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Kemi Badenoch’s past comes back to haunt her – politicalbetting.com
Kemi Badenoch’s past comes back to haunt her – politicalbetting.com
EXC: Bombshell video reveals @KemiBadenoch lobbied to lift migrant caps and then hailed her own success….No comment tonight after 2018 boast emerges https://t.co/PUd1sOF6hX
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Has she upset the Govester?
He had an affair with a married friend of Kemi’s and then the friend’s marriage broke down and Kemi hates Michael ever since.
Kemi Badenoch
@KemiBadenoch
We need a truthful debate in this contest about immigration. Pretending that public statements (on party policy from 3 elections ago!) are new “bombshell” revelations is clutching at straws.
In 2018 we still had unlimited EU migration. Our party policy was to bring in highly-skilled people, but limit low-skilled ones.
By 2022, I could see it wasn’t working. It’s why I was so vocal about it in the last leadership contest.
How’s about we have debates and discussions about future policy and direction, rather than trying to smear people with things said years ago on Twitter?
Can all of the candidates please agree to make this a positive campaign?
Helpful IHT planning advice from The Guardian for those in the previous thread bemoaning the possible new gift tax.
https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1823359243317096559
That's her colleagues for you...
The catch is that it's basically unenforceable; instead of Candidate X attacking someone publicly, they just do an unattributable leak instead.
(I'd have to be really cynical to point out that rules that sound good on paper but are unenforceable in reality was one of the previous government's signature moves. Fortunately, I am sufficiently cynical.)
However, these leaks reveal two things.
One is that someone really doesn't like Kemi.
The other is that Kemi gets really cross when criticised, or treated with less dignity than she thinks she deserves.
The first isn't necessarily an issue, but the second is. Leader of the Opposition is, by definition, an undignified role. Good ones rise above that.
It does raise the issue of exactly how much information the police should provide to people in a situation like this. The repeated assertion that it's 'not been treated as terror related' raises suspicions with people. You then have contempt of court issues once the trial is ongoing and then hopefully it'll no longer be a huge story when the final truth emerges. Talking about online abuse in the wake of David Amiss's death was remarkable 'whatabouttery.'
The breakdown of the economically inactive:
Roughly:
2.7 million students
1.7 million looking after family/home
0.2 million temporary sick
2.8 million long term sick
0.03 million discouraged
1 million retired
1 million other
I'd be fascinated to know what the "Other" category covers but there you go.
How to get some of these back into employment preferably with more carrot than stick?
'...But was a near Trappist monk with her silence on other substantive issues such as the Post Office scandal.'
She was not more so than any of her predecessors, but she was in a position to make the PO cooperate fully and vigorously with the Inquiry if she had wished.
She did not, and the PO continued to be obstructive right the way through to the end. She has no excuse for this.
Maybe they just like duvet days more than getting up for work every morning?
First round - wear a baseball cap on the logflume
Second round - drink 14 pints of beer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKpgfks7_C4
At least I don’t think so.
On one hand, the fifty-somethings who quit their jobs after the pandemic and are off around the world, but dont want to call themselves ‘retired’ just yet.
On the other hand, those who have totally fallen through the system - young adult NEETS living with parents, homeless, black-market workers etc.
Yet within a month of leaving power those same politicians are now blaming Labour! Incredulous and ridiculous to the logical mind.
I'm probably in the Other category.
Director/Chair of a charity. Get to pay myself (limited) expenses but certainly not salaried so it mainly amounts to senior level volunteering.
If 'wanting to give something back' is considered inactive then so be it.
Otherwise- somewhat more students since the mid 90s, somewhat fewer homekeepers, but most of the numbers pretty stable.
He proved he was an idiot while working FOR Donald Trump . . . for about 15 minutes or close to it. Just because he'a a Trump critic NOW does NOT change that basic truth.
