Badenoch criticises Tory handling of Brexit
In her first major speech of 2025, Badenoch acknowledges the Conservatives "made mistakes".
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Badenoch criticises Tory handling of Brexit
In her first major speech of 2025, Badenoch acknowledges the Conservatives "made mistakes".
A cursory look suggests this is the same old guff, largely criticising May and her coterie for being too Remainy to have a plan for Brexit, and the EU for forcing the withdrawal before the deal. Just another chapter in the Tories' "Brexit was inherently a good idea sabotaged by others" songbook.
'everybody else's fault' again. 'We didn't have to heed the warnings given, and now we've lumped the country with the worst set of decisions in a century.'
A dereliction of duty, gross incompetence. Need tried and jailed.
at least get yodavek in as well...
Excellent politics, she can jettison the blue rinse brigade to Reform as well as the youngsters when ol' Nige tells the crumblies he's pledging an ironclad annual tenfold increase in all pensions.
I don't know whether the party bigwigs will let it happen (several of them might have slipped off to Reform already themselves) but without a major course correction she really could be the death of the Tory Party. I have literally no idea who their target voter base is now, they're trying to hold a febrile & fragile coalition together but both sides are desperate for the other to either flee to Reform or the Lib Dems, either of which could see them implode utterly. Hardly anybody wanted Badenoch, and she's too looney for the last Remainer sensible ones and doesn't quite fit with the vision of the other lot.
spurned former sex favour concubine nadine dorries is on question time in a moment, could be hilarious.
4 minutes in.
"there aren't enough people wanting to join the (nursing) workforce."
what twit* killed the nursing bursary?
now it's "the black hole of the nhs".
horrendous scum.
"there aren't enough people wanting to join the (nursing) workforce."
what twit* killed the nursing bursary?
now it's "the black hole of the nhs".
horrendous scum.
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Not even a murmur as we approach 24 hrs from those right, be it media or here so agitated and angry for those rich elderly losing WFA and now everyone else going to have every benefit means tested and further with state pension seen as benefit for the poor under Badenoch Tory Government. Mmm wonder why...
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Tories are looking into 'means testing triple lock', Kemi Badenoch tells LBC | LBC
Labour has accused the Conservatives of putting older people "on notice" for cutting the state pension.
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Not even a murmur as we approach 24 hrs from those right, be it media or here so agitated and angry for those rich elderly losing WFA and now everyone else going to have every benefit means tested and further with state pension seen as benefit for the poor under Badenoch Tory Government. Mmm wonder why...
Tories are looking into 'means testing triple lock', Kemi Badenoch tells LBC | LBC
Labour has accused the Conservatives of putting older people "on notice" for cutting the state pension.
I did see a former Tory, now independent, member of the Lords, a former Pensions minister themselves (Ros Altmann), essentially said "WTF, she needs to explain this now" in response.
"What we urgently need is clarification of what on earth she means... What does she mean by means testing the triple lock? The problem we have in going down the route implied – and I don’t think she probably means it – is that every pensioner would start getting a different state pension again. Whereas the whole point of state pension reforms is that there should be a basic flat rate minimum state pension and then encourage people to top it up with private pensions. As soon as you introduce means testing to the state pension system, you disincentivise from bothering to save in their private pension.”
Remember though, that Badenoch has described herself as physically "incapable of making gaffes".
Can't imagine you'll be hearing or reading those words, in that order, very often.Not even a murmur as we approach 24 hrs from those right, be it media or here so agitated and angry for those rich elderly losing WFA and now everyone else going to have every benefit means tested and further with state pension seen as benefit for the poor under Badenoch Tory Government. Mmm wonder why...
Tories are looking into 'means testing triple lock', Kemi Badenoch tells LBC | LBC
Labour has accused the Conservatives of putting older people "on notice" for cutting the state pension.
The triple lock should end. 100%.
The Telegraph showing an admirable concern for the unemployed. About time, I say.
They should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
People probably don't want to employ Jonathan Seagullis because they've seen what a thick, vindictive, spiteful cnut he is.
My heart somehow fails to bleed:
"These are really, really good people who could make a difference in most organisations and would work hard to prove themselves, they just need a chance. And they’ve held really senior positions – I know former ministers are struggling to find work.”
The problem they have is that if they were ministers in the recent catastrophic Tory governments then the sort of "difference they could make" is a matter of public record and you can understand why no competent organisation would be interested in letting them loose. Gullis is certainly the primary example here. Wore a dunce cap for the whole nation to see and now wonders why he can't get a teaching role.
A trawl of LinkedIn shows how many ex-Tory MPs are jobseeking. Theresa Villiers, the former MP for Chipping Barnet, has a profile that says she is “exploring a new career in the academic and business worlds… seeking new opportunities – university roles, non-executive directorships and advisory/consultancy”
Really feels here like she's very used to not having a proper job and doesn't want to start now? I'm sure we'd all like a couple of non-executive directorships to turn up to for a few hours a month and offer our thoughts over a big liquid lunch before tottering off again but the real world doesn't work like that, happily not even for failed Tories.
Sir Charles continues, “I thought I had a couple of board jobs to go to, but they did not materialise post the general election result. Fortunately my 19 years as an MP has taught me how to deal with disappointment.”
I'm sure we can all relate to that! I've always got board jobs coming and going on the back burner, haven't you?
Unbelieveable sense of entitlement from this lot. I'll also assume the Telegraph has never published similar when large cohorts of Labour MPs have lost seats?
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