Kemi Out as MPs Refuse to Put Members’ Favourite Through to Final Two
Kemi Badenoch has been knocked out of the race to become the next Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister after the fourth round of MP voting.
Mrs Badenoch, the former equalities minister, got 59 votes. Her spokesman said: “This is a great achievement and demonstrates the support for her honest politics and vision of change for the country and the Conservative Party.”
Lee Anderson, the MP for Ashfield who backed Kemi Badenoch, said some MPs “got cold feed and weren’t brave enough to back Kemi. I didn’t want a continuity Prime Minister which is what we’re probably going to get now.”
Rishi Sunak came top on 118 votes, up three from yesterday; Penny Mordaunt came second on 92, up 10; Liz Truss, the Foreign Secretary, came third on 86, up 15.
With three left and Sunak likely to be one of the final two, it’s now a head-to-head between Mordaunt and Truss to be the other candidate in the shortlist of two sent to Tory party members to select a winner. Sunak was polling poorly among members, but as Mordaunt’s wokery and flaws have become more widely known she has been slipping and the latest ConservativeHome poll puts Sunak slightly ahead of Mordaunt. Truss, on the other hand, would wipe the floor with either among members, on the latest poll.
Kemi Badenoch topped a recent poll of members (including having a clear lead in run-offs against each candidate), meaning by refusing to back her and put her through to the final two Conservative MPs have essentially denied members their favourite. As Kemi was also the most clear-eyed candidate on the culture wars swirling around race, gender, free speech and climate (surely central to why members rate her) this is not a good sign that the Tories understand what they need to do to win elections on a robust conservative platform.
Probably the best outcome now is a Truss administration with a key role for Kemi, though Truss’s history as a Remainer will be a weakness. On the other hand, she has been outspoken on opposing what she calls the “woke brigade” in recent years, and has also pledged to revisit the Online Safety Bill to ensure freedom of speech is protected.
It is reassuring to see Mordaunt slipping in members’ esteem, meaning should Truss be denied a spot in the final two (which would be quite an insult to members, denying them their second favourite as well as their first) it may well be Sunak. Not the worst outcome by any means, as he seems to be largely sensible and is understood to have a healthy scepticism of lockdowns (albeit mainly behind closed doors), having opposed Boris’s unforgiveable push for one last Christmas. On the other hand, on wokery, free speech and Net Zero he has hardly distinguished himself in either direction (he was similarly largely absent on Brexit, despite supporting Leave), and unlike Kemi seems reticent to engage in the culture wars, which doesn’t instil confidence given the resolve now needed to counter the constant tide of nonsense. Hopefully a key place would be found for Kemi in his administration as well. However, it remains to be seen how well a rich former banker with an even richer non-dom wife will fare in the country.
Probably the best outcome now is for Kemi’s supporters to rally round Truss and make the best of a suboptimal situation. Whether a Truss-led Government can win an election is a big unknown. If it did, it would surely have to be because of a strong record on policies and competence, rather than a reliance on charisma. No bad thing, of course. But then the policies and competence do have to be there, and plain to see.
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Deselect your conservative MPs!
I rather think that by ditching Kemi many of them have just deselected themselves!
Claiming Badenoch was the member’s favorite because only 69% didn’t her want as prime minister (according to a poll) is quite a bit of a stretch. A favourite should have majority backing and not just be the least unpopular among a set of unpopular candidates.
Still a disgrace the members weren’t given a real choice though. Fifty shades of you know what.
The Tory Party needs a leader who is least influenced by the WEF, which to me now seems like Truss.
Shame about Badenoch, but expect she will get a good cabinet post.
Truss is full-on WEF, but she doesn’t make it quite as obvious as the other two.
I get nostalgic sometimes for having politicians who are answerable to the electorate, not some supranational body, powered by the richest people in the world, determined to subject us to many coming hardships in the name of, well I’m not really sure, tbh.
I would have thought this would be under Sedition or even Treason, but everyone who could stop this appears to be bought and paid for too.
Yes
Treason for me at the moment as I don’t want to own nothing and be happy
When I know that Klaus and co will own everything and anything they do wish!!
Snd we can go whistle. Evil.
In this case, you might gain some comfort from knowing that the WEF-as-secret-world-government fairly tale is being planted by Republican keyboard warriors in their eternal quest for drawing all of the world into US domestic politics. The best thing to do with that is Ignore it. Schwab is nothing but a professional brownnoser and lobbyist.
I disagree entirely. The Reset seems to be on course at the moment although the European farmer’s protests are potentially going to throw a spanner in the works.
Who are the republican keyboard warriors RW. ?
Curved ball for me! ? I am still focused on this awful technocratic ID reset like you say Huxley about the food producing farmers being brave?
Lets be honest something nefarious! is going on and has to be organised by somebodies, who do not have the mass populations freedom at heart.
I was born in the 60’s I feel something is wrong.
The Great Reset is one of seriously many, as content-free as buzzword-laden publications, of the WEF, all carefully mirroring whatever the political class is currently talking about and going back for a few decades. As opposed to all its predecessors, it happened to become popular because it happened to be published at a certain time and happened to be useful for the crude propaganda of Biden’s political opponents. But domestic power struggles in the US of A do not matter
for the rest of the world. Only their outcome does once it’s known and even that only to a degree.
Obviously, our overseas overlords care no more for our freedom than they would ever decolonize Puerto Rico (or even the Philipines, where a supposedly democratically elected puppet government very carefully apes whatever the US government is currently doing — no use arguing with the people who pay the bills). But that’s a given regardless of who’s currently sitting in the White House.
Hey liked because you have replied and tried to explain.
Let’s keep our inquiring minds open!
My concern is that these ‘overlords’; which I think we can agree, are in the majority selfishly driven and as you say don’t care about our freedoms.
They do seem to, in the present day manifest themselves even if their front window! by NGO’s who name themselves (WEF WHO ect) and intervene in misanthropic ways.
Positively though, If you think freedom is important, so do I. I have no problem in our pooling our knowledge ideas and resources to expose those who have this terrible future agenda. Who ever you and I think they are at the moment.
I will not see or experience it as much as beloved family who will.
But I am a quality listener. I listened.
Still concerned though.
It will end as the Truckers protest in canada did I’m afraid 🤯
okay not sure ?
I will keep my eye out for that though? Not sure I understand that but thanks for telling me anyway I will look.
I welcome other perspectives shared.
You are way off course with that assumption , Schwab is TPTB top Salesman ! He totally believes in his mