I find it difficult, in the light of various journalistic concerns, to be silent about the Home Secretary. Note in particular George Monbiot's piece at:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/19/britain-borders-covid-government-indian-variant-migrants?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other)
With her history of bullying and harassment of staff in the workplace dating back to 2015, and having been found, in November 2020, by Sir Alex Allan, the Prime Minister's Independent Advisor on Ministerial Standards, to have been in breach of ministerial codes of conduct, stating that Ms Patel’s approach “amounted to behaviour that can be described as bullying” and that she had “not consistently met the high standards expected of her”, she still remains in office. She has a history of maverick action, including undisclosed meetings with Israeli politicians and lobbyists, in breach of ministerial codes. Her views on Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion and immigration are as far right politically as one can imagine. It is as if she is trying to completely erase her own family background. They came to the UK as immigrants from Uganda, most likely to escape the developing Buganda Crisis. They were effectively refugees. That is not how Ms Patel would see it. The arrogance and certainty with which she bullies her way around is remarkable, yet she continues in office and no one seems willing to stop her. What has she got on ‘Just Boris’? She flaunts herself about with impunity, like an early Margaret Thatcher clone. No one wants to speak out because of possible accusations of being racist and misogynistic. I cannot understand, given the clear evidence of her appalling behaviour, why she is not forced to resign or sacked. She is clearly a disgraceful politician with fascistic dictatorial tendencies. Just like Mr Trump, her narcissism expunges any semblance or vestige of integrity.
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| Ms Patel with Mr Modi in 2016 |
Apart from everything else, together with ‘Just Boris' they are dangerous. Their attempts to make post Brexit ‘deals’ with India’s Prime Minister Modi could well have released a new surge of the Covid 19 Indian Variant. Presumably, in order to avoid offending Mr Modi prior to an arranged meeting, they delayed blocking arrivals from India, knowing full well about the growing crisis in India due to the new variant. Other countries acted far more swiftly and as a consequence have avoided the problems that are now circulating around the area of Bolton, Greater Manchester. There are over 16 flight a day in and out of Heathrow to and from India, according to the airline schedule. That continued for some time even though Ms Patel and Mr Johnson had full knowledge of the dangers of the variant. Finally, they could no longer avoid stopping the traffic and cancelling the meeting. What damage has been done is still to be calculated, but those who have caught the variant will not thank the Home Secretary and Prime Minister.
This state of affairs is likely to continue until they are voted out of office or made to resign or stand down. How can any member of parliament have any truthful confidence in this leadership?
I am sending a copy of this rant as a letter to my Labour MP in the hope that she may do something. At least raise a voice and ask appropriate questions in Parliament, not just once but over and over again until they resign. Don’t let them just move on and claim no one is interested anymore. Someone in Parliament, please do the right thing.
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