Farage is wrong on McDonald’s - Kemi Badenoch's leadership pitch
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- There are four remaining candidates hoping to become the next leader of the Conservative party. Kemi Badenoch is the Conservative MP for North West Essex previously serving as the Secretary of State for Business and Trade in the last government. In 2021, she was promoted to the role of Minister for Equalities, where she championed various initiatives aimed at promoting fairness and inclusion across society. Kemi speaks to The Spectator's political editor Katy Balls about why the party wasn't ready for a general election, how she proposes to tackle issues like net zero, free speech and immigration and why the smoking ban was the least Conservative policy of the past 14 years.
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I love that the first thing she mentions is free speech and freedom of association. Her childhood in Nigeria gives her real insight and heartfelt convictions. These essential freedoms aren’t especially popular subjects, sadly: the only reason she brings them up is that she means it.
Additionally, she's great at the dispatch box.
I've never voted Tory in my life but I think I'd vote for Kemi PM.
Fake account.
It's Kemi's hostility to Reform that puts me off supporting her. I can't imagine voting Conservative again if they are at war with Reform (instead of allied with it and having an electoral pact.)
Until the Conservative demonstrate a really strong (Suella Braverman type) determination to end constant mass immigration, I can't go back. After they lost the election that actually attacked Suella Braverman. If things don't change radically in the Conservative Party then I see not point in voting for them, and I will vote Reform again next time. It's about MORE than party labels.
she has to be anti Reform because the cashcows who support the party want Cameron/Clegg 2.0
A really impressive individual, a breath of fresh air and exactly what this country needs! Good luck Kemi! 🤞
She was endorsed by the BNP… a far right crackpot.
If Kemi becomes leader I would return to voting Conservative, she is to the right of the party and that is what is needed.
But she can’t do any of the things she claims to.
Did you nit learn anything from the last 14 years. Regardless of the leader, the Tories are a centre left party
being to the right of the Conservative Party isn't saying much! If you vote Conservative expecting right-wing policies actually being enacted you deserve all you get.
No it would split the Right vote. Vote Reform.
For me to Vote Conservative again, it has to be Kemi or maybe Jenrick. But Labour would for sure fear Kemi a lot more.
We need to vote reform otherwise the same old shit will come round again 😂
OK so the Conservatives can now promise Reform policies which they did nothing to put into practice when they had a chance. Keep voting Reform. The Conservatives can join Reform.
Who cares if she thinks she is working class or not. I don’t buy this class thing. It’s a distraction. Q is can she (or any of the others) set appropriate priorities, deliver them and is competent? That’s the Q.
seems like she actually thinks, not just soundbites
Madam, you are definitely middle class. You can be as poor as you like, for a while, but you know it won't last. Not the same thing.
I’ve recently become a member of Reform because I felt that the Tory government had, da facto, become a bunch of Social Democrats. However, I have always liked Kemi because she espouses my own thoughts and views on what it is to be a Conservative. Unfortunately, for her, the most successful political movement in the democratic world is sadly in free fall. I get no pleasure in saying this but even she will not be able to stop its decline into obscurity and oblivion. I’d love to be able to sit down with Ms Badenoch and be given the chance to persuade her to join Reform.
100%👍
@@stephenpotts832 or even 101!!!
In that case, get used to the idea of a permanent Labour government
It’s not even about decline.
She knows full well she cannot do any of the things she wants to. The party won’t let her. We’ve been here for 14 years.
Why vote for a fake reform party? Just vote for the real deal.
I really like her. Tough and very smart.
Nah! She did say she went from middle class to working class just by going to work in McDonald's and that's utter nonsense. It's like saying Wayne Rooney became blue blooded when he started earning big bucks .
Oh did she heck, unless you're perversely determined to take her literally in the dumbest way. She had a working class occupation for a while, lived their world for a bit -- the point she was making, very very passingly, was that she is pretty well rounded, which I think is fair, and it's baffling people miss the obvious point.
I'm the same, middle class but proud to mention I've shovelled a bit of shit from time to time and have a thorough acquaintance with the working class, working class friends etc.
Perfectly simple and valid point, not really a subject for comedy.
No she didn't, that's a straw man argument.
Demand equity! We want at least 3 engineers in the cabinet for every pseudo scientist! And: Katherine Birbalsingh for minister of education.
