Britain is a strange place, at least in its post-Brexit form.
SEE ALSO:Britain's health service uses long Twitter thread to explain why it needs more black people to donate bloodThe 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."
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So Patel had to cut short her official trip to Uganda, and is now flying back to the UK.
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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.
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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:
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Even BBC News flashed up news of the Kenyan Airways flight:
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People started to make jokes about her flight:
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In more nonsensical stuff, The Daily Telegraphsent a journalist all the way to Uganda to interview Patel -- but she was stood up by the sudden flight:
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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:
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