It’s the home secretary’s trickiest week since her’ holiday’ in Israel, but at least she’s discernible. Where’s the prime minister?

According to the representatives from one of her former districts, Priti Patel was given to coming out of her place and asking: “Why is everyone so fucking useless? ” Very bold. This is a bit like Donald Trump coming out of his office and asking why everyone has spectacularly stupid whisker. The perma-smirking Patel has now moved on to the Home Office, where this week she was accused of bullying staff, trying to oust her most senior official, and creating an “atmosphere of fear” within the department. As opposed to outside of it, which is the norm. If nothing else, it’s a disappointment of managing the. To get the best out of people who you want to do their worst, you need to create the liberty world of employment. It’s why the offices of S.P.E.C.T.R.E have a great creche, a smoothie disallow, and two “I don’t feel like killing” daytimes per annum for every employee.

As for the Main office, a complex department already regarded as malevolent, it is now in the sides of persons who recently demonstrated an interrogation in which she frequently confused “counter-terrorism” with “terrorism”. This whole “Priti Patel is home secretary” scenario has the flavour of one of those US news fibs where some open-carry idiot’s toddler has leant forward in their gondola tush and pulled a handgun out of the backseat pocket. If you’re one of those people who get off on saying “I told you so”, then punishment. But genuinely, there are no good outcomes here. One of the more eye-catching Main office instructs against her this week declared that Patel was “not committed to the rule of law”. Given she’s home secretary, that feels akin to a doctor not being committed to the idea of drug. Should it not be vaguely disqualifying?

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