@gameofender4463 when he said that I just laughed so much, then bewildered that people still wanted him...😂😂😂 Liz Truss sucked up to the Republicans and Suella Braveman attended his inauguration 🤢🤮
Under normal conditions I would agree with her to shut up for 4 years, but she is not fighting Labour now she has a battle with which party leads the right and that battle is now.
@@napoleonibonaparte7198 but without Trump's charisma nor the vision of his team/backers. UK Tories are permanently anaemic, in reaction to the disasters labour put in front of them as opposed to being proactive and shifting the paradigm so the enemy have to conform to their standards, not vice versa
Well the guy won that election and pretty much put democrats in the opposition for some time, versus Conservatives who have a party that splitting their votes and no charismatic leader
The short answer is literally everything lol. If she thinks she is ever going to be Prime Minister, she needs to get real. All she achieves is handing Starmer a free pass every week at PMQs, despite the fact she's actually trying.
I think it’s also that Farage has a story and we’ve seen him go from outsider MEP, then turning UKIP into an effective political force at the EU elections and winning them, to then winning Brexit, then becoming an MP, and then gaining momentum and rising to potentially becoming PM. People like a good story and Farage has one. Regardless of what you think of him. And I’m no Farage fan.
I think it's more that Farage doesn't show up. Ever heard the idiom, "it's better to keep your mouth shut and have everyone assume you are an idiot than open it and prove them right"? Farage dodges PMQs because he knows his bullshit will get called out, much better to stick to the bully pulpit he has on GB news where he can say anything he wants and not have to worry about pesky things like facts or the truth.@@gameofender4463
Her problem is not unique to her, any Conservative leader would face it. "Why didn't you do something about (insert whatever the issue is) when YOU were in government for 14 years?" is a pretty unanswerable question for anyone who was prominent during the last Conservative administration. From the rape gangs to lack of productivity, you can say that with some justification.
The answer to that is we were fixing the mess you left us from the previous 13 years. Try 154bn deficit for starters. The irony being we had more growth, less taxes and more business confidence under the tories than now. Starmer is now so unpopular, it's frankly unheard of for a new PM.
@captainbuggernut9565 well thats just not true mate is it, unless you're trying to blame labour for a worldwide global financial crises caused by dodgy real estate loans in America? You wouldn't be saying something so stupid would you? Also forgetting that Browns reaction to the crises was lauded by nearly every economist out there?
@captainbuggernut9565 The economy was booming under Labour until the financial crash happened (which was not Labour's fault, they could have handled elements better like the selling of UK gold but for the major effects were unavoidable). The idea that Labour is irresponsible with borrowing money is nonsense given that our debt was actually reducing in parts of Blair's time and the average deficit under the Conservatives over the last 14 years dwarves what Labour had before them.
The biggest problem Kemi is facing is the party she's leading; almost any criticism she levies against labour can just be thrown right back in her face. Public finances? The tories left a huge black hole in the budget. The economy stalled? Liz Truss. Education and/or the NHS? The Tories ran public services straight into the ground and stuck Labour with the repair bill, ad infinitum. People accuse Starmer all the time of just deflecting during PMQs, and even though I'm not a Starmer fan, he has a point. He isn't going to undo 14 years of chaos in 6 months, it'll take years, if not decades to restore the economy and public services.
@@_________________142 No-one votes for a left-wing Labour. That was very apparent when Corbyn was leader and the media was rallying against the boogeyman of 'socialism'. The British voting public are on average pretty right-wing
For all his faults Cameron spent his time in opposition well, he spent years reforming the Tory party image and setting them up as a sensible responsible group but he also got them off their traditional arguments on topics like gay marriage where their position was unpopular for the electorate. Badenoch hasn’t done any of the legwork, people still see the party as arrogant, out of touch and incompetent. Meanwhile Farage is running circles around her.
@MustraOrdo Glimmer / currently 35% chance be largest Parry at next election. Important, in most areas of life, to have mental time frame longer than milk lasts in the fridge. Compare kimi after 2 months to Cameron after... 2 months, not 5 years is my point. I think the millions signing petition for stsrmer to call election are equally childish/ should voluntarily remove themselves from voting pool for few decades.
@@gameofender4463 They will bounce back whether that's under a new leader, branding or whatever. There's still a sizeable population of people who are actually conservative but hate Farage because he wants to reform too much. As a leftist, I'm counting on those sorts of people to not turn this country into a complete disaster even more than it is.
Fair, but you cannot always hold new leadership accountable for the decisions of past leaderships. I would never vote for her, don't get me wrong, but the last 14 years were lead by a completely different group of people. Is she absolved of guilt? No. But she is not to blame either.
@@SubjectiveFunnyvery well put i do agree, but in her case she hasn't really shown that she acknowledge the mistakes her party made and given insight what she would have done differently, as much as she isn't to blame they're from the same party, if she wants to restore voter confidence she would need to show that shes different from them, and she hasn't done that.
She didn't prove in any way that she's learned from her parties mistakes, I think this was her biggest downfall. Confidence in the tories is so low simply because of this.
I think she was destined to fail, they put her in as a placeholder until someone better comes along when the election draws closer. "Just do nothing and pretend reform aren't a threat please Kemi"
It's very misleading that the media is referring to the fall in birthrate as a "fertility crisis". Fertility is not the issue and never has been on a national scale. Most people are perfectly able to conceive naturally and we have medical interventions like IVF available for those that do genuinely have fertility issues. Falling birthrates have nothing to do with fertility and everything to do with the financial cost of raising children. People are struggling to afford their own living costs so the last thing they want to do is create more mouths to feed. This is a cost of living crisis, not a fertility crisis.
No, fertility is a problem in whole western world. And it has impact on birth rates, as they influence number of conceptions, planned and not planned. Of course unplanned pregnancy can be problem and it can lead to abortion, but at the same time a lot of unplanned pregnancy’s in the past and today end up by birth and raising of child in totally normal family. A lot of families in the past had 1-2 kids planned and then they were having another child or two by accident, which did not lead to any tragedy.
@@prkp7248 before reaching adulthood so the population rate didn’t increase much. However, as healthcare improved and living standards increased those multiple children began to survive past infancy and childhood so they become more of a burden on their families. As such in a lot of the western world where living standards are better families have less children. This is cutting back from the absolutely massive world population boom we saw coming into and through the 21st century (from like 5 billion to 8 billion people worldwide I think). The birthrate decline we’re seeing is partially just the peak coming to an end, the other bit is of course factors like the cost of living crisis in the UK where even those that want multiple kids for the sake of it don’t feel able to be good parents. There’s been a shift from seeing children as free labour that must do what they’re told, deserve no agency, and don’t need things like love/familial affection, to seeing being a parent as an active role that requires a lot of care and dedication.
At the root of most problems facing society today is the fact that the capitalist sytem we live under is finally breaking down, with the majority of the population seeing less and less benefit from it as more money is centered on the ultra-rich. Of course the Tories can't say that, because their primary backers are those same ultra-rich. And so they blame the least able to defend themselves, like imigrants and trans people, for the inherent failings of a deliberately broken system.
@@EmmaLaBunn Please look into the different schools of capitalism. What we are seeing is not a failing of capitalism as a whole, we are seeing the issues of neoliberal modern monetary theory rear their ugly heads. You are arguing the same as McArthy'ists decrying every socialist movement as if it was all done the same as Stalin, disregarding Tito, Mao (etc.) variations.
I would be amazed if Badenoch leads the Tories into the next election, the party is probably two or three leaders away from confirming who that might be...they are a party that elects a leader and almost immediately seeks to undermine them and look for a successor, it is how the Tories roll.
The problem is their leadership election system is so flawed that they end up electing people who even they don't want. I do think Labour have a better system for electing leaders and it would be in the Conservatives interest to look to it in some capacity. The status quo clearly isn't working out for them.
@@AF2277S I just wish being horribly right wing wasn't becoming more and more of a trend across the world. When did conservatives stop wanting to conserve things and start being radical lol.
I believe this is due to extreme left-wing political parties. When you ignore issues that people on the right care about, they will become even more extreme. Denmark is an excellent example of how to balance both. A socialist party with one of the strictest immigration policies in Europe and including the numerous other policies. Address these and you will keep hard-right parties at bay.
@@SDDT1 Exactly, they’ve got complacent. Shame there’s no credible left-wing alternative to Labour. The Greens aren’t realistic and the Lib Dems are obsessed with the EU and won’t let it go. Like, regardless of your opinion on Brexit. Returning ain’t happening as Orban etc won’t let it happen as it’d be to Putin’s detriment and the terms wouldn’t be as good as they were before. But the Lib Dems won’t accept it and move on. Not to mention that the Lib Dems seem like wannabe establishment democrats (think Pelosi, Schumer, Biden etc).
