Kemi Badenoch elected as Tory leader

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This will be entertaining.

Nope I am comparing their politics - playing to their party faithful and completely missing the masses in the centre. As soon as Jeremy was announced as leader I knew Labour would not be elected with him in charge.

Jeremy was too left wing for most people. Kemi is too right wing for most people.

Also why do people conflate talking confidently with intelligence and competence? Have we learnt nothing from BoJo?

I do think it's great that a black woman is leader of a Westminster party and I do hope she forms an effective opposition

Whatever your political persuasion, Labour's lack of female or ethnic minority leaders is becoming more and more embarrassing by comparison.

Genuinely, what is going on there?

When did I say I was worried? Au contraire, I’m delighted.

Well join the club 💪🏽💪🏽

Anyone noticed that the Labour leaders are all white men? Just saying...

Mario Draghi (that intellectual colossus) is quoted in the FT today praising its “interesting ideas” to boost growth-producing investment. Ha, a man who wouldn’t know growth if it kicked him in the heads.

Times notes that taxpayers will contribute £14 billion in enviro levies by 2029. So, how rich do we think Dale Vince will get (given that he runs an enterprise supported by levies, grants and tax payer handouts) and how much of that cash will he donate to Labour?

No thanks.

Hidden racism covered up with a fake woke agenda that benefits white men mainly.

You said you were delighted so I am taking you at your word

This is absolutely true.

I am delighted. For reasons that put me a million miles from your “club”.

Looks like the Tory party themselves are a bit concerned that their psychodrama isn't behind them.🫣😆

www.gbnews.com/politics/politics-latest-updates-tory-party-leadership-kemi-badenoch-robert-jenrick

The poster before you is right. KB will not be making any kind of deal at all about being a Black woman. She's likely to avoid making it A Thing.

KB is known for having little time for critical race theory, or Black people claiming that there is any societal infrastructure that is not completely equally balanced between white people and people of colour.

She sort of doesn't believe that racism exists in the UK in 2024.

@1dayatatime her sex and skin colour will give her passage to do and say things a white man could not, and still be palatable to the masses.

In my view both are extremely relevant.

Who cares. We are celebrating the dawn of a new era, of that I am sure.

Again, James Cleverly, the man who joked about drugging his wife. Hilarious in view of recent events ...not.

And most polls of non-party member Tory voters show her to be the least popular choice.

The Tory party have brilliantly elected a leader who even Tory voters don't like very much. They NEARLY voted for the one leader who might have posed a threat in a future election - Cleverly - but thankfully, they managed to fuck that up.

Not really. There are plenty of male politicians guilty of the same but for some reason you don’t include them in your criticisms.

@GoodGollyMsMolly
Oh you're a Muslim who agrees with Kemi. So that makes it ok to be racist then. 🙄

Agree I’m not sure why people would care. Look at the response, it’s good

The response from Labour voters is good, for sure. Excellent result.

I agree with this.

A strong opposition is importabt and labour were not a strong opposition party

Actually, there are big similarities between them. That’s why we will see more of Rayner.
Both very clear strong speakers and the kind of woman that men tell to shut up.

Seems like both Labour voters and Conservative voters are pleased!

It's actually pretty ironic the you equate the fact that she is woman and black with 'progressive and the change our country needs'? Your comment is racist, sexist and ageist, against Corbyn as well (he was late 60s when he ran for the PM job). Whatever you think about Corbyn's politics, he is a principled man and absolutely did given the option of a change for UK politics. What change has Kemi suggested? Reducing maternity leave for women, I guess. Yes, definitely ironic.
Just in case you assume that I am left wing/ support Labour, I am not and do not so don't bother with that particular insult.