Everyone else’s key narrative about Badenoch’s leadership: “I was partially responsible for a gigantic mess and I’m now really f**king it up… there’s a personal sacrifice element to it: I could have not done it and been seen as not fundamentally inept, at least by members of the Conservative Party.”
Putting aside the “personal responsibility” side of things, she sort of has a point: A more sane politician would’ve recognised the crock of shit for what it was, let someone else get covered in said shit, and having kept her head down for a couple of years rode in as the messiah. So, James Cleverly
I can’t help but think that he wasn’t too disappointed not to get the gig…
Astounding to see someone try to spin rising to the leadership of political party as a ‘personal sacrifice’. Fair play for sheer fucking cheek.
I've not followed the fate of the Conservative Party particularly closely, but whatever I have seen would suggest she is doing the exact opposite of clearing up the mess
She's a modern-day Joan of Arc, and deserves our admiration.
This is always it with these people, they take no ownership of the part they played in making said mess but want credit for fixing it. No redemption without confession, fuck off into the sun.
See also Farage, N. The fact he is riding high in the polls would be disturbing enough. The fact he is doing so amidst the ruins of Brexit is unfathomable.
People are very, very stupid, as Brexit showed me