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On the burqa ban, there hasn't been much polling in recent years, but through the 2010s it evoked strong and consistent support, with around 60% wanting a ban, and around 25% opposing

The latest poll I can find is 2018 by Sky, and it was the same. 59% wanted a ban, 26% did not. I find it hard to believe public opinion has shifted to a more tolerant position since then, given all the "events" interim


https://news.sky.com/story/sky-data-poll-comparing-women-who-wear-burkas-to-bank-robbers-not-racist-11465688

So Kemi is cleverly adopting a highly popular cause, if she does this

She is but yet again Farage has already promised this, Kemi still hasn't learnt she can't out Farage Farage in the culture wars

https://www.facebook.com/BritishUpdates/posts/-breaking-nigel-farage-says-a-reform-government-will-ban-the-burka-and-all-face-/1381344610704558/

I think you will find on this she can

You hope she doesn't, I hope she doesn't...

But what's the reason to think that she won't? Passively or actively, Kemi would have a choice to make in a hung parliament. And she has been much clearer on his dislike of Starmer than of Farage.

I support her banning the burka, and as for GE 29 I have no idea the make up of that Parliament but Farage will not be PM as far too many will vote to keep him out

Evening,

Please give me some good news.

Love'n'kisses,

solarflare

Tomorrow night the clocks go forward and we gain a beautiful hour of twilight. Summer is icumen in, loudly sing cuckoo

Then keep them forward. An hour of daylight in the evening is much more useful than an hour of daylight in the morning. The excuse of children walking to school in the dark no longer applies now that the little darlings go to school in mummy’s 4x4.

Waking up and getting up in darkness is generally pretty difficult and miserable for everyone. I'm not convinced it's good for anyone's health.

By all means get up earlier in summer to make use of the daylight, but there's no need to change the clocks to do that.

On the burqa ban, there hasn't been much polling in recent years, but through the 2010s it evoked strong and consistent support, with around 60% wanting a ban, and around 25% opposing

The latest poll I can find is 2018 by Sky, and it was the same. 59% wanted a ban, 26% did not. I find it hard to believe public opinion has shifted to a more tolerant position since then, given all the "events" interim


https://news.sky.com/story/sky-data-poll-comparing-women-who-wear-burkas-to-bank-robbers-not-racist-11465688

So Kemi is cleverly adopting a highly popular cause, if she does this

Yebbut Reform will steal the policy, and may do so anyway whether she goes for it or not

It is Reform policy

So the boot is on the other foot - policy theft by Kemi!

Politicians pinching popular policies - surely not !!!!!

I do love when you hear complaints from politicians about stealing policies. Sure, it happens, and it can be pretty shameless, but the public really don't care where an idea originates. I once heard a politician moan about another party 'plagiarising' policies from them, which even if it is true just comes across as such a petty complaint. "How dare they steal our good ideas?"

Ok, you can try to play it as the other side having no ideas and needing to copy you, but that's not always the tone take, they can sound genuinely outraged at the 'theft'.

"Badenoch considers burka ban

Tories understood to be ‘looking closely’ at merits of veto on face coverings as part of a review of Islamism"


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/03/27/kemi-badenoch-conservatives-burka-ban/

Poignantly, I saw a woman in a full burqa today, not far from my flat. I cannot know her inner state but her body language expressed great unhappiness. Weighed down by these hideous deathly black shrouds. I do not believe any woman under 60 - if any - would voluntarily wear these appalling garments, They are symbols of misogyny and TOOLS of misogyny

Kemi is right. Ban them

Ban all symbols of religion, the burqa, the crucifix, the dog collar, etc. Then ban all religion. Give peace a chance.

No. The burqa is different. Quite obviously women are wearing them under duress. Nothing to do with the freedom of expression: it is, quite literally, the opposite of that.

On the burqa ban, there hasn't been much polling in recent years, but through the 2010s it evoked strong and consistent support, with around 60% wanting a ban, and around 25% opposing

The latest poll I can find is 2018 by Sky, and it was the same. 59% wanted a ban, 26% did not. I find it hard to believe public opinion has shifted to a more tolerant position since then, given all the "events" interim


https://news.sky.com/story/sky-data-poll-comparing-women-who-wear-burkas-to-bank-robbers-not-racist-11465688

So Kemi is cleverly adopting a highly popular cause, if she does this

She is but yet again Farage has already promised this, Kemi still hasn't learnt she can't out Farage Farage in the culture wars

https://www.facebook.com/BritishUpdates/posts/-breaking-nigel-farage-says-a-reform-government-will-ban-the-burka-and-all-face-/1381344610704558/

On the burqa ban, there hasn't been much polling in recent years, but through the 2010s it evoked strong and consistent support, with around 60% wanting a ban, and around 25% opposing

The latest poll I can find is 2018 by Sky, and it was the same. 59% wanted a ban, 26% did not. I find it hard to believe public opinion has shifted to a more tolerant position since then, given all the "events" interim


https://news.sky.com/story/sky-data-poll-comparing-women-who-wear-burkas-to-bank-robbers-not-racist-11465688

So Kemi is cleverly adopting a highly popular cause, if she does this

Yebbut Reform will steal the policy, and may do so anyway whether she goes for it or not

It is Reform policy