What went wrong for her is her underlying personality. She's blinded by hubris and ambition, has a thin skin, can't help but pick unnecessary fights and fundamentally did not learn how to perform in parliament or as a political leader. It's like she only focused on how to gain power and attack rivals but never learned how to be an effective MP or Minister.
@@bzuidgeest Compare and contrast with Farage. Not a fan of the guy, but he chose to withdraw candidates in 2019 to secure Brexit. That shows how he put his goals (Brexit) above his own ambitions.
@@gameofender4463 as an foreigner I don't know what to make of farage. He seems to be in favor of pr. Which would better your political situation and lessen the power of a single party. But he is also clearly a populist. Using immigration and lies and fear as tools. I'm not sure if it's his principles or he just thinks that he understands the British public well enough to know what manipulation does or doesn't work. Getting out of the EU was a really stupid move, the only way it makes sense it for people seeking personal power.
Yeah you are correct. For anyone not knowing this concept, here is a very short abstract, that leads to the original comment: Regulations exist (ideally) to provide a level playing field on which businesses can compete. If you take away regulation, it benefits the established big players, cause they can displace any potential competitor before they can esablish themselves. And once you have established full market dominance and displaced all potential competitors, its time for enshittification to maximise shareholder value.
@@FRIEDYOGURT-s4cno, UK has thatcherite supply side economics today which prefers low regulation and tax cuts..., although the keynesian one wasn't any better
Britain was the global superpower in the age of workhouses for the poor and smog pumped directly into city air. Large numbers of Business regulations have no direct correlation with economic success.
@@TheCloudhopper Quite to the contrary regulations stifle small businesses, and hence innovation while the existing companies have the resources to work around them. The UK is currently suffocated by regulations, chief among them planning
@11bornrich The worked fine inside their design scope, just like the stereo systems available on big touring bikes. You just chose a poor example for your point. Take the L and move on dude.
I think the role of traditional media is often ignored by TLDR. If the British newspapers are working with Reform in finding and promoting issues then Badenoch will always struggle to get ahead of Farage.
The only newspapers that are helping Farage are the ones he’s been associated with in the past. Most papers at this point just stir up issues, instead of actually reporting on much meaningfully
Moving ever further to the right is a losing strategy for the Tories. People who want a far-right party will just vote for Reform, and by trying to emulare Reform extremists the Tories are losing the centre to Labour and the Lib Dems.
I agree, now we have a vacuum on the centre right I wonder if the best strategy for the Liberal Democrats is to move to the centre right and take that position? Certainly trying to out Labour Labour won't work and theres a lot of parties cluttering to the left of Labour to not make that seriously tenable either.
@@TexasTechUK The whole reason the Liberal Democrats have any supporters is because they are the party of progressivism. Labour, is not super progressive, and the Conservatives and Reform are well.. yeah, and the Greens are too small and seem like they'd be better as a environmentalist pressure group rather than a party. The Lib Dems offer an alternative to people who aren't super extremist but still want an expansion of personal freedoms, which the Liberal Democrats are famous for their support of, particular in the region of minority's rights. As such, driving their policy to the right would only accomplish one thing, they'd just lose all their voters who want social reform.
When a Tory MP was taunting Labour as "male, stale and pale" I knew this was a party I could never support. There is no daylight between them and labour.
0:17 Oh my God, 20% of people think Farage should be PM?! What has this county come to that we seriously think he is the right person? It makes me sad.
Your centre left and right leaders selling your native population out for faux economic growth. Ignoring the suffering of hundreds of thousands of girls because they are white and attacking the native culture. He might not be perfect, but your two major parties have proven themselves to simply be left wing racists as well as failed economic managers.
You do know the tories have been around longer than all other parties right??? Its like saying the royals abdicate and start campaigning for political seats.
Not from the UK and not familiar with many of the details but this pattern isn't unique. A party is in government for many years, they're losing popularity steadily as most would after an extended period, many of their top tier people either decide not to run.... They can see what's coming.... or are defeated and move on to other fields and what you have left is sort of "the best of the rest." The party is now out of power and if the typical trends hold, is likely to stay out of power for somewhere around 8 - 10 years or so unless the incoming government really screws up. In this environment, you are rather starved for talent because most of your top tier people are going to go do something else until prospects look better. It's awfully hard for any leader to get traction in such a scenario, especially those who wouldn't normally be considered leadership material. You just have to sort of try to muddle through and wait until the pendulum starts to swing your way again and then, you'll be thanked for your service by being shunted aside by those perceived as being better than you. Kind of a miserable, thankless job being the leader right after a defeat but somebody's gotta do it. I'd say her prospects of becoming PM are basically nil and they won't be much better for whoever follows her unless Labour really screws the pooch.
I actually would agree this applies here quite well, once Rishi Sunak's government effectively threw in the towel, most of what you'd consider the heavy hitters in the Tory party left frontline politics and moved on. One thing that I also suspect doesn't help is that some many things are changing or haven't gone as expected both within the UK and at a global level, so its hard to decide what policies would be best to present to the public now when they may not be relevant a few years from now.
Well said. I would say that the Tories' fortune started to go downhill either when Cameron called the Brexit vote or when bojo came into power. If they get their act together they can become an electable party again but with how they've been acting I think it'll take more than 5 years to recover.
Most polls are saying that the conservatives are gaining votes from labour and Liberal Democrat from previous election (about 4-6% of previous voters each) but also loosing votes to reform at even higher levels (12%) which meant their polling number is similar to the election .
I'd say that's less to do with the Conservatives doing more the win voters than it is Labour making terrible decisions which makes them lose voters. It's basically how every election is won. The party in power messes up so people want another party, whether they are better or not.
@@purpledevilr7463I believe it’s because in many southern constituencies only Lib Dem’s and conservatives can win the seat so many previous conservatives voted Lib Dem as a way to protest vote and block conservatives getting enough seats to form a government , and essentially Liberal Democrat’s are gaining voters from labour which is why they’ve stayed afloat at around 13/14%
@@uc12341 I feel like the people switching from labour to conservatives are people who thought Labour would be able to quickly solve all the country's problems and are now disappointed
What went wrong? She was a moderate Thatcherite that was the opposite of what the majority of the right in Britain wanted from the next leader. We want less economic liberalism and more social conservatism, less “meeting in the middle” and more attacking the institutions that hate us. You can’t claim to be anti identity politics and at the same time gloat about being a strong black Nigerian woman.
I said if Badenoch was elected leader, the Conservatives would fall below 100 seats in the next election. It's nice to know she's doing exactly what was expected of her.
Even as a Conservative Party member I can see that she is just not electable (people either are or they aren’t) and she’s not doing a great job as leader of the opposition either
@@gbranton2992 To you as a conservative member, let me say this to you. To help you understand what’s going on as a non-Tory. While I’ve been sympathetic to the Tories in the past at previous elections. I have absolutely no trust or faith in them anymore. Where I might’ve voted for Cameron and Johnson in the past. That sympathy is gone now. While I’ve never voted for Farage before I can totally see why people are voting for him now. Imo, the Tories are now the obsolete party that’s hampering Reform. And imo, if the Tories really wanted to help defeat Labour, they should get out of Farage’s way. On top of that, the Tories seemingly did absolutely nothing to repay Farage for withdrawing in 2019 to help Johnson. Which shows Farage put principles and priorities over his own success. Whereas I think the Tories are too egotistical and selfish to do the same.
@@gameofender4463 What scares me about Farage, which no one talks about, is his economic policy. £150 billion in yearly tax cuts and extra spending, the money for which he says will be found by ‘reducing waste’ - as though waste was conscious government policy - with no plan for how we will actually cut this waste. People have been taking so much about his immigration plans - which I actually agree with - and related social policy that this has somehow gone completely under the radar. This spending plan is simply irresponsible. I also think that many of the problems brought about by the Tories don’t come from their most recent leader but actually date back earlier. Boris was very obviously a total charlatan right from the start. Maybe it’s easier for me to say that because I didn’t yet lean conservative back then, but that’s what everyone who had worked with him before seemed to say. The economic problems date back to Cameron and austerity, which was simply a failed policy. Yet it is Sunak who paid the price for these earlier failures despite having a government which was actually improving the situation. He was restarting economic growth and put in policies which cut down on immigration which Boris had allowed to get out of control, while sorting out Northern Ireland’s position with the EU. He was the only conservative government in 14 years who actually deserved to win (and along with Gordon Brown, the only PM since 97 I actually admire) and of course it was on him that the faults of his predecessors, who people repeatedly supported, were pinned. I accept that these were still his party’s faults, but I prefer to vote for governments that will actually fix things, even if it’s their fault, than others who have no plan or will simply be economically incapable. It’s also somewhat ironic that people loved the Tories for throwing around free money during COVID and hated them for higher inflation and taxes right afterwards. At the moment, the Conservatives are as much in the way of Reform as Reform is in the way of the Conservatives. Different polls give different parties the lead, but they’re all hovering around the same number. No matter how much it repels Reform members, the parties will simply have to work together or at the very least form a coalition at the next election. Neither is capable of winning on its own and while I fully accept that Reform may eventually make the stories obsolete - though this isn’t certain - this will take much more than five years.
