Thread by @fascinatorfun

2016: Aggressive' Priti Patel 'threw briefing folder at official's face and it hit him' | Daily Mail Online

That is a criminal offence of assault. The now Home Sec

2015: a £25k pay out relating to her conduct to a member of staff.

It continues:
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…

Miss Patel has also been accused of bullying her private secretary during her time as International Development Secretary. A senior official at Dfid has claimed there was a 'tsunami' of allegations of abuse by officials in her private office.

One former senior figure in the department told the Mail yesterday that she had 'harassed' her private secretary to the point where he was eventually signed off sick with a stress-related condition and asked for a transfer to another department.

And she was spoken to about her conduct several times in the Home Office.

3 departments. A tsunami of complaints.

The common thread is Priti Patel.

And it goes further back...

20 years further back.

None of this is “an accident”.

She absolutely WAS aware and did not care.

https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1329777091005603840?s=21

Worth remembering that bullying seems endemic in the Tory party and, having seen the way so many Tory MPs have sprung to shield Patel this time it is clear the problem lies within the Party as a whole.

https://twitter.com/allchanges/status/1329917368643055616

This Panorama programme relates to a culture of turning a blind eye to bullying in the Conservative Party following the suicide of a young activists. This seems highly material now. Spend 5 minutes watching it.

In that case criticism in particular directed at CPHQ, Mark Clarke, Simon Pratt and Lord Feldman) seems highly material given the protective ring CPHQ have thrown around Patel.

Complaints were known as far back as 2008 re the culture of bullying.

It seems that the suicide of a young man is not enough to stop these protective rings being thrown up around MPs, by CPHQ and driven by the Tory Whips in Patel’s case, with a documented record going back to 2015, continuing through the years and through departments

Whilst I cannot see that it is remotely possible that Patel was unaware of the effect of her conduct, or indeed that it was “unintentional” - a reminder that, in law, that is no defence.

https://twitter.com/jasonbraier/status/1330235023417634818?s=21

What was the Tory Party/ Johnson’s attitude to an Independent Inquiry by Sir Alex Allen?

To prevent him speaking to Rutnam who spoke to Patel as to her conduct several times.

Throw a protective ring around the abuser not the abused.

theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

I wonder if it has occurred to this string of MPs that using their power to shield Patel is another form of aiding and abetting her.

Adding to the pain of the abused?

https://twitter.com/mbullock92/status/1330151973765722121