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    Priti Vacant

    News of at least one vacancy at the FO?

    https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/stat...43459745058816

    #2
    I don't think she will go

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      #3
      Seriously, how long have you had that headline saved up for Guy? Fine work.

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        #4
        Although she appears to have lied to the Guardian

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          #6
          Originally posted by Various Artist View Post
          Seriously, how long have you had that headline saved up for Guy? Fine work.

          Came up with it today - after all, it's the first time it could reasonably be used.

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            #7


            Yeah.

            Another vacancy?

            But I think Alexander Boris dePfeffel Johnson's behaviour deserves a thread all of its own.

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              #8
              Her "apology" is a corker:

              On Friday 3rd November, the secretary of state was quoted in the Guardian newspaper as follows:

              “Boris knew about the visit. The point is that the Foreign Office did know about this, Boris knew about [the trip].”

              This quote may have given the impression that the secretary of state had informed the foreign secretary about the visit in advance. The secretary of state would like to take this opportunity to clarify that this was not the case. The foreign secretary did become aware of the visit, but not in advance of it.

              “The stuff that is out there is it, as far as I am concerned. I went on holiday and met with people and organisations. As far as I am concerned, the Foreign Office have known about this. It is not about who else I met, I have friends out there.”

              This quote may be read as implying that the secretary of state was saying that the meetings that had so far been publicly reported were the only ones which took place on her visit. The secretary of state would like to take the opportunity to correct this impression: she is clear that other meetings also took place on her visit, in addition to those which had been publicly reported at the time of her making these statements. These meetings are outlined below.

              The secretary of state regrets the lack of precision in the wording she used in these statements, and is taking this opportunity to clarify the position.

              List of those the Secretary of State met
              Prime Minister Netanyahu
              Introductory meeting. Discussion of:

              the Secretary of State’s family background – parents who fled Uganda in the 1970s, her experience growing up in an area of the UK with a thriving Jewish community, her political journey
              the Israeli domestic political scene
              India, given the Secretary of State’s family background
              the PM’s forthcoming visit to the UK
              prospects for closer collaboration between Israel and the UK on development and humanitarian issues.
              Yuval Rotem – Israeli Foreign Ministry
              General introduction on the Secretary of State’s background, discussion of British politics, Israel’s approach to development and humanitarian issues, and prospects for partnership work between Israel and the UK on development and humanitarian issues.

              Gilad Erdan - Minister for Public Security, Information and Strategic Affairs
              General introduction on the Secretary of State’s background. Discussion of British politics, growing anti-Semitism within the British political scene, and a cultural festival in London.

              Yair Lapid – Leader of Yesh Atid
              General introduction. Discussion of backgrounds, families and careers to date. General discussion of British politics, including the growing anti-Semitism within UK politics.

              IsraAID – emergency humanitarian aid NGO
              General introduction to their work, at the home of Hilda Worth.

              Dr Aliza Inbal - Pears Programme for Global Innovation
              General introduction to their work.

              Dinner organised by the Pears Programme with Sivan Ya’ari – Innovation Africa, Glenn Yago - Milken Institute, Yosef Abramovitz – Energiya Global Capital, Mandie Winston – American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
              General introduction to and discussion of the work of these organisations.

              Haim Taib – Mitrelli Group
              Presentation on their work, on water, farming, solar and hospital projects in Africa.

              Visit to Save a Child’s Heart
              Visit to a hospital to meet children and their families from Gaza and Africa who had been given life-saving heart surgery.

              Dr Hirschfeld, Shimon Hefetz – Galilee International Management Institute
              General introduction to their work.

              Meeting with a group of startups with a focus on Africa: Vital Capital, MobileODT, Equatel Health, Cassit Orthopedics, Ltd, NUFiltration Ltd, Fair Planet.
              Introduction and demonstration of new technologies for development – e.g. mobile cancer screening, water filtration, splints and supports for people with disabilities.