@Codbckdjlnfkfj I read what you said, and I hear you. However people like a good story and change. Farage has both and the Tories have neither. No story, no message and no change. It’s the same old story, the Tories win and are in government and then it’s Labour winning and in government, back and forth and on and on. Farage, while I’m no fan, represents that change from status quo. While both Tories and Labour are offering the same. And I don’t agree, Reform are rising and the Tories are stagnating/declining. And while it may take time, Reform will most likely be ahead of the Tories consistently. Also Reform would lose some support if they did any agreement with the Tories. The Tories have nothing to offer with an alliance. Reform is in the stronger position and shouldn’t compromise even 1% to help the Tories. Only the Tories would benefit from an alliance and I’m no longer interested in the Tories staying relevant. The only thing the Tories should be considering is how long they’re going to drag their decline out for. Whether they gracefully withdraw from seats unilaterally as a move of good faith and passing of the torch. Or try and drag it out and Reform wins them from the Tories and ends the Tories at the ballot box. With the Tories being regarded as a bunch of egotistical, out of touch narcissists who put their own interests before the country’s. And who refused to bow out with dignity and grace. Simply put, I don’t think the Tories will ever win again. It’s a populist time and the Tories aren’t populist. The only people who could defeat Labour are Reform. It’s just a case of how long the Tories want to help Labour instead of Reform. Or to put it another way, “A vote for the Tories is a vote for Labour”.
believe me I’m torn at the moment between Reform and staying loyal. I joined under Johnson and only renewed for the leadership elections which cost almost about £10 for me at the time so I thought why not. I prefer Reform in most ways policy wise and dislike the aloof elitist party culture of the Tories. My reluctance to switch is entirely from my skepticism in Reform and Farage’s ability to win an election. If the conservative are really lacking in political talent at the moment (so are Labour) and if they keep going the way they are then I can definitely see myself and more of the membership switching. I agree with your take that these are populist times. The Conservatives should embrace it and I bet they would gain far more than they would lose. Though it may be too late
@@SDDT1 Yep. I believe it’s with the electoral commission atm. Tbf Farage knows he could be the next PM. He’s not going to keep it a company under him if it becomes a negative.
Excellent video, and it's cool to see you guys building out your ecosystem - I know how much work building a digital multi-publication ecosystem takes! However, I would advise for viewer experience just to reign in the self-promos by maybe 20-30% as its dominance in video time I feel is increasing.
@ is understandable it’s always a compromised balance between revenue and content quality, especially in the media space which can be quite fickle. I feel like perhaps there are slightly less intrusive approaches that could be used to reduce the number of promos in the video, such as banners and directions to CTAs in the bio. Although I can equally understand that this approach they’re doing right now is probably most effective for converting viewers, hopefully they reach an inflection point where they’re profitable enough to consider rolling it back for viewer experience. In my experience, media owners never make that call to be content with profits - so it would be good to see.
This was the Tories IDS 2.0 moment, Bad Enoch is as bad as expected and will not lead them in a years time let alone be leader for the general election.
Which then makes me wonder if they replaced Kemi would it be an rise or fall in the polls. On one hand it could be getting a better leader that sees them rise. On the other hand, it may make them look weak and desperate and see them go down more.
@@gameofender4463the public doesn’t mind party leaders being changed otherwise they wouldn’t have let the tories have a merry go round for the last 14 years. Badenoch simply can’t win because she’s directly involved in many of the Tories’ worst ideas over the last 5-10 years. No matter how bad it gets she personally has done worse. So people would rather Farage. The Tories will need a new MP from the next election to win again like how David Cameron did.
@@karmaascendant3936 Maybe, but what I think is also happening is people are interested in Farage’s journey/story over the last ten years. I’m not a Farage fan. But remember where he was before 2014. He was effectively a nobody. Then he managed to win a European election with UKIP, then win the Brexit vote, then win again with the Brexit party, then become an MP, and is now looking like he could be the next PM. Some people might be following the hype or are enjoying watching Farage’s story from outsider politician to potentially the next PM.
@@gameofender4463 Honestly wouldn't matter much, the people barely paid attention to her leadership election in the first place (the US election was the same day and that completely eclipsed the news cycle, someone timed that exceptionally badly). The Tories have slipped out of the spotlight and now they're flailing around somewhere off stage in the same bleak space as the Greens and the Lib Dems. Feels like the country treats Reform as the de-facto opposition now.
5:20 Someone forgets that Tali'Zorah was only appointed to the Admiralty board in a ceremonial role, that even she admits she shouldn't be a leader, that she was only appointed because of her knowledge of the Geth and not her leadership ability, that she fails as a fireteam leader (both times) and that every time she leds a time they all die, so while she's an amazing character she's anything but a leader character... Sorry, I've been playing a lot of Mass Effect.
People expect the prime minister of their country to be British. Kemi, although not a stupid woman, isn't. She is basically a Nigerian immigrant. There lies the issue with voters.
@@supern0vaelike the original poster said, she’s smart, just no British. Even she recognises the issue immigration is presenting to the UK. It’s short term economic growth, in exchange for cultural cohesion and long term prosperity. This is especially prevalent when you consider the housing market and the strain placed on public services. And before anyone says in racist or something, i don’t have immigration, it’s great for the country in manageable quantities, just not excessively.
As an anchor baby who previously lobbied for higher migration she's never going to win that 3rd of the electorate whom immigration is the biggest issue. At the same time her inflammatory and performative character isn't exactly going to win over centrists to the party.
What policies could they actually provide that solves the problems they created. Traditional conservative policies have always hurt us in the long run because their policies revolve around individual ownership of property and that has proven to lead towards assets being controlled by a small disproportionate amount of people. If they went further and more radical that would happen faster. Labour are mildly less severe.
4:53 it’s funny them listing all the problems as if over the last 14 years they had nothing to do with running the country… Surely any politician would know they would garner more support attacking labours policy than long lasting issues that supersede labours time in power and is likely the tories fault. 😂
Who'd'a thunk that trying to go right and trying to infringe into the space already reserved by the Energetic European Right-Wing Party instead of just falling into the wide-open centre-right niche that's *Right There* wouldn't work? Not ragging on Kemi for that, though, because doing that is exactly what she was elected by the Dead Pool to do.
I’m a young conservative chairman. Been doing some investigating. Pretty much any action has been non newsworthy and very much behind the scenes. Headquarters are slimming down and readjusting their teeth after getting punched so hard.
At a time in which immigration is the issue mobilizing voters, they picked a basically immigrant party leader for diversity points. Could this have gone any other way?
Actually it's the logical choice. Saying no to immigrants is racist, the way around this is to put an ethnic minority in charge because "look, they can't be racist, they ARE one of the minorities we are being nasty to.
The Tories need to reorganise and remove their old guard root and branch. Then apologise for not being Tories and the terrible decade of stupidity the oversaw
In all fairness its her leadership style that isn't working. She doesn't have the charisma or gravitas for the position. In my opinion she's acting more like a 3rd party leader than the leader of the opposition. So whilst she has very Conservative values, that does not translate into great leadership skills.
Yes, they’re talking about trans rights legislation. Although she really hasn’t changed too much on that front, except for stacking the government with anti-trans religious activists to ensure the Cass review came out the way she wanted it, and therefore restrict access to puberty blockers, which Labour is doing anyway since Wes Streeting is just as anti-trans as she is. Meanwhile HRT is still available for minors, and the Gender Recognition Act has been virtually unchanged since 2004. The only thing that can be said of Bedenoch is that she and the Tories starved the NHS for funding, which negatively affected the ability of trans people to get healthcare, but that was not specific to trans people. Literally everyone was negatively affected by that.
@@jackster2568 the right have been getting their own way with increasingly right wing politics for 40 years and still are. But you all have to keep throwing your toys out of the pram and act like spoiled children who aren't getting exactly what you asked for
I got the impression the Tories actually wanted someone else to run the party, but then mucked up tactical voting and the result was she got into power.
Tactical voting should be illegal. Its fundamentally undemocratic. Its explicit manipulation of the democratic result. Just like with the general election giving Labour 64% of the seats despite winning only 34% of the vote while the Greens and Reform got 1% of the seats each despite winning 7% and 14% of the vote respectively. This lead political scientists to rank this election 5th most disproportionate in the world, worse than many literal banana republics and dictatorships.
When Gordon Brown was prime minister I used to keep singing his name to Golden Brown by The Strangers. Now I keep singing Kemi's name to Good Enough by Dogdy "oh, it's Badenoch for you, it's Badenoch for me, It's Badenoch for two, it's what I want to see."
