Good on Kemi!

[MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack]

I'm no fan of Kemi Badenoch, but I'm even less of a fan of Robert Jenrick, and I'm rather delighted to see that she has sacked him and withdrawn the whip before he could jump to Reform.

She has definitely had the last laugh here. He must be spitting bullets!!

Good on her, I’d like to see her overtake all the male leaders.

They could certainly have done better by reversing Hunt’s weird and unnecessary NI bribe reduction.

Brilliant.
Kemi is doing an excellent job. She dealt with Jenrick beautifully. She is holding Labour to account and has widespread support from across the house to ban SM for under 16s, (Starmer is against this).
Kemi spoke at a protest against the Chinese mega embassy, as did representatives from Reform and the Lib Dems, and she has backed Starmer's stance on Greenland. She is the best party leader by far.

Absolutely it would have made far more sense to reverse the bribe, than effectively passing the cost of the bribe onto the employees by switching for employee NI to employer NI.

Yes. I got the suggestion that's what they were from the Spectator (I think. Perhaps their podcast. Or another reasonable provider) when it first came out. I retract that (for the moment). Although it may turn out to be a statement of fact in due course.

However I never said what Alexandra said about them and Keir Starmer. Which is a slur. Thats the difference. Read back to my posts.

Well ...it has. Unfortunately we can all read.

I’m surprised to hear that there’s tons or Reform voters on here considering Reform UK welcomed Bonnie Blue into the fold. Apparently Reform UK are not fussy and will take all the votes they can get: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/niXZxRW2cG8

A perfect role model for conservative Christian family values, might I add 😂

Are you slut shaming?

It's Labour who are proposing mandatory digital id (I've seen nothing suggesting stepping back from the database: the u-turn on the ids themselves is a distraction) and the loss of jury trials. The biggest reductions in basic civil rights in my lifetime.

Labour who have cancelled elections.

And the destruction to our economy they're causing puts the UK in a vulnerable place: history tells us that.

Labour are far more of a risk than Reform.

Labour who have cancelled elections.

The PP will be back to tell you that having them next year instead, isn't cancelling! Which is playing with semantics as some places have had the 2026 elections cancelled. The planned elections for 2026 can only take place in 2026, IMO.

The party that was going to do well wasn’t Labour. The opposite for them.

Yep. Weird that they told councils to cancel the elections if they fancied it. 🤷‍♀️

So bad. Let people vote at least.

We may have an interesting situation here. I've heard that our current Labour councillors aren't going to stand here in our elections, they're being moved to safer seats elsewhere in the borough.

I need to look more closely into it once they announce who's on which ballot paper.

Agreed. I heard Beth Rigby say that when she interviewed her afterwards she admitted he had told her a barefaced lie about just just a couple of days earlier and that once she had the evidence she wasn’t giving him a second chance. Good on her.

He’s a prick who deserves to become a total non entity

The elections are postponed not cancelled and there are reasons why. Just as there were reasons for the Tories postponing thousands of local elections.

Eta: ask yourself why more Labour and Tory councils haven't applied to postpone the elections if the reasons are nefarious? Why aren't they all at it?

The elections aren’t cancelled, they’re postponed.

'Postponed' for the second year in a row in some cases. Would you give excuses if a Reform govt did the same? No you would not.
Nobody should be defending this, left or right.

I bet they get “postponed” yet again next year. Labour will be no more popular then. When does a postponement become a cancellation?

Which councils have postponed for the second year in a row?

I’d have thought you’d have been right behind saving the taxpayer money @TheNuthatch. What’s the point of holding elections to obsolete bodies simply to repeat the entire process a year later?

The councils have requested the postponements, they have not been directed to postpone by the government. I know this is Farage's angle, though.

Did you feel the same when the Tories postponed thousands of local elections?

No, are you?
I’m saying whats in the news. You’re the one using the word ‘slut’

You didnt say just what was in the news though. You said that Reform weren't fussy. What do you mean?