Kemi Badenoch elected as Tory leader

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This will be entertaining.

I think she's the best of the two for the Tories going forward. Jenrick would have taken them down a very dangerous path in my opinion.

Hope she’s never the prime minister

So we just ignoring all the vile things she has said....

Indeed. So the tories have now had 3 female prime ministers 4 female party leaders, one of whom is black. Unless I’ve forgotten someone?
And labour are crowing about having the first female chancellor. In a party that’s only been led by middle aged white men. Pfffft! So what!

They can also have very passionate left wing views, and yet don’t succeed to the same degree in the Labour Party.

I totally agree & hope she does well. However, I feel she will be some sort of sacrificial lamb!

Erm...I hope they vote for a candidate based on more than identity politics. Kemi is an intelligent, thoughtful, tenacious person.I hope she manages to effectively lead her party.
Kamala on the other hand....not so sure, but hey, she's not Trump..... or Biden.

"Immigrants" aren't all the same. Some immigrants will be anti immigration and racist themselves. Likewise some women have "anti women" views. Not all minorities share the same pro-minority views. Some of the worst racists I've known have been "coloured" themselves.

I also think that the proportion of people who support anti-racism AND support women's rights AND support minority rights AND support immigration is a lot smaller than people are led to believe.

Assuming everyone of a particular "group" is a homogenous identical mass with identical views is a big mistake.

I'd rather they were competent than historic

how the hell else can political things get worse??

Wait til you find out what Labour think about old people

She also said that maternity pay was "excessive" so I'd keep those flags in the drawer if I were you.

Its so irrelevant, it’s almost like a competition of which fish has the fastest motorbike.

Nobody in their right mind is going to vote Tory for a long long time, and she certainly won’t still be the leader by the time they pose any sort of reasonable opposition to Labour.

I very much doubt that she will be leading them into the next election. She is gaffe prone, does not seem to have any powers of self reflection, she will try to out bigot Reform rather than look at the Tories did so badly at the election. Starmer didn't win because the electorate were enthused about Labour, he won because most people could not face another 5 years of corruption, incompetence and chaos. The Tories need to do some real soul searching about the direction they went in especially under Johnson, Truss and Sunak but they won't because they are not made that way.

The Guardian write up about her is a bit pathetic tbh. This is one of the worst things they can find to say about her:

"During the campaign, Badenoch made much of her engineering background, arguing that it allowed her to view problems in an analytical way, unburdened by ideology. She is not wrong to call herself an engineer, but her undergraduate degree and master’s, from the University of Sussex, were in computer systems engineering."

She’s one of the few brave politicians in an infinitely long line of cowards and misogynists who has stood up to the TRA rhetoric that public institutions have been surreally captured by. That in itself is a significant (some might argue the most significant) step for women’s rights.

What are those things please?

It’s not about the views themselves, it’s about the fact a party which is historically seen as more hostile to minorities is better at putting those minorities in a position of authority.

😂

Agreed.

Have you ever voted Conservative?

I'd be amazed if Labour make it to another term.

Totally agree with you. She is worst than Patel and Braverman and that 's saying.

Pregnant...people? No wonder you're not keen.

Is this thread being overtaken by Conservative HQ or bots? The comments praising her are wild. You have to have a lot of money to think you can insulate yourself from the policies she would innact.

If you

-need healthcare
-have a disabled child
-have a baby or adopt
-experience depression
-want to be able to access help if your treated unfairly in the workplace
-want to have schools which have teachers in them
-need social care when you’re older

and so many more….. We should be terrified and angry by this selection.

I notice all the women of colour lumped together there.