Kemi Badenoch emerges as early favourite in Tory leadership race | Sir Charles Walker
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- "Kemi is the favourite at the moment I think."
Kemi Badenoch has emerged as an early favourite for the Conservative leadership campaign, Sir Charles Walker tells Kait Borsay on #timesradio
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If Kemi Bad-enough is the answer, what on earth is the question?
She was one of the first Tories to take up arms in the culture war and vanish down an anti-wokery rabbit hole of her own devising. Totally divorced from the real world and cost of living crisis concerns of ordinary voters!
I would have thought that a majority of people in the "real world" are opposed to the more eccentric aspects of woke ideology!
@@robinhard111😂😂😂😂😂 wot's woke when it's at home?
It is weariness with culture wars that make people vote anti-woke. The culture war is a left wing offensive.
@@therealrobertbirchall Violent authoritarian antidemocratic identarian left wing race communism, that festered in American campuses for a couple of decades then spilled out onto the streets and culminated in the attack on the Whitehouse etc etc. When you were at home, presumably.
@@therealrobertbirchall What's 'wot' when it's at home?
Yes! KEMI for tory leader!
We won't have to worry about them for a while.
Suella is the best choice to ensure they -get destroyed- win the next election.
We'll be off the hook as she tries to lead the Conservatives out of their snake basket!
We won't need to before too long anyway as their remaining voters are dying off.
Bad Enoch would give some comedy relief though
Kemi Bad-Enoch as Leader of Conservative Party will ensure that Conservatives Party remains as a Mickimouse Party.
Pmsl bet you've never voted tory in your life 😂
@@lewis123417like most people
Every cloud has a silver lining
Edward Heath was my Icon and I resigned on 24thOct22(after50yrs) when Tax Cheats Rishi Sunak became a Coup Leader, and annihilated Conservative Party on 4th July
Mickey mouse and very nasty! I never thought an ethnically African woman could be so nasty?
The longer it drags out the crazier Kemi and Suella will look.
Gives more time for Starmer and labour to show positive results.
Charles Walker being as objectional as always. Firstly, it is completely irrelevant that it be concluded by the US election. In some ways Im glad the Tory membership will ultimately decide - as they will pick the candidate the general public will least likely vote for 😂 As for Kemi, i hope they pick her, coz that will keep the Tories out of power for even longer 👍 A grade A obfuscator, excellent gaslighter and word salad specialist 😂😂😂
Kemi is front runner🤣🤣🤣. Worst than Liz Truss
Bad girl Badenoch tore into the Labour Party like a pitbull-devastatingly poor taste and only Nigerian women like her practise politics like this? No grace? Straight out of the jungle!
Never mind this pantomime...£700 million on the Rwanda plan?...no wonder the country is on it's knees.
The total bill for the Rwanda fiasco would have been 10 billion over 5 years.
That's cheaper than housing them in hotels and giving them freebies
700 million to send 4 back yeah that sounds sensible...
The fact that this absolute joke of a political party would consider for her for leader is yet another sign that the rot isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
Bad -Enoch her arrogance will be the Tories downfall to abyss
Nah she's nuts. The membership aren't too smart- they chose Truss but Kemi Badinoch is a Farage wannabe.
Kind of hope it is her- she's so unable to like and devoid of charisma it'll mean the tories stay permanently in electoral oblivion. Same goes for Cleverly, who also has learnt nothing about how the electorate see the tories given their annihilation.
Given the number of party leaders the Tories have had in the past 14 years and that they are a much reduced opposition , does it have any real relevance who they now choose as leader?
Oh, good. The front runner usually ends up losing…
"Pick from the final 2 as happened last time" No it didn't. Sunak was foisted on us without a vote from the membership. It was nothing more than a coup, and we know what thats done.
Love how even some Tories have forgotten how Sunak came to be...
@@Nice0n3 Yep, they foisted Sunak on us then resurrected Dave, then wonder why a third of their membership cancelled 😆The night Sunak was forced on us the cons website crashed with the amount of people trying to cancel, then there was a similar thing when they bought Dave back.
