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George Carmody's avatar

'If she's in a position where her 2029 policies will be as much a surprise to her as anyone else, then she is simply not leading.'

Nailed it.

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Jimmy Snooks's avatar

Exactly. As I said in the BTL’s under Frank Furedi’s also very good article, the Tories are under the illusion that, now that they have suffered an electoral mishap because they ‘weren’t listening’, they have now righted the ship under the new girl-boss and, cautiously, they will naturally regain ground. Of course they will - they are the Conservative Party! They can’t see that more pain waits them, and this time the blows may well be fatal.

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Zorro Tomorrow's avatar

The new girl boss who never watched Blue Peter, Monty Python, never lived through a miner's strike with her RP elocution lessons.

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Alan Jurek's avatar

Badenoch-The sound of one hand clapping !

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George Carmody's avatar

The Tories still haven't twigged that we all left Normal Town city limits years ago. That old route map won't lead them to electoral Shangri-la any more. To stretch the analogy, they're parked up in a lay-by propped up on bricks, fretting over a defective wiper blade, expecting a passing motorist to have pity on them.

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Zorro Tomorrow's avatar

A van full of scummy oiks pulled up and offered them a lift in their mate's minibus, only 5 minutes away. "Oh no thank you, we'll manage fine."

"Ugh! Did you see that? One of them was vaping, one had no socks on..."

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Zorro Tomorrow's avatar

Two things. Leave Badenoch where she is appeals to me, she's their kiss of death, I'd say she's compounded, crystallised kissing farewell to at least 4 million votes, judging not only by the over 190k Reform ticker but also the rate of member uptake. Boris got 13.8m in 2019. With the best will in the world she won't get any more than Starmer's July 9.7 million even if the other 3 million stay at homes decide to vote.. I'd guess Starmer has lost at least another million or so seeing where he is in the polls compared to his winning 34%.

Or, push someone more vibrant and energetic to the fore. She never metaphorically rolls her sleeves up. That Burghart seems feisty, Jenrick is not snooty compared to her arrogant schoolmarm received pronunciation. Perhaps a so called Beast hauled out of ignominy at a by election. JRM? A face we know?

The other? PN's antipathy to Reform. Even if we don't rate Farage sufficiently who else is there? I have no inclination to wait ten years for some Oxbridge wunderkind to assemble.

No MP is trained for the job, no Minister. No course of instruction exists to run a country. The backbenches are awash with nonentities. Labour is run by half a dozen 'personalities' (advisedly) Kemi's overt spokesmen even less. Ed Davey who? Rayner, on the bridge, calls for 'more steam' to an indolent obstreperous engine room often on WFH.

At least Zia Yusuf, Nick Candy, Rupert Lowe are successful outside of politics, likely to recruit the like minded hard working entrepreneurial types that Labour sneer at, the Tories dismiss.

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George Carmody's avatar

I'd say Badenoch leading the Tory lemmings over a cliff is doing the Lord's work. Leave her be and grab the popcorn.

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Pottotto's avatar

Well she is a Nigerian who is pretty explicitly pro nigeria, that's about the only thing she's consistent on. Regardless, a totally incompetent retard

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Tom Henry's avatar

It's always Groundhog day with British politics.

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John Sampson's avatar

An Opposition is a government in waiting. The Labour government could fall, or if not we don't have a democracy.

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GregB's avatar

Ha! Good joke. We haven't had a democracy for a little while now. Yes, we vote but what for? The system is totally broken.

As Pete wrote: "A major political realignment is coming, which is essentially Brexit's unfinished business."

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