Kemi Badenoch

[Shabby Russian]

Wow...just wow.

And not in a good way.

I thought Suella Braverman would easily win the trophy for the scariest pitch to be Conservative leader, but compared to Kemi she's a pussy cat.

Thank god she has got very little chance of winning ..although not impossible.

[Ossian]

Response to the first question: "I don't agree with the premise of the question..."

The journo should have responded with "Be that as it may, why don't you answer it anyway, seeing as it's the one I've asked"

Edit: Oh, and Braverman...

[Derek Hardballs]

I put in jest Sue-Ellen (her real name) Braverman as a lm option, little dud I know the fruitloops on the Conservative right would actually go… that’s a good idea!

The new generation of Tory MP’s seem like a pimped up Brexit Daleks.

[Protheroe]

I think she sounded wonderful. It's a great pity she won't make the final ticket.

[Derek Hardballs]

I think she sounded wonderful. It's a great pity she won't make the final ticket.

Yes but you’re quite far to the right and a Brexiteer so hardly a surprise.

[Protheroe]

I'd take a listen - doesn't start until 42 minutes in, but well worth taking in rather than the soundbites you'll find in the paper or on the news tonight.

[Derek Hardballs]

I'd take a listen - doesn't start until 42 minutes in, but well worth taking in rather than the soundbites you'll find in the paper or on the news tonight.

You’re like Litmus test Proth, if you you like them, you know they are going to be awful and I wasn’t disappointed. What I gleaned from her Work sorry Truth Will Set Us Free speech.

One she never said anything about a lack of truth in her own party to the public until now
She was happy to take junior positions in government despite this lack of honesty all around her
She wants to cut extra school activities
She wants to cut classroom assistants and support staff (let’s pop the vulnerable kids back in the box now they are useful politically)
She only wants people (poorer student presumably) to go to university as long as the person becomes a profitable unit, it’s all about money
She’s obsessed with culture wars
She seems to want to tell private business (Ben and Jerry) what they should do as a company

In short, just your usual right wing / ERG type MP

[WorcsWBA]

Regardless of anything else, Badenoch said she would pause the commitment to become net zero by 2050. That in itself makes her dangerous, particularly as 2050 is a long way away and the climate crisis is worsening rapidly.

She also seems to be wanting to pay for her tax cuts by penalising people on benefits. Definitely not the kind of person I'd want as a PM.

[Protheroe]

I'd take a listen - doesn't start until 42 minutes in, but well worth taking in rather than the soundbites you'll find in the paper or on the news tonight.

You’re like Litmus test Proth, if you you like them, you know they are going to be awful and I wasn’t disappointed. What I gleaned from her Work sorry Truth Will Set Us Free speech.

One she never said anything about a lack of truth in her own party to the public until now
She was happy to take junior positions in government despite this lack of honesty all around her
She wants to cut extra school activities
She wants to cut classroom assistants and support staff (let’s pop the vulnerable kids back in the box now they are useful politically)
She only wants people (poorer student presumably) to go to university as long as the person becomes a profitable unit, it’s all about money
She’s obsessed with culture wars
She seems to want to tell private business (Ben and Jerry) what they should do as a company

In short, just your usual right wing / ERG type MP

Or, in short, someone who understands productivity, growth and profit and do not grow on trees. 

I can just imagine the white cis male socialist piss boiling if the Tories elect a black immigrant woman to lead them. It'll be off the scale.

[hudds]

Response to the first question: "I don't agree with the premise of the question..."

The journo should have responded with "Be that as it may, why don't you answer it anyway, seeing as it's the one I've asked"

Edit: Oh, and Braverman...

My God.  That is appalling.  But she was another Johnson willing/enabling puppet with no other credentials.

I have little time for Badenoch over her time when she was the HMRC Treasury minister and her amateur knowledge of key matters but felt necessary to be forceful.  Or seen to be forceful.  <shivers>  Tyrant tendency.