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Top Home Office civil servant has quit saying Priti Thick forced him out and threatening to sue for constructive dismissal. Could get interesting given her less than intimate relationship with the truth.
 
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St Badger said:
I like this young lady and hope we hear more from her.

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Me to she speaks very well. Future PM please. Zarah tackles a number of issues and has more integrity in the little finger than the entire crock of sycophantic ****s that makes up the cabinet and includes jizzmeister Johnson.
More here https://www.facebook.com/watch/ZarahSultanaMP/
 
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He has certainly been strangely absent for quite a while. It's out of character. Maybe Dom has him locked in the cellar.
 
Farked19 said:
He has certainly been strangely absent for quite a while. It's out of character. Maybe Dom has him locked in the cellar.
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Actually he has form for this. He was largely absent as Mayor of London, except when a photo opportunity presented itself in circumstances where he wouldn’t be held accountable for anything.
 
Archers Road said:
Priti has an ugly soul.


Her boat race isn’t great either imo, but she can’t help that.
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Sir Philip Rutnam’s resignation statement in full:

"I have this morning resigned as permanent secretary of the Home Office.

I take this decision with great regret after a career of 33 years.

I am making this statement now because I will be issuing a claim against the Home Office for constructive dismissal.

In the last 10 days, I have been the target of a vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign.

It has been alleged that I have briefed the media against the home secretary.

This - along with many other claims - is completely false.

The home secretary categorically denied any involvement in this campaign to the Cabinet Office.

I regret I do not believe her.

She has not made the efforts I would expect to dissociate herself from the comments.

Even despite this campaign I was willing to effect a reconciliation with the home secretary, as requested by the cabinet secretary on behalf of the prime minister.

But despite my efforts to engage with her, Priti Patel has made no effort to engage with me to discuss this.

I believe that these events give me very strong grounds to claim constructive, unfair dismissal - and I will be pursuing that claim in the courts.

My experience has been extreme but I consider that there is evidence that it is part of a wider pattern of behaviour.

One of my duties as permanent secretary was to protect the health, safety and well-being of our 35,000 people.

This created tension with the home secretary, and I have encouraged her to change her behaviours.

I have received allegations that her conduct has included shouting and swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands - behaviour that created fear and that needed some bravery to call out.

I know that resigning in this way will have very serious implications for me personally. The Cabinet Office offered me a financial settlement that would have avoided this outcome.

I am aware that there will continue to be briefing against me now I have made this decision, but I am hopeful that at least it may not now be directed to my colleagues or the department.

This has been a very difficult decision but I hope that my stand may help in maintaining the quality of government in our country, which includes hundreds of thousands of civil servants loyally dedicated to delivering this government's agenda.

I will make no further comment at this stage."
 
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Interesting theory on Priti. She has been put in the job so that she is easily chopped when it all goes pear shaped. Sounds like a Cummings plan.
 
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The Guardian is pretty much the most respected UK newspaper worldwide. At least in my experience it is. In all the subject areas that I read on current environment and societal comments, the Guardian is quoted, and more often then not, favourably. Every time there is a point to be made on Europe or the World, environment, health, and minorities, etc.. the Guardian shines a light and tries to tell the truth. So it was slightly uplifting to find that the Guardian is going to keep us well in touch with Europe. One day, we will be back. That I have no doubt:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/britain-is-leaving-europe-the-guardian-is-not
 
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TheSecondStain said:
The Guardian is pretty much the most respected UK newspaper worldwide. At least in my experience it is. In all the subject areas that I read on current environment and societal comments, the Guardian is quoted, and more often then not, favourably. Every time there is a point to be made on Europe or the World, environment, health, and minorities, etc.. the Guardian shines a light and tries to tell the truth. So it was slightly uplifting to find that the Guardian is going to keep us well in touch with Europe. One day, we will be back. That I have no doubt:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/britain-is-leaving-europe-the-guardian-is-not
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Far more respect for the Guardian than the Barclay brothers, Rothermere, express group, telegraph and Murdoch propaganda rags.
 
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