The On-going Never-ending Brexit Story Part Four

Badenoch wins the Tory leadership election.
She has multiple accusations of bullying against her, has had to correct Hansard 8 times in just 7 years as an MP, has been called out for misuse of statistics 7 times by the ONS, and admitted to illegally accessing Harriet Harmon's website.
Why do I get the feeling this is going to be IDS all over again?

 

Ridiculous comparison.

IDS isn't a conflict-addicted social media whore. . .

He has self-control but he couldn't control the MPs. She has none, so she'll never control them either

Get some popcorn because it'll be a wilder ride than his: shorter, but much, much wilder.

 

What was it someone said about if John McCain had died just after becoming president and Sarah Palin had taken over? It would be like a 4 years white water rafting holiday... you probably wouldn't survive but if you did, you'd have a lot of crazy-arse pictures

 

Watching Liz Truss' rise to a ministry, then to No. 10, my immediate and unchanging reaction was "if she had any brains, she'd be dangerous".

Badenoch (Msc. Eng.) is Truss (CIMA) with brains.

Thank fcuk she's not moving into Downing St.

 

She's academically smart, of that there's little doubt. Her political smarts are something that has yet to be seen.

Imagine getting rightly called out by Nadine Dorries on a bill to prevent revenge porn.

This would be the right move. The bill is in no fit state to become law.

If I’m elected Prime Minister I will ensure the bill doesn’t overreach. We should not be legislating for hurt feelings. https://t.co/zN0MLhZ0LP

— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) July 13, 2022

Encouraging others to take their own life is what comes under that definition. It’s a huge problem, especially with young people. You really define that as ‘hurt feelings?’

— Rt Hon Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) July 13, 2022

 

For sure, and the fact of the matter is Truss' CIMA (Chartered Inst. of Management Accounting) is quite challenging intellectually.

It's just that political smarts start with character and a big mouth coupled with dogmatic certainty, a roast comic's sensibility and a wokester-like thin skin is the wrong kind of character for electoral or governing success.

Badenoch's intellect is higher than Truss' so, with the Tories in opposition rather than in govt., her only political outlet will be the party and she'll cause even more damage to it than the lettuce did.

The country will be safe, though, for the simple reason that she won't lead the Tories into the next election and I'm not entirely sure about the 2026 local elections either.

 

Most likely. Bozo will already be planning his grand return.

 

Part of me wants to see it... part of me doesn't.

 

Farage, who complained about Labour staffers going to campaign for Harris in their own time, is now in the US while parliament is sitting.
Now would be a fine time for Labour to bring in some parliamentary rules about having to attend/vote/hold surgeries in order to receive a salary and expenses.

 

I agree with that last bit but, let's be honest... he can earn more making pro-Trump speeches in the states than he would get in an MP's salary and expenses.

I think they need to tighten up the rules but also make it easier for voters to recall an MP for not doing his job.

 

They truly are devoid of talent

NEW: Kemi Badenoch announces full shadow cabinet 👇🏼

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride
FCDO Priti Patel
Home Chris Philp
CDL Alex Burghart
Defence James Cartlidge
Justice Robert Jenrick
Education Laura Trott
Health Ed Argar
Housing Kevin Hollinrake
Defra Victoria Atkins
Biz & Trade…

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) November 5, 2024

 

To be honest, I think that describes Jenrick more given how much he pivoted once he started to campaign. I think Badenoch has a fairly consistent history of repugnant views, whereas Jenrick has at different points tried to appeal to all aspects of the party.

 

The Shadow Foreign Secretary once had to resign for holding off the record meetings with a foreign power, the Shadow Environment Secretary is a climate change denier, and the Shadow Education Secretary is a bona fide idiot.

 

Oh, and the Shadow Justice Secretary wants to leave the ECHR.

 

The Shadow Home Secretary is also an idiot.

 

Which in the modern tory party makes him a centrist.

 

It appears to be a fairly common view

Philp. 😂😂😂
#politicslive pic.twitter.com/P0gu6Fd8Mt

— Tory Crimes (@strummer175) November 5, 2024

 

Talk about scraping the barrel

🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch has appointed Mark Francois as Shadow Defence Minister

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) November 5, 2024

 

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a Tory MP; but I repeat myself."
Mark Twain (adapted)

 

There has been so much news we've neglected to comment on Badenoch being made leader of the Tories. Starmer may be boring and ham-fisted, but Badenoch is thin-skinned; impatient; unable to field a full shadow team; and her project is to subsume the Farage types. A gift to Labour.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) November 3, 2024