Reply to: Is Priti a bully?

[vetran]

Did they hire you out of incompetence or because of a radical commitment to giving cretins employment opportunities?

I didn't work for them directly (I would have gone insane) my employer hired me as tech support and I then did the complicated stuff the installers couldn't do on site. I did work with most of the market makers and the big name companies in the 80s & 90s plus travelled the world fixing issues.

[Old Greg]

Decades ago I did lots of work in government departments and public sector some of the staff were so incompetent or radical I have no idea why they weren't fired on the spot. My tongue was usually bitten raw by the end of the day.

Did they hire you out of incompetence or because of a radical commitment to giving cretins employment opportunities?

[vetran]

It's not what you say it's how you say it.

Decades ago I did lots of work in government departments and public sector some of the staff were so incompetent or radical I have no idea why they weren't fired on the spot. My tongue was usually bitten raw by the end of the day.

[SueEllen]

It's not what you say it's how you say it.

[vetran]

Bully Priti Patel's Home Office has sacked 12 staff in two years - for bullying - Mirror Online

Yesterday it emerged the report into her conduct found she told civil servants they were “f***ing useless”.

I can see why she as a politician is in trouble - she told the truth.

[darmstadt]

Bully Priti Patel's Home Office has sacked 12 staff in two years - for bullying - Mirror Online

[darmstadt]

https://assets.publishing.service.go..._Secretary.pdf

[AtW]

Time for a rebrand - Homeland Security perhaps?

[ladymuck]

May brought in a whole heap of hostile immigration policies when Home Secretary, Windrush was just the cherry on top for her. I'm not sure if you have to be a xenophobe to run the HO or if the job turns you into one...

[SueEllen]

Home Office is unique in that minister gets license to be nasty

Yep.

More amusing is that Priti can't claim the Home Office was sexist to her as there were two previous female Home Secretaries.

She can't claim they were racist as the Tory government doesn't believe in it. The government has no intention of taking racism seriously – and it is using MPs of colour to avoid criticism | The Independent

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[AtW]

Home Office is unique in that minister gets license to be nasty

[SueEllen]

Theresa May was a doormat.

Amber Rudd was "The Home Office Doormat" she had to resign over quota claims.

There as Theresa May helped bring the Windrush scandal as well as consistently annoying the police.

[Zigenare]

Odd that a certain Mrs May was secretary of state for that department for a long time before being PM. Seems that some people can deal with difficult public sector workers but not their own MPs...

Theresa May was a doormat.

[SueEllen]

Interesting farticle in the Guardian. Conflicts between politicians and civil servants are a particular problem in the Home Office:

Why do so many home secretaries fall out with their officials? | Home Office | The Guardian

Civil servants will have their own political views on important issues and, unlike politicians, they are not replaced by an election. The Home Office also deals with some of the issues, like immigration or crime, where left/right divisions are highest.

Odd that a certain Mrs May was secretary of state for that department for a long time before being PM. Seems that some people can deal with difficult public sector workers but not their own MPs...

[xoggoth]

Interesting farticle in the Guardian. Conflicts between politicians and civil servants are a particular problem in the Home Office:

Why do so many home secretaries fall out with their officials? | Home Office | The Guardian

Civil servants will have their own political views on important issues and, unlike politicians, they are not replaced by an election. The Home Office also deals with some of the issues, like immigration or crime, where left/right divisions are highest.