Kemi Badenoch – the Anti-Woke, Pro-Free Speech Candidate – Jumps into Lead Among Conservative Party Members Who Will Elect Winner
A new poll by Tory Party website ConservativeHome has seen previous frontrunner Penny Mordaunt dramatically replaced by Kemi Badenoch, the anti-woke and pro-free speech candidate, and with a huge lead of 11%. This is significant because those polled are the Conservative Party members who will elect the winner out of the shortlist of two sent over by MPs. Fraser Nelson at the Spectator has more.
“Mordaunt’s ship is becalmed,” says Paul Goodman in the ConHome analysis. She led Badenoch by 46% to 40% in an either-or poll last Tuesday. But in this different poll (with all five candidates [and four days later, after a lot of negative coverage for Penny in the Conservative press]) she’s on just 18%, with Liz Truss second at 21% and Badenoch quite clearly ahead on 31%.
The bookmakers are still betting that Tory MPs will not let Badenoch get to the final two (below) and you can certainly see why. At this stage, much is decided on backroom deals and horse-trading, neither of which are Badenoch’s speciality. She’s no Francis Urquhart, but she is more direct, which is perhaps the quality about her that Tory activists like.
This seems to vindicate Kemi’s decision not to pull out and back Truss, though whether at this stage she can defeat the momentum building behind Truss as the ‘the right-wing candidate’ is unclear.
But frankly, if the Tories elect Penny ‘trans women are women, testosterone is evil‘ Mordaunt to lead them then they deserve every kicking they get at the next election.
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Good. I hope her lead sticks.
Oh, sorry, as a married, middle-aged, white, sceptical British bloke, I am not expected to be in favour of a black woman in power, am I? What will the Woke Brigade be thinking? They’ll be getting angry about not needing to correct my thinking, I am sure.
Still, I guess they can put the Woke Stamp on me and claim success.
A bit like when Abraham Lincoln took credit for ending slavery in the USA, when the majority of normal Americans had already woken up to the lies they were fed about Africans by the powers that were.
But it’s micro-aggression. Whenever a person stained with the original sin of being born White says anything nice about, is friendly towards, accepts as equal a Black person (other shades are included in ‘white’) or just doesn’t notice, this is subconscious racism.
This may be of importance to those supporting Kemi’s team. !!
The National Pulse team have a journalistic piece that exposes Rishi’s conflict of business interests with China, The Works Economic Forum and digital control systems. He is not a friend of ordinary Citizens his fingers are in the pie of the global elites!!! unfortunately this conspiracy theory like all the rest is panning out to be true!!
Sorry not sure how to show a link only a screen shot I took .
Have a look National Pulse. I think Rageem Kassam is the journalist.
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He’s ex Goldman Sachs. Of course he’s a WEF-sponsored Globalist. He and his family aren’t even committed to the UK; the only thing he’s committed to is himself.
If Tory MPs fail to listen to their members on this and elect some WEF approved drone instead, they might as well concede to Labour now.
Sorry but there is no way that the Conservative party hoi polio will be given a choice that is not on board with the globalist manifesto.
They will never allow her through to the final two.
that’s what the selection system is there for.
You can choose between bad and worse.
Its the Great Reset after all.
I am absolutely done with mainstream politics, I will never again vote for any of these fraudulent parties. I’m intrigued with Kemi as a person though, what are her views on lockdown and vaccines? Does anyone know? The answers to those two questions will tell me whether she has traditional conservative values i.e personal responsibility over state control.
Right now, FL, I would take someone a little flaky on any point, but who has the general direction of travel that might keep Labour out. That would be the true disaster. I think Kemi has what it takes. Yes she is relatively inexperienced in high government and would need a good team around her, but I think she would be capable of pushing through the delivery of policy. Besides, I just want to see the look on the faces of the ‘Britain is racist’ mob, when the Tories elect a black woman to lead them and the country.
As one Conservative party member said, Starmer wouldn’t know what to do with her.
Indeed. I recall she toed the party line at every stage. Looks like she voted for Plan B. None of the candidates spoke out against the madness. Though I agree with NeilParkin too that we may as well have someone capable of beating Labour. But I will not vote Tory unless they publicly recant over covid.
I think that’s where I disagree with both you and Neil. Labour, Tory’s, Lib Dems… they’re all same, believing that they can ride roughshod over the people they’re supposed to represent. The 80+ majority of the last election gave the Tory’s a clear anti-woke, anti-Big State mandate. But what did we get? We got told to bend the knee, acknowledge heaven only knows how many ‘genders’, address people by their chosen pronouns, run around like headless chickens because of the weather, and, of course, put under house arrest and all but forced to participate in a medical experiment. Nope, the system is broken and those who still support it are signing away their freedoms without necessarily knowing it. That is my belief anyway.
‘…much is decided on backroom deals and horse-trading, neither of which are Badenoch’s speciality.’
Yes. That is why she is the stand out candidate.
