Kemi Badenoch elected as Tory leader

[Locutus2000]

This will be entertaining.

You’re possibly right and I certainly don’t have any data to say you are wrong. I’m a leftie but didn’t vote Labour when Corbyn was leader. I saw him on the stump, was a great orator, really impressive and I could see why so many got enthused by him. He was never going to get elected as he couldn’t develop the necessary broad support to get over the line. More importantly I felt he couldn’t do the actual work of government which is always about compromise, about putting the policy before ego or rigid ideology to actually getting something done. I see something similar in Badenoch’s presentation.

@FfsBrian "Starmer is a raging communist"

He's under pretty deep cover if he is!

@EasternStandard

"I agree it's quite offensive - how about maybe just maybe she got the job because she was the best person for it !"

"I find it incredible that someone would post that"

I was being sarcastic - she got the job because she was the best person for it - her skin colour or sex was massively irrelevant, although clearly not to some posters

She absolutely is

Kemi’s a peach. A look at her voting record tells you all you need to know

I don’t disagree with what you say about Badenoch but I wouldn’t be too complacent and about the sick and disabled because I suspect Labour are planning a tsunami of welfare reform in the spring. In particular Labour have been very tight lipped about what they intend to do about PIP reform, leaving thousands of disabled people who rely on that benefit for their extra costs in limbo, and scared of what may be coming. That suggests radical reform, and it’s the most severely disabled who cost the most, so it doesn’t take a genius to figure out where the cuts will come.

@ilovesooty @BIossomtoes

So you think it’s nasty because:

1. We should struggle ourselves to help mil, despite her politics of envy making her worse off and despite the fact we can’t afford to pay her fuel bills?
2. I just shouldn’t admit to feeling this way about her?

Labour did this to her. Very nasty indeed.

@Llhaaf "
So she’s still happy with her choice. My husband has told her not to come to us for help. That this is what she wanted. We are not made of money, so she can reap the benefits of her vote."

I am so hoping this isn't real. It can't be, surely?

Yep. I suspect the effect will be the same. Corbyn in a frock.

She got the job because she was the best of a bad bunch. The only good part is that Jenrick lost.

The conservative members of course thought Truss was the solution to our problems, so I will withhold judgement on their next choice.

Totally agree and I am feeling pretty nervous about what is yet to come.

She is essentially no different from the rest of her party Privileged. And she will represent others who are privileged. Unsure what the obsession with the colour of her skin and what sex she is has to do with anything.

I wish her the best of luck, she needs to search out for some new blood, some of the men who've had bums on seats for years, I'd swerve. She has the time to experiment. Break some moulds.

I'm looking forward to seeing PMQs. I think Starmer will find it hard to land a blow-she's too erratic for him.

@username7891 So keir didnt join a Czechoslovakian work camp during Cold War?

I bet he didnt also serve on the Trilateral Commission alongside two former heads of the CIA without telling Jeremy Corbyn—who would have blocked it?

This man is a danger to the U.K

She also voted against a pay rise for nurses.

Privileged like much of Labour leadership + cabinet then ie Oxford educated, landlords earning money from renting properties out (Reeves), happy to take backhanders and freebies, gold plating their own pensions?

Sorry I should have made it clearer I was agreeing with you

I found the post you were responding to incredible, in a bad way.

This statement is worth celebrating. The fact that it is her is not.

Starmer is the PM he's not the one who has to land the blows!

Entertaining is one word for it.

Fuck the Tories.

Yep! This! ^

I actually think the Tory party now has a core membership of moderates

So moderates can vote for Badenoch after all