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Badenoch couldn't find her own arse unless X told her where to look for it.

Did she get that security briefing on the Chagos Islands from Starmer in the end? Or did she decide she didn't need that because X?

She didn't get it because she's a straight-A student (she told us so) and she would know better than anyone else anyway.

We should let more people make up their own grades.

Football managers should just tell you where they should be in the league table.

Kemi speaks:

Kemi Badenoch says Trump’s Venezuela raid was ‘morally’ right, as she suggests faith in rules-based global order overrated

In a long interview with the Today programme , she declared that what Trump did was “morally … the right thing to do”. She also implied that faith in the rules-based international order, sustained by international law, was overrated because the world did not operate like that any more.

When it was put to her that Margaret Thatcher condemned the US invasion of Grenada in 1983, Badenoch said that Thatcher was right at the time, but that Trump’s action was different. She went on:

Venezuela was a brutal regime. We didn’t even recognise it as a legitimate government. I think that what’s happened is quite extraordinary. But I understand why America has done it.

And the reason why I say this is because, where the legal certainty is not yet clear, morally I do think it was the right thing to do.

Badenoch said she was saying this because she was different from other party leaders and MPs.

I grew up under a military dictatorship [in Nigeria], so I know what it’s like to have someone like Maduro in charge. I know what it’s like to have people celebrating in the street. So I’m not condemning the US.

Asked again if sending special forces in to seize Maduro was the right thing to do, Badenoch replied: “Morally, yes.”

Maduro isn't a dictator but an apparachik hack heading up a gangster party and regime. He's just been replaced with Trump's approval by someone else from the same gang.

Is she aware of who was deposed in Grenada?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Bishop

Is there some bit of her interview that sounds a bit sceptical at least? If so, Adam Bienkov will be along in a minute to tell us that she's been more critical than Starmer.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Jan 06, 2026 2:41 pm Is she aware of who was deposed in Grenada?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Bishop

Is there some bit of her interview that sounds a bit sceptical at least? If so, Adam Bienkov will be along in a minute to tell us that she's been more critical than Starmer.

Bishop himself ousted a leader Eric Gairy who was a convinced UFOlogist. Gairy later claimed a flying saucer had crashed off the coast of Grenada and the Americans had recovered a dead alien. This fuelled some fun conspiracies about Reagan's real reasons for the Grenada invasion.

So why is the shadow attorney general recusing himself from advising you on Ukraine

Yeah, Wolfson knows he’s bang to rights here. Thing to do was turn down the doubtless lucrative work from Abramovich because of a conflict of interest. He didn’t, Kemi didn’t think it was a problem until called on it.

They were going after Starmer for stuff from before he was an MP

I’m proud to have David in my team. He doesn’t deserve to have his name smeared by low-rent politicians

I doubt Sir Keir KC's rent rates are low. Ever higher than Wolfson's.
Does the don't deserve to be smeared KC share Kemi's own low rent views on international law?

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Jan 07, 2026 7:56 pm Yeah, Wolfson knows he’s bang to rights here. Thing to do was turn down the doubtless lucrative work from Abramovich because of a conflict of interest. He didn’t, Kemi didn’t think it was a problem until called on it.

They were going after Starmer for stuff from before he was an MP

A Russian paid a Tory in the hope of a favourable legal outcome? Gracious me, whatever next!

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Jan 07, 2026 7:56 pm Yeah, Wolfson knows he’s bang to rights here. Thing to do was turn down the doubtless lucrative work from Abramovich because of a conflict of interest. He didn’t, Kemi didn’t think it was a problem until called on it.

They were going after Starmer for stuff from before he was an MP

If it's one thing that really pisses me off about the right, it's their never-ending sense of victimhood

So basically another kick the can down the road policy.

You have to remember there was zero plan to fund anything post 2025.

She's sounding more and more like a tabloid reporter than a senior politician.

Kemi's also cool with Musk generating child porn as long as we protect children from seeing it. Tories have come a long way since Tebbit was blaming Roy Jenkins for dirty books.

No worries the BBC has gone with a simple quote that makes her look hard.

Don't worry, folks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jvz020zzyo

Kemi Badenoch says she wants to channel public "anger" towards Labour, as she seeks to position the Conservatives as the only party willing to make the "tough decisions" facing the UK.

Speaking to the BBC, the Tory leader accused Sir Keir Starmer of failing to properly fund the armed forces, despite "spending too much" overall in other areas.

And she accused Reform UK of an "authoritarian" desire to "control" industry, citing its policies on the oil sector and Rolls-Royce.

She added that Labour's "draconian" approach had become clearer to voters after 18 months in office.

Labour hit back, arguing that the public was still "paying the price" after the Tories' 14 years in power.