Kemi Badenoch knows what a woman is.

not one message of support or direction

www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/saffron-walden-mp-on-lockdown-6617686

She want to cut taxes, wants to reduce welfare benefits ... no!

Her ideas about education are shocking and will take our education backwards to the 50s. And she hasn't actually done anything for women since going into Parliament.

She might know what a woman is but she came across as a thoroughly unpleasant person. I’d forgotten what it’s like hearing the Tory right wing views straight out of someone’s mouth accompanied by applause. Horrible.

Might it not be an idea to prioritise closing off tax avoidance strategies first?

I always thought if Johnson left we’d see a potential swing to smaller state and spending if not Badenoch then likely from the person opposite Sunak

Not sure who I prefer that to be yet

Kemi B is my MP and she was given this very safe seat from a retiring MP. Since then the massive majority she benefitted from has dwindled. She’s still in a safe seat, but it will erode again next election.

In a nutshell, she is a shocking MP. She has done nothing for our once beautiful town and she’s let it go down the shitter. During lockdown we didn’t hear from her. Not one message of support or direction. In fact the only time we hear from her is when many people have written to her or written letters to the local paper asking if she is still our MP, or confronting her on her vote to support some policy that further screws us over. When she is pulled up she writes long defensive and arrogant letters to be published in our paper always outlining how busy and important she is.

A lot of people in my area want her gone. She is only interested in herself. She’s a terrible local MP. I definitely won’t vote for her next GL.

Prime Minister? I’ll be surprised if she keeps her seat.

You seem to have missed that my friend was both a sister and s trainer without a degree. Her knowledge was deemed good enough to train those with degrees and they begged her not to retire because the new batch of nurses aren't nearly as practically capable.

And yes, I am well aware it has changed. As was she because it was a requirement for her job to keep up with the current medical knowledge. She studied at home her whole career.
The problem with a degree is it assumes once you've got it you have nothing to learn. My friend has more knowledge than most doctors because her role required her to stay up to date and not coast by on a qualification.

Her proposed policies will hurt the economy and further spiral out quality of life downwards, and the poorest will be affected the most (and over half women), so no thanks.

Cutting back public services and aiming for a smaller state is the very essence of conservatism. They all think that. We should not be surprised. So any acknowledgement about womens’ rights stands out. I still wouldn’t vote for any of them. Labour should be taking note of course, if they continue with their current approach.

The job a nurse does has changed hugely in the last 50 years. What used to be done by a nurse is now often done by a HCA who does not have a degree. Nurses do more complex work these days.

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My feminism cares about poor and vulnerable women. Trans is not the only issue that affects them by a very long shot.

I’d certainly like to know a lot more about Kemi Badenoch and how she sees the function of the state in respect of British poverty. I’d like to see some detailed ideas.

To me, her current high-end political beliefs don’t seem to have any clear and close relationship with addressing actual social problems in the UK.

I agree with her about women being female, but so do the vast majority of British people to be fair.

Mordaunt is the outlier here, and has done a lot of damage behind the scenes. I don’t think newspaper editors like her btw.

Very concerned about her alluding to cutting the degree requirement for nurses.

I completely agree with her. People shouldn't be getting into debt to do the job. Just train and pay them.

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This. @SeaweedPop this shouldn’t be the hill you die on. She’s right wing as fuck and I don’t care what words she uses, she ain’t on your side.

Not every candidate has hacked a senior Labour politician's website or described a journalist asking questions as 'bizarre' while publishing their correspondence.

Her smaller state rhetoric is clearly deeply felt and will affect women most.

Kemi Badenoch has some seriously wacky ideas about ‘anti-wokism’ and so be very careful. This is someone who not to be trusted with our rights incl womens rights.

I've watched my school go from great to actually thinking the next round of cuts will make things dangerous due to austerity.

I couldnt vote for someone who said 'superfluous staff'

You could say that about every one of the candidates, but unlike Penny, she is not a lying cockwomble who will say anything to get elected and then lie about saying it

Stop telling women how they should vote. Nobody is owed my vote, and if they treat me with contempt I will return the favour.

She's a terrible candidate with a nasty history of attacking people for petty reasons (women, as it happens). I am always pleased to see black women achieving in politics but that's the only positive I can think of for her.

Patronising much?

Nurses never used to have degrees. My friend was a sister for 50+ years and went on to train them. She had to get a degree whilst training others who already had them. She had to fail a lot of them. In her opinion the degree was worthless, wasted time and gave her a lot of confidence.

I'd rather have a nurse that trained in the way my friend did looking after me than one who was in the modern way. She's an excellent risk assessor, has very good instincts for when patients crash because she goes by physical signs and not book-learning checklists.

What? Surely that would be a good thing? It would mean more people could access nursing, and maybe a return to old fashioned nursing focused on patient care?