She had nothing to say so had to scrape the bottom of the bin. This is one of those times that parliament should drop the circus act and behave like the country wants them to as we pay their salary. Most MPs probably did, just the tiny minority wanting the click bait like K-Bad.
This is the ‘put a blue rosette on a schnauzer and it would get elected’ mindset of Saffron Walden, Braintree, Witham etc.
ffs Witham reelected Priti Patel in 2024
Is there anyone left in Tories who might be remotely capable of leading? Suppose if there was, the members would vote for the other person anyway but still.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, she has all the gravitas of a first-year Politics A-Level student. Thank god we have grown-ups in government again.
It is scary to think that if the Conservative Party membership had not chosen the ghastly Kemi Badenoch as party leader, the UK would have been lumbered with the equally vile Robert Jenrick as Leader Of The Opposition.
probably off having an internal review of the guy accused of taking bribes off Russia and the guy being investigated for posting about assassinating the PM..... that or Tice is in Dubai, Farage in the states.... again
Never sure if she's after the heel clicking loony Reform UK votes with an eye to getting some cash from Lone Skum or she's a plant to destroy the Tory party. With a nod to facts, since 1970 the Tory party has been in government twice as long as Labour. So how did they end up with Badenoch as leader!
I think what we are seeing, with both Starmer and Badenoch to varying degrees is how the culture wars have manifested in the two main leaders of the two largest parties standing on platforms neither of them really believe in, its performative politics, this is not leadership not by a long way.
Best was he left her no genuine avenue for attacking the statement. She had a little go but she sounded even more pathetic than her PMQ's performances for me. Was listening via your show! Great show today!
It was strange for BadEnoch to reference that the dent on loan is more than the defence budget, considering the debt rose every year of Tory govt 14 years, and was never mentioned in the news.
Unseemly James? Yes, and also quite remarkable to that she failed to mention that it was her own party that embarked on the cuts that have left our armed forces in the hopeless state we now find them in!!!!
If this was good enough for Churchill it said be good enough for Starmer. The premise is the same working men and women have already sacrificed enough so we tax those who can afford it.
Quite horrifying at a time of such grave international challenge and after a remarkably statesmanlike speech with its well justified appeal for unity. It's deeply unsettling in these serious times to have such a shallow, clumsy, dangerous LOTO.
Thank god Sir Keir is our PM.
Before the election I wrote about how it was an opportunity to bring back grown up politics with a Lab government & LD opposition. I really mourn the missed opportunity every Wednesday.
On the one hand, Change was an electoral disaster. On the other hand, they had not had three years as official opposition. If I remember were Ed Davey I’d be dining every disgruntled Tory and Labour I could find.
To be honest when I tuned in ( you can rewind live radio you know 😉 ) I was a bit out of the loop and thought oh hell is it Wednesday. Maybe Kemi was in the same boat ?
Would you expect anything else from her? As has been said before I think, she could start a fight with her own reflection. Gravitas free zone I’m afraid.
A bit? She is awful. Ultimately we’ll need to spend what we need to spend - and it will be a load more than what is being announced today. We will have to pay whatever it takes for Putin not to prevail.
Taxes should rise by 2p. Those who don’t like it can enrol on Russian language courses! We need to send a serious message to Putin and this no nonsense approach would give a quick £13bn benefit to defence.
You can guarantee whatever the right wing talking point is today, be it, woke milk, Ulez, Germany sending us their immigrants via the youth mobility scheme.
It will be what Kemi is talking about next week at PMQ’s.
But it’s so delayed by the time she’s got hold of it, everyone has moved on.
She’s also naive. People who are not of the countries ethnic colour do not do well/survive a far right regime. Boat people and Muslims are reform/right wing target now… but it’s not a big jump to Asian or African residents. The Jewish race were not the only victims of Hitler’s regime.
Fully agree, to me she comes across as someone who thinks they’re perfect. To the point she feels she doesn’t need to be fully briefed or have a Plan B if Starmer gives anything close to a straight answer.
It’s really painful to watch, James has it bang on; a fool that thinks she’s a genius.
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But they cut away before she started speaking so didn't see or hear what she said
But the Tory MP before the statement was mainly agreeing with the Labour one
Wonder what her own MPs made of her act today
ffs Witham reelected Priti Patel in 2024
But she chose to play silly games.
#Ukraine
Beyond whining about what the Mail have told her Starmer is unpopular for, what are the Tory Party even about anymore?
Red meat for the Francois types.
It really is like watching the dimming embers of the Hard Brexit furnace, in which she was forged, give out their last, dying sparks.
Nearly extinguished. Won't be long now.
Kemi Badenough never fails to fail every single time, she doesn’t do her research and it shows.
Thank god Sir Keir is our PM.
Absolutely shameful.
Thank god she isn’t PM during these times.
I messaged him here the other day to thank him for stepping in as Leader of the Opposition whilst the Tories are still without a leader of their own.
He certainly makes more constructive, relevant use of his PMQ time than KB's dreary 'Gotcha!' attempts.
It will be what Kemi is talking about next week at PMQ’s.
But it’s so delayed by the time she’s got hold of it, everyone has moved on.
Badenoch is painfully bad at her job.
It’s really painful to watch, James has it bang on; a fool that thinks she’s a genius.
Or the importance of the moment.
Self congratulations and trying to pick a fight is all she knows.