I’ll bet she could tell you where she worked at McDonalds.
Posted on 11/02/2024 5:54:02 PM PDT by mbrfl
Conservative party announces Badenoch has beaten rival Robert Jenrick in ballot of party members
Five things to know about Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch is the new Conservative party leader after defeating Robert Jenrick in a members’ vote, becoming the first Black leader of a major UK party and the fourth woman to lead the Tories.
Badenoch took just over 56% of the 95,000 votes, in a poll that had a 73% turnout of eligible members. This amounts to the narrowest win of the four since the party changed its rules to allow party members the final say in contested leadership elections.
Speaking after the announcement in central London, Badenoch, an MP since 2017, who was shadow housing secretary, said the Conservatives needed to face up to hard truths if they wanted to win back the support of voters after July’s catastrophic election result which cut their number of MPs to 121.
“Our party is critical to the success of our country, but to be heard, we have to be honest,” she said. “Honest about the fact that we made mistakes, honest about the fact that we let standards slip. The time has come to tell the truth.”
She praised Jenrick despite a sometimes bruising campaign, saying: “You and I know that we don’t actually disagree on very much, and I have no doubt that you have a key role to play in our party for many years to come.”
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Sounds very stylish.
Sounds like a version of Kamala.
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.
Watch one of her speeches. She’s very conservative
>>Watch one of her speeches. She’s very conservative
Maybe she is, maybe she isn’t. But the Tory party appears to me to be like the Republican Party of 10-15 years ago, looking to gain popularity with superficialities rather than truly being answerable to their constituency. Remember when the GOP elected Michael Steele to head the party? A Black man to head the RNC. That’s the ticket! That’s how we’ll expand the base! He talked a good game too, and we all know how that played out.
The UK has a large, predominantly white working class who are disillusioned with their politicians and are tired of all the uncontrolled immigration just as we are in the U.S.. And in the face of that, the Tories decide to win them back by going with a child of Nigerian immigrants who spent her childhood abroad? She may be a very decent person but, talk about tone deaf...
Her race neither qualifies her nor disqualifies her for the post. You, however, in those comments made this entirely about race - and pretty much admitted in your response you know nothing about her other than her race and elected to disqualify her on that alone without doing any research. Michael Steele was lousy at that job (to put it mildly) and it had nothing to do with his particular shade of melanin - it was because he was totally incompetent.
>>”Her race neither qualifies her nor disqualifies her for the post.”
I guess you missed it when I said:
“Maybe she is[conservative] and maybe she isn’t”
Or when I said:
“She may be a very decent person but, talk about tone deaf [i.e. the Tory Party] ...
We’ll have to wait and see how she does, but in the mean time, I’m skeptical. And if you think race isn’t a factor in politics, you’re naive. Whether it should or shouldn’t be is beside the point. Trying to win back ancestral British voters who are concerned about immigration by choosing a child of immigrants who grew up overseas, is a tough sell. She’ll have to be very exceptional to overcome those head winds.
I’ll bet she could tell you where she worked at McDonalds.
UK politics is screwier than ours. Not sure if this is good or bad. Brits?
She is well spoken and sharp as a tack. Takes no nonsense. Cannot understand how the TINOs let her get so far. Like our RINOs didn’t see it coming.
I have watched her a couple of times. As well spoken as Vance and as quick to eviscerate a spineless twit as Trump.
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