It feels like such a backwards world where someone can point to their work marginalising a group of people as evidence they get things done. Like yes you're a monster but as long as the public knows you're an efficient monster.
It's three months over the holiday season. Kier ran on a ming vase strategy, and if Kemi wants to as well, she'll need more time to make an impression.
Her ascention to leader of the Tories was a great victory for diversity; it showed that simply not being isn't some magical attribute that makes you competent.
I will say without any shame, I do not want a dual-citizen in charge of my country going forwards. It hasn't worked under previous prime ministers, who act like airdropped regional managers and seem completely oblivious to the decline of our nation. We need an actual British person to run our country, someone who's got skin in the game. Just like Rishi Sunak, who's now over in California, Kemi can just return to Lagos if this all blows up. British people? We're left with all the problems they've created. Furthermore, I want any dual-citizens out of governing our country. The latest "scandal" with Labour's Tulip Siddiq, is confirmation that people who have dual-citizenship and work in central government, are more prone to corruption and foreign influence.
2:55 (kind of) unrelated, but as a Nigerian, i’m really questioning her choice of braids here. I’m at uni now and wouldn’t feel comfortable with this hairstyle since the colour is a bit juvenile but it also looks so so messy and stiff. Surely standard middle part small box braids would be the best move for her? Very standardised and tidy
The Conservatives were in power for a long time until they lost the election in summer 2024. Labour are now in government. She took over the leadership of the Conservatives and has been pretty ineffective so far.
The Conservatives need to head right, and stop pretending to be a moderate version of Labour, which is effectively what they were for most of the last 14 years. The Conservatives if they don't will be swallowed up by Reform. They need to think of how to make Brexit work and what Britain's place is in the World. They need to look at Braverman.
At the end of the day she was elected by Conservative Party rank and file members over a white man so I do think this oversimplifies the issue. In general I would make the case that the UK scores pretty well compared to other countries with racism.
Tories felt suicidal by selecting an African woman immigrant as the head of their party. Making them look weak, directionless and of course extremely woke.
Does not matter who they get. They have destroyed all credibility by policies on migration and net zero. Even if their leader said all the right things I wouldn't believe them.
Conservatives are loosing votes to reform since the election , so it is kinda popular but when there’s a party that seems more legitimately in the space and so it’s a very poor tactical decision from the conservatives
It's incredible how bad she is at her job, Robert Jenrick was clearly the better candidate by far and it shows how utterly worthless the conservative party is that he wasn't elected to be leader.
Badenoch was a DEI choice, not one based on meritocracy. She also was not born in Britain, an important element of being PM of Great Britain. Sunak has demonstrated his lack of enthusiasm and diligence for the people of Great Britain, but only his desire to further the business ambitions of his wife and family, and now he does not even live here!
Badenoch: ‘I have all the answers, but I’m not going to tell you till 2027’
Translation: I have no ideas
"I have the answers, i just can't think of them yet"
@@lukebennett. Very similar to Trump’s alleged “I have the concepts of a plan” statement.
She has concepts of an idea.
@gameofender4463 when he said that I just laughed so much, then bewildered that people still wanted him...😂😂😂 Liz Truss sucked up to the Republicans and Suella Braveman attended his inauguration 🤢🤮
Under normal conditions I would agree with her to shut up for 4 years, but she is not fighting Labour now she has a battle with which party leads the right and that battle is now.
The British version of "I have concepts of a plan".
Less successful for some reason.
@@napoleonibonaparte7198 but without Trump's charisma nor the vision of his team/backers. UK Tories are permanently anaemic, in reaction to the disasters labour put in front of them as opposed to being proactive and shifting the paradigm so the enemy have to conform to their standards, not vice versa
@@Angledtootsievids and without being white to appease the far right reform voters*
If a LizTruss can do it everybody can do it😂
Well the guy won that election and pretty much put democrats in the opposition for some time, versus Conservatives who have a party that splitting their votes and no charismatic leader
She *opened* her bid for leadership with a Twitter video claiming she wasn't "afraid of Doctor Who".
I think it's pretty obvious what went wrong here.
Meanwhile David Tennant went on to his next successful career opportunity and continues to be a bastion of decency in the gutter that is UK society.
She's braver than me then I must admit.
... didn't the migrant kid who murdered those poor children in Southport play Doctor Who?
@@Jennyeqwhat are you on about? Also he was born here
@@Jennyeq No he didn't. What a disgusting thing to say!
If you don't have policies then how can you be criticised for them?
You also can't be praised for them either
you can be criticised for not having policies lol
What a move! 😮
4D chess right there
That’s the point, tories are liars.
The short answer is literally everything lol. If she thinks she is ever going to be Prime Minister, she needs to get real. All she achieves is handing Starmer a free pass every week at PMQs, despite the fact she's actually trying.
What engine is your profile
I think it’s also that Farage has a story and we’ve seen him go from outsider MEP, then turning UKIP into an effective political force at the EU elections and winning them, to then winning Brexit, then becoming an MP, and then gaining momentum and rising to potentially becoming PM. People like a good story and Farage has one. Regardless of what you think of him. And I’m no Farage fan.
I think it's more that Farage doesn't show up. Ever heard the idiom, "it's better to keep your mouth shut and have everyone assume you are an idiot than open it and prove them right"? Farage dodges PMQs because he knows his bullshit will get called out, much better to stick to the bully pulpit he has on GB news where he can say anything he wants and not have to worry about pesky things like facts or the truth.@@gameofender4463
@@NCR-National-Reclamation-Gov Tornado
we aren't due another election until 2029, no one cares about the opposition until it comes to the election.
Her problem is not unique to her, any Conservative leader would face it. "Why didn't you do something about (insert whatever the issue is) when YOU were in government for 14 years?" is a pretty unanswerable question for anyone who was prominent during the last Conservative administration. From the rape gangs to lack of productivity, you can say that with some justification.
They needed someone who opposed the old tories
The answer to that is we were fixing the mess you left us from the previous 13 years. Try 154bn deficit for starters. The irony being we had more growth, less taxes and more business confidence under the tories than now. Starmer is now so unpopular, it's frankly unheard of for a new PM.
@ You seem to mistake me for a Labour supporter, or indeed, anyone who voices that question for being so. Such is not the case.
@captainbuggernut9565 well thats just not true mate is it, unless you're trying to blame labour for a worldwide global financial crises caused by dodgy real estate loans in America? You wouldn't be saying something so stupid would you? Also forgetting that Browns reaction to the crises was lauded by nearly every economist out there?
@captainbuggernut9565 The economy was booming under Labour until the financial crash happened (which was not Labour's fault, they could have handled elements better like the selling of UK gold but for the major effects were unavoidable). The idea that Labour is irresponsible with borrowing money is nonsense given that our debt was actually reducing in parts of Blair's time and the average deficit under the Conservatives over the last 14 years dwarves what Labour had before them.
The biggest problem Kemi is facing is the party she's leading; almost any criticism she levies against labour can just be thrown right back in her face.
Public finances? The tories left a huge black hole in the budget. The economy stalled? Liz Truss. Education and/or the NHS? The Tories ran public services straight into the ground and stuck Labour with the repair bill, ad infinitum.
People accuse Starmer all the time of just deflecting during PMQs, and even though I'm not a Starmer fan, he has a point. He isn't going to undo 14 years of chaos in 6 months, it'll take years, if not decades to restore the economy and public services.
it's 14 years of chaos + however many years of Labour having done the same
neither side left this country better than how they found it
@@Carl-hs420abecause they’re both the same thing now 😔 bring back old labour
@@Carl-hs420aLabour has shifted more and more to the right. The two parties are barely different at this point. Both are horrid.
@@_________________142 No-one votes for a left-wing Labour. That was very apparent when Corbyn was leader and the media was rallying against the boogeyman of 'socialism'. The British voting public are on average pretty right-wing
@@Carl-hs420a You know that the tories have been in power a lot more and longer the Labour?
She hates sandwiches, not much more is needed.
Who doesn’t like sandwiches 😮
@freespeech7747only woke lefties like sandwiches. As a heterodox thinker with unique positions on everything, I like to eat soup with my hands.
She's an elitist. She won't eat poor-people food.
Considering what passes as a sandwich in the UK, I don't blame her
@@nestihado we literally invented sandwiches.
For all his faults Cameron spent his time in opposition well, he spent years reforming the Tory party image and setting them up as a sensible responsible group but he also got them off their traditional arguments on topics like gay marriage where their position was unpopular for the electorate.
Badenoch hasn’t done any of the legwork, people still see the party as arrogant, out of touch and incompetent. Meanwhile Farage is running circles around her.
Did Cameron do that in
@@danielwebb8402 Are you implying that there's still a glimmer of hope for Tory resurgence at this moment?