Bloody brilliant. Split the far right vote, lock them all out of power for a generation
Kemi badenoch was very popular when she originally ran for the Tory leadership after Johnson. I actually think the membership would've picked her over Truss and Sunak. Most Tory voters stayed at home, 19 million+ didn't even bother to vote. That's a huge voter base waiting for the right person to come along. Labour isn't popular, people just didn't vote Tory. It's that simple.
Kemi is the right person.
Another Labour landslide coming 👏👏👏👏
Dry your eyes pal 😭😭. You lost…… badly. Only another 5 long years to wait 😂😂
Good she’s vile she will keep the Tories out for ever.
Many people who say they don't have respect for Kemi are doing so from a position of ignorance. Therefore, I hope the following, will assist in this matter.
I first met Kemi when she mysteriously turned up at a Dulwich Conservative Party constituency meeting in 2009. She had obviously been bused in from CCHQ and equally obviously to become the next candidate for Dulwich and West Norwood. We have had a few conversations since this time, but I would not pretend to know her particularly well. She is extremely amiable and bright. Kemi certainly sounds like a true conservative and I have no reason to believe that she is not entirely sincere in everything she says. I have little doubt that she considers herself at least as British as she does Nigerian. Nigeria is a fairly wealthy country by African standards. Kemi comes from a highly educated and privileged family, received a British-style education, and most surely a far better one than any of my family received in the UK. What I doubt is the level of Kemi's loyalty to the Conservative Party.
Clearly, CCHQ has largely gotten Kemi where she is today but CCHQ has done this for many selected individuals in the past. To my knowledge, Kemi has no family or traditional connections to the Conservative Party. IMO Kemi has a strong work ethic, a commitment to traditional family values, and a meritocratic sociopolitical ideology. All fine stuff but I have no reason to believe any strong loyalty to the Conservative Party.
I see no reason why Kemi would not fully endorse the policies and opinions of Nigel Farage and his party. Indeed from what I could tell Kemi's views are far closer to those of Nigel Farage than Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, or David Cameron. I could be wrong. However, I have no reason to doubt myself from anything she has ever said during private conversations or public meetings. Kemi is certainly a small c conservative or an extremely convincing liar, but I have no reason to believe Kemi is a large C, conservative. Which is, of course, a GOOD THING.
Above all. I would advise no one to underestimate her. She is far tougher and smarter than she may appear or deliberately presents herself. I would even go as far as saying ruthlessly determined and ambitious. She can be extremely charming and diplomatic when needed to be and is nobody's fool. I have no doubt whatsoever that Kemi can run circles around Labour's entire front bench, which to be honest, even my mother could do that, but nevertheless. IMO If Tory grandees think Kemi is going to be a pushover, they are in for a big shock.
On the other hand. The Conservative Party's problem is not the Labour Party but The Conservative Party and the Reform Party. She may get a few of these voters back but not many and not enough. Either they need to give up or make a deal with Farage and with a very different type of leader than Rishi Sunak or Boris Johnson. The Conservative Party does not need to go to the right it needs to go where Reform are which is right at the very centre of British Politics. The Conservative Party does not just have to adopt all of Reform's policies it has to convince the British public that it can be trusted to deliver all of them. A signed and legally enforceable contract signed in their own blood may help, but I doubt even this will be enough.
Kemi will make a great leader. Straight talking right wing politician. She is also a perfect example of cultural assimilation. Assimilation is the key to a happy society, all newcomers must assimilate to the established society they entered. Taking on the values and traditions of the indigenous population. Otherwise you end up with different pockets of community’s that have no affiliation with the country they live in. This doesn’t work as we are now seeing throughout Europe. I hope to see Kemi as conservative leader.
Whomsoever comes as the leader, it should be a local, native, white, christian leader.
This is coming from an ethnic minority British citizen.
Having a non white, non Christian, non native leader would mean getting someone who would be ready to compromise on all core principles of British-ness. This would be far more devastating for race relations and british politics.
Don’t matter who they choose no one with any sense will ever vote Tory .
You will
Kemi will make a great leader!
Just dont want them to treat suella like she's been wrong on the issues....cos shes right
Impossible to waste time on Times Radio's Tory Dreadfulness contest coverage - Pass
Pick your favorite right wing loony and just select them. Unfortunately Farage is already spoken for.
