satnav wrote: ↑Mon Jul 11, 2022 3:30 pm
How on earth is Penny Mordaunt 2nd favourite with the bookmakers? She has not held any of the top jobs in government nor has she ever made a major speech setting out her political philosophy. Her campaign video has already been edited half a dozen times because people featuring in the video don't want to be associated with her.
Tits and obscurity.
Hear me out. The Conservative party is overwhelmingly male, older, and reactionary. Mordaunt isn't as closely associated with Johnson in the public mind, and like Wallace, has had a reasonably good few years (defence, then trade, during which Truss took the credit - and criticism - for what would normally be her work, including all the "copy/paste" deals). She's a Brexiter, from a forces family and background, undeniably posh, all to the good.
Plus, some of them probably think they might get lucky.
But mainly, she doesn't really stand for, or signify, anything. She's a blank canvas. The K-Tel candidate.