He's trying to extend his 15-minutes of (in)fame into a freaking cottage industry. WIth assists from (non-deplorable) gulibles
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/25/about-2m-people-long-covid-england-scotland-ons-figures
Edit: but of course some of the increase could be ascribed to increased NHS backlogs for operations, of course.
A great joke from Russia:
Putin, after 10 days of Kursk catastrophe, summons Stalin’s ghost :
Stalin: “What’s happened?”
Putin: “Nazis are at Kursk! My army is beaten! What should I do?”
Stalin: “Do like me 1943. Send best Ukrainian troops to the front, and ask the US for arms!”
"Most Brits Do Not Care Who The Next Tory Leader Is, Brutal New Poll Finds
Story by Kate Nicholson • 44m • 2 min read
© AP/Sky News
Most Brits do not actually care who the next Conservative leader is, according to a new poll.
In yet another humiliating twist for the Tories – just a month after their worst ever electoral defeat, Ipsos UK has found 62% of Brits surveyed were not interested in following who would replace Rishi Sunak.
To make matters worse, that includes 36% of Conservative voters.
The pollsters found none of the candidates are very well known among the British public, despite all of them holding ministerial roles at some point.
Just 45% of the1,091 adults surveyed said they know a great deal or a fair amount about former home secretary Priti Patel, followed by 26% for shadow home secretary James Cleverly, and 24% for shadow housing secretary Kemi Badenoch.
The polling, which took place between August 2 and 5, also found 34% of the public said they do not favour any of the current candidates.
There was a narrow preference for Cleverly among those surveyed, with 18% suggesting he would do a good job, followed by Patel (17%) and shadow security minister Tom Tugendhat (17%).
Badenoch is slightly behind on 14%, putting her on par with former migration minister Robert Jenrick.
Meanwhile, 9% thought shadow pensions secretary Mel Stride would do a good job leading the opposition – which, unfortunately, is the same percentage of respondents who backed a candidate called “Stuart Lewis”, a fake politician added to the poll by Ipsos.
But, it’s not all doom and gloom for Stride.
While a whopping 44% of respondents said they thought Patel would do a bad job, (and 22% thought the same of Badenoch, 20% of Cleverly, 15% of Jenrick, 11% of Tugendhat), just 9% said thought Stride would also perform poorly.
Trinh Tu, UK managing director, public affairs, said: “This new poll suggests high level of public apathy about the Conservative leadership race.”
She added that Patel seems to be most divisive figure at the moment, but for the most part, “Britons are unfamiliar with the main candidates and say they do not care very much about who will emerge at the winner”.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/most-brits-do-not-care-who-the-next-tory-leader-is-brutal-new-poll-finds/ar-AA1oJeDL?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Surely his finances will be drained as soon as it appears he may not win?
Tory leadership hopeful says unrest took place against backdrop of job security and home ownership feeling out of reach for poor white males"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/08/13/riots-white-working-class-boys-distanced-society-mel-stride/
Mr Black says she had "no reason" to believe the eggs she purchased would be "used in any unlawful purpose".
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/15/long-covid-symptoms-flu-cold
Because everyone ends up better off, if they have a house of their own.
If people who can’t afford to buy in their 30s or even 40s, start retiring in large numbers still renting, the public finances are even more screwed than they are already.
We have serious structural problems with both our public sector deficit and our trade deficit but, superficially at least, things are going better than most believed at the time of the election.
https://www.scrippsnews.com/investigations/russia-ukraine-war-on-the-ground/ukraine-seeks-retired-f-16-pilots-to-fly-its-jets-while-it-trains-new-pilots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_employment_rate
(LBJ understood that tactic, as the famous story reminds us.)
Grok summarised the live debate
https://x.com/azeem/status/1823318917353296268
#FuckTheHundred
Cleverly is essentially the "potter on and hope Labour f*** up" candidate and, while that might not actually be an awful strategy, it isn't going to win a leadership election. Particularly in circumstances where a huge number of Tory members feel bruised, have lost their local MP, and are angry with the universe. They want answers, even if they are essentially bullshit answers.