@MustraOrdo
Glimmer / currently 35% chance be largest Parry at next election.
Important, in most areas of life, to have mental time frame longer than milk lasts in the fridge.
Compare kimi after 2 months to Cameron after... 2 months, not 5 years is my point.
I think the millions signing petition for stsrmer to call election are equally childish/ should voluntarily remove themselves from voting pool for few decades.
@@MustraOrdo Imo, I think the Tories are most likely finished. It’s just a case of when they absorb the Tories or put the Tories into irrelevancy.
@@gameofender4463 They will bounce back whether that's under a new leader, branding or whatever. There's still a sizeable population of people who are actually conservative but hate Farage because he wants to reform too much. As a leftist, I'm counting on those sorts of people to not turn this country into a complete disaster even more than it is.
All the points she covered are a direct result from the tory past 14+ years 😅
Spot on
Fair, but you cannot always hold new leadership accountable for the decisions of past leaderships.
I would never vote for her, don't get me wrong, but the last 14 years were lead by a completely different group of people.
Is she absolved of guilt? No.
But she is not to blame either.
@@SubjectiveFunnyvery well put i do agree, but in her case she hasn't really shown that she acknowledge the mistakes her party made and given insight what she would have done differently, as much as she isn't to blame they're from the same party, if she wants to restore voter confidence she would need to show that shes different from them, and she hasn't done that.
@ Agreed. I want nothing to do with her, just so that is clear.
@@SubjectiveFunny oh 100% the only ones voting tories now are those that voted tories before 😅
I like her - she keeps refreshing my memory on how bad the 14 years of Tory government was.
things didnt go wrong for her, she messed them up.
She didn't prove in any way that she's learned from her parties mistakes, I think this was her biggest downfall. Confidence in the tories is so low simply because of this.
I think she was destined to fail, they put her in as a placeholder until someone better comes along when the election draws closer. "Just do nothing and pretend reform aren't a threat please Kemi"
She only made one bad choice
Joining the Tories
and it isn't like this could have turned out where things could have gone for wrong her, with no fault of her own.
But she just had to fuck it up.
It's very misleading that the media is referring to the fall in birthrate as a "fertility crisis". Fertility is not the issue and never has been on a national scale. Most people are perfectly able to conceive naturally and we have medical interventions like IVF available for those that do genuinely have fertility issues. Falling birthrates have nothing to do with fertility and everything to do with the financial cost of raising children. People are struggling to afford their own living costs so the last thing they want to do is create more mouths to feed. This is a cost of living crisis, not a fertility crisis.
total “fertility” rate - hence the use of the word.
No, fertility is a problem in whole western world. And it has impact on birth rates, as they influence number of conceptions, planned and not planned. Of course unplanned pregnancy can be problem and it can lead to abortion, but at the same time a lot of unplanned pregnancy’s in the past and today end up by birth and raising of child in totally normal family. A lot of families in the past had 1-2 kids planned and then they were having another child or two by accident, which did not lead to any tragedy.
@@prkp7248 before reaching adulthood so the population rate didn’t increase much. However, as healthcare improved and living standards increased those multiple children began to survive past infancy and childhood so they become more of a burden on their families. As such in a lot of the western world where living standards are better families have less children. This is cutting back from the absolutely massive world population boom we saw coming into and through the 21st century (from like 5 billion to 8 billion people worldwide I think). The birthrate decline we’re seeing is partially just the peak coming to an end, the other bit is of course factors like the cost of living crisis in the UK where even those that want multiple kids for the sake of it don’t feel able to be good parents. There’s been a shift from seeing children as free labour that must do what they’re told, deserve no agency, and don’t need things like love/familial affection, to seeing being a parent as an active role that requires a lot of care and dedication.
At the root of most problems facing society today is the fact that the capitalist sytem we live under is finally breaking down, with the majority of the population seeing less and less benefit from it as more money is centered on the ultra-rich. Of course the Tories can't say that, because their primary backers are those same ultra-rich. And so they blame the least able to defend themselves, like imigrants and trans people, for the inherent failings of a deliberately broken system.
@@EmmaLaBunn Please look into the different schools of capitalism. What we are seeing is not a failing of capitalism as a whole, we are seeing the issues of neoliberal modern monetary theory rear their ugly heads.
You are arguing the same as McArthy'ists decrying every socialist movement as if it was all done the same as Stalin, disregarding Tito, Mao (etc.) variations.
I would be amazed if Badenoch leads the Tories into the next election, the party is probably two or three leaders away from confirming who that might be...they are a party that elects a leader and almost immediately seeks to undermine them and look for a successor, it is how the Tories roll.
The problem is their leadership election system is so flawed that they end up electing people who even they don't want. I do think Labour have a better system for electing leaders and it would be in the Conservatives interest to look to it in some capacity. The status quo clearly isn't working out for them.
At this point they might as well elect Farage.
@@charlesevanshughes3638Farage is way too right for them and their name is literally the Conservatives
As a non tory voter I hope she stays.
Unfortunately a strong opposition keeps the likes of Farage at bay, he's surging in the polls now that there is a weak, unelectable tory leader
Unless you’re a reform voter, her staying won’t help the left in this country in any way.
@@AF2277SYes. The true horror is Reform becoming the main conservative party.
@@AF2277S I just wish being horribly right wing wasn't becoming more and more of a trend across the world. When did conservatives stop wanting to conserve things and start being radical lol.
I believe this is due to extreme left-wing political parties. When you ignore issues that people on the right care about, they will become even more extreme.
Denmark is an excellent example of how to balance both. A socialist party with one of the strictest immigration policies in Europe and including the numerous other policies. Address these and you will keep hard-right parties at bay.
The Tories didn't want Kemi as Leader; they wanted Cleverly. Unfortunately for them, they just dropped the ball when voting. She's truly terrible.
Some voted for her though they knew Cleverly was the person, just because they thought it was amusing tbh.
I think that's precisely the point. Scarpegoat Badenoch (and perhaps the next) and then Cleverly came as the right one.
The tories ran out of ideas, they couldn't sell anything else off without massive backlash.
her leading the tories was the greatest gift to Reform UK!
@@kostas0352 I’m no Farage fan, but I think it’s time the Tories were replaced.
@@SDDT1 Exactly, they’ve got complacent. Shame there’s no credible left-wing alternative to Labour. The Greens aren’t realistic and the Lib Dems are obsessed with the EU and won’t let it go.
Like, regardless of your opinion on Brexit. Returning ain’t happening as Orban etc won’t let it happen as it’d be to Putin’s detriment and the terms wouldn’t be as good as they were before. But the Lib Dems won’t accept it and move on. Not to mention that the Lib Dems seem like wannabe establishment democrats (think Pelosi, Schumer, Biden etc).
@@SDDT1 this, and a more representative voting system 👍
@@gameofender4463 neocons or neonazis who's better?
I think Farage would be a disaster.
What went wrong for her is her underlying personality.
She's blinded by hubris and ambition, has a thin skin, can't help but pick unnecessary fights and fundamentally did not learn how to perform in parliament or as a political leader.
It's like she only focused on how to gain power and attack rivals but never learned how to be an effective MP or Minister.
In short, she's seeking power for powers sake. Without a goal for applying that power towards, you're just aimless. And it shows.
@@bzuidgeest Compare and contrast with Farage. Not a fan of the guy, but he chose to withdraw candidates in 2019 to secure Brexit. That shows how he put his goals (Brexit) above his own ambitions.
@@gameofender4463 as an foreigner I don't know what to make of farage.
He seems to be in favor of pr. Which would better your political situation and lessen the power of a single party. But he is also clearly a populist. Using immigration and lies and fear as tools.
I'm not sure if it's his principles or he just thinks that he understands the British public well enough to know what manipulation does or doesn't work.
Getting out of the EU was a really stupid move, the only way it makes sense it for people seeking personal power.
So, she's Cersei Lannister?
It's what you get when politicians think Xitter engagement = votes and it usually doesn't correlate all that much on a national scale. Yet.
If regulations are what is making businesses fail, then how come Britain was doing best decades ago before we cut regulations
Yeah you are correct. For anyone not knowing this concept, here is a very short abstract, that leads to the original comment: Regulations exist (ideally) to provide a level playing field on which businesses can compete. If you take away regulation, it benefits the established big players, cause they can displace any potential competitor before they can esablish themselves. And once you have established full market dominance and displaced all potential competitors, its time for enshittification to maximise shareholder value.
there are more regulations today
@@FRIEDYOGURT-s4cno, UK has thatcherite supply side economics today which prefers low regulation and tax cuts..., although the keynesian one wasn't any better
Britain was the global superpower in the age of workhouses for the poor and smog pumped directly into city air. Large numbers of Business regulations have no direct correlation with economic success.
