Mordaunt gone

So does Amber know what a woman is?

It was good to see a woman heading up Defence and she was doing a good job. I'm sorry she's gone.

Amber Rudd confirmed as Minister for Women and Equalities which she has previously held. She also stays on at Department for Work and Pensions.

Amber Rudd has been given Women and Equalities.

I agree with you Always.

If she ever wants to go for PM she’ll have to address the balance of women’s rights openly.

She’ll probably keep her head down till somebody else sorts it out, then make a comeback.

To be honest, if I was a politician I’d be looking to having myself cryogenically frozen until the current clusterfuck is fixed.

This is Boris thinking it is outrageous that a woman should be Defence Secretary.

He put one in charge of the Home Office instead.

Penny hasn’t forgotten about the WE GRA political mess she will be glad to have escaped it.

Gavin Williamson replaces Damian Hinds for education

I've been musing that 6 years ago I'd have recoiled in horror at any positive coming from BJ being PM and been delighted at JS being Lib Dem leader.

I'm not overjoyed about Boris but I do suspect he's GC and feel a level of "that's ok then" (bar what ever the fuck else he does.)

Nimco Ali, the fab FGM campaigner, is a very close friend of Carrie Symonds.

This is a tweet from Nimco

I support trans rights and always have. I do not support the silencing or dismissal of the experience of women and Feminist activist. We are not post gender and the 60 million girls at risk of #FGM are why will not be silenced.
3:25 PM · Oct 25, 2018·Twitter for iPhone

Let’s hope her friend Carrie, feels the same!

TBH, I'd be amazed if Dominic Cummings isn't aware that TWAW is a vote loser

And Mrs Gove is definitely GC.

I'm hoping Liz Truss gets the job

www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/04/23/cabinet-minister-liz-truss-backs-mumsnet-in-transgender-row-as-users-call-for-new-section-28/

I suspect Boris does not give a fig about trans issues, and will be content to be guided by Carrie Symonds. I wonder how woke she is? The answer might be 'very'

Boris was highly critical of the police arresting "transphobes" on Twitter:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/10/police-wasting-time-arresting-twitter-transphobes-could-tackling/

Does anyone from the Spectator have Boris's ear? James Kirkup or Rod Liddle

Don't know about those two, but BJ certainly used to a supporter of Andrew Gilligan, and hired him on the Spectator back in the day.

I think technically she was sacked as Defence Secretary. I don't think anyone in government, least of all Penny herself, remembers or gives a fuck that she also holds the Women and Equalities brief. It'll be a few days before there's a new appointment, W&E is bottom of the pile stuff for the Tories.

I wonder if Priti Patel will get W&E in addition to something else?

While I'm exceptionally pleased that the creepy Damien Hinds has gone, who knows what hellish alternative awaits. But maybe the recent revelations about the Tavistock debacle just might generate them into an approach that centres child safeguarding rather than the demands of lobby groups?

To qualify for the Cabinet an MP needs to be a Brexiteer and to have shown no disloyalty to Johnson.

Definitely Nauticant! Apparently she really liked being Defence Secretary and so might have willingly stayed on if she had been given a choice. With the government's majority being so small, I wonder what this means for GRA reform. The worst option from women's point of view would be an early general election with the Lib Dems holding the power between a coalition with the Conservatives or Labour.

Yes I doubt the Women’s Minister role had a bearing on the PM’s decision making.

A bit too much of a coincidence though that delay to the allegedly imminent GRA reform announcement happened to occur on the very (predictably possible) day PM leaves the role.

Iran is Boris' first and immediate problem. He wants someone he trusts.

I suspect Boris does not give a fig about trans issues, and will be content to be guided by Carrie Symonds. I wonder how woke she is? The answer might be 'very'.

I think her going has nothing to do with Equalities let alone the GRA.

This is Boris thinking it is outrageous that a woman should be Defence Secretary. Heavens knows what gung ho idiot Boris will appoint in her place. Prepare for Premier Boris banging the drum for another gulf war or something to distract us from the fact Brexit will be a fuck up.

It seems to me, despite commentators saying TM was committed to women's rights nobody actually wanted to be Women and Equalities Minister.

So it will just get palmed off on someone else who just doesn't care and will easily given in the well established entrenched trans network in Parliament.

And suspect that 99.9% of the population are equally indifferent.

Damian Hinds has also gone.

Just heard ! Hurrah !