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One minute snippet of new Tory leader's remarks upon accepting her position as Opposition Leader in the House of Commons
https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1854163150960283867 ^

Posted on 11/06/2024 3:17:01 PM PST by Zhang Fei

No idea what she's like as an organizer or political leader, but her delivery is first rate.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: conservativeparty; kemibadenoch; tories; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 11/06/2024 3:17:01 PM PST by Zhang Fei
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To: Zhang Fei

She does sound good, but I was listening to an interview with Auron MacIntyre & Connor Tomlinson & she’s apparently another non-conservative who knows how to talk the talk but isn’t for real. Comments are towards the end of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAM1F90IwhE


2 posted on 11/06/2024 3:21:17 PM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Twotone

Stop whining.


3 posted on 11/06/2024 3:27:20 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Zhang Fei

The Tories are not conservative. They are the Assistant Labor Party. What’s needed is a wholesale move of actual Conservatives in Britain to UKIP.


4 posted on 11/06/2024 3:28:12 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Zhang Fei

WEF Marxist stooge.

Meet your new boss.
Same as the old boss.


5 posted on 11/06/2024 3:39:22 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (šŸ¦… MAGADONIAN āš”ļø )
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To: Zhang Fei

Citizenship is not just about having a passport.

It is a commitment to a country and the people in it.

A country belongs to its citizens. It is nothing without them.

We cannot treat their needs or concerns as secondary or inconvenient or of a lower priority than anyone else’s.

People should not be made to feel guilty for questioning levels of immigration, legal or illegal, if it is changing the place they know and love.

And government should not be shy of doing whatever it takes to change things.

If people don’t want their taxes to pay for foreign criminals to be in our jails or on our streets, those criminals should be removed.

If they want local people to have priority for housing, for benefits, for school places, we must make that happen.

Our country is not a dormitory for people just here to make money or a hotel for those passing through.

It is our home and no one else will look after it.

https://www.kemibadenoch.org.uk/news/kemi-badenochs-renewal2030-leadership-launch-speech

The foundation of our society is not the individual; it is the family.

Whether it’s the family we’re born into or the family we build.

My family is everything to me. It’s everything to most of us.

Sometimes government just doesn’t get family.

It wants to help with childcare, not because it loves children, but so their mums can get back to work quickly.

We need to celebrate families.

We need to place them at the centre of our policies and our actions.

For the good of society, not for the good of the Treasury.


6 posted on 11/06/2024 3:42:51 PM PST by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: Zhang Fei

I had a lot of faith in Rishi Sunak, but Sunak didn’t work with Farage to ensure a pro-UK candidate won each possible victory.

In the UK, interparty co-operation is required to form a working government.

Kemi Badenoch expresses herself well, but team building will be necessary.


7 posted on 11/06/2024 3:48:22 PM PST by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: ifinnegan

Why would you say I’m whining? I’m pointing out the UK has an untrustworthy person assuming power. At least that they shouldn’t be taken at face value. Listen to the interview.

What an idiotic comment to make!


8 posted on 11/06/2024 3:51:17 PM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Antoninus

The Labour Party is hardly a labor party.

The UK Labour Party, like the Democratic Party of the USA, is a coalition between public employees and welfare recipients.


9 posted on 11/06/2024 3:55:06 PM PST by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: Brian Griffin

[Citizenship is not just about having a passport.

It is a commitment to a country and the people in it.

A country belongs to its citizens. It is nothing without them.

We cannot treat their needs or concerns as secondary or inconvenient or of a lower priority than anyone else’s.

People should not be made to feel guilty for questioning levels of immigration, legal or illegal, if it is changing the place they know and love.

And government should not be shy of doing whatever it takes to change things.

If people don’t want their taxes to pay for foreign criminals to be in our jails or on our streets, those criminals should be removed.

If they want local people to have priority for housing, for benefits, for school places, we must make that happen.

Our country is not a dormitory for people just here to make money or a hotel for those passing through.

