is not an obstacle.

Yeah little's been made public, mainly that she "briefed against" top civil servants like Phillip Rutnam.

But I do remember reading at the time of his resignation that Patel was said to have basically worked someone so hard they ended up in hospital. She made one or more staff stay in the office all night to fight a court decision which prevented her from deporting British detainees to Jamaica the next day. In the morning, when she found out they hadn't succeed she was rumoured to have belittled and chastised them in a large open office. One of these staff became ill and was treated in hospital that day.

I can't find much info on it now though

Oh I totally agree there.
She should not be in that position.

But facing consequences for actions is for the little people it seems.

Woman arrested for punching policeman in face over the impounding of her pot-bellied pig.

Think they could have done better with the headline, given that material.

Her husband is under arrest for livestreaming while he drove around looking for a cop to kill. Quite the family.

Scared the shit of me when it finally moved. Didn't realise it was an animated gif...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/pothole-lancashire-pendle-picture-adult-19311697

Erm:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/supermarket-worker-jailed-having-sex-19319964

Just anecdotal but I worked with someone in her old private office and she was still traumatised. Lots of screaming and venom apparently. Sounded like she was possessed.

I’ve had dealings with a few people who have been into bestiality (not a sentence I ever thought I’d end up writing!). One guy had set up a forum for those with a sexual interest in horses, the tag line on the home page was “The place for those looking for a stable relationship.” Fortunately I never had to look at it. One of my colleagues had to read his rather strange diaries, one of which had a day which was pretty much; blah, blah, blah, wanked off a stray dog, blah blah.
One of the others was a horrible pedo fecker, got a year for it. He was always looking for a new “high” - no moral compass. Hopefully dead now. Fundamentally they were pretty horrible people.

Do you need a DBS check to work on a farm ?