Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue May 13, 2025 12:50 pm This does seem like an odd subject for Opposition Day.Only the terminally twitter could come up with this.
Q: Will you reverse this?So not scrapping then? Keeping and moaning about it.
Badenoch says, although there are some positive things in the deal, overall it is problematic.
Anything that brings back European court of justice jurisdiction is unacceptable, she says.
She says she ended ECJ jurisdiction. She cannot believe it is coming back.
Badenoch says trade deals should reduce barriers to trade.
But she says she does not approve of the way the EU linked different issues.
Priti Patel, the shadow foreign secretary, says she does not see way the EU was allowed to link issues like defence and fishing.
Badenoch says she is not persuaded by the government claim that this will be worth £9bn. She says the UK is a services economy. This deal does not help with services, she says.
She says she never signed a deal as business secretary that took the UK backwards. She was willing to walk away.
But Keir Starmer is never prepared to walk away, she says.
The Conservatives have slipped to fourth place behind Labour, Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats, a major poll has found for the first time.
In a survey that will raise fresh questions about Kemi Badenoch’s leadership, the Tories were in fourth on 16 per cent of the vote. Sir Ed Davey’s Lib Dems have overtaken the party, the YouGov poll showed, with 17 per cent of the vote.
And, with Labour flatlining in second on 22 per cent, Reform UK continues to surge ahead, with Nigel Farage’s party rising one percentage point to 29 per cent.
Crabcakes wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 5:30 pm Her performance was just eye-wateringly awful. She just repeatedly said everything was bad, gave no specifics (because there were none, but in her case you assume she just didn’t look), and seemed to think no one would check to see if what she’d claimed was true.She'll make it because nobody else wants the job.
Utterly, utterly shite. Can’t see her making it to the end of the year.
davidjay wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 12:18 amWho wants to play Pass the Parcel when the parcel's ticking?Crabcakes wrote: ↑Tue May 20, 2025 5:30 pm Her performance was just eye-wateringly awful. She just repeatedly said everything was bad, gave no specifics (because there were none, but in her case you assume she just didn’t look), and seemed to think no one would check to see if what she’d claimed was true.She'll make it because nobody else wants the job.
Utterly, utterly shite. Can’t see her making it to the end of the year.
British opposition leader Kemi Badenoch has defended Israel’s continuing war on Gaza, describing it as a "proxy war on behalf of the UK."https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/isra ... i-bedenoch
In an interview with Sky News' Trevor Phillips on Sunday, Badenoch, now leading the Conservative Party, claimed that Israel’s war on Gaza aligns with Britain’s national interest, comparing it to "Ukraine [fighting] on behalf of Western Europe against Russia."
- By Abernathy