It is our home and no one else will look after it.

https://www.kemibadenoch.org.uk/news/kemi-badenochs-renewal2030-leadership-launch-speech

The foundation of our society is not the individual; it is the family.

Whether it’s the family we’re born into or the family we build.

My family is everything to me. It’s everything to most of us.

Sometimes government just doesn’t get family.

It wants to help with childcare, not because it loves children, but so their mums can get back to work quickly.

We need to celebrate families.

We need to place them at the centre of our policies and our actions.

For the good of society, not for the good of the Treasury.]


This material is, of course, catnip to the right. But what I thought significant was how good the delivery was. No idea if she’s only good in small doses, but what there was is an impressive, if cherry-picked, one minute.


10 posted on 11/06/2024 3:55:35 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Twotone

I have a great deal of respect for Kemi Badenoch, she can fling the King’s English better than anyone I know, but multi-party coalition building will be key to rebuilding the UK.


11 posted on 11/06/2024 3:59:25 PM PST by Brian Griffin ("Base load affected facilities...must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2" EPA)
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To: Twotone

She’s a TINO.


12 posted on 11/06/2024 4:28:26 PM PST by McCarthysGhost
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To: Twotone

Sorry, but it sounds like Glum, you know, ā€œwe’re doomed, we’re done for.ā€

Do you not think she’s an improvement?


13 posted on 11/06/2024 4:30:09 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Zhang Fei

How do the English get such a smooth accent and yet have such bad teeth?

You’d think that the two wouldn’t go together?


14 posted on 11/06/2024 4:38:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I don’t care what she says. Britain for the British. Not some friggin Nigerian immigrant. It’s even worse than Sunak. Enough of this shit.


15 posted on 11/06/2024 4:56:25 PM PST by montag813
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To: Zhang Fei

If you’re ever in London and they are in session, you can queue up to sit in a gallery and watch the debate in the Commons. Great fun if you’ve ever been a fan of Prime Minister’s questions on C-SPAN. Somehow the English are so much better at speaking English than most Americans.


16 posted on 11/06/2024 6:58:16 PM PST by LizzieD
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To: LizzieD

I would have agreed with you years ago that the English are much better at speaking English than most Americans. However I began to read the Daily Mail. Many English now have poor grammar. Their spelling is a bit different and a bit better but their grammar can be quite poor.


17 posted on 11/06/2024 7:04:28 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ifinnegan

Simply pointing out a fact. To call it whining is really AGGRAVATING. Take a few minutes to listen to that interview. Probably just the last 20 minutes. She sounds good, but others know her history & it’s just more of the same. Someone who can sound conservative but is not.


18 posted on 11/07/2024 4:26:10 AM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Twotone

Do you not think she’s an improvement?

Don’t take the whining comment personally. It was about the words, not you.

We all know the UK Conservative Party.


19 posted on 11/07/2024 10:50:11 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

When I first heard her speak I thought she was great, but the devil is in the details. According to Connor Tomlinson She ran in 2010 as a Nigerian for Nigerian interests in the British parliament. That’s not good. She lobbied for removal of caps on student visas to the UK. Also not good.

According to him, all the conservative-leaning media are in Badenock’s camp, even though Badenock has a consistent left-wing record. They like her because she can supposedly say things against ā€œblacksā€ without being called racist. Even though they’ve had other Indian & other races in leadership positions who all got called racist for speaking out against the illegal migrants. It’s what leftists do to anyone on the right.

Her opponent was known for trying to ā€˜out-Farage’ Nigel Farage, by being for deporting migrants & punishing countries that refuse to accept them back with visa sanctions & withdrawal of all foreign aid. That sounds good to me.

Tomlinson was kicked out of the conservative party for opposing transitioning children. Yes, we all know the UK Conservative Party. But this is like having Mitt Romney or John McCain in charge here. In the long run, it really doesn’t do any good. So I’d rather people get the full benefit of their stupid vote, & then, when they wise up, replace them with someone worthwhile.


20 posted on 11/07/2024 12:54:46 PM PST by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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