U.K. Cabinet Minister Priti Patel Resigns Over Secret Israeli Meetings

Posted by DanielS on Thursday, 09 November 2017 19:19.

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Bloomberg, “U.K. Cabinet Minister Resigns Over Secret Israeli Meetings”, 8 Nov 2017:

- Aid secretary Patel held unofficial meeting with Netanyahu

- She failed to tell PM May or U.K. Foreign Office in advance

Priti Patel resigned as U.K. international development secretary over talks with the Israeli government behind Prime Minister Theresa May’s back after more revelations of undisclosed visits came to light.

Patel failed to tell either May or the U.K. Foreign Office that she would be having 12 meetings with officials including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a 13-day holiday in Israel in August. On Tuesday, it emerged that she had suggested giving British aid money to an Israeli army project and that she had held further unauthorized meetings.

“I offer a fulsome apology to you and to the Government for what has happened and offer my resignation,” Patel said in a letter. May responded: “Now that further details have come to light, it is right that you have decided to resign and adhere to the high standards of transparency and openness that you have advocated.”

[Read Patel’s and May’s letters here]

Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported Wednesday that Patel had also traveled to the Golan Heights in a breach of normal diplomatic protocol.

Those further revelations forced May to summon Patel back from a trip to Kenya within hours of her arrival. She then met the international development secretary on Wednesday evening for about half an hour, before her office made the resignation public.

‘Active’ Role

Patel’s departure piles pressure onto May, who initially tried to keep her in place while issuing a public rebuke over her lapse. Patel is the second cabinet minister to quit May’s government a week after Michael Fallon resigned as defense secretary over allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior.

May is struggling to maintain her grip on a government that’s been rocked by multiple crises since she lost personal authority as a result of her failure to retain her parliamentary majority in June’s national election.

Patel, one of the most prominent members of the campaign to leave the European Union, suggests in her letter that she is unlikely to let herself fade into obscurity now that she’s been relegated to the back benches.

She promises to “take an active role” representing local residents now she’s outside government and to “speak up for our country, our national interests and the great future that Britain has as a free, independent and sovereign nation.”

Patel, 45, first won a seat in Parliament in 2010 and became a junior Treasury minister four years later. She joined the cabinet as development secretary when May succeeded David Cameron in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum.

The ministerial code that governs the behavior of members of the British government makes no specific mention of secret meetings with foreign heads of government, but it does urge ministers to take “special care” when talking about issues “which are the responsibility of other ministers.”

On Tuesday, May’s spokesman told reporters that on returning from her vacation, Patel had asked her officials whether British aid money could be given to support the Israeli army’s relief work in the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. The idea was rejected—Britain doesn’t recognize Israel’s occupation of Golan.



Comments:


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Posted by mancinblack on Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:41 | #

“The implications of the political scandal which cost Priti Patel her ministerial career will have a devastating impact on British Jewry, senior figures have predicted.

Communal representatives and pro-Israel activists believe the affair will bolster antisemitic conspiracy theories and damage relationships with British politicians for a generation.

One senior communal figure said “This will set us back 20 years”  “

Oh dear, what a priti, never mind. For more on this story…

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/fallout-from-priti-patel-scandal-will-set-us-back-20-years-1.447752


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Posted by Captainchaos on Sun, 12 Nov 2017 02:46 | #

When will Kumiko the Jap post here again?  I want Kumiko the Jap to answer in person, and not Daniel the Sperg to answer as her proxy!

Kumiko is a Jap who has the balls to says niggers have a low IQ!  Lulz


3

Posted by mancinblack on Sun, 12 Nov 2017 14:06 | #

Careful, CC, Kumiko may return like Sasori..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHZXTl8Eitg


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Posted by Priti Patel clandestine Zionist liaison on Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:44 | #

Times of Israel, 24 July 2019:

Priti Patel, previously ousted over Israel meetings, named UK home secretary

Dominic Raab to serve as new foreign secretary, Sajid Javid appointed chancellor of the exchequer, as Boris Johnson clears house on his first day as prime minister.

Priti Patel, who resigned as UK aid minister in 2017 over unauthorized meetings with senior Israeli officials, was named as home secretary by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday.

Patel quit in November 2017 after it emerged that she held a series of meeting with Israeli leaders — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — about allocating aid to the Israeli army’s Syrian relief efforts, without properly informing the government.

Patel had apologized for holding 12 separate meetings during a family holiday to Israel in August of that year without notifying the Foreign Office or Downing Street in advance.


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Posted by It's a Priti, "sorry" on Sat, 11 Apr 2020 22:24 | #

Coronavirus: govt “sorry if people feel there have been failings” as deaths rise - BBC News

Highest daily death toll yet for UK.

Medical staff getting sick and dying.

Priti is sorry. So Priti..


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Posted by Cruella Patel on Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:24 | #

Priti Patel has refused pleas to accept more unaccompanied children from the notoriously overcrowded refugee camps on Greek islands amid dire warnings of an impending humanitarian catastrophe.

The charity Medecins sans Frontieres wrote to the home secretary on 13 March asking her to “significantly increase” the number of child refugees transferred to the UK as well as “facilitate the urgent evacuation” of those with chronic and complex health conditions.

Patel did not respond. Instead the Foreign Office replied on 31 march, saying the UK would continue to support the implementation of the EU-Turkey deal, which for the past four years has aimed to prevent asylum seekers from travelling to Europe.

Vickie Hawkins , executive director of MSF UK described the response as “shameful” arguing that the deal was ostensibly a containment policy and an abandonment of the EU’s responsibilities towards refugees.

More…

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/patel-refuses-to-take-children-from-greek-camps-threatened-by-covid-19/ar-BB12w2Fl?ocid=spartandhp

Not even a ‘sorry’ (lol)


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Posted by DanielS on Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:52 | #

Yeah, she does have that advantage as a non-White of being less prone to be throttled as a racist, thus better positioned to reverse immigration trends - heard she’s been better than average in that regard.



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