@@TheCloudhopper Quite to the contrary regulations stifle small businesses, and hence innovation while the existing companies have the resources to work around them. The UK is currently suffocated by regulations, chief among them planning
Badenoch is about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle
Stealing this, it's oddly evocative.
😂
And yet, the Goldwing used to have an ashtray.
@@SurmaSampo "Used to" maybe because it was useless.
@11bornrich The worked fine inside their design scope, just like the stereo systems available on big touring bikes. You just chose a poor example for your point. Take the L and move on dude.
I think the role of traditional media is often ignored by TLDR. If the British newspapers are working with Reform in finding and promoting issues then Badenoch will always struggle to get ahead of Farage.
Badenoch gets 6 questions every week at PMQs.
She's also leader of the opposition.
If she wanted to be noticed more she could be.
The only newspapers that are helping Farage are the ones he’s been associated with in the past. Most papers at this point just stir up issues, instead of actually reporting on much meaningfully
Is immigration not an issue? Or is it only something that exists because the media reports on it?
@@AF2277Serr that's sadly actually rather alot of newspapers: anyone remember err Brexit?
I remember when it was still shameful to talk about it, now we have parties actively trying to out bigot each other because we are exhausted.
Moving ever further to the right is a losing strategy for the Tories. People who want a far-right party will just vote for Reform, and by trying to emulare Reform extremists the Tories are losing the centre to Labour and the Lib Dems.
On top of that, it just legitimises reform's position, if one of the major parties offers no alternative and keeps copying them
@@SDDT1Clearly someone has not been paying attention.
I agree, now we have a vacuum on the centre right I wonder if the best strategy for the Liberal Democrats is to move to the centre right and take that position? Certainly trying to out Labour Labour won't work and theres a lot of parties cluttering to the left of Labour to not make that seriously tenable either.
@@SDDT1he isn't even calling them far-right
@@TexasTechUK The whole reason the Liberal Democrats have any supporters is because they are the party of progressivism. Labour, is not super progressive, and the Conservatives and Reform are well.. yeah, and the Greens are too small and seem like they'd be better as a environmentalist pressure group rather than a party. The Lib Dems offer an alternative to people who aren't super extremist but still want an expansion of personal freedoms, which the Liberal Democrats are famous for their support of, particular in the region of minority's rights. As such, driving their policy to the right would only accomplish one thing, they'd just lose all their voters who want social reform.
When a Tory MP was taunting Labour as "male, stale and pale" I knew this was a party I could never support.
There is no daylight between them and labour.
Why?
The problem for Kemi Badenoch is that she is Kemi Badenoch.
0:17 Oh my God, 20% of people think Farage should be PM?! What has this county come to that we seriously think he is the right person? It makes me sad.
The other two parties have done SO well haven't they !
Your centre left and right leaders selling your native population out for faux economic growth. Ignoring the suffering of hundreds of thousands of girls because they are white and attacking the native culture. He might not be perfect, but your two major parties have proven themselves to simply be left wing racists as well as failed economic managers.
@@SpamMouse My question is: tf did the libdems do?
Let's have 500 year more grooming gangs, but don't you dare elect a vaugly right wing PM!
People need to get their priorities straight.
Because we have a conservative labour and a liberal tories. There's no real right anymore, so lots have moved to reform. It's pretty simple.
The Tories need to call it a day and split, half go to the Lib Dems and the other half go to Reform UK.
You do know the tories have been around longer than all other parties right??? Its like saying the royals abdicate and start campaigning for political seats.
bnnn
Not from the UK and not familiar with many of the details but this pattern isn't unique. A party is in government for many years, they're losing popularity steadily as most would after an extended period, many of their top tier people either decide not to run.... They can see what's coming.... or are defeated and move on to other fields and what you have left is sort of "the best of the rest."
The party is now out of power and if the typical trends hold, is likely to stay out of power for somewhere around 8 - 10 years or so unless the incoming government really screws up. In this environment, you are rather starved for talent because most of your top tier people are going to go do something else until prospects look better.
It's awfully hard for any leader to get traction in such a scenario, especially those who wouldn't normally be considered leadership material. You just have to sort of try to muddle through and wait until the pendulum starts to swing your way again and then, you'll be thanked for your service by being shunted aside by those perceived as being better than you.
Kind of a miserable, thankless job being the leader right after a defeat but somebody's gotta do it. I'd say her prospects of becoming PM are basically nil and they won't be much better for whoever follows her unless Labour really screws the pooch.
This comment sums this whole mess quite nicely and reasonable.
I actually would agree this applies here quite well, once Rishi Sunak's government effectively threw in the towel, most of what you'd consider the heavy hitters in the Tory party left frontline politics and moved on. One thing that I also suspect doesn't help is that some many things are changing or haven't gone as expected both within the UK and at a global level, so its hard to decide what policies would be best to present to the public now when they may not be relevant a few years from now.
Well said. I would say that the Tories' fortune started to go downhill either when Cameron called the Brexit vote or when bojo came into power. If they get their act together they can become an electable party again but with how they've been acting I think it'll take more than 5 years to recover.
She makes Starmer look good. That in itself is enough to disqualify her
"for illustrative purposes only" was doing some heavy lifting
Let's be honest, it's more for legal/diplomatic purposes to stop people arguing about how accurate it is.
I know. What does it even mean? It's an illustration. Isn't illustrative the point of an illustration?
Most polls are saying that the conservatives are gaining votes from labour and Liberal Democrat from previous election (about 4-6% of previous voters each) but also loosing votes to reform at even higher levels (12%) which meant their polling number is similar to the election .
Gaining from Lib Dem’s is actually surprising for me.
Seems everyone’s shifting rightward.
I'd say that's less to do with the Conservatives doing more the win voters than it is Labour making terrible decisions which makes them lose voters. It's basically how every election is won. The party in power messes up so people want another party, whether they are better or not.
@@uc12341 but then what about the Lib Dem’s going Tory?
@@purpledevilr7463I believe it’s because in many southern constituencies only Lib Dem’s and conservatives can win the seat so many previous conservatives voted Lib Dem as a way to protest vote and block conservatives getting enough seats to form a government , and essentially Liberal Democrat’s are gaining voters from labour which is why they’ve stayed afloat at around 13/14%
@@uc12341 I feel like the people switching from labour to conservatives are people who thought Labour would be able to quickly solve all the country's problems and are now disappointed
If you showed her picture to the ww2 British soldiers they would have capitulated.
Probably factual.
What went wrong? She was a moderate Thatcherite that was the opposite of what the majority of the right in Britain wanted from the next leader. We want less economic liberalism and more social conservatism, less “meeting in the middle” and more attacking the institutions that hate us. You can’t claim to be anti identity politics and at the same time gloat about being a strong black Nigerian woman.
Because of a screw-up it was supposed to be James Cleverly as party leader, muppets!
I said if Badenoch was elected leader, the Conservatives would fall below 100 seats in the next election. It's nice to know she's doing exactly what was expected of her.
Even as a Conservative Party member I can see that she is just not electable (people either are or they aren’t) and she’s not doing a great job as leader of the opposition either
@@gbranton2992 To you as a conservative member, let me say this to you. To help you understand what’s going on as a non-Tory.
While I’ve been sympathetic to the Tories in the past at previous elections. I have absolutely no trust or faith in them anymore. Where I might’ve voted for Cameron and Johnson in the past. That sympathy is gone now.
While I’ve never voted for Farage before I can totally see why people are voting for him now. Imo, the Tories are now the obsolete party that’s hampering Reform. And imo, if the Tories really wanted to help defeat Labour, they should get out of Farage’s way.
On top of that, the Tories seemingly did absolutely nothing to repay Farage for withdrawing in 2019 to help Johnson. Which shows Farage put principles and priorities over his own success. Whereas I think the Tories are too egotistical and selfish to do the same.
@@gameofender4463 boo hoo, the tories who have done nothing but march to the right for 14 years aren't right wing enough for you
@@gameofender4463 What scares me about Farage, which no one talks about, is his economic policy. £150 billion in yearly tax cuts and extra spending, the money for which he says will be found by ‘reducing waste’ - as though waste was conscious government policy - with no plan for how we will actually cut this waste. People have been taking so much about his immigration plans - which I actually agree with - and related social policy that this has somehow gone completely under the radar. This spending plan is simply irresponsible.
I also think that many of the problems brought about by the Tories don’t come from their most recent leader but actually date back earlier. Boris was very obviously a total charlatan right from the start. Maybe it’s easier for me to say that because I didn’t yet lean conservative back then, but that’s what everyone who had worked with him before seemed to say. The economic problems date back to Cameron and austerity, which was simply a failed policy. Yet it is Sunak who paid the price for these earlier failures despite having a government which was actually improving the situation. He was restarting economic growth and put in policies which cut down on immigration which Boris had allowed to get out of control, while sorting out Northern Ireland’s position with the EU. He was the only conservative government in 14 years who actually deserved to win (and along with Gordon Brown, the only PM since 97 I actually admire) and of course it was on him that the faults of his predecessors, who people repeatedly supported, were pinned. I accept that these were still his party’s faults, but I prefer to vote for governments that will actually fix things, even if it’s their fault, than others who have no plan or will simply be economically incapable. It’s also somewhat ironic that people loved the Tories for throwing around free money during COVID and hated them for higher inflation and taxes right afterwards.
