I am not sure about the details of the Priti Patel case, but I do think there is a cultural divide over the nature of 'bullying'. Like many things, the definition of bullying is expanding in order to pathologise behaviour that many would see as normal friction/rough and tumble

It's definitely linked to gentrification, especially in its woke-liberal guise. E.g. while I was still going to Labour Party meetings, normal joshing (heckling, mock booing etc) was increasingly being crushed out by humourless middle class Clare in the Community types

The funniest examples being when people who knew each other well and were friends would have some half-tongue in cheek row/mutual bitching session while someone who didn't get the context would get upset on behalf of one of the people - who actually thought it was hilarious

It's because our public life has been so colonised by a conflict-averse middle-class worldview that hates any signs of disorderly or spontaneous behaviour or emotion (unless it's whinging or weeping, which is ok for some reason). The world as imagined by an HR consultant

This is why they want to make parliament into a cross between a soulless board meeting, Holyrood, and a branch of Ikea: calm, boring, consensual discussions in a glass-and-steel environment of technocratic agreement on everything. The liberal nirvana

But I say, bugger that for a game of soldiers. Give me dramatic Gothic architecture, late-night sittings and shiny green benches. Give me shouting, give me heckling, give me conflict, give me life. Give me hard-as-nails northern ex-miners as chief whips for that matter