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[gotnorolex] 24/2/2020 08:36

Home Office civil servant at heart of Priti Patel 'bullying' claims 'obstructed and undermined successive home secretaries - but kept his £190,000-a -year job despite being "nowhere to be seen" during the Windrush scandal'

[diku] 24/2/2020 08:27

From the media...Political witch hunt?...





The civil war within the Home Office has deepened after MI5 was dragged into a row over whether the home secretary had been shut out of intelligence briefings.

A security source denied that MI5 bosses were failing to share information with Priti Patel as they "do not trust her", insisting she received the same briefings as previous home secretaries.

The extraordinary row stems over claims in The Sunday Times that officials had reduced the amount of intelligence given to the home secretary and regularly “roll their eyes” at her interventions.



“The spooks find her extremely difficult to deal with,” a source told the paper. “She doesn’t grasp the subtleties of intelligence. It’s not black and white. They don’t have confidence in her abilities.”

It comes amid ongoing hostilities at the Home Office, with Ms Patel accused of bullying and trying to oust her top civil servant, Sir Philip Rutnam. Her allies believe the claims are being briefed to newspapers by hostile civil servants.


In a highly unusual intervention, a security source, said: "Reports suggesting that the home secretary and MI5 don't have a strong working relationship are simply untrue.

"The home secretary is briefed daily on intelligence matters in exactly the same way as any previous post holder.

[gotnorolex] 24/2/2020 08:22

Oh diddums, poor top Civil Servant being bullied by Priti Patel.

[mikemichael2] 24/2/2020 08:22

This coronavirus seems to be getting the world in a panic!! Apparently it is quite mild and not as bad as flu, strange how we don't see the media talking to the ones who have had it and got better. Look at Italy, people stocking up at the Supermarkets!!!

Look at Lloyds!! dropping like a stone....Should we be buying??

[jordaggy] 24/2/2020 08:21

JPM announcing a UK bank operation is having an effect too...tough times ahead.

[mikemichael2] 24/2/2020 08:13

More like talking through his drunken stupor, board should be 'Minerve free' till he drags himself out of his pit around 11 ish.

[jordaggy] 24/2/2020 07:59

Oh, and a hard brexit!

[jordaggy] 24/2/2020 07:58

MM's having a field day with the Corona virus...expect Lloyds to pay the price this week.

[ianood] 24/2/2020 07:45

And another one for the filter!

[zulu_principle] 24/2/2020 07:39

dalep (and others) - agreed, major boost to the economy (sugar rush?) expected on March 11th but might only last for a relatively short period. The biggest risk for the short to medium term is coronavirus. Back in again after bailing out last year, happy to sit, wait and let the dividends accumulate (for now).

[dalep716] 23/2/2020 22:59

Economy on an upward curve, lord knows why, house prices rising, massive investment in infrastructure pending. The only way is up up up, or down.

[minerve 2] 23/2/2020 22:21

maxk

I'm sorry the law doesn't always work in the gammon favour.

Perhaps because judges are not gammons.....

I'm sure, over the years, they have read more than the odd tabloid.

LOL

[gotnorolex] 23/2/2020 22:10

Any day is a decent one if it ends like this!

[utrickytrees] 23/2/2020 22:09

Will Bargain Bob have to change his handle to Bouncy Bobby?

[maxk] 23/2/2020 22:03

Min.

When you talk about independent judges, what exactly do you mean? The ability of judges to make it up on the hoof? As we saw with the supreme court.

[tygarreg] 23/2/2020 21:46

French wine and food. Not to mention all those citroens, Peugeot and Renault's!

[minerve 2] 23/2/2020 21:22

Clearly we are on the way to a universal gleichschaltung - replace the civil service, limit influence of independent judges, cut funding of an independent BBC, get the House of Lords out of the way. This has never ended well, and it won't this time.

[maxk] 23/2/2020 21:19

It looks like bob and the wee beastie are winning..the Jocks seem to be going the full loony tunes route




SNP women's group say opponents of Nicola Sturgeon's plan to self-declare gender are ignored and threatened with violence


The SNP Women's Pledge say those who oppose the change are "very much out in the cold" and denied access to Ms Sturgeon's ministers.

By
Simon Johnson,
SCOTTISH POLITICAL EDITOR
23 February 2020 • 5:48pm



Advocates of reforming the Gender Recognition Act protest outside the Scottish Parliament last year CREDIT: Getty Images Europe



SNP members who oppose Nicola Sturgeon's plans to allow Scots to legally change their gender with no medical treatment are being "silenced with threats of violence", a Nationalist campaign group has warned as the party's civil war intensified.

In a submission to a Scottish Government consultation, the SNP Women's Pledge (SWP)said those who oppose the change are "very much out in the cold" and denied access to Ms Sturgeon's ministers.

Cllr Caroline McAllister, the SWP's head, said its members are dismissed as bigots and demonised for their "perfectly reasonable concerns" that the change would be harmful to children and could be exploited by predatory men.

In contrast, she said that the LGBTI lobbyists who are campaigning for the law change "receive millions of pounds in government grant and have easy access to politicians and officials."...





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[xxxxxy] 23/2/2020 21:16

Boycott the goods and products of the EUSSR. Particularly target Germany and France .

[xxxxxy] 23/2/2020 21:15

"Tears before bedtime? We don't need the UK for that."EU leaders, faced with post-Brexit €75bn black hole, can't fund their way out of the crisis?Credit: EU CouncilEarly night for Merkel, as first EU Council Summit without UK descended into farce & fudgeLast night the first EU Summit of 27 leaders without the UK as a member country broke up with no agreement at all. Not only was the main topic of the two-day summit – the EU's €1 TRILLION new budget - not agreed, it appears that most member countries are farther apart now than before the summit started."We don't need Great Britain in order to show disunity."- President Macron of France, at his press conference in Brussels last night, 21 Feb 2020Suddenly the EU are facing life without British moneyBREXIT FACTS4EU.ORG SUMMARYThe new EU budget will start the moment the UK finally leaves the EU, at 11pm, 31 Dec 2020The 27 EU countries, the EU Commission, and the EU Parliament are arguing over how big it should beOne thing is certain – the EU's budget will total more than €1 TRILLION EurosThis time, thanks to Brexit, the UK will not be one of the minority of countries paying for it