To think Kemi Badenoch is starting to talk an increasing amount of sense

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Never voted conservative a day in my life.

Seriously comsidering it after recent performances

Rage bait

Um no but a poverty stricken childhood it clearly was not.

She does come over as very confident but sometimes it is definitely all style and no substance. She didn't understand about the Budget - as another example:

Kemi Badenoch Embarrassing PM Qs Gaffe About Budget | HuffPost UK Politics

Is it Tory vs Reform in your area really?
It looks like it's Green vs Reform in a lot of places, why not just vote Green?

I can't see it myself. I don't find any of the current party leaders particularly inspiring and she is no exception. I haven't heard a single tangible idea of hers which filled me with confidence that she could bring about change.

Is that all you have?

Anything else?

"not all cultures are equally valid"

From my "growing up in the west" position I can agree with this statement. Of course many people do think this but Kemi will come out and say it. Which is one of the reasons people are liking & of respecting her - she is refreshing.

Cultures who don't give women any rights, cultures who promote marriage of girls to men, cultures who punish gay people with death/imprisionment, cultures who are routinely murdering those of a different religion etc aren't equal to those cultures who are more socially advanced and give their population equal freedoms/freedom of belief etc.

It perhaps opens her up to accusations of racism,but anyone with half a brain should be able to think about this and know its not at all racist.

Just my opinion though - feel free to disagree & defend these cultures who marry off girls at 9, deny women all rights, murder those of a different religion or political leaning etc by all means.

Working for the elite?

How very dare they….

Working as well! The bastards.

You asked for some examples. What do you want - War and Peace? It seems quite personal for you.

It strikes me as so wilfully blind that this idea that 'all cultures are equal' could only be a faith based leftist mantra to signal loyalty to their tribe.

All fine and dandy unless you’re trying to create a picture of being poor during childhood.

Any of those are deeply concerning.

well Labour had years of experience at this and still are rubbish.

I think regardless of our political persuasion, or none, as a country we all benefit from a strong and robust opposition party. And we all sufer without one.

If Labour had been stronger in oppostion for those 14 years we might not be landed with such a sad withering mess of a govt as we have now.

I don't know if I would ever vote Tory, but what I do want is for Kemi to be a strong leader of the oppostion, and a strong leader of her party so they can together be the best robust opposition they can be.

I disagree with KB the more I hear from her, opposite of OP.

I get impression KB wants UK soldiers & military deployed to take active role in middle east war against Iran. I can't support that, decider issue for me.

My area is usually a strong Labour area but I'm not taking that for granted. To be honest, I'll vote for whoever it means to keep Reform out.

ha ha ha no.

For the sake of balance, let’s have your comments on Polanski.

This is very serious and I agree. To be fair on Kemi, Farage was also gung-ho about Iran. He just backtracked quickly. Kemi sees this as being decisive. It is not decisive to meekly follow Trump. She messed up big time on this.

This thread is about Kemi Badenoch.

The thread is about Badenoch, though. Maybe start your own on Polanski?

There are a lot of posts about Dave and Starmer.

Yes I would check your area's voting intentions first.

No.

this is pretty much where I am at the moment - I think there are so may "politcally homeless" in the same postion.

She absolutely didn't do this. She described the experience of being a middle-class child in Nigeria which involved experiencing and/or witnessing hardships and difficulties that many of us in the UK would struggle with. Why not have a read? You might find her experiences interesting.