At the moment, the Conservatives are as much in the way of Reform as Reform is in the way of the Conservatives. Different polls give different parties the lead, but they’re all hovering around the same number. No matter how much it repels Reform members, the parties will simply have to work together or at the very least form a coalition at the next election. Neither is capable of winning on its own and while I fully accept that Reform may eventually make the stories obsolete - though this isn’t certain - this will take much more than five years.
@Codbckdjlnfkfj I read what you said, and I hear you. However people like a good story and change. Farage has both and the Tories have neither. No story, no message and no change. It’s the same old story, the Tories win and are in government and then it’s Labour winning and in government, back and forth and on and on.
Farage, while I’m no fan, represents that change from status quo. While both Tories and Labour are offering the same.
And I don’t agree, Reform are rising and the Tories are stagnating/declining. And while it may take time, Reform will most likely be ahead of the Tories consistently.
Also Reform would lose some support if they did any agreement with the Tories. The Tories have nothing to offer with an alliance. Reform is in the stronger position and shouldn’t compromise even 1% to help the Tories. Only the Tories would benefit from an alliance and I’m no longer interested in the Tories staying relevant.
The only thing the Tories should be considering is how long they’re going to drag their decline out for. Whether they gracefully withdraw from seats unilaterally as a move of good faith and passing of the torch. Or try and drag it out and Reform wins them from the Tories and ends the Tories at the ballot box. With the Tories being regarded as a bunch of egotistical, out of touch narcissists who put their own interests before the country’s. And who refused to bow out with dignity and grace.
Simply put, I don’t think the Tories will ever win again. It’s a populist time and the Tories aren’t populist. The only people who could defeat Labour are Reform. It’s just a case of how long the Tories want to help Labour instead of Reform.
Or to put it another way, “A vote for the Tories is a vote for Labour”.
believe me I’m torn at the moment between Reform and staying loyal. I joined under Johnson and only renewed for the leadership elections which cost almost about £10 for me at the time so I thought why not.
I prefer Reform in most ways policy wise and dislike the aloof elitist party culture of the Tories. My reluctance to switch is entirely from my skepticism in Reform and Farage’s ability to win an election. If the conservative are really lacking in political talent at the moment (so are Labour) and if they keep going the way they are then I can definitely see myself and more of the membership switching.
I agree with your take that these are populist times. The Conservatives should embrace it and I bet they would gain far more than they would lose. Though it may be too late
Johnson drove out all the competent Tories
Is reform still a limited company?
It used to be but I believe they changed that at a party conference in 2024 after election
@@SDDT1 Yep. I believe it’s with the electoral commission atm. Tbf Farage knows he could be the next PM. He’s not going to keep it a company under him if it becomes a negative.
Just looked on Companies House - yes, Reform is still a limited company.
Yes. Main advantage is that it prevents entryism.
Excellent video, and it's cool to see you guys building out your ecosystem - I know how much work building a digital multi-publication ecosystem takes! However, I would advise for viewer experience just to reign in the self-promos by maybe 20-30% as its dominance in video time I feel is increasing.
Bills and expenses are and will also be increasing unfortunately and hence so will desperation.
@ is understandable it’s always a compromised balance between revenue and content quality, especially in the media space which can be quite fickle.
I feel like perhaps there are slightly less intrusive approaches that could be used to reduce the number of promos in the video, such as banners and directions to CTAs in the bio.
Although I can equally understand that this approach they’re doing right now is probably most effective for converting viewers, hopefully they reach an inflection point where they’re profitable enough to consider rolling it back for viewer experience.
In my experience, media owners never make that call to be content with profits - so it would be good to see.
Putting to the Lib Dems to left of Labour is a brave choice for a infographic...but a correct one.
This was the Tories IDS 2.0 moment, Bad Enoch is as bad as expected and will not lead them in a years time let alone be leader for the general election.
Which then makes me wonder if they replaced Kemi would it be an rise or fall in the polls. On one hand it could be getting a better leader that sees them rise. On the other hand, it may make them look weak and desperate and see them go down more.
@@gameofender4463the public doesn’t mind party leaders being changed otherwise they wouldn’t have let the tories have a merry go round for the last 14 years. Badenoch simply can’t win because she’s directly involved in many of the Tories’ worst ideas over the last 5-10 years. No matter how bad it gets she personally has done worse. So people would rather Farage. The Tories will need a new MP from the next election to win again like how David Cameron did.
@@karmaascendant3936 Maybe, but what I think is also happening is people are interested in Farage’s journey/story over the last ten years.
I’m not a Farage fan. But remember where he was before 2014. He was effectively a nobody. Then he managed to win a European election with UKIP, then win the Brexit vote, then win again with the Brexit party, then become an MP, and is now looking like he could be the next PM. Some people might be following the hype or are enjoying watching Farage’s story from outsider politician to potentially the next PM.
@@gameofender4463 Honestly wouldn't matter much, the people barely paid attention to her leadership election in the first place (the US election was the same day and that completely eclipsed the news cycle, someone timed that exceptionally badly).
The Tories have slipped out of the spotlight and now they're flailing around somewhere off stage in the same bleak space as the Greens and the Lib Dems. Feels like the country treats Reform as the de-facto opposition now.
5:20 Someone forgets that Tali'Zorah was only appointed to the Admiralty board in a ceremonial role, that even she admits she shouldn't be a leader, that she was only appointed because of her knowledge of the Geth and not her leadership ability, that she fails as a fireteam leader (both times) and that every time she leds a time they all die, so while she's an amazing character she's anything but a leader character... Sorry, I've been playing a lot of Mass Effect.
Cringy culture warriors should be laughed at, not given positions of power and influence.
Thanks
The Tories are so weak they probably shouldn't even be the opposition.
People expect the prime minister of their country to be British. Kemi, although not a stupid woman, isn't. She is basically a Nigerian immigrant. There lies the issue with voters.
Exactly. Why are people so scared of saying this fact? She’s not British, she’s a Nigerian. Why would Britain want a non Britain to lead the country?
I don't get how someone who is an immigrant can be anti-immigrant, but that seems to be Kemi's policy
@@supern0vaelike the original poster said, she’s smart, just no British. Even she recognises the issue immigration is presenting to the UK. It’s short term economic growth, in exchange for cultural cohesion and long term prosperity. This is especially prevalent when you consider the housing market and the strain placed on public services.
And before anyone says in racist or something, i don’t have immigration, it’s great for the country in manageable quantities, just not excessively.
As an anchor baby who previously lobbied for higher migration she's never going to win that 3rd of the electorate whom immigration is the biggest issue.
At the same time her inflammatory and performative character isn't exactly going to win over centrists to the party.
Yes I dont get how her name, her skin colour and record is going to win over a farage voter to be the 'authentic English' conservative
Watching Kemi in the house is like watching a slow motion car crash
No suprise. As a Labour voter - I want her to stick around! 😂
JenRick should be leader
Kemi knows nothing about the British people.
There it is. That's why you guys don't like her
Reform 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Badenoch is if Uncle Rufus was both British and a woman
😂😂😂
You mean Nigerian, surely?
She's already pretty much ( well ) done. Neeext!
What policies could they actually provide that solves the problems they created. Traditional conservative policies have always hurt us in the long run because their policies revolve around individual ownership of property and that has proven to lead towards assets being controlled by a small disproportionate amount of people. If they went further and more radical that would happen faster. Labour are mildly less severe.
TLDR; everything
4:53 it’s funny them listing all the problems as if over the last 14 years they had nothing to do with running the country… Surely any politician would know they would garner more support attacking labours policy than long lasting issues that supersede labours time in power and is likely the tories fault. 😂
Who'd'a thunk that trying to go right and trying to infringe into the space already reserved by the Energetic European Right-Wing Party instead of just falling into the wide-open centre-right niche that's *Right There* wouldn't work?
Not ragging on Kemi for that, though, because doing that is exactly what she was elected by the Dead Pool to do.
No more Labour, no more Tories
What went wrong? Well she is being herself, seems like all the answers you need.
I’m a young conservative chairman. Been doing some investigating. Pretty much any action has been non newsworthy and very much behind the scenes. Headquarters are slimming down and readjusting their teeth after getting punched so hard.
i hate that in the intro, the "R" of TLDR didn't get completed before it ends... this keep bugging me so bad...
It’s oddly appropriate though
At a time in which immigration is the issue mobilizing voters, they picked a basically immigrant party leader for diversity points. Could this have gone any other way?
