Is The Halo Slipping A Tad More

[Ken4155]

Slipped a little with the 'trans' thingy. Does it now look a little more lop-sided?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/senior-officers-have-questioned-penny-mordaunt-s-navy-claims/ar-AAZACVP?ocid=msedgdhp&;pc=U531&cvid=347d39dd738f4374a4f7101fa9665576

[aelmpvw]

//Seems her naval credentials are not all she would have us believe they are cracked up to be//
if she's so naive to think that no one will check her credentials, she's not fit for the pm post . . .

[Gromit]

In 2010 she became the nominated Conservative candidate to stand for Portsmouth North in the General Election. Coincidently, she decided to become a Navy Reservist at precisely the same time.
She won the seat and became a full time MP, so never got to do any of that navy lark. Her military career stalled before it had even begun.
In 2019 she was Secretary of State for Defence for 85 days. During that tenure, the Navy made her an honorary Captain.
When Boris became Prime Minister he removed her from Defence.

[youngmafbog]

Didnt she back Hunt though?

[Gromit]

She backed Hunt. But was appointed to Defence by Theresa May, so she had to go.

[Ellipsis]

She must be doing well. All that's going on is the usual dirty tricks from the competition that thinks she's doing too well.

[FatticusInch]

The right wing papers are targeting her though and championing Truss, who is a Johnson clone and would be out of her depth in a car park puddle.
The tv debate will be interesting, I believe Tugendhat will portray well in it, as will Mordaunt.

[Deskdiary]

Oh gawd - they’re not having a TV debate are they?

Waste of time - TV debates are entirely pointless as all they do is encourage petty point-scoring and there’s never any substance.

[FatticusInch]

As one of them will become the next Prime Minister I reckon it’s only fair that the general public/electorate get to pass judgement on the calibre of the person who will become PM without their say.
Don’t you?

[ToraToraTora]

DD: "Waste of time - TV debates are entirely pointless as all they do is encourage petty point-scoring and there’s never any substance. "
fatti: "As one of them will become the next Prime Minister I reckon it’s only fair that the general public/electorate get to pass judgement on the calibre of the person who will become PM without their say.
Don’t you? " - well it might if the public were deciding this but it is in fact around 160,000 party members including me that decide. I generally hate these US style TV bun fights anyway but this one is doubly pointless.

[FatticusInch]

Lol, you decide nothing ToraToraTora! You believe that your MP votes the way you want them to?
If that was the case Johnson would have been destroyed at the VONC.
The parliamentary party decide, you can have your two pennorth worth but your MP doesn’t have to pay any attention and often doesn’t, especially in a new leader vote.
Don’t forget, some will be feathering their nest in order to suck up and get top jobs, they don’t actually give a flying fig about your opinion as they jostle for the limelight.

[naomi24]

A debate here is pointless. Anyone entitled to vote will probably have made their decision by now.

Given recent exposures are you sticking to your first choice, TTT?

[Ellipsis]

I don't see the point of a TV debate while it's still for Tory MPs to make their winnowing choices. Maybe when it gets down to the last two ...

[Peter Pedant]

debate is pointless ( well what is AB for?)
and then
Given recent exposures are you sticking to your first choice, TTT?

asking whether someone has changed their mind as a result of the debate...yeah, right

Full on AB on a saturday morning

[naomi24]

PP, //asking whether someone has changed their mind as a result of the debate...yeah, right //

I didn't ask that.

//Full on AB on a saturday morning //

Yes ... you've arrived ... and that applies to any morning you arrive.

[ToraToraTora]

fatti: "Lol, you decide nothing ToraToraTora! You believe that your MP votes the way you want them to? " - just saying I get a vote in the Tory leadership final two, I am a party member.

[ToraToraTora]

naomi: "Given recent exposures are you sticking to your first choice, TTT? " - yes, as I said before no one agrees 100% with anyone else and the other candidates are all worse in my opinion I quite like Tugendhat but he has no chance. Truss and Sunak are too associated with the Boris government and will just get bogged down with that and end up paralysed. Badenoch is competent and one to watch for the future but I think she needs a longer apprenticeship, hopefully she gets a top job in the new government. So although I have some concerns about Mordaunt she still beats the rest as far as I'm concerned.

[douglas9401]

'Best of a bad lot' then. :-)

[naomi24]

TTT, thanks for answering.

[Peter Pedant]

erm Am I allowed to say this?
TTT your answer is useless as given the previous answers, it wont change any mind

( yes I am a bad person: I overthink a great many of these answers)