Kemi Badenoch ‘horror show’ on BBC Laura Kuenssberg

  • Post last modified:September 29, 2024
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The 2024 Tory leadership contest has been the biggest non-event in recent British politics. This is despite silver spoon MPs like Kemi Badenoch being so desperate for attention that they make ridiculous claims like ‘working at McDonald’s made me working class‘. On Sunday 29 September as the Conservative conference started, Badenoch once again did everything she could to attract attention, and fair play to her, she was all anyone could talk about for five minutes:

Playing the Kemi Badenoch hits

Kemi Badenoch is attempting to sell herself as the anti-Islam candidate. As most Tory MPs are anti-Islam, she’s going to extreme lengths to stand out:

Others have pointed out that Badenoch’s path to power is well trodden at this point:

In fairness, Badenoch is much more than a Black person who seeks to uphold white supremacy; she’s also a woman who seeks to uphold patriarchal corporate interests. As reported by PA and shared by other outlets, Badenoch said:

Maternity pay is “excessive” and people should exercise “more personal responsibility”

Post cost-of-living crisis, few Britons could afford to have children without maternity leave – the fact that Badenoch doesn’t understand this suggests she spends little time with anyone besides her wealthy donors. She is, after all, one of few politicians to defend MPs accepting ‘freebies’.

Badenoch also suggested ‘Britons may change their mind on free access to healthcare‘. Has she met a British person? Because all the ones I meet are complaining about rising food costs, not free GP visits.

Badenoch also tried to suggest that the real problem with migrants is that they’re not sufficiently supportive of Israel’s ongoing genocide / terror campaign:

People are also highlighting her latest smug-fest in the Telegraph:

To be fair, given that the UK and America are full-throatedly supporting ethnic cleansing and genocide, you probably could argue that we’re worse than… oh no, wait, she doesn’t mean it that way. She means that some countries are good because we have lots of missiles, and other countries are bad because we need somewhere to fire our missiles at.

Labour MP and doctor Rosena Allin-Khan described Badenoch’s Sunday tour as a “horror show”:

As others have pointed out, though, the Labour Party isn’t really opposing Badenoch’s rhetoric:

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Let us be clear, we’re not suggesting that Kemi Badenoch doesn’t have dangerous and disgusting political positions. The reason we don’t take her seriously is that you can smell the desperation coming off her.

While you could argue that all Tory MPs are desperate for attention, they at least see it as a road to power rather than a path to more attention. Badenoch is instead part of a new breed of Tories who see politics as a game of owning random strangers on Twitter.com:

In other words, she’s a chronically online weirdo whose only experience of normal people was the five minutes she spent flipping Big Macs.

Featured image via the BBC





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