Would you vote Tory if Kemi Badenoch was Tory the party leader and the election was tomorrow?

I think an interesting Q will be, for another thread, if when Labour are floundering after the GE and are nailing colours to the intersectional mast by bringing in changes that GC women will diametrically be opposed to, and Kemi is the Leader of the Opposition, how will women vote next time around.

Yes

No

No, and I think she has very limited electoral appeal beyond culturally right leaning Tory party members. She is opinionated and abrasive regarding anyone who questions her views, seeing and treating them as imbeciles. That may delight the culture wars faithful, but successful politicians who lead parties to GE victories are ideologically flexible, and bring people with them. I can't see her doing that. She comes off as rigid and brittle, and would break like Truss pushing pet ideological policies that don't engage with Britain's real problems.

No - I care about other people. It would be as insane as voting for Trump or Putin voting these criminals in again.

Why?

This.
I can't stand the Tories but will vote for them at the next GE UNLESS Labour have an epiphany regarding women's rights.
Let's have them make the same commitments as Stephen Barclay did today.
For me this is very much a single issue election.

Yes

I might. I would have to look into her stance on disability a lot more. I don’t know the details but if her preferred policies would fuck over the actual most vulnerable, as I’ve heard said, then, no, I couldn’t vote for her.

But I appreciate that she seems to be willing to go to war with the bureaucrats who have tied the education and health system and indeed the economy in knots. I don’t know if she could actually accomplish any kind of substantive change even if she did get into power, and I don’t know if I’d like the changes even if she did accomplish them - but I think she has identified the right enemies. That’s something, right? (It’s probably nothing at all.)

No

I vote for my local MP not for the party leader, if the last couple of years have taught us all anything it should be that the party leader can be changed at the drop of a hat.

Also you'd have to threaten me with something pretty horrific to get me to ever vote Tory.

Good God, no. Never.

No

No - not enough experience.

It seems you were too young to remember any of the complexity around the Iraq war - not least that the Conservative Party were very enthusiastic about it and would have taken the exact same decision to join the Americans’ lead.

I was one of the many thousands of ordinary people who marched against that war, but the fact it happened is in no way a reason to vote Tory.

Perhaps you were also too young to remember the utterly shit state of public services before Blair won the 1997 election? Or to notice what a massive positive difference things like Sure Start and decent funding of the NHS made to this country?

Zero chance

Yes, absolutely. Couldn't vote for Labour, bunch of ridiculous clowns.

No but wouldn't vote Tory anyway. Although the Major government was obviously unpopular, it's worse now. You've got as ex-PMs, ex and present ministers a mixture of the incompetent, the over-promoted and the downright unpleasant.

Yes, I would.

I haven't said "yes", but I do agree with her position on potentially leaving the European Court of Human Rights.

(I would personally take a stronger position.)

Apparently we had the GRA forced on us because of that institution.

But even ignoring that, there is an obvious problem with court decisions, when you can decide completely opposite things just depending on the individual judge. And of course their personal moral and political values will bias them. That kind of system is very suspect if it has too much power.

You're clearly too young to remember Labour's illegal war that killed millions and resulted in terrorism in this country killing kids at pop concerts etc. If you deem that to be better than what the tories have done then shame on you.
Personally I'd take someone eating cake when they shouldn't over illegal wars any time... but that is just me I guess. Lots still vote Labour (sadly I voted for them and am therefore partly guilty for the millions of deaths they caused).

No. I will never vote Tory.

1

Definitely not. She is even more rightwing than the current government .

No. I like having rights.

Yes, she's a lot more electable than Rishi Snake Sunak. He is beyond rich and has no idea how normal people live with his £720 million wealth.