Priti Patel deserves her own thread

Do you think TM is implicated? If anyone is it will be the arch liar BJ. TW obviously wants to find something that implicates TM but will he?

Penny Mordaunt is replacing Priti Patel.

Well there you go - the most important thing is to keep the Brexit balance

She seems to have quite a bit of experience but she will need to be replaced.

When receiving The Spectator magazine's Parliamentarian of the Year award in November 2014, Mordaunt revealed that she had delivered a speech in the House of Commons just before the Easter recess in 2013 on poultry welfare so as to use the word "cock", as a forfeit for a misdemeanour during Naval Reserve training.[25][26] Mordaunt used the word “cock” six times and “lay” or “laid” five times. Following her admission, she was accused by Labour MP Kate Hoey of trivialising parliament.[27]

Oh goody we’ve got another grown-up in the cabinet. She and Boris should get on well -FFS

voxpoliticalonline.com/2017/11/09/priti-patel-just-happened-to-have-a-meeting-with-israeli-pm-its-the-sort-of-thing-that-happens-all-the-time/

For more grown-up comments, read this.

Didn't BoJo use the Spectator as a vehicle for telling everyone lies about the EU [straight bananas etc]?

When Penny Mordaunt was armed forces minister, she said that no UK PM could veto Turkey's accession to the EU.
I wonder if she has been retrained.

Have any of you met anyone famous on your holidays?

Do you mean famous as in film star famous or boring famous like a politician?

Anyone you like. Have a look at the voxpolitical link if you want inspiration- and if you can bring yourself to!
It is quite funny, and nothing to do woth voxpolitical. They just came across it, like I did.

It starts off with Mark Steel bumping into Menachim Begin in Bognor.

I bumped into Miriam Stoppard when I'd taken a short cut home in Northumberland through a wooded area as I was bursting for the loo and wanted a tree/bush to crouch behind [does that count?].

Brilliant, Tegan. Just what's wanted.
We did the same with Chris Packham at the Sage - in too much of a hurry to get to the loo to do other than notice he was there. He'd gone when we came out.
We weren't on holiday, though, like Priti Patel when she bumped into all those Israeli politicians.

Penny Mordaunt is a good choice and will do a better job than Patel all round IMHO.

..it was such a relief to have bumped into a 'celeb' who would understand my predicament..,,,

Did you have to explain?
"Sorry, I'd love to chat, but...."

Talk about damning with faint praise lemon

Penny Mordaunt another whose ambitions outstrip her abilities.

It’s just so reassuring isn’t it that in addition to the oh-so-funny cock speech, she also made the House laugh - oh how they laughed - by using the words testicles and penis in a speech. She really likes to be one of the lads - I suppose it’s the RN thing.

She likes to lie as well

My sources? Same as everyone else: a range of television, radio and newspaper reports; occasional research via the internet, a political discussion group of all persuasions, all viewed with some cynicism and some common sense.

I think you've responded on the wrong thead eazybee

But; it's always useful if people link to their sources as it gives others a chance to check them.

The Independent reports that Mordaunts main qualification for the job is that she is a Brexiter.

It certainly comes to something when a job absolutely not related to Brexit and whose incumbent one would like to see with particular qualities, is being filled by someone like Mordaunt.

www.sub-scribe.co.uk/2017/02/the-press-and-immigration-part-ii.html

Here's a source for thinking that we shouldn't cite the Daily Mail for anything. I wonder if it's required reading for Priti and Penny.