And who is her most senior supporter?
By Gove! So it is. If you wanted the MP with one of the best track records in backroom deals and horse-trading, who would you pick?
He was her supporter a week ago, he changes horses quickly.
Politics is shallow, occasionally we hit lucky,which could be said about Margaret Thatcher, although many saw a red mist when she came on tv. We’ve had mediocre since then, Boris was flawed but would have won the next election for the Tories if they had given him time. Not impressed with any of the candidates for Tory leader. None of them even mentioned uncontrolled immigration and realism on net zero most people couldn’t give a stuff if they don’t know what a woman is, banging on about that is a smokescreen.
Tory party members should be able to whittle down to 2 then hand them over to the MP’s to vote for who they want
Given the byelection results of the last year, Bunter was leading his party to its doom.
He has been an unmitigated disaster for the people of this country and may, not inconceivably, be up in front of the beak again at some stage in the future.
The hospital clearances policy of his government killed tens of thousands of the elderly and infirm before their time.
A charlatan and a fraud, the country is well rid of him.
Even if I am not in 100% agreement with her on policy, Badenoch is the only candidate worth voting for and who will bring change. All of the others are tired old machine politicians whose collective slogan should be “expediency over principle” or vote for me I am the prettiest one”
The whole point of a process by which MPs reject candidates so that only 2 are presented to the membership is to ensure that there will never be “another Thatcher.”
The successful candidate will be one who is guaranteed not to offer any real change or rock the Establishment boat.
There isn’t a hope in hell that Badenoch will reach the final two.
I fear you are right, but hope that you are wrong.
If the tories don’t put Badenoch forward the tories will have their backsides handed to them at the next election, and they would deserve it!
“But frankly, if the Tories elect Penny ‘trans women are women, testosterone is evil‘ Mordaunt to lead them then they deserve every kicking they get at the next election.”
Absolutely true, but do the rest of us deserve to be punished for the woke Tory party?
Mordaunt would be the UK’s equivalent of former Canadian PM, Kim Campbell. In 1993 Campbell became leader of the Conservative Party and as such replaced Brian Mulroney as PM. 132 days later, she was out after having “lead” the Conservative Party to annihilation.
This is not an overstatement, they went from being the Government to having only 2 MP’s, not a typo,literally two.
I really like Kemi, and I hope she wins. No doubt all the loony left racists will hate it, which is a bonus.
Like always, these polls have to be read in reverse. When taking this into account, the clear outcome is that an overwhelming majority of Tory members doesn’t want any of these people as next party leader. That Badenoch won because only 69% rejected her outright is probably more due to being fairly unknown than to anything she ever said or did.
This should boost her support with the MPs, many of whom will want to be seen as having voted for the ultimate winner. Whether or not she has the Iron Will required to push back against the Sir Humphries is another question, but at least there is precedent of a female PM doing just that!
Her first degree was in computer systems engineering (followed by a later law degree). Someone with a science/engineering/numerate background would be a start.
Given the track record, a PPE degree should disqualify anyone from high office
I assure you a real lot of formal software engineeing is all about chasing unicorns despite it being well-known that these don’t exist, and about perpetually working on perpetuum mobiles believed to be just round the corner for over 60 years despite it’s known these cannot be built. It’s also (meanwhile) woke to the core as a fair lot of money can be made in the field even despite complete lack of talent for it, interest in it or real-world qualifications. If any kind of appliance was designed to the usual standards for complex software projects, we’d all consider ourselves lucky everytime something doesn’t immediately explode after being switched one. Badenoch worked part-time for a now defunct multinational based on this degree while getting a law degree. Then, she turned into a financial analyst/ financial services consultant and finally broke (after multiple failed attemtps) into professional politics. That doesn’t necessarily disqualify her as prime minister but neither is it a recommendation. One would need to know a bit about what she actually wants to accomplish should she end up in the position. Making jabs at blairism as outdated, talking about shrinking the state and the need of change is a… Read more »
Making jabs at blairism as outdated, talking about shrinking the state and the need of change is a bit thin.
Fair comment, and other cautions also. But what the hell else are we supposed to pick out of the field? And I did say only ‘would be start’, which doesn’t read as and wasn’t supposed to be an enthusiastic recommendation.
This leadership election is a profoundly depressing affair, and fills me with foreboding for the future.
Ms Badenoch wants to break up the Treasury.
That alone should be enough to recommend her.
Whitehall needs a major shake up generally.
The Ministry of Defence needs closing down; a fresh start.
The Department of Health…..
The Conservatives have to be radical now. They are doomed already so more of the same is pointless.
But Beer Starmer is hopeless.
Kemi Badenoch might just be able to bring the Conservatives back from the brink.
Oh, I do hope the Tories are teetering on the brink.
‘Salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.’
The only candidate that I can see winning in 2024 is Badenoch, unfortunately members will have to choose between Sunak and Truss. I’m not sure that I can be bothered to vote for either of them.