Mordaunt out, Sunak in: a good result (I hope)

And lest we forget Penny's personal level of responsibility for the dire situation that women and children find ourselves in, this is damning reminder:

www.conservativesforwomen.org/penny-mordaunt-helped-to-push-gender-ideology-out-across-every-institution-in-the-uk

I think a poor grasp of reality and truthfulness runs in the Mordaunt family.

Is Mordaunt really a 'trained Navy Officer'? I saw a remark to that effect.

Then I saw this In 2022, George Freeman MP incorrectly claimed that Mordaunt had fought in the navy, with a navy source responding by saying that Mordaunt is not currently "a trained or paid reservist, she's never qualified or commissioned. She’s been banging the naval drum for days and enough is enough. How she has presented herself – and how she has allowed herself to be presented – have been deeply misleading.

How and when did Mordaunt come to “serve” on HMS Albion, as the service charities’ website stated? Only one such episode appears to be publicly documented and it seems highly probable that this is the basis of the website’s information. In June 2019, during her brief 85-day tenure as Secretary of State for Defence, Mordaunt travelled to a NATO conference and then to the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda, where HMS Albion was posted as part of a Baltic exercise of the 9-nation Joint Expeditionary Force [JEF]. Mordaunt there met with ministers of the other nations aboard the Albion.

^The reports show that Mordaunt’s brief period aboard Albion was undertaken in a ministerial, not in a military service capacity. Mordaunt had been appointed as an Honorary RN Commander in April 2019 and was promoted to Captain (with no apparent fanfare or publicity) a few weeks ago.
An honorary service commission is an honour, not a substantive rank. It is not awarded as a form of promotion to career military but to people of public distinction from other backgrounds.^ e.g. Daniel Craig (actor) received it as well.

northeastbylines.co.uk/from-bulwark-to-albion-penny-mordaunts-naval-service/

Is there some truth behind the 'trained Navy Officer' bit, or is it completely embroidered?

Didn't the "women" bit get dumped under Truss?

Yes it did.

Keegan source might be this:

chichesterlgbt.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/response-from-gillian-keegan-mp/

But the appointment of Badenoch as Minister for Women and Equalities is causing upset:

twitter.com/benjamincohen/status/1584959197523116032?s=48&t=T_M428Uh96AOTFxD2KSa1A

Didn't the "women" bit get dumped under Truss? Other GC appointments would be Braverman and Donelan. Plus the new NHS service consultation and whatever the Cass Review says when it's finished seems the direction is set.

I was so hopeful he would get in after Boris, he was so obviously the best option, then they picked Liz Truss !

Policing comes under the Home Secretary remit, but I think prisons are the domain of the Secretary of State for Justice/Lord Chancellor?

Is braverman responsible for prisons ultimately? As she's home secretary?

I looked up gillian keegan on this board. This is the only place I can find her mentioned before:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4106251-unlimited-potential-report-of-the-commission-on-gender-stereotypes-and-early-childhood

PM Johnson struggled with the :Woman" question. The interview mentioned happened a week after Starmer's. www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1501654/Boris-Johnson-GB-News-latest-Conservative-Party-speech-woke-cancel-culture-woman-cervix-vn/amp

The Tories are just as TWAW as any other party, they're just better at hiding it so they can use it as Culture war. They are the party who keep putting men in women's prisons and have said they're not going to stop.

@mcduffy can you remember how long ago you saw Gillian Keenan’s tweet? I’m just wondering if she’s heard all the recent news about Stonewall and Mermaids and may have changed her mind.

Badenoch gets equalities.

Oh dear if thats true about the education secretary.
But putting KB in women & equalities, given how outspoken she was on this, suggests a direction that the sunak government is going to take. Surely its a really good sign? Or maybe it means sunak actually isn't very interested the sex v gender identity policy issues, and his thinking on it is superficial?

But would Labour really do things better? Genuine question? I wonder if Kier Starmer is privately scared of becoming PM right now ?

Saw on Twitter she's TWAW and has taken advice from stonewall. Didn't copy the tweets for receipts though!

I don't know anything about Gillian Keegan. What's the lowdown on her?

Just coming on to post. Very good news.

I'm not so sure about Gillian Keegan getting Education though.

He's appointed Kemi Badenoch as Minister for Women and Equalities 👍

Rishi Sunak also struggled with this question:

order-order.com/2022/03/24/rishi-struggles-to-define-what-is-a-woman/

We will soon know, members have been asked to say which way they would have voted, and if they will vote cons in the next election

I am sorry to hear it is so tough for you. I and truly.

It’s actually the middle class working population that is most likely to feel the real damage. Maybe the triple lock will be added to the bonfire.
I hope that Sunak will ring fence support for people in your position 💐

The members 'almost' got it. The vote against Truss was closer than expected. I think Rishi's consistent message that Truss's plans wouldn't work was starting to get through. I think the members would have overcome their possible issue with being asian and he would have won against Mordaunt if it had come to that.

Of course I've read them Kissingfrogs25. Please don't insult me. I've read and listened to both main parties rather than the fairy tales some like to tell themselves and although in truth it can't really get worse for me at the bottom, Labour don't seem a viable or safe alternative (I've spoilt my ballot at the last few elections). Plus, as I said, I've already had a concrete benefit from Sunak's policies which I wouldn't have had from Labour and the NHS still hasn't been sold off to American disaster capitalists so your fearmongering doesn't really work.

I did wonder this as Liz Truss was a completely incomprehensible choice and RS a 'safe pair of hands'

You are very relaxed, when actually you are very exposed to some of the cuts coming. It’s not fear mongering.
I have read and listened to Sunaks actual policies and goals - have you? Perhaps you should if not, and be prepared for some very difficult months.

With regards to the budget talk - this may come back to bite me but as a carer on UC I benefited from Sunak's policy of an extra £20 a week for 18 months during the pandemic so I'm really not convinced by the fearmongering, particularly as Labour's Reeves has repeatedly stated she will crack down on welfare claimants. Any government MUST give support for energy costs and I'd much prefer the original Tory plan than the awful 6 month Labour copy Hunt just brought in. The NHS scaremongering is just that. We'll see anyway.