              Jean Judes - Beit Issie Shapiro, and Pablo Kaplan – Wheelchairs of Hope
              Visited a charity dedicated to disability and social inclusion internationally. Visited a sensory playground for children living with disability and discussed wheelchair technology for children.
              No minutes taken. Of Course not. She was on holiday

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                #9
                Well this is a bombshelll

                Theresa May did not know about August meeting between Int Dev Sec Priti Patel and Benjamin Netanyahu until Friday: Downing Street

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                  #10
                  Patel also commissioned work as a result of her meetings in Israel.

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                    #11
                    This looks very much like another Liam "Foxy" Fox manoeuvre. The heat needs to be kept on, and no line drawn because Patel has "apologised" or whatever.

                    Was she hauled in for an urgent question? If not, she seems to have got lucky.

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                      #12
                      Theresa May's Government has often been described as "in Office but not in Power" It seems increasingly like she's out of office and not in power. Nothing works. if it was Car the AA man would suck his teeth and call a tow truck.

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                        #13
                        So, nobody else in there with Priti for the UK?

                        I'm not having that. Didn't we only find out about Werrity because his business card said he was an advisor to Fox and raised suspicion?

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                          #14
                          Who knows

                          the BBC describing Patel as meeting with "Israeli Government Officials". thats one way of describing the Prime Minister. (whos is corrupt as fuck apart from allt he other reasons to hate him.

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                            #15
                            This all came out last week and she appeared to have ridden out the storm, thankfully the shit might be hitting the fan now.

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                              #16
                              Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
                              Who knows

                              the BBC describing Patel as meeting with "Israeli Government Officials". thats one way of describing the Prime Minister. (whos is corrupt as fuck apart from allt he other reasons to hate him.
                              It also makes it seem less surprising that she'd do it without telling the PM or Foreign Office, which is very convenient for all of them.

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                                #17
                                What came our last week were half truths and lies. She met the Israeli Prime Minister and didn't tell the Foreign Office or her own Prime Minister. Its insane. Is she freelance?

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                                  #18
                                  She's famously critical of our traditions of "idling" at work...

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                                    #19
                                    The fact she is still in a job can only be due to the utter weakness of May's position.

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                                      #20
                                      ON her return from her unminuted meetings with a number of people in the Israeli Government Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is facing several allegations of corruption Priti Patel asked that some of the Aid budget should be used to help the Israeli Army in its activities in the Occupied Territories.

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                                        #21
                                        Boris accuses woman on holiday of working.

                                        Which is understandable because he sits next to a woman who says she was on holiday but was actually working.

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                                          #22
                                          So, nobody else in there with Priti for the UK?

                                          I'm not having that. Didn't we only find out about Werrity because his business card said he was an advisor to Fox and raised suspicion?
                                          Yeah, the idea of her being a lone transgressor here is hard to believe. What's the wider game? She is, of course, almost completely on the same ideological page as The Disgraced Former Minister Liam Fox.

                                          Fox, Patel and Johnson are all still in jobs. Extraordinary. What a corrupt shitheap this country is.

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                                            #23
                                            Originally posted by E10 Rifle View Post
                                            Yeah, the idea of her being a lone transgressor here is hard to believe. What's the wider game? She is, of course, almost completely on the same ideological page as The Disgraced Former Minister Liam Fox.

                                            Fox, Patel and Johnson are all still in jobs. Extraordinary. What a corrupt shitheap this country is.
                                            She was for some of the time travelling with the former Chair of the Conservative Friends of Israel Lord Polak.

                                            Incidentally the Holocaust Education Trust invited Andrew Neil to give a speech at its annual dinner, Most of it was an attack on the Labour Party


                                            Given that Neil employed David Irving (yes that David Irving) to translate the Goebbels Diaries and is Chair of the Spectator which employs antisemite and fascist Taki it's a bit fucking much, frankly.

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                                              #24
                                              And it would appear Patel's trip was focused on giving aid money –*I'll repeat, aid money – to an army of racist occupation

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                                                #25
                                                Christ. If she survives that, then any standard we used to have of public conduct has been lost*.

                                                Also – twelve meetings, while on a holiday with your family? Nicking off to a restaurant for so many clandestine rendezvous while you should be taking care of the kids should be itself be grounds for a sacking.
                                                Last edited by diggedy derek; 07-11-2017, 12:46.

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