I didn’t exactly have high hopes of Kemi Badenoch being the dynamic and politically realistic leader that the Conservative Party needed, but I did hope that she’d make some sort of go of it. Having been politically burned by supporting Boris Johnson in 2019 only to see him prop the borders open, mismanage Covid and continue to eviscerate freedom of speech, I’ve decided that no Tory leader is worth getting too excited over.
Whilst Badenoch, when the Tories were in power, looked as if she could be the anti-woke and economics and energy realist politician that we in the country need, Since then much has been talked about such as her alleged laziness, her exploitation of identity politics even whilst giving the appearance of despising it and her seeming lack of ability to do effective politics.
Badenoch should have been the new broom. She should have quickly realised where the Tories went wrong and why so many potential Tory voters chose the Apathy Party and stayed at home rather than voting for the Conservatives. She could have looked at the shitshow of migration, the growth of aggressive Islam, the penetration into government departments by the gender cultists, the failure to protect freedom of speech and the rise in DEI nonsense, all of which had the Tories name on them and drawn a line. Kemi Badenoch should have gone out there and said ‘OK we’ve fucked up’. She should then have put up some radical ideas about how the fuckups of her party were going to be put right by her party, after all this should be a case of they make a mess then they repair their mess.
A bit of humility on the part of Kemi Badenoch about the record of the Tories followed by a plan to put things right might have been much better than what we got from Ms Badenoch. Kemi Badenoch has not impressed with her speeches or her performances in the Commons, she seems bereft of new ideas and is giving me the distinct impression that she is doing the ‘politics as usual’ performance when what’s needed is something different, something better.
Even outside the Commons chamber I find Ms Badenoch distinctly unimpressive. She should never have got involved in the willy waving competition that Reform managed to easily goad Kemi Badenoch into playing. Ms Badenoch’s enthusiasm for playing the games of ‘my membership is bigger than yours’ and insults (some of which might turn out to be legally actionable) more suited for the playground, contrasts starkly with her low profile with regards creating a set of Tory policies that Britons would want to vote for.
After being burned and bullshitted by Boris over a multitude of things I was not going to have too many unrealistically high hopes about Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Tory Party. Basically I was not expecting much from her apart from making some effort to rebuild the party and make it electable again (which would mean dumping the lib dem element of the Tory Party) but it’s clear that we are not even going to get that. Kemi Badenoch, no matter how good she may have looked to voters and political commentators a year or so ago, is now looking more and more like a placeholder leader, a person who is merely temporarily occupying the leadership role until someone better comes along. At present Kemi Badenoch occupies the leadership position as a representative of the old style centrist Tory politics when what is needed is something much more nationalistic and muscular in the defence of British culture. To be quite frank she’s today’s analogue of Edward Heath in his second period as Opposition leader between March 74 to February 75. Her politics are tired and she’s lacking in ideas and hanging on until she is eventually replaced by new ideas and a new leader, one who is more in tune with the concerns and fears of the majority of the British public.
The Tories are finished and they did it to themselves in a spectacular display of hubris and disdain for the electorate. The rote really set in with Cameron being “the heir to Blair” and entrenching his dangerous acts and policies into a supposed “conservative” party and government while the party lurched to the Blairite and euro-fellating left and people left in droves.
Naturally it was all the fault of “extreme-right” UKIP and later Reform UK, because these wankers are incapable of admitting let alone owing a mistake.
Had we got Suella Braverman or even Jenrick and cleared out the top echelons, the Heseltines, Clarks, Grieves, Soames, they may have saved themselves.
With only five MPs Reform UK have rewritten and reinvigorated centre-right UK politics and will do very well in every election on the horizon, assuming the “democratic” Student Union Trots Rayner, Starmer, Goebbels-Cooper don’t cancel them
As for the Tories, they have done this to themselves, I have a few appropriate words: Yisgadal, ve yisgadash shemay rabboh…
Reform UK all the way, except for PR which hands undeserved power to zealots and fanatics.
I’ve been distinctly unimpressed with Badenoch. Jenrick would have been a better choice which would have also stymied Reform as well.
The problem with the current crop of “flexibly principled” faux-conservatives is that they want to have their cake and eat it. Not one was seemingly prepared to clear out the party top mandarins who I am convinced, having met several, during my 27yrs of membership, we actively colluding to drive the party leftward a kludge of Blairism, euro-fanaticism and “social(ist) democracy” eventually surrendering to being ruled by an unelected unaccountable unremovable anti-democratic hostile foreign elite with parliament reduced to parish council status, but promoted as “democracy”.
The Tories are on the way out, few if any of the current crop, especially senior figures, are prepared to speak out, yet as Labour has such a huge majority on tiny margins, it would seem to be the ideal time, they have absolutely nothing more to lose and much to gain. Naturally the media and the leftist squawking voices with scream “splits”, but this is precisely the time to marginalized and remove the whip from the destroyers and take the party back. But what we have here is institutionalised arse-covering and cowardice as anyone with eyes to see knows that the worst that could happen is “dissenters” and “conspirators” have the whip removed, while still drawing their Parliamentary salaries and freeing them to say and do whatever they like, and the anti-Tory Labour-fellating media will finish the job of assisted suicide.
I have a strong suspicion that any Tory MPs with a modicum of being actual conservatives who defected to Reform UK would find themselves welcomed and also breathe the air of less whipped debate.
As it stands, there are over four years before we can get rid of this Stalinist authoritarian bunch of student union Trots, and this is the best time to jump.
The conservatives as currently comprised, are dead, as an ideology and party. They are just another bland over regulating, high taxation, mass surveillance, proscriptive, eco-nutjob, freedom “rationing”, free speech killing, Blairite shit-show. Time to help it with it’s clearly longed for, assisted suicide.
It’s instructive that Lee Anderson freedom from the CCHQ “mandarins” has been more effective in opposing Kier Stalin, that thug Rayner, Goebbels-Cooper and that utter blowhard cretin Lammy, than the whole of the 150+ Tory MPs put together.