Is Kemi the new IDS? – politicalbetting.com
Is Kemi the new IDS? – politicalbetting.com
Kemi Badenoch has told multiple interviews she gained a place at Stanford medical school – or pre-med – aged 16, but her parents couldn’t afford it even with a partial scholarship.I’ve spoken to Stanford admissions officers who say this is impossible https://t.co/7YLtKsyBOP
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No 10 said the deputy prime minister could not speak further on the topic, as Keir Starmer gave her his backing over the stamp duty scrutiny
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/angela-rayner-tax-house-news-keir-starmer-9gc9rjwkv
https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2025/01/14/does-kemi-need-to-be-more-modest-and-self-effacing/
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1962535415153324448
Keeping saying it once you are an MP, and then as a prominent MP... That's just dumb. I guess it's become part of who she understands herself to be. She could have been a doctor if it hadn't been for that terrible college. (Though I don't think that story entirely hangs together either.)
The more interesting question is why is this story here now. Those who want to topple Badenoch would want her to take the rap for the doomed 2026 elections... Wouldn't they?
Oh, all 3 images from this weekend were 'produced' by the same photographer...
I’ve a feeling that she’s done nothing wrong but the problem is you need to be whiter than white as a politician because any slight issue will be blown up in half stories
Life's a bitch
But I do believe something is up.
Brace, as they say.
As they say.
As would be asking, "what time do you TIA off ?"
https://x.com/MattCartoonist/status/1962551059886342369
Everyone assured us Putin was halfway to the pearly gates when he had just had some ott fillers injected.
Are we saying there are no pictures or film of him at any of these junctures?
Spottswoode: "Yes, it is. Now suck my cock. Just kidding!"
I suspect that the press running with the story know this and also that she is unable to rebut the story effectively because there is a court order protecting the childrens' privacy.
Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
Umm, why are we randomly throwing things out of the window of the private residence at the White House this morning...?
https://x.com/adamscochran/status/1962516552936497522
By the way, today is the day Donald Trump's yet another Two Week's Ultimatum to Russia expires.
https://x.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1962537127624790298
It comes just two years after he quit Parliament
It has been reported that he was found dead at his flat in Chelsea in London last Tuesday, August 26. His death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious, according to emergency services."
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/ex-somerset-mp-david-warburton-10467474
It would be a crazy thing to do, but the Conservatives are in a crazy state right now.
How deliciously mysterious
If they see Reform as their main enemy, go for Jenrick. If Labour, go for a centre ground non-populist.
Or maybe not. I'm struggling to read this new landscape if I'm honest.
No, let's not go there. We demean ourselves.
Nope, not a twitch.
How I tentatively read it is this: In our system only two parties are in play for wining an election (325 seats). From 1945-2024 they were Labour and Tory - obvs, despite ups and downs and SDP and so on.
I suggest this is still true, and that those two parties are Labour and Reform; this remains true until it isn't.
The other change is this: Despite the rhetoric, from 1945-2024 both Lab and Con were in fact social democrat parties acting within the post WWII deal of welfare state, free stuff, pensions, NATO, high spend, high tax, they differed in competence and emphasis and vision but not (pace Mrs T) on the basics.
The change is that we do not know what sort of party Reform will be WRT the social democratic deal. I think they will in fact be high spend, high tax continuity social democrats + UK nationalism and closed borders. Others disagree.
The Tories are not currently in the race.
https://x.com/cojobrien/status/1961077952256319857?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
It’s really hard to believe such a catastrophe happened “by mistake”
I am now convinced we are heading for a quasi fascist government which will try to reverse this. And probably fail
And no, this does not please me. I wanted better for my kids 😢
Said no one.
https://x.com/patrickkmaguire/status/1962505823491408037?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25432047.keir-starmer-said-hangs-england-flag-number-10-flat/ (but NB the pic seems to be an old asgency one)
Someone's trying to confuse the less financially clued up reader.
Labour are even worse, of course
I think we can say we're in the middle stage, if not reaching the denouement.
They were either colossally malignant or colossally stupid. Or both
Boris and Co will also have to face trial along with all the judges, lawyers etc
@GoodwinMJ
Asylum seekers are being housed in £300,000 3-bed houses in Suffolk with en-suite bathrooms, underfloor heating, and electric vehicle charging points while 800 local people wait on housing lists
This is the bleak reality of what Labour and the Tories have created"
https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1962529764935106698
Can of worms.
I can't believe that they originally intended to become the most despised new party government in the fastest ever time as part of phase one, but I can't think of much else they've done
Phase two has begun
I strongly suspect that it'll be even worse than the first phase
The iceberg floats directly ahead
How will Reform campaign and what will theur manifesto say
How will they govern in totality, especially on tax, spend, debt, deficit, welfare and all the things they won't want to talk about in advance; (and obvs migration)
What will happen after they have governed for a bit.
Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
Today’s press pool photo shows Trump leaving the White House this morning.
I enhanced the image. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his forehead? Right above his nose and right brow.
https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1962543250000200003
The Tories simply betrayed the people. I’m pretty sure half of them did it deliberately and the others were too dumb to realise
Good riddance to them
If I what I honestly fear for Britain comes true, they should count themselves lucky if they stay out of jail
… Giving off “Sloth” from the Goonies vibes there.
Mind you, this comment comes from someone who posted the Queen was "looking well" in the last photo of her taken two days before she died.
Now, I'd normally welcome such a change because it would help reduce in-work poverty and stimulate investment in capital. Basically, your Wetherspoons would have a machine pouring your pint rather than a human, because humans were really expensive. But it was an incredibly rapid change and there are some sectors like social care where people were simply unwilling to stump up the cash to incentivise people to work in that sector.
So all these minimum-wage sectors went squealing to the Treasury, and here we are: productivity growth remains stagnant, we continue to have vast inequality and in-work poverty, and people are rather upset because of housing and public service pressure from a gigantic influx of people in just a couple of years.