Actually it's the logical choice. Saying no to immigrants is racist, the way around this is to put an ethnic minority in charge because "look, they can't be racist, they ARE one of the minorities we are being nasty to.
Cleverly is laughing right now.
The Tories need to reorganise and remove their old guard root and branch. Then apologise for not being Tories and the terrible decade of stupidity the oversaw
Maybe an African woman shouldn’t be the face of British conservatism 🤯
So race based voting? To what end? Should black British people pay the same taxes?
@Bob-v8h Are you a boomer Bob? Do you understand what a nation state is?
@@stardeastroyer so you’re going to ignore my questions?
@@Bob-v8h Yes 🗿
In all fairness its her leadership style that isn't working. She doesn't have the charisma or gravitas for the position. In my opinion she's acting more like a 3rd party leader than the leader of the opposition.
So whilst she has very Conservative values, that does not translate into great leadership skills.
It would be the same under Jenrick
What is “transgender legislation”? Do you mean trans rights legislation? And what laws specifically are we talking about?
Men in skirts wanting to be in women’s bathrooms 💀
Yes, they’re talking about trans rights legislation. Although she really hasn’t changed too much on that front, except for stacking the government with anti-trans religious activists to ensure the Cass review came out the way she wanted it, and therefore restrict access to puberty blockers, which Labour is doing anyway since Wes Streeting is just as anti-trans as she is. Meanwhile HRT is still available for minors, and the Gender Recognition Act has been virtually unchanged since 2004. The only thing that can be said of Bedenoch is that she and the Tories starved the NHS for funding, which negatively affected the ability of trans people to get healthcare, but that was not specific to trans people. Literally everyone was negatively affected by that.
@@SarastistheSerpent why not just say trans rights legislation
And at the time of Johnson resigning as prime minister I was in hospital and they had to ask me who the prime minister was
Starmageddon - that's funny considering what the Tories have done to Britain over the last 14 years - get a grip, people.
Because Starmer isn't fixing the damage the Tories have done like he should, in some ways even running to the right of them.
@@PhillyThug you expect labour to have magically fixed 14 years of tory crap in just the few months they've been in government? things take time
The labour religion going strong
@@jackster2568 the right have been getting their own way with increasingly right wing politics for 40 years and still are. But you all have to keep throwing your toys out of the pram and act like spoiled children who aren't getting exactly what you asked for
@@PhillyThugI dislike him with a passion but let's give them more than 6 months to fix a mess 14 years in the making
Reform and Farage. That's what went wrong for her.
Tories supported first past the post while it hurt the left. Bet they wish they didn't have it now.
Well, she's not British and she has spent her career being pro-immigration... so there's that.
Damn, the Tories really know how to pick their leaders.
I got the impression the Tories actually wanted someone else to run the party, but then mucked up tactical voting and the result was she got into power.
Tactical voting should be illegal. Its fundamentally undemocratic. Its explicit manipulation of the democratic result. Just like with the general election giving Labour 64% of the seats despite winning only 34% of the vote while the Greens and Reform got 1% of the seats each despite winning 7% and 14% of the vote respectively. This lead political scientists to rank this election 5th most disproportionate in the world, worse than many literal banana republics and dictatorships.
When Gordon Brown was prime minister I used to keep singing his name to Golden Brown by The Strangers. Now I keep singing Kemi's name to Good Enough by Dogdy "oh, it's Badenoch for you, it's Badenoch for me, It's Badenoch for two, it's what I want to see."
Are u ok?
@@ufoash1066 of course not. I'm posting comments on youtube, I must be absolutely clinically mad.
Tory MPs not putting Cleverly in the final 2 was a monumental mistake
It feels like such a backwards world where someone can point to their work marginalising a group of people as evidence they get things done. Like yes you're a monster but as long as the public knows you're an efficient monster.
You have just described every modern politician of every party.
It's three months over the holiday season. Kier ran on a ming vase strategy, and if Kemi wants to as well, she'll need more time to make an impression.
Maybe despising trans people isn’t good idea? Maybe? Possibly? Who could ever have predicted this!?
The majority of brits don't support it, it's better electoraly to be against it.
Her ascention to leader of the Tories was a great victory for diversity; it showed that simply not being isn't some magical attribute that makes you competent.
Dont like starmer, dont like Kemi, Farage has bum worms. We really are finished
Ed Davey?
@LyndonBainesJohnson1968 Next to no chance he'll win with our electoral system. With FPTP all he'd do is split the vote
@@LyndonBainesJohnson1968 Barely bites.
@@punbasedname9032no but his party could certainly have the seats to play a major role in a coalition
@Britboy404 Potentially, it all depends what seats they win and who would have won there otherwise
I will say without any shame, I do not want a dual-citizen in charge of my country going forwards. It hasn't worked under previous prime ministers, who act like airdropped regional managers and seem completely oblivious to the decline of our nation. We need an actual British person to run our country, someone who's got skin in the game. Just like Rishi Sunak, who's now over in California, Kemi can just return to Lagos if this all blows up. British people? We're left with all the problems they've created. Furthermore, I want any dual-citizens out of governing our country. The latest "scandal" with Labour's Tulip Siddiq, is confirmation that people who have dual-citizenship and work in central government, are more prone to corruption and foreign influence.
2:55 (kind of) unrelated, but as a Nigerian, i’m really questioning her choice of braids here. I’m at uni now and wouldn’t feel comfortable with this hairstyle since the colour is a bit juvenile but it also looks so so messy and stiff. Surely standard middle part small box braids would be the best move for her? Very standardised and tidy
Presenting the most hapless politician in a while, quite the achievement in itself considering all the alternatives.
Affirmative action
It's been 2 months, and I had completely forgotten who she was for the first 5 seconds of this video.
As an American can someone expand on this?
Edit: I meant expand on what was already said
She's the leader of the opposition.... apparently
@@chrismcintyre5065 I am assuming in practice reform is the opposition
The Conservatives were in power for a long time until they lost the election in summer 2024. Labour are now in government. She took over the leadership of the Conservatives and has been pretty ineffective so far.
@@NCR-National-Reclamation-Govreform has only 5 seats in house of commons
@@NCR-National-Reclamation-Gov😅, 5 supposedly MP 's most of whom are either not here or just vacant air heads...
Maybe people don´t want an african for pm like they did not wanted an indian
It seems that today you can only surviva as being a Fascist...or a media show clown we have a problem!
All Starmer needs to do is stop marching to the right. Right wing voters will always call him a commie anyway and he's alienating everyone else.
The Conservatives need to head right, and stop pretending to be a moderate version of Labour, which is effectively what they were for most of the last 14 years. The Conservatives if they don't will be swallowed up by Reform. They need to think of how to make Brexit work and what Britain's place is in the World. They need to look at Braverman.
ofc a non-british does not manage to lead a "conservative party"
She has said the she set the bar quite high for herself by being better than Liz Truss 🤨
>"Why is Reform's popularity growing!??!"
>*led by a black woman*
Truly a mystery
So embrace racism? Embrace judging by skin rather content of character?
@@Bob-v8hembracing color blind ideas improved anything
@@leekleek1 so you embrace racism because far left idea didn’t work?
@@Bob-v8h Are we supposed to pretend this isn't blatantly a major reason why she will not attract votes?
At the end of the day she was elected by Conservative Party rank and file members over a white man so I do think this oversimplifies the issue. In general I would make the case that the UK scores pretty well compared to other countries with racism.
Oh dearrrr, oh dear ... we are in trouble ...
Tories felt suicidal by selecting an African woman immigrant as the head of their party. Making them look weak, directionless and of course extremely woke.
Does not matter who they get. They have destroyed all credibility by policies on migration and net zero. Even if their leader said all the right things I wouldn't believe them.
Extremely, even.
Wow.. good to see the ruzzian bots have turned up.,
No problem with Indian pm
"She highlighted her background as an engineer and said this shiws her fascination with how things work."
Set a higher bar.
going even further to the right isn't popular, who'd have guessed...
Conservatives are loosing votes to reform since the election , so it is kinda popular but when there’s a party that seems more legitimately in the space and so it’s a very poor tactical decision from the conservatives
@@SDDT1 Labour and Tories have done nothing but move right for 30+ years. Marching right is not popular, reform just know how to con people better
It's incredible how bad she is at her job, Robert Jenrick was clearly the better candidate by far and it shows how utterly worthless the conservative party is that he wasn't elected to be leader.
The better candidate was James.
"We're trying to find the guy who did this"
Badenoch was a DEI choice, not one based on meritocracy. She also was not born in Britain, an important element of being PM of Great Britain. Sunak has demonstrated his lack of enthusiasm and diligence for the people of Great Britain, but only his desire to further the business ambitions of his wife and family, and now he does not even live here!
The U.K. doesn’t have DEI though