Tell me about Kemi Badenoch

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I've not taken any notice of the Tory leadership contest. And today is the estates day with Kemi being the favourite.

What's she about then?

Sure they were, after 14 years of jumping in feet first. Theresa May wanted self ID and Maria Miller tried to completely screw women over. She got an award from Pink News no less. Don't try to whitewash their complicity in this mess.

She’s great. She’ll be a breath of fresh air and will hold Starmer’s feet to the fire.

I find her really troubling. I keep hearing how clever she is but I think there is a sort of shallowness to her. Fraser Nelson praised her for resigning rather than taking maternity leave when she worked at the Spectator. She saw it is a matter of principle not to burden a small organisation with her cover etc, but there is a naivety there. It is just not possible for most women to do this.

I am also horrified by her comments on autistic people. Again, she doesn't take the time to understand the complexities of other people's lives. Honestly she reminds me of a 16 year old Tory who thinks regulation is a bad thing and that the markets will correct for unscrupulous merchants watering down flour with sawdust

Well actually I don’t give her a pass on that and neither do countless other people including the National Autistic Society. Criticising reasonable adjustments in work and school alongside dismissing it as a mental health condition is bloody not ok particularly when you publish pamphlets spreading such misinformation.

Yes she just comes across as Liz Truss mark 2

I don’t find this useful as MPs have to tow the party line. The whips can make it very hard for mps to abstain or rebel.

She's just not a proper grown up. Hacking Harriet Harman's website is another example.

Really. We’ll see. Let’s hope she researches her diatribes a bit better before getting into debates. Think KS is pretty good at holding his own,barristers normally are.

I agree that this question is absolutely central to the Conservative ethos. It is one of the reasons why I will never vote Tory.

Lol. I hope this is ironic!

To be fair, though, she might be the fourth woman, but none of the men wanted the job when May and Truss were doing it, just as none of them really want this one now, given Labour will be in for eight years.

I'm always open minded but yeah this just about sums up my impression of her!

Braverman is my MP. Can't stand her. But I jokingly refer to her as Badenoch Lite. And that isn't a complement 😂

So her opinions on women, maternity, opportunity, disability and race don't matter then?

Yay.

Apparently someone that should be able to do exactly what she's done and shouldn't have maternity allowance even though she did.

I'm not sure it was quite like that - her father was a GP and her mother was a lecturer.

See I think she'll hate debating Starmer.

She likes to rile things up, shout with a patronising tone and get a reaction.

And Starmer just won't even raise an eyebrow to it!

I'd have rather loved to watch her debate someone like a Johnson. Now he would have been very riled up by her 😂

She was born in London

I have little time for the NAS given it still signposted to Mermaids until recently.

This!

I want to support a black woman smashing through glass ceilings. BUT, her manifesto made my blood boil. As a parent of an autistic child, I cannot support the Conservative Party whilst someone with her views on autism leads it.

Hahaha she was 16 when she did this - so obviously not a grown up at the time!

She was born here but raised in Nigeria. Apparently her parents didn’t realise coming here to give birth entitled her to a British passport. LOL. Grew up privileged but calls herself working class because she worked at McDonalds during 6th form. A Brexiter. Likes to compare herself to Margaret but seems more of a Norman to me.

She thinks that by working a couple of shifts in McDonald's it makes her working class! 🤣

Apparently her parents didn’t realise coming here to give birth entitled her to a British passport. LOL.

Why the LOL?

so an educated couple fly all the way from Nigeria at great expense to give birth but didn’t realise that would make her entitled to a British passport? Sure.

What's the issue exactly?

I'm not sure why you'd focus on Kemi's Nigerian parents as anything that's particularly relevant.