Kemi had the chance to sort out our education system and getting rid of woke, trans ideology and making sure the culture wars were won and for good. She should also have sorted out the ECHR issue and on top of that one of her briefs was to burn the EU rules that are still on the statute books. But the truth is she is really just a thing controlled by Michael Gove. Oh and Gove is now the new editor of the speccy. Sorry but Kemi only looked after Kemi and sod the country
She did? What chance?
She moved more than most on the trans issues, she couldn't as minister sort out the ECHR alone.
She repealed or changed 4000 laws, she did it in phases
Exactly. Can't understand why people think Badenoch is authentically right wing. And even if she was, she would be the leader of a parliamentary party that is overwhelmingly centre-left (social democrats essentially).
@@lausanne67 Well she's authentically of her stated position -- I believe. Don't know how hard it is to reform the Tories but everything about her gives the impression of wanting to engineer change. The Lee Andersons of the world may well be authentically right wing but they could never get anything done -- outsiders banging their heads against a wall -- they'd run into all the walls Trump ran into. I view Kemi as more of a Vivek character. That might at least explain what you claim not to understand -- what it is people see in her.
Mind the gap 😬
You seem nice
508 views. Seems about right
She’s got my vote.
the Henry Ford quote was very good!
damn she actually speaks sense
Actually the people might easily have said they wanted faster carriages, and Ford could claim to have provided.
I think Kemi is great. But Nigel is better. She has to understand that as long as Reform exists, countless among us will never vote for the Tories. Not that I have ever really voted for the Tories.
I am surprised that no leader is talking about the rapidly increasing population in the country and the world. If we control this problem all the problems - food, climate, housing and pollution etc will settle very quickly.
Potentially a game changer. Forensic, clear thinking, effective communicator and able to cut through the crap. Unlike Robert, she took control of the interview. Balls of steel. Points of concern: needs more grace and to rise above petty point scoring in parliament and in public. Too much of a know quantity and not a break from the past - think Thatcher, Blair and Cameron.
It doesn't matter anymore. Even if the conservatives promised to stop migration and stop carbon net zero policies, would you vote for a party who made these things worse when in power or a party which is genuinely against these things? Conservatives aren't getting Reform voters back, they've blown it.
She comes across so much more authentic than alot of the other world leaders. Anyone who cites Sowell and Scruton is off to a strong start.
If she was born in Nigeria she shouldn’t be able to run tbh. IMO you and your parents should have to be born in the country to represent it as an mp
And parents? rules out too many people needlessly. A company wouldn't hobble itself like, the military doesn't, why should goverment?
@@CmdrTobs because I think British people have a right to be represented by fellow British people, who understand this country; it’s traditions, values, and customs, and genuinely care about the people of the country.
@@tman8897 Great idea, we all know the Plantagenet descended home county 'Harriet’s’ and ‘Georgina’s’ that deck out the Guardian News papers graduate pool really understand and 'embrace the countries values and customs' along with 3rd and 4th generation hoods who respect England far less than their immigrant Grandparents did are better choices than someone like Kemi.
/end sarcasm
BLDM
This is all nonsense. I studied at St Andrews after being raised by two state school teachers- did that make me upper class? Hang on, when I was there I worked in a pizza restaurant and fat face- does that mean I was working class? Or perhaps I was upper, middle and working class simultaneously? Yes Kemi, downwards social mobility does exist. Just not in the way you’re identifying. Spoon
I thought I liked her until the bizarre stuff about assisted dying.
She talks of family members who died in pain after a long suffering terminal illness when they wanted the ability to choose to die. She is `generally' in support of assisted dying but then made it about politics by saying there is no way we should even debate it with Labour in power!
Wow, my opinion of her has plummeted.
Could you clarify, did she indicate we shouldn’t debate the issue because Labour is in power and she doesn’t want to support them on anything?
That’s not at all what she said, believe she was referring to general government disfunction and incompetence.
@@AndyD72 Yes but it was a massive, pathetic fudge. She obviously is in favour of assisted dying, like anyone who is not twisted by religious ideology. But there are a lot of old , religious loons within the conservative membership that she feels like she has to keep on side.
Unfortunately you can't be the right person Kemi
She black so she street and always working claaaarse
Watching this video for the tenth time and still don't understand how they do it. My attempts end in disaster👄