{"id":63777,"date":"2016-01-10T12:52:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T17:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63777"},"modified":"2022-01-23T23:31:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T04:31:49","slug":"emily-thornberry-lieutenant-colonel-hon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63777","title":{"rendered":"Emily Thornberry; Lieutenant Colonel (Hon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Emily<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Larry sends us a link to the Daily Mail<\/a> in which they report on the mocking of Emily Thornberry, the UK’s Labour Party Shadow Defence Secretary, who claims that she was made an honorary Lieutenant Colonel for her work as a barrister for courts martial in order to bolster her arguements against the British government’s use of drones in combat;<\/p>\n

She said: \u2018I have quite a lot more experience than people might think I do. I was made an honorary lieutenant colonel when I was doing court-martials [sic] when I was a barrister so I have a certain amount of experience of the military there.\u2019<\/p>\n

But when The Mail on Sunday put her comment to the Ministry of Defence, senior sources dismissed her claim, insisting there was no record of Ms Thornberry, or any other civilian legal representative, being given honorary rank in respect of their work as a barrister or a solicitor.<\/p>\n

Last night, General The Lord Richard Dannatt, who led thousands of British troops in Iraq, said Ms Thornberry\u2019s claim raised further concerns about her level of understanding of defence affairs.<\/p>\n

He said: \u2018She\u2019s tried to give herself some credentials but I\u2019m afraid in doing so she\u2019s made herself look incredible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Someone in the Ministry of Defence supplied the photoshopped picture of her at the top of the page in the pretend uniform. I wonder if she has a pretend certificate from the NANP to bolster her claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Larry sends us a link to the Daily Mail in which they report on the mocking … Emily Thornberry; Lieutenant Colonel (Hon)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}