AIBU to think Kemi’s speech showed real leadership potential?

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Just listening to her speech. She’s badass, seems to know and understand the mood of the country - she could very well be this country’s saviour from extremism and bankruptcy

Well I know she won't really but it's a shame.

Hate to say it but I Iove her. She's a natural leader

And the past fourteen years of Tory cuts haven't contributed to the problems now facing the UK.
Defence
Police
Health
Mental health
Housing( bulk of UC goes to private landlords )
Immigrant hotels (Tory mates contracts)
Etc.

Yes, she is brilliant. Absolutely scathing of the government and their failure to make the leap from rhetoric to action. And seeing Phillips resignation letter yesterday was very enlightening in offering a clue about why that is the case. I had no idea how the ministers were being sunk by a wall of inertia.

This is the woman who lied about being offered a scholarship by Stanford University and also picks on minorities to cosy up to right wingers. Picking on Muslims for celebrating Eid at Trafalgar Square was a new low.

Yes but that won’t look like ‘everyone doing their bit’, it will look like the hoardes of unemployed people getting benefit raises ‘because they’re vulnerable’ while yet again the squeezed middle are on the hook for looking after everyone else via higher taxation and expectation they will put up and shut up

No, that doesn't bother me. Not compared with the 'economist' 'chess master' chancellor or the 'Red Cross ambassador' 'ministry of justice employee' 'council tax payer' tit-whisperer.

It does bother a lot of people who don’t support othering and marginalising of Muslims though.

I agree actually..
But what's to stop the conservatives getting rid of her,if she was pm .
It's not her i don't trust ,I think she's great .it's the rest of the party

Went off her when she said you gotta free car for having ADHD. This is not true, she knows it’s not true but said it anyway to rile up the more stupid who believe everything they read told. So no….she can do one, along with anyone else who says such things.

Tbf, Labour have done plenty off their own back to grind the country down and at some point (say after 2 years in government), they need to start owning it.

I think she just seems decent compared to what's left of the Tory Party, low bar that it is...

I don't think that her comments meet the threshold of othering. I think mass prayer in a civic space isn't cricket and, as an atheist, I would say that should be applied equally across the religions. Which was Badenoch's approach.

I thought she was quite funny, but overdid it. She wasn't exactly stateswoman like. More like newbie stand-up routine. And too strident.

Streeting's face though. He looked as though he wanted to do what he once threatened to do to Jan Moir.

But why did she suddenly decide she was against it, when it has been happening for a few years? And there is similar for other religions, I think? She is just trying to jump onto Farage's populist bandwagon.

Probably didn't come up as housing minister or trade secretary.

She's terrible - horribly right-wing, a proven liar and arrogantly tries to sweep over her involvement in the last disastrous government even though she was a minister. She tries to come across as cocksure every week in PMQs but messes it up most of the time. To be honest though, if you can't land a few punches on a PM in Starmer's situation this week there is something very wrong so I wouldn't say her managing to do that means that she is a natural leader/amazing/whatever else a handful of people may think. And I thought Starmer's rejoinder about her being a ray of sunshine was really funny and landed well too. I also thought he was spot on saying she, like him, had a pretty rubbish election but the difference was she hadn't noticed. She lucky the idiot plotters in Labour have taken the spotlight off that but that doesn't make her a great leader either. Starmer also said she isn't even the opposition anymore, which could be scarily true soon. So, no, I don't think she's great or that she wipes the floor him every week.

She is as far right as they come - look at her record on minorities and transphobia

I like her most for her support of women's rights when gender bollocks was at its height.

She didn't notice what was happening in the world just outside her office?

I'm sure she did, but which journalist would have posed that question to her when in those roles?

Why would you wish that on someone you claim to like?

So what exactly didn’t you like about what she said? Labour are an embarrassing mess. Starmer is finished and whether he limps on until the next GE is for others to decide. Burnham came what 4th in a 5 horse leadership race the last time he ran.

The funniest thing today and the state of the Labour Party is no joke was when Black Rod knocked on the door and some wag said ‘not now Andy’.

Yep.

Not a fan of her at all.

I've never voted for her party in my life but she livens up Parliament no end. She was on fire. I do think she's growing into her role as a leader.