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Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election

www.theguardian.com Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election

Conservative party announces Badenoch has beaten rival Robert Jenrick in ballot of party members

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Picking Badenoch is such an own goal, left leaning and moderate people don't like her because of the far-right culture war rhetoric and she's very unpopular with the Reform voters she's suppose to win back.
- To be fair, when would a Conservative leader ever appeal to someone who is "left-leaning"?
  
  the big society tories make some mealy mouthed "commitments" to recognising there is a problem, like Cameron.
  
  NB : I am not saying he did things well, I am saying he at least tried to pay lip service
  
  There's plenty of conservative voters who are not raging racists. At least there used to be, since there isn't much space for them in the party anymore they've gone to the Lib Dems for the most part
her and wes streeting can have a contest to see who can kill the most trans kids
- i'd win
- Why do you keep posting this hysterical nonsense?
  
  Labour’s Wes Streeting ‘to make trans puberty blocker ban permanent’
  
  Kemi Badenoch: Children can’t be transgender - prefers term ‘gender-questioning’
  
  Study shows gender affirming care reduces suicide risk
  
  Start reading.
My congratulations go to the reform party and Nigel Farage, probable prime minister like 10 years from now.
- The chance of this happening is remarkably close to zero.
  
  I remember thinking the same about Johnson once.
- No he won't. They've got four seats, one of which doesn't really count because his support is just a holdover from him being a conservative, that's not exactly the makings of a political dynasty.
  
  Also can Nigel Farage even be arsed?
- Maybe half that time.
So Rwanda's "very lovely gap years" are back on the menu.

In the words of the late Molly Ivins, one of the best political columnists in the U.S.: "The first rule of holes. When you're in one, stop digging."
I'm tempted to assume you're a Labour equivalent of a blue MAGA, but I will assume you're actually confused so I will clarify.

Several years ago, many postmasters were charged with criminal charges for stealing money that never existed, there was a bug in the Fujitsu software. Badenoch maintains to this day as far as I am aware that the postmasters DID steal the money and perfectly conspired to frame Fujitsu. Perhaps you are unaware of this incident or her position on it.

I'm not debating the definition of neoliberalism with someone who doesn't characterize a pro-privitization "centrist" who extirpated all the labor advocates out of Labour as neoliberal and then goes all patronizing in a frankly asinine way, sorry.

I am also not debating if it is possible for one of the two major UK parties to regain power within a decade while Starmer's Labour is already underwater in polls. You're a VERY condescending person, you might want to work on that if you actually want people to engage with you.
I love her Fujitsu postal bug truther stance. It's so wonderfully unhinged! Given how Starmer's neolib Labour has decided they want to be the Truss/Sunak Tories on policy, she has a non-0 chance of becoming PM this decade!
- There's a lot of words there, but not many of them make sense.
  
  I thought it was an AI at first 🤖
- I've read that comment five times and I have absolutely no idea what you're trying to say.
  
  I love her Fujitsu postal bug truther stance. It's so wonderfully unhinged!
  
  As far as I am aware she has never publicly made any statement about the post office scandal. I can imagine that if she did make a statement it would not be very coherent, but since I do not believe one has been made I'm not sure what you are referring to.
  
  Given how Starmer's neolib Labour
  
  You need to look up neoliberalism because you clearly don't know what it is.
  
  decided they want to be the Truss/Sunak Tories on policy
  
  What? Seriously what the actual hell does that mean? Truss didn't even have any policies she was only around for about 4 minutes. Meanwhile Sunak's policies altered depending on who the last person he talked to was.
  
  she has a non-0 chance of becoming PM this decade!
  
  The conservatives lost the election because they dicked around with the economy, slashed social benefits, messed about during the worst cost of living crisis in a generation, and engaged in culture war nonsense rather than actually dealing with the very real crisis that was unfolding in front of them. She is literally more of the same, an extremist who is constantly going off on her hunt to eradicate "wokism". Which is the evil boogeyman of the hard right.
  
  So because she's the worst example of the previous administration, she's going to become PM. Are you drunk?
  
  The only way the conservatives are going to get back into power is if they convince everyone that they've got rid of all of the extremist rubbish, and are now capable of acting like a real political party with adults. Electing an extremist is pretty much the opposite of doing that.
Wow, a jackass I need to block on .world. SHOCKER!
ultimately, what we need and have never had, is a candidate with a right-leaning cultural policy and a left-leaning economic policy, unfortunately, democracy favours the sitters-on-the-fence and nobody has ever been able to put the pedal down and get it done
- Not true. Someone pulled that off in 1930s Germany just fine.
  
  seems the UK is nearly a century behind, ain't it?

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