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Originally Posted by Pierre
To some degree, it always comes down to party lines.
Jeremy Corbyn is either the defender of minorities and warm cuddly protector or the weak, or a Jew hating economy wrecker.
In regards to this situation, I have sympathy for a woman having to project herself into an arena that is fundamentally male, pale and stale. If she has ruffled comfortable civil servants and upset them, so much the better for me, and if they complain about it it wouldn’t be without a hint of hypocrisy in my opinion.
That said we have no detail, and unless we get that detail everything else is speculation, nothing more.
So pointless discussing it until we know more.
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Well it doesn't really - the conduct of Ministers is either right or wrong regardless of who is in post.
There's no evidence any of the complaints against Patel came from anyone male, pale or stale. Neither is there any evidence she merely 'ruffled feathers' - nor does it appear to be the first complaint.
If Civil Servants aren't up to it there are performance management processes and if they are going as far as going out their way to obstruct the work of Ministers on the basis of the gender or race of said Minister this would be a clear breach of the Civil Service Code. However there's actually no evidence that this was the case. None.
I agree there's no point in really discussing it further, as you've made up your mind and essentially admitted that if it was a Labour minister you'd probably feel differently.