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

    her and wes streeting can have a contest to see who can kill the most trans kids

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Why do you keep posting this hysterical nonsense?

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't think it's controversial to think that people should be an adult before making a life-changing decision such as gender transition, is it?

    How does this amount to the ridiculous hyperbole of "killing trans kids"?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Trans kids taking puberty blockers is less life altering than starting high school.

    Stop pretending you understand this issue and learn to mind your own business

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    My congratulations go to the reform party and Nigel Farage, probable prime minister like 10 years from now.

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

    The chance of this happening is remarkably close to zero.

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

    I remember thinking the same about Johnson once.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I think the main difference is that Johnson has always had aspirations of being bigger and greater. He will destroy anything if it means the chance to grab more power.

    Farage is more like Sinn Fein, just a complete blocker to any progress for anyone else.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    No he won't. They've got four seats, one of which doesn't really count because his support is just a holdover from him being a conservative, that's not exactly the makings of a political dynasty.

    Also can Nigel Farage even be arsed?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Shattering the glass ceiling for who's allowed to be a total piece of shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    So Rwanda's "very lovely gap years" are back on the menu.

    In the words of the late Molly Ivins, one of the best political columnists in the U.S.: "The first rule of holes. When you're in one, stop digging."

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I've read that comment five times and I have absolutely no idea what you're trying to say.

    I love her Fujitsu postal bug truther stance. It's so wonderfully unhinged!

    As far as I am aware she has never publicly made any statement about the post office scandal. I can imagine that if she did make a statement it would not be very coherent, but since I do not believe one has been made I'm not sure what you are referring to.

    Given how Starmer's neolib Labour

    You need to look up neoliberalism because you clearly don't know what it is.

    decided they want to be the Truss/Sunak Tories on policy

    What? Seriously what the actual hell does that mean? Truss didn't even have any policies she was only around for about 4 minutes. Meanwhile Sunak's policies altered depending on who the last person he talked to was.

    she has a non-0 chance of becoming PM this decade!

    The conservatives lost the election because they dicked around with the economy, slashed social benefits, messed about during the worst cost of living crisis in a generation, and engaged in culture war nonsense rather than actually dealing with the very real crisis that was unfolding in front of them. She is literally more of the same, an extremist who is constantly going off on her hunt to eradicate "wokism". Which is the evil boogeyman of the hard right.

    So because she's the worst example of the previous administration, she's going to become PM. Are you drunk?

    The only way the conservatives are going to get back into power is if they convince everyone that they've got rid of all of the extremist rubbish, and are now capable of acting like a real political party with adults. Electing an extremist is pretty much the opposite of doing that.

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    ultimately, what we need and have never had, is a candidate with a right-leaning cultural policy and a left-leaning economic policy, unfortunately, democracy favours the sitters-on-the-fence and nobody has ever been able to put the pedal down and get it done

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