Kemi Badenoch elected as Tory leader

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This will be entertaining.

Neither are schools.

You'd think she would have a little more sympathy for other people coming here for asylum, wouldn't you?

I will respond to each of your points.

1. We do need to invest in new energy infrastructure after decades of under investment. However that applies equally whether the energy is renewables, nuclear or fossil fuels. New solar and wind power are cheeper per unit to generate than any other source of energy. We are already generating close to 50% of energy from renewables and the cost has plummeted in the last 15 years.
2. There are only 200,000 people employed in the fossil fuels sector. The potential for growth in the green jobs sector is much higher. They can and will find other jobs.
3. This is sadly true, but measures to tackle climate change such as improving energy efficiency (critical) and increasing renewables WILL help bring down bills in the long term.
4. More investment leads to more jobs and more economic growth. We will be left behind if we don't invest in the green economy, not the other way round.
5. There is no shortage of energy and no risk of it. See my points above - renewables are cheaper and readily available. They will bring down bills in the long run.

All the world's leading economies are following a strategy of getting to Net Zero and you think it's just a "vanity project". Did you see what happened in Valencia this week?

I'm reserving judgement. She's well educated and has worked hard to achieve qualifications and roles in her life. However, I have found her to be quite hard line and rigid at times, which is influenced by her religion. I also think that she's got ahead because of her colour, because it makes it (slightly) harder to accuse the party of being 'right wing' when she rolls out anti immigration policies. I feel as though the Conservative Party want to use her to hide behind by appearing to be more progressive than they actually are. At the end of the day I'll judge her on her actions, whether she is firm but fair, how measured she is, whether she has honesty and integrity and on her policies on the NHS and Climate Change (which matter most to me). I always try to keep an open mind. However, the vast majority of politicians tend to disappoint.

I'm also Nigerian, fyi. And unlike her I proudly go by my full name, I don't attempt to Westernise it to make it more "palatable" to manipulate racists.

Agreed. And it is. Workers rights are great for the individual, but not for the economy.
Compare the UK with the US. The American economy has been doing better than us for years, mainly because they aren’t forced to put people before profits.
Im not sure that it’s a good idea either to allow businesses to treat workers like commodities, but at the same time there needs to be balance.
Giving people who’ve just started in a job all the perks of those who’ve committed to their employer for a few years, is asking for trouble. I don’t think people who’ve been in a job for a couple of weeks should get full sick pay etc. I think Angela Rayners policy is also going to hit businesses hard and slow down the economy. Allowing women to take extended time off on maternity is not good for all business and business needs to have some say, if we are to grow the economy.

No.

As Kemi knows as we all do that we can’t support the women and children already here! They are living in bed sits and in hotels for years on end. We have an acute housing crisis. We simply can not manage over a million arrivals every year fgs!

It is my guess that Kemi will prioritise the people already here, her integration strategies into place and start controlling immigration properly. We all know we are literally at capacity. I agree with her.

My thoughts exactly. I read the first 20 or so posts praising her and thought, what am I reading? I thought Mumsnet probably skewed right, but not to this extent. She is defensive when challenged, divisive, and as for someone saying she has done so much for women…. 🙄

Well if you're not prepared to justify what you said I'll draw my own conclusions. If someone applauds their husband punishing his mother for her political beliefs I think that's a reprehensible attitude. That makes me a bully does it?

She is incredibly talented that’s why people are applauding her.

Thank you for the link. The writing seems very muddled and demonstrates a lack of understanding which concerns me. Anxiety and autism can exist together but are 2 very different conditions which she doesn’t seem to understand. There are a lot of assumptions presented as facts around mental health such as people who experienced events that were non traumatic now feel entitled to support. How on earth does she know if people used to find things traumatic or not? The paragraph about children getting equipment and transport to school is ridiculous. I had to home educate my child for two years because there was so little accommodation for him. It’s fine to start a conversation about issues if they are based in fact but not on the level of ignorance displayed in this essay, it’s worryingly ignorant.

1 - this is incorrect. A complete change to renewables is far more expensive
2 - tell that to the steel workers in Port Talbot
3 - we’re not talking seeing the benefits in 1-2 years, we’re talking way into the future, we won’t all still be here to reap those rewards
4 - I disagree. I think we should be doing it, but at a slower pace and whilst still making use of fossil fuels to keep costs down
5 - Untrue. This is a real risk.

I am all for looking towards net zero at a sensible pace. The speed at which Ed Milliband is trying to do it is the vanity project. And the biggest economies, China and the US also disagree with you.

What is working about the process now? Numbers higher, risk higher, deaths each week in the channel and people making more money from it

The system isn't a good one, it's too damaging and risky already

Blimey!

He really didn't. Check Companies House. He was however a director of his wife's Donkey sanctuary, if that helps.

It is because she is anti trans and that is all some posters on MN care about. They would vote for Hitler if he was transphobic (and let's face it, he probably would be)!

"Bob Blackman, chair of the Conservative 1922 Committee, revealed the party membership had shrunk to 132,000 - the lowest level on record and down 40,000 members since the last vote by members in 2022. "

Kemi might be turning the lights off on her way out.

Did childless women not go to school themselves?

It is my guess that Kemi will prioritise the people already here, her integration strategies into place and start controlling immigration properly. We all know we are literally at capacity. I agree with her

You're jumping the gun a bit, here. She has to win a general election first.

He didn’t. He was a sole trader in a derelict building.

Is that you Ebeneezer?

I agree that she is talented but a lot of people with objectionable views are talented. It seems like a low bar for praise! I do accept that it is each to their own though.

If it helps, his dad's company was called The Oxted Tool company

This is where we fundamentally disagree. I believe in worker's rights and protections. It's interesting that you don't want any rights. It's also interesting that you're blaming our stagnant economy on worker's rights and not Brexit or austerity and mismanagement.

That would be because they don't carry children, give birth to them and take responsibility for raising them.
Perhaps you might argue that maternity leave is on unfair on men too. Or perhaps you might argue that we should scrap women't rights because men don't get them or that we should scrap gay people's rights because they penalise straight people.