Better than a left wing crazy.
Deluded. A young woman no chance.
What happened to Englishness ? Whichever way I look , all different backgrounds different up bringing different cultures, do we really rely on others to run our country ??? Is it the failure of education systems ?
Anyone else remember that anti drug advert from the 80/90's that showed a rat in a cage dying from OD?
I'd forgotten but watching the Tories squirm recently has brought it back
Kemi is a good choice, but ideally, it should be suella.
She's the best choice for destroying what's left of the conservative party to force it back to the centre ground and more importantly, sanity.
Agreed. Bad Braverman sacked twice for disloyalty and security breaches and 400 million pounds down the Rwanda drain and a pit bull incapable of uniting the snakes in the Conservative snake pit?
I expect the Tory membership will once again vote for whoever promises them the most absurd tax cuts- this seems to be the only thing they have any interest in.
Tories self destruction .
Do Conservatives not realise most of their supporters don't want to be lead by someone of a foreign background.
Doesnt matter her background. As long as she can champion the necessary reform in the tory and lead
The Conservatives are done Sir Charles implies Jeremy unt should have been given a better chance. They had chance for Kemi before but stitched membership up with Riki. So entitled inhis power, even if a new leader says the right things no-one would believe them. 14 years of failed promise equals zero credibility.
All these tory voters bigging up labour hands up who voted for david cameron own up
Kemi is a WEF muppet.
Dig up ENOCH POWELL....THERES NEVER BEEN A BETTER POLITICIAN EXCEPT CHURCHILL & THATCHER
They are NOT going to change.
conservatives, if you are going to pick another leader using the box ticking method, can we have an eskimo who identifies as a seal next please
What a ridiculous absurd process!! It is a good idea to involve the members but surely you can have politicians vote, and must put forward at least two names, then members vote. Or what about the other way around. The members vote and put forward two names to the politicians. That would stop all the bargaining for jobs. Two steps. Simple. Everybody knows everybody anyway.
ticks every woke box and that's all that matters now.
Just put everyone’s name in a 🎩 and pick one 😂
Nope. She will not repair the tory party. In fact there isn't one among them I would EVER vote for
Badenoch could be the next Liz Truss!! Does she have an Instagram Account?
Who cares what these clowns think? They were voted out of office, hello.
How democratic of you to say so.
The Conservative snake pit and bad Badenoch hasn't a hope of uniting the snakes!
Appointment a new leader and attempt to patch over the internal differences of what has become a left wing pseudo Tory party and continue on the downward slide. The gradual demise of the Tories.
Kemi Carcrash🤣🤣🤣🤣😊
Walker's right on one thing, the membership shouldn't be involved. Unfortunately for the Tories that genie won't go back in the bottle. But if you have to have the members input, why send them just 2 choices? Seems a system designed to cause splits.
Do MP's ever spend time in parliament?. They always find an excuse not to be at WORK
Can't have a proper British person? Or is that a far-right idea
Well said ... being realistic 👍
What's the point in the membership if you don't even trust them to pick a leader? This attitude just shows contempt towards them.
I don't envy the tory party having to choose a new leader with such a cup of intellectual giants ,my mind boggles when you think about the amount of racists with a smidgen of half decent people 🤔 to choose from, oh,and james cleverly.🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭
I'm only interested in Reform now. The Tories have failed us. You'd need to be bonkers to vote for them again.
And double bonkers to vote for Farage
reform are controlled opposition . waste of time.
Karen Bad-Enoch.
If stay with FPO you be dead Thomas with stress. Art Bezrukavenko made you feel better off You need look him up learn about kicki background Thomas.
Why are so many people being so flippant about Badenoch? I think you all dramatically underestimate her and how popular she is with neutral voters.
You are wrong. She is rightly despised.
@@teresamcdonald1977I disagree. The op is onto something. She was very popular when originally running as leader. It was the mps who never gave the membership a chance to vote for her. Remember a huge amount of Tory voters stayed home, 19 million+ didn't even bother to vote. That's a huge voter base waiting for someone.
Labour had a very public leadership parade when Corbyn won it, but what good did it do them???
A new leader 😂 What a joke!
No chance
No thanks
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