Kemi Badenoch elected new Conservative leader

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/nov/02/tory-leadership-election-results-live-kemi-badenoch-robert-jenrick-new-conservative-leader

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34 comments
  1. Honestly, after all the shit the Tory’s have done to the country, ripping off tax payers through corruption and incompetence, they deserve this.

    I do hope the other side don’t fudge things up now they have the opportunity in power. Call me cynical but I don’t trust any of them.

  2. So will the Tories swing back towards “One Nation Conservative” in an attempt to widen their appeal? Nope, they’ll be going further right in an attempt to tempt back their votes from Reform.

    Good.

  3. …. The lady who thinks Maternity leave shouldn’t exist?? The well must be getting very very dry for conservatives

  4. Cool, second Labour term unlocked. Give them enough time to turn the country around. The Conservatives are effectively unelectable.

  5. I love that the Tories have been shitting out awful, reactionary twats since Cameron resigned, yet it’s always “lol there’s no more talent left in the party”. Maybe we should start looking at the ideology itself. If conservatism keeps giving us these Enoch Powell wannabes, maybe the ideology itself is the problem.

  6. She will be gone before the next election. Cleverly has seen the future, refused to serve in her cabinet and will hope to be selected in 2025 or 26, possibly sooner.

  7. Fantastic. She can’t even keep her rag when being gently questioned by tame journalists – it’ll be hilarious watching her blow her top every week at PMQs.

    Wonder what the first thing she’ll literally say on camera and then pretend she didn’t will be.

  8. I wonder how long she’ll last 🤔

    Sir Keir will be highly chuffed at this piece of news.

  9. Kind of funny, multiple levels, that the new conservative leader is a black woman who’s name reads as “Bad Enoch”

  10. Just in case anyone’s gripes with Labour made you forget the absolute clown show we *just* got rid of…

  11. Wow – she’s an absolute peach appointment for the Labour Party. But let’s sit back and watch her do a party political Anschluss of Farage’s little enterprise. Or vice versa.

  12. Guess reform are the other big winners in this, no way a lot of the Tory racists are voting for a person of colour, Farage waiting with arm outstretched to greet them.

  13. So they chose the worst possible person again. It’s like truss taught them nothing.

    She’s going to fail so badly. The scrutiny of being LOTO will not be kind.

  14. Welcome to irrelevance. I’m old enough to remember when William Hague took over as Tory leader after John Major got spanked in 1997. He made no impact at all. I seem to remember some slogan like ”28 days to save the pound” before the following election, which saw the Tories have a net gain of a handful of seats. After that there was Ian Duncan Smith & Michael Howard before David Cameron finally got them back in power & gave us austerity & brexit. Kemi is there to out-bluster Farage and make a few noises at PMQs. Nothing more.

  15. Due to being in a van most afternoons and listening to radio 5. I got to hear all of the contestants for Britain’s biggest loser contest. Sorry, I mean the Conservative leadership contest.
    I had the great pleasure of listening to all the contestants tell us all how badly Labour were doing and what a terrible mess they have made in the last 5 months. Only one of them had the temerity to mention what a peerlessly awful job the Tories had done over the previous fourteen years and encourage the rest of them to “be more normal.” They promptly eliminated him, I suppose on the grounds he was sane, sounded vaguely competent, had an ounce of humility, took a slither of responsibility for how actually a truly,horrifically, terrifying job these lunatics foisted on people for an awfully long time.
    I also listened to all the other intellectually challenged, delusional, right-wing muppets they rolled out and true to form. The broad church of the Torie party said:
    Yep, she is awful, bigoted, selfish, nasty, totally against anything that helps people worse off than ourselves, and she is almost certainly un-electable, Kemi is the woman for us….

    I don’t have any political affiliations, I know a terrible political party when I see it. Labour have an impossible job sorting out the utter disaster they have inherited. I am pleased to see the Tories doing something helpful as they won’t have to worry about any serious political opposition for quite some time.

  16. Just another vibes and culture war pick. Boris 2.0 but spiteful robot version, rather than the affable duplicity model that imploded so spectacularly in a miasmic fug of it’s own bollock steam. Seems to me she gets high on her own farts in a similar way. I predict she’ll turn out to be another hand grenade in the bunker, too short a fuse and too inflexible to compromise.

  17. So despite Labour starting a little bit negatively. I think with this joker in opposition they’ve won another term already.

    The stark choice. Someone that believes maternity leave shouldn’t exist despite taking it herself I think or someone that believes that richer in society should carry more of the tax burden.

    I wonder if we’ll hear about the gifts Badenoch receives ? And since the Conservatives target white racist men, do they really think they’ll vote for her?

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