Before she became Tory leader, I thought Badenoch would be interesting in the job as although she's a bit mad, I thought she was smart and I rather liked her no-fucks-given approach. But she's just mad, and this is really shitwitted. Don't lie about something easily checked - that's basic stuff.
Don’t lie at all, imho
Is there anyone genuinely ‘smart’ left in the Conservative party? The best shot they’d have now is to install Farage. I’m not entirely certain that won’t happen.
Labour, on the other hand, do have smart people in the managerial sense, but apparently no-one with any political nous.
The sensible choice all along would have been James Cleverley - gives the right vibes, has a hinterland, absolutely not hypnotised by Farage's bullshit. So obviously his team fucked up getting him onto the final ballot.
Well - it’d be less batshit. But I can’t see him cutting through to be honest.
I can't see him doing any worse than Kemi. He's good at the whole "avuncular, I'm normal" thing. The fact that he described the Rwanda scheme as "batshit" also speaks well of him. Maybe the Tories are past saving, I dunno, but they'd have had a better chance under him.
‘Worse than Kemi’ is hard to imagine. Oh hang on - there IS Jenrick.
Also by all accounts posesses a rare skill among politicians, of knowing his limitations.
But having briefly met him, he seems like a perfect backbencher - good at telling people what they want to hear, with a modicum of self-effacement, and the sense he’d to his best to sort stuff out but without too much expectation that he could make any fundamental change.
yes - in many ways I'm fine with the Tories being led by a mad incompetent, but also, a broadly sane and competent leader there would help keep a check on Reform
If there's a lesson here, perhaps it's that being sufficiently appealing to earn the votes of that particular electorate should automatically rule you out of the actual job.
If you’re going to lie, don’t pick a topic that is so easily fact-checked 🤬 By the way, have I mentioned my PhD in Astrophysics and my Nobel prize?
Imagine still having a complex about your A-level results, at her age?
Astonishingly fragile ego
That's the point I think. Her back story is interesting enough! It's also fine to have not been an academic superstar as a child and grafted to achieve your goals as an adult. But her self-image seems to be so reliant on her being a genius who has been unfairly overlooked she can't cope with that.
yes - I could respect her determined graft to do well here, but that's not what she uses as her narrative
Very over-invested in being a specially gifted snowflake, isn't she.
Isn’t it?
I've been listening to Today and PM much less than I used to, and so this is the first time I've even heard her name in weeks. I'd genuinely forgotten she's LOTO. It was delightful, and it's also hilarious to me that if she read this it'd probably rankle her - despite me being an absolute nobody.
I remember her once upbraiding a PSC when she was in government on the nature of the conversation saying 'We have to do better than this!" That kind of smug moral righteousness is invariably a kind of tell. it's only ever a matter of time.
We're getting a good demonstration that the banking sector will mostly hire based on ability to brazenly lie and bullshit, and not actual ability.
She is now a Reform voter it’s simply a matter of months.
Why would any US university offer a graduate course to a teenager with mediocre A level results?! Every time she opens her mouth, she looks worse. I’ve come to the conclusion that woman’s head is filled with excrement from flying mammals
She's absolutely hatstand delusional
About everything. It’s quite scary, especially when the alternative leader options aren’t any better 😭
This was before her A level results too.
It’s such a shame because I can imagine her as a perfect GP 🙄
I think she believed it in the same way I’ve got a strong memory that I saw my dad speaking to Father Christmas (I got a Scalectix). I realised by about 14 that it was probably a false memory. She’s not 14
Wonder if she got an email from “admishuns@stanf0rd.edu.com” offering her the place.
Along with an invitation to send an "admin fee" of a mere £5,000 to secure her place
This was me with Truss. I’m sorry, I just thought it would be hilarious and in fairness, it was, but also oh shit.
oh yeah, I also thought Truss might be clever and interesting and would fly the flag for clever, geeky women. Turns out I was completely wrong there too!
Yeah, well, those of us who have her as an MP have long been aware of who she is. We've been very surprised there seemed to be no feedback from her constituency party to higher levels of the conservative party before she became a minister.
Local branches of political parties are a different kind of madness.
This one was largely reasonable and largely active before she appeared. Now it's completely moribund and they've lost most of their councillors at all levels.
I can only send my deepest sympathies
She ignores us. Not great, but could be worse.
"I never have gaffes... I never have to clarify... Because I think very carefully about what I say" - Kemi Badenoch.
Absolutely fatal overconfidence
Truss levels of overconfidence.