Kemi Badenoch elected as Tory leader

[Locutus2000]

This will be entertaining.

Well today they announced a change in the way they get rid them. Doesn't exactly show a lot of confidence in their new leader.🫣

www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/national/24696464.rule-change-makes-harder-tories-ditch-leader/

Good luck to her. I hope she will be good and not too Tory.

Nice to have a prominent woman again. I don't know that much about her and will look her up.

It's awful!

What she said about maternity pay and children with autism is really shocking. Worried about her policies if she's elected in 5 years time.

Nice try, well done.

You conveniently forgot the £40bn black hole the Tories left this time around.

Great post.

Such a 'progressive' track record of voting, as expected!

People just seem to talk nonsense about her being progressive and strong after swallowing whatever The Daily Mail and Telegraph publish. All they can do is regurgitate some headlines. It's sad.

Thatcher is indeed her role model.
I am old enough to remember (albeit from France) the damage (still felt today) she did to Great Britain. Selling out to the highest bidder anything she could. The UK is owned by foreign companies who do not care about the people they rip off.

For example, take EDF, owned by the French state, is making vast profits for the benefit of the French, who pay far less for their electricity than in the UK.
I won't go on about the way she used the police as her private army during the miners' strike. I could go on.
If Badenoch aspires to be like her, well ....

Now this is a great post

This is absolutely correct.
Thatcher sold everything to the highest bidder and has devastated the UK, 40/50 years later. The chickens have come home to roots, especially following the GFC. It's tragic that many people on the right of politics still think she is a figure to try to emulate and that talking about being 'strong' or 'speaking their mind' or dressing up in a pussy bow blouse is suddenly going to restore the UK's economic fortunes.

I wonder how many of the people who voted for her know her full name is Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch, it seems a bit too progressive for them compared to Robert Jenrick.

She was also conveniently absent during all votes related to gay rights and same sex marriage

Even more 'progressive' then! 😂

Didn’t happen. Astonishing how bad people’s memories are.

So would knowing her full name have changed people's vote?
Do you think people would have voted for Starmer knowing his middle name is Rodney?
Do people vote on names or merit?

The Tories love nothing more than a person of colour they can roll out to parrot all the abhorrent views they have on people of colour and disabled people under cover of "well it's ok if a brown person says it". Same with Suella Braverman. There are both vile. Kemi's comments on disabled people, different cultures and mental health were despicable. But I'm delighted that she who became working class when working in McDonald's (typical Tory so out of touch as to say something so pig ignorant) has triumphed as hopefully it makes them even more unelectable than ever.

I only hope that Kemi promotes a more sensible approach to reaching Net Zero. Milliband is going to ruin us.

The only good thing about her is she’s Black and female.
Her politics is monstrous.
Particularly on climate change & immigration (but so was Jenrick).

I wasn't talking about the thread 😂, I was talking about the polling among Tory voters in the rest of the country. KB has been a fairly consistently unpopular choice throughout.

She’s totally backwards on net Zero!

Exactly. The McDonalds/ working class comment was particularly hilarious!

For what it's worth, I also think a strong opposition is important and I think she will certainly be that, and take no prisoners.

It will be a long time before I forget her wiping the floor with Kate Osborne at the Women and Equalities Committee.

"Kemi Badenoch: Right. What she has said is not true. It is not true, and we have to use facts in this room. We can't just make stuff up. This is what I am talking about.
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Kate Osborne: Well, I absolutely agree with you. I just don't think that your facts necessarily—
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Kemi Badenoch: When was that statement made? And where?
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Kate Osborne: This is the Government’s own data.
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Kemi Badenoch: No, no, no. You said I used the word disease. When?

Kate Osborne: I don't know. Did you? [😂]

Kemi Badenoch: Of course, I didn't. You don't even know where that came from. Where did you get that from? Where did you get that from?

Kate Osborne: [pause] I'm not here to answer your questions. [😂]

Kemi Badenoch: Because you don't know. It is not true. And you should not be saying that in this Committee when you do not know where that statement came from. [...] We have to do better than this."

In an ideal world I’d like the whole Net Zero thing to be thrown out. We are spending billions on making no difference. We’ll all be poorer for no reason. It’s a crazy policy and I hope the opposition will push for a more sensible approach (ie push it back…far back).

Good. We are too broke to spend a fortune on climate issues and it's making us even less competitive in the global market. And I have sympathy for immigration but too many asylum seekers are coming here.

This with bells on!!