Badenoch is flunking in part because she wants to speak as if her party has been out of power more often than not in recent years, which was true of Thatcher in 1975 and is comically untrue of Badenoch in 2025.

It's even more striking when the original proposal is utterly detail-free, so everyone just backfills their 'how would THOSE people think THEY should study anthropology?' (they didn't) snobbery or their 'well, *I* studied theatre and made money' (the problem isn't theatre studies!).

Presumably Nigel Farage wants the UK to join Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR because he admires Putin so much. I guess Kemi Badenoch wants to leave only because Farage has already promised to do it.

At least one Conservative still upholds his party’s traditional respect for human rights and the rule of law. He even still believes in evidence-based arguments. This week he will be the exception, not the rule. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

A party for millionaires and people who hate foreigners. Their announcements are also completely undeliverable; they cannot even add up

The elite looking after the elite. Thankfully these clowns won’t see power again for decades 😉👍

Can’t listen to it. She (among other right wing grifters) is living proof that paying for education is meaningless, unless you can marshall integrity, honesty, decency and compassion with your brain cells, you will fail.

Its called Brexit

Trump wants to ban people talking about the climate crisis... that’s censorship - where’s the free speech in that - for all the MAGA guff that there’s no free speech in the UK - massive hypocrites. 1/2

Badneoch's speech reminds me of the speech given by IDS just before he was removed as Tory Leader over 22 years ago.. Its disastrous, lazy and obviously not much thought into it 'We will reverse the family farm tax' So you want to reverse free breakfast clubs? Take that as a yes

Tories lying? Of course they do

Total disingenuous shit. He knows how the legal system works in England and he also knows this is simply populist bollocks. Ask him to point to judgements as evidence and there will be silence.

Considering how historically literate and sensitive to echoes of speeches of the past our media has shown itself to be, when it comes to every word uttered by a progressive, I find the lack of reaction to Jenrick ending his speech with "let us build this new order" quite puzzling. ~AA

He is brilliant; and my politics is different to his

Thanks Ipsos. Opinion poll Sept 1981 Con 28 Lab 42 Lib 11 Other 17 How did Michael Foot do in the subsequent GE ? Big events can happen, and almost certainly will before 2029.

I think this will probably end up with a lab, lib dem, green coalition at the next ge. Labour will rally a bit in the election, in the face of Reform possibly winning and Reform have a very shallow support base compared to labour, so will only gain up to 80 or 100 seats max.

He is a fantasist, a hysteric and a conspiracy theorist. The coverage of him really does deserve this tone and these labels rather than the mock seriousness he enjoys.

Robert Jenrick is a twat, a racist twat. He hangs out at asylum hotels intimidating people who's skin he doesn't like. He's a posh racist, twat and it's well best time we stopped tolerating people like him,

Let's be really clear. @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social is in my opinion a bigoted and yes, far-right extremist. It is up to the decent majority to stand against his dangerous brand of politics. As a first step, the government must refuse to provide any advance House of Commons statements.

Which begs the question? Reform are just the tories now. So if you hate the tories and voting reform, why would you vote reform if they are just the tories now?

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

I stand by this about @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social

Robert Jenrick is a disgrace and needs to be not just sacked but evicted from parliament.

Kemi Badenoch is both stupid and dangerous. Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and its court (both called the ECHR) would mean ... 1. Ending the Good Friday Agreement. 2. Ending the Brexit deal. 3. Leaving the Council of Europe. 4. Moving us even closer to Russia and Belarus.

Robert Jenrick is a vile, bigoted and dangerous xenophobic racist! The problem isn't just that; he is placing our judiciary in great danger by attacking them despite the fact that rightly, our judiciary is independent.

I don't think Robert Jenrick realises that the people clapping along to him when he talks about Handsworth would clap along if he said the same about Stamford Hill. I'd hope that would give him pause for thought.

Leaving the ECHR would hand Putin a huge victory. Those who advocate doing so are colluding with an enemy of our country. They are traitors.

Tories offer £47bn austerity - cuts to disability benefits, PIP for mental health claimants, social housing, civil service, regulators, green economy, accompanied by anti-migrant rhetoric. Won't hike taxes the rich or curb profiteering. The nasty party heading for the dustbin of history.

As predicted, the exodus to the Lib Dems begins.

When David Davis who as Brexit Secretary went into his meeting with Barnier with no papers in front of him is the source of common sense, it shows how far The Conservative Party has fallen.

The Tories get more and more twisted and psychopathic...

I know this is obvious when you think about it but we don’t think about it enough: fascists have to cow & persecute decent journalists to prevent them from reporting exactly what they, the fascists, are doing. Fascist-adjacent ‘journalists’ help by insisting that we shouldn’t call fascists facsists.

The bit she isn't telling you is that scrapping the carbon tax will mean that imports will be more expensive and cost us more than the £75 she claims scrapping it will save Will this get picked up by any half decent journalist?

Being accountable to an international court means our Government has to answer to them if it tries to undermine your human rights. Be very suspicious of any UK politician who wants to remove that check on their powers. Share this and speak up for your freedoms.

I think it almost certain he'd be hilariously unpopular as PM, because he's hilariously unpopular already, and even those less obviously thin skinned and unpleasant than Nigel don't get *more* popular in office. But I think he'd also be miserable because being blamed for decline is not actually fun

The bit she isn't telling you is that scrapping the carbon tax will mean that imports will be more expensive and cost us more than the £75 she claims scrapping it will save Will this get picked up by any half decent journalist?

The enthusiasm for the Shadow Chancellor at the Tory conference is at show here......

Rubs eyes. Looks again. Rubs eyes. It's still there.

It is pure xenophobia. No ifs No buts

The problem is the Tories stopped being a centre right party in 2019, and there's little sign of any dynamics that can move it back in that direction.

Not a single mention of the NHS--not least in the section on what the Tories did in government that, in her words, "lost us the trust and confidence of the public". Unless the Party gets the extent to which the crippling of key public services helped lose them the election, then they're truly sunk.

This will undoubtedly be repeated for every Reform led council. One can only hope that local people will realise the error of their ways and it loses Reform voters and potential voters before the next General Election.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 But all those DEI and net zero roles ....

This is utterly vile So if you have been in this country for decades, paid your taxes and obeyed the law, you won't get any help. Instead, the Tories think you should go back to some country you may not even remember.

"I've decided digital ID is good" _and_ "nothing bad can come from giving immigration authorities a set number of Bad People they must find each year" _and_ "hey everyone, you know that foreign leader you don't like? I want you to know I'm copying him". Yeeesh

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations. Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

Barely a fortnight has passed since Kemi Badenoch’s reflexive and incredibly OTT hostility to the government’s proposals for digital ID.

What a wonderful turnout ... don't all rush in at once.

Reform UK’s Skelton East, Redcar and Cleveland by-election candidate Craig Holmes, trousers down like a toddler doing a pee pee on someone’s property. He’s standing for election next Thursday.

Utterly car crash Laura K interview with Kemi Badenoch this morning. Q - Where are you going to remove these 150,000 people per year to? A - We need to remove them out of this country; this is the least relevant question!! Errm she said she had a worked out policy....