Picking Badenoch is such an own goal, left leaning and moderate people don't like her because of the far-right culture war rhetoric and she's very unpopular with the Reform voters she's suppose to win back.
To be fair, when would a Conservative leader ever appeal to someone who is "left-leaning"?
the big society tories make some mealy mouthed "commitments" to recognising there is a problem, like Cameron.
NB : I am not saying he did things well, I am saying he at least tried to pay lip service
There's plenty of conservative voters who are not raging racists. At least there used to be, since there isn't much space for them in the party anymore they've gone to the Lib Dems for the most part
The vast majority of voters for both main parties are not racist.
I mean, Conservative members (who are generally more right-wing than the electorate) have literally just voted for a black woman as leader over a guy throwing all the red meat he possibly could at them.
Supporting Thatcher didn't make the Tory membership suddenly stop being sexist, and choosing Badenoch isn't going to stop them being racist. In both cases "except her, she's one of the good ones" is all they need to say.
Human nature is a lot more complicated than you think. Badenoch as a black woman, has managed to be both racist and misogynistic, while not seeing any issue with that.
If a black woman can be racist then I guess the conservative electorate are okay with that. For now anyway, I still have my doubts about her long-term survival.
her and wes streeting can have a contest to see who can kill the most trans kids
Shattering the glass ceiling for who's allowed to be a total piece of shit.
My congratulations go to the reform party and Nigel Farage, probable prime minister like 10 years from now.
The chance of this happening is remarkably close to zero.
I remember thinking the same about Johnson once.
Johnson was in one of the main two parties and a popular figure (for some reason).
Farage is neither of these.
Have you forgotten that we're in the Stupidest Timeline? You've forgotten haven't you?
I think the main difference is that Johnson has always had aspirations of being bigger and greater. He will destroy anything if it means the chance to grab more power.
Farage is more like Sinn Fein, just a complete blocker to any progress for anyone else.
No he won't. They've got four seats, one of which doesn't really count because his support is just a holdover from him being a conservative, that's not exactly the makings of a political dynasty.
Also can Nigel Farage even be arsed?
Maybe half that time.
So Rwanda's "very lovely gap years" are back on the menu.
In the words of the late Molly Ivins, one of the best political columnists in the U.S.: "The first rule of holes. When you're in one, stop digging."
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