I'm Bored - Let's play a guessing game...

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Harriett Harman?

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no

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Theresa May?

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No and besides, Theresa May is the Conservative Home Secretary, not Labour at all.

 

Clue: You're not thinking "defensively" enough

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Still not a clue Yvette Cooper?

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No, she's shadow home sec...........think defensively.

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My last gasp effort is Alison Seabeck - If it ain't her i'm fooked!!

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Enough clues, Alison Seabeck indeed, shadow defence minister responsible for defence procurement.

 

As lack of adequate defence procurement, of spares and equipment, was one of my principal reasons for leaving the RN (under the last Labour government) in 2002, I had to bite my tongue a bit. Though to be fair, that was exactly what she was reading up on and saying that they needed to plan for. i.e. troops needed to be ready and equipped to perform their duties in the future as well as today and that we (the government) needed to think hard about what the British Armed Forces role was to be, rather than sending them into conflicts that fitted the politics of the moment.

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Nope - never heard of her

 

I got there eventually though

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The first time I heard of here was when she was investigated under the expenses scandal for giving her daughter a job researching for her. I don't think there was any wrong doing found though and I understand it is (or perhaps was) fairly common practice.