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

I'm sure this is exactly what the Tory party is, up to and including antisemitic until very recently.

Yep, I don't want either one of them in ta muchly! Greens and Reform are literally 2 cheeks of the same arse. One far left, and the other far right. Nooooooooooooooo!

As bad or worse for sure. But look at it positively - by the time the GE comes round, following local elections like this, more people will have been directly exposed to how shit Labour, the Greens, Reform, Lib Dems are, and so will understand that the only viable option, is the Conservatives.

I'm sure if Starmer's comms team read this she'll immediately be rolled out for the inevitable press opportunity, as previously.

Yeh it’s obvious on that last point. I hope she does it despite them.

What a bizarre comment.

Presumably that makes Starmer the point equidistant from those two cheeks?

Yep, I agree. Not only a strong speak who speaks sense, but has the likeability factor too. All quite important.

I like that she tells you what her position is and that's it, she knows you might not agree with it and you might not like it but she's not going to hand wring or flip flop or fumble around trying to appease to you because she wants to try and please everyone.

I think she's well aware that no, you can't please everyone and trying to do that is a losing battle. You're too busy putting out fires and fannying around with apologies and platitudes and u-turns to do anything constructive.

It's very straightforward, very "this is my position, so if you vote for us this is what you get, and if you don't like it tough shit"

You might abhor Tories in general, but you can't dislike a good bit of no nonsense.

Oh dear.
🌺🌺🌺.

It is true. She’s a Shield and she wields that especially effectively. If she was white it maybe risky but as a black woman in conservative politics absolutely not. It would be far riskier for to say unequivocally blm (small letters) given her voter base.

And she is very much aware of that.

I think she has taken full advantage of the wish washy way Starmer deals with contentious issues and KB has made a deliberate point of making very strong sounding statements, however , she doesn’t have to actually back up those statements by action because of course currently she is in opposition. I suspect that were she to actually be in power we would see a lot of backtracking , statements “ taken out of context”, and “that was then, this is now”, “ we are dealing with the fallout from the previous administration” and all the other squirming getouts that politicians use when they don’t want to put the money where their mouths were when it didn’t make a difference.

She is however a smarter cookie than Rayner who I think is a disaster waiting to happen and who if she ousts Starmer will turn out to be a poisoned chalice for Labour and put the chances of a decent female Labour leader back by decades.
It makes me weep when I think of the strong capable Labour women of the last thirty or forty years who were hung out to dry by the misogynists who ran the party, and are now sadly either dead or retired or no longer have the energy for the fight.

Yes sure what with Rishi and Kemi - racists! Then what with Margaret, Theresa, Liz, and Kemi - Sexist misogynists!

Tell me - when did the Labour Party have a person of colour and or a woman as party leader?

Well said. Agree 👍

I think she's smarter than that and sees no gain in showing her face now. Or just busy packing.

This has strong “I’m not racist, I have black friends” vibes.

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Yes I agree.

Putin would agree with you that we should stop spending money on bombs, as should France, Germany and Ukraine.

Oh dear. You're grasping so much you'll have an injury in a minute..

Me too. I find the Boris troughing years hard to forgive though and any party that has Jacob Rees Mogg in it, can't do. (Same with Farage). Let's hope she defects somewhere else. Otherwise I dont think ill be voting. Labour are so, so disappointing and, more that that, are clearly out of their depths, ideologicaly captured and just so unprofessional (with the exception maybe of Wes Streeting). Greens are dangerous. Reform talk a good talk, but it still feels a bit too jingoistic for me. Lib dems are pointless, and I still haven't forgiven them for the Ladymen years. So who is left? No one it seems.

Let's have the KB party of taking no shit, sensible, professional politicians!

Much as I disdain the weak Starmer, Raynor and Burnham are far worse.

Same situation as across the pond. Much as I loathe Trump, he needs to stay on for the rest of the term as JD is much worse.

This.

If she was in power, you would be at war with Iran right now. Cosying up to the American right-wing and involving Britain in a completely unjustified and illegal war worked out really well for Blair!

OP what is your view? Or is this just political click bait?