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Deeply serious politician of government speaks. Whose party didn't "live within our means" or "make the tiny changes" she's talking about.

A military themed photo-op.
What could possibly go wrong.

Pity he didn't do the old shoe polish round the eye-piece trick.

Did she say anything today, or is she resting on her laurels after yesterday's "we need to know Rachel Reeves' personal problem" zinger.

That was quite something from her yesterday.

That disdainful sneer is her default modus, but she was particularly embittered and offensive when she rounded on Reeves. She was taking the piss and loving every moment of it.

Those of the tories who would find this acceptable have largely gone off to Reflux. I can't see the remaining few finding acceptable that naked hostility once they decide that her useful time is due a rinse. All her career options considered, she'll prefer to have fallen prey to Boko Haram.

She is quite a vile individual.

And on top of that she is absolutely awful at whatever job she takes up. I often wonder if McDonalds sacked her.

Though I feel that was made up.

mattomac wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 10:29 pm She is quite a vile individual.

And still her strongest card is not being Robert Jenrick.

She's also oblivious, so it seems, to the Right now being full of people who think she and Rishi Sunak are candidates for repatriation.

Kemi's attacking Farage on the grounds that he won't make the necessary political reforms (that her party didn't make either),

She's "exposing" Farage as a high spending left winger, as if that's relevant to anything. Nobody in Hartlepool is voting Reform because they want Margaret Thatcher without the oil money.

And she did this from what looked like a corridor.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu Jul 10, 2025 1:38 pm She's "exposing" Farage as a high spending left winger, as if that's relevant to anything. Nobody in Hartlepool is voting Reform because they want Margaret Thatcher without the oil money.

Plenty of retired well off homeowners in Reform seaside strongholds who support low tax Thatcherite economics. Especially with Reform confirming their Mail reading fears that tax is spent on immigrants, layabouts and cahncil waste.

I don't think they're Thatcherite, being retired and worried about the NHS. Bozo blocked some fairly substantial Corporation Tax cuts in the run up to 2019 and romped home. I think Farage would be delighted if Badenoch took a position that allowed him to adopt the Bozo position against her.

Bad Enoch has written an article for the Express claiming that Labour is stuck in a doom loop. If you are the leader of the opposition and you are writing an article in a low circulation gammon friendly newspaper you are the one in the doom loop.

So she is having a reshuffle after confidently suggesting she wouldn't until 2029.

She's brought James Cleverly back to the front line. While he's saner than most of them, he's not going to achieve much surrounded by Badenoch, Jenrick and Patel.

Why is he convening cabinet to talk about Gaza? He’s not convening cabinet to talk the migrant crisis. He’s now convening cabinet to talk all those farmers who are closing down their businesses, what they’re going to do about the economy, the debt crisis [that] seems to be looming.
He’s convening cabinet to talk about Gaza. He is not in a position to sort out that problem.

Absolutely pitiful, as always. Just talking points. The "migrant crisis" is just like it was under Sunak, except Labour weren't fomenting disorder- where were all the recess cabinet meetings? As it happens, a new grant to farmers was announced yesterday. "Debt crisis"? Almost like there's a budget coming up, or something.

A famine is quite a big thing, Kemi. What's your response?

He is doing this to solve a political problem because a lot of people in his cabinet want statehood for Palestine. They are student campaigners, lifelong campaigners. This is the sort of stuff that they like. And he’s dealing with an internal party problem rather than dealing with the problems of this country.

Student campaigners like President Macron and Chancellor Merz, perhaps. I'm sure they defer to your heavyweight foreign affairs knowledge.

What if, Kemi, they're not just discussing Palestinian statehood? Perhaps they're discussing food, which is kind of relevant in the context of famine? Or is that the sort of thing only student campaigners care about?

Who is this stuff of hers for? Not obviously anybody who isn't voting Reform already. Shouldn't the Tories at least seek votes from people who read a bit of foreign affairs and care about starvation?

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:32 pm A famine is quite a big thing, Kemi.

I am truly appalled that there are people out there posting that the famine is actually fake, using child actors for photos and asking "so why are the parents holding the child well-fed along with the so-called 'doctors' if there's a famine?" (There was a fair bit of that BTL on the Mail yesterday)

Sometimes, that fucking asteroid needs to come.

That's standard nowadays, I'm afraid. Fortunately such people don't get elected Leader of the Opposition.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:55 pm That's standard nowadays, I'm afraid. Fortunately such people don't get elected Leader of the Opposition.

Yet.