The Tories used to care about things like the church roof. That kind of thing used to win them elections. Weird how someone can be so close to getting it and get so very far away. - ThreadSky

samfr.bsky.social • 9 days ago

The Tories used to care about things like the church roof. That kind of thing used to win them elections. Weird how someone can be so close to getting it and get so very far away.

Reposted from Josh Self

🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch acknowledges the existence of the Lib Dems

- Considers them a “protest party for mainly people on the left”
- "They are not on Twitter, but they are in local communities"
- "They will destroy the whole country..."

Transcript from DailyWire interview with Jordan Peterson 👇

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adrianshort.org•9 days ago

BADENOCH: We need to restore our Judeo-Christian heritage.

LIB DEMS: How about fixing the church roof?

BADENOCH: Not like that.

adrianshort.org•9 days ago

(I should add here that there aren't meaningfully any situations where someone uses "Judeo-Christian" when they don't actually just mean "Christian".)

dissentgames.bsky.social•9 days ago

I thought it mainly meant Old Testament stories? Possibly some archaeological sites.

bmcleish.bsky.social•9 days ago

What most right wing activists who use "Judeo-Christian" mean is "White Christian society, but we will tolerate Jews for the money stuff"

phillyrothers.bsky.social•9 days ago

White supremacist, but think this will get us off the hook for Holocaust denialism for a while.

lizardunicorn.bsky.social•9 days ago

Nowadays, the Tories are more interested in US culture wars.

pepperg1rl.bsky.social•9 days ago

She speaks ‘like’ a teenager not an adult with a pretty important job. And as for knowing anything beyond a couple of soundbites about the subject in question - well! Ho hum Tories. Same meat different gravy as my mum used to say

tom-phillips.com•9 days ago

I have a feeling that "the church roof" is going to get a lot of use in describing both her and the party's shortcomings. Nice of her to provide such a convenient shorthand, even if she doesn't seem to realise it.

passerjim.bsky.social•9 days ago

How very dare you!
Are you implying that the symbolic lettuce has had its day???

nathanielgraham.bsky.social•9 days ago

Reading it I’m reminded of Burke’s little platoons. ‘People in the community’ who do things to make it better rather than worry about whether a woman can have a penis

mokeeffee.bsky.social•9 days ago

I wonder if Badenoch knows who Burke was.
I suspect her political well is pretty shallow. Would be worth an interviewer putting her on the spot by using some passages from political theory to see how deep her thought process goes.

thomaswpenny.bsky.social•9 days ago

RIP "The Big Society".

katherineschof8.bsky.social•9 days ago

How does she not understand that the people switching to the Lib Dems are, by and large, old school one nation erstwhile Conservative voters?

mokeeffee.bsky.social•9 days ago

She doesn't see One Nation Tories as conservative.

samfr.bsky.social•9 days ago

Shorter Badenoch: "there are these weird people who seem to care more about what happens in their real life than getting angry at lefties on twitter. Don't get it."

mguberrealism.bsky.social•9 days ago

Even shorter Badenoch: "I'm a malignant moron".

mokeeffee.bsky.social•9 days ago

Never forget, Badenoch grew up in a family that thought it was a lovely wee grift to get on a plane a fly to a western nation to give birth, thus jumping the immigration queue.

mehero.bsky.social•9 days ago

She only made it with months to spare. Within a couple of years, Thatcher closed the "loophole" which gave her citizenship.

mokeeffee.bsky.social•9 days ago

I know. Still a scam that Badenich’s parents used. They jumped the queue.

raphaelsylvester.bsky.social•9 days ago

Obviously I am not going to watch or read the interview but I find it amusing that it sounds like JP is just nodding along and saying 'yeah that makes a lot of sense'

leetaylorbythesea.bsky.social•9 days ago

Cleverly - "be more normal" haha
"Kemi meets the public" should be commissioned as reality TV

richardparkin.bsky.social•9 days ago

But there's a war going on! a culture war! and 'western civilization' is at stake!

jackmmorris.bsky.social•9 days ago

So many silly ideas from the Lib Dem’s. Fix things locally, rejoin EU, make climate crisis a priority. I think I’ll become a member

johnnyswlondon.bsky.social•9 days ago

Badenoch: "Lib Dems be like "we fixed the church roof", voters be like "yes!!"

rosemaryfrazer.bsky.social•9 days ago

She really doesn't get it.

robertthomson54.bsky.social•9 days ago

The world must be a crazy place when, like Badenoch, you’ve convinced yourself everyone is like your online chums 🤯

pamm87.bsky.social•8 days ago

As if being active abd useful in local communities is not a worthwhile activity. But she has not been a grass-roots politician so will have no relevant experience.

anthonycox.info•9 days ago

There’s no way she would be doing this stuff if Reform wasn’t do well*. In a rock and a hard place, between ‘14 years!’ and turning into Reform.

*It won’t work, and she should not do it anyway.

samfr.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'm not sure. She seems to believe it. (The Reform issue is definitely magnifying it.)

smfbooth.bsky.social•9 days ago

Badenoch has literally no appeal to Tory voters. The problem for the Tories is that they have no one to lead the Party who has any appeal. The Tories are finished - their only hope is to ally with Reform.

just-me123.bsky.social•9 days ago

Hope you're right : )

gcse-macbeth.bsky.social•9 days ago

Remember after the GE someone knowledgable -- it may even have been you! -- commented that Lib Dems are hard to shift once they get elected, because their community game is good. Kemi might take a few notes.

derekmacd18.bsky.social•9 days ago

Not being on Twitter is definitely a positive sign

markturner.info•8 days ago

Isn’t she good at maths though, got her 14 times table down pat.

magsmanston.bsky.social•9 days ago

I can't stop looking at the "It's all rage. It's not courage" line and imagining her performing it as a sort of beat poem, Rick Mayall style.

alpaca22.bsky.social•9 days ago

She has said the quiet part out loud by doing an interview with Jordan Peterson

lightenup.bsky.social•9 days ago

I can't imagine what kind of word cloud is imprinted on her brain

flip--hamburglar.bsky.social•9 days ago

As I read that I was reminded by the type of person sounding off to an audience becoming increasingly over-confident in themselves to the extent they over-reach and those listening begin to back away.

ilefttwittertoday.bsky.social•9 days ago

She's lost the plot.

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