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Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Picking Badenoch is such an own goal, left leaning and moderate people don't like her because of the far-right culture war rhetoric and she's very unpopular with the Reform voters she's suppose to win back.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    To be fair, when would a Conservative leader ever appeal to someone who is "left-leaning"?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    the big society tories make some mealy mouthed "commitments" to recognising there is a problem, like Cameron.

    NB : I am not saying he did things well, I am saying he at least tried to pay lip service

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There's plenty of conservative voters who are not raging racists. At least there used to be, since there isn't much space for them in the party anymore they've gone to the Lib Dems for the most part

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The vast majority of voters for both main parties are not racist.

    I mean, Conservative members (who are generally more right-wing than the electorate) have literally just voted for a black woman as leader over a guy throwing all the red meat he possibly could at them.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Human nature is a lot more complicated than you think. Badenoch as a black woman, has managed to be both racist and misogynistic, while not seeing any issue with that.

    If a black woman can be racist then I guess the conservative electorate are okay with that. For now anyway, I still have my doubts about her long-term survival.

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