Home > Life

A whole country is tracking a minister's flight back to the UK to maybe get fired

Priti Patel held unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials.

Gianluca Mezzofiore

on November 8, 2017

Britain is a strange place, at least in its post-Brexit form.

The latest in political madness is about a cabinet minister who's been recalled to London from Uganda by Prime Minister Theresa May, who will probably fire her.

Priti Patel, international development secretary, is under pressure to leave the cabinet after it emerged that she held at least a dozen unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials during a recent "holiday, including PM Benjamin Netanyahu, without notifying the Foreign Office."

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

So Patel had to cut short her official trip to Uganda, and is now flying back to the UK.

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

However -- and this is where the craziness continues -- Patel is reportedly on a Kenya Airways Flight with no Wi-Fi as more revelations about her meetings keep popping up, so she's unaware of the water rising around her.

Mashable Trend Report

Decode what’s viral, what’s next, and what it all means.

By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Thanks for signing up!

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

Patel started trending on Twitter and a whole class of political journalists started tracking live her flight on Flight Radar, after getting confirmation it was actually the one:

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

Even BBC News flashed up news of the Kenyan Airways flight:

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

People started to make jokes about her flight:

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

In more nonsensical stuff, The Daily Telegraph sent a journalist all the way to Uganda to interview Patel -- but she was stood up by the sudden flight:

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

The story is eerily similar to the Justine Sacco one, as noticed by one Twitter user. In that flight, Sacco made a joke on Twitter then took a flight to South Africa, unaware that her life was being ruined because of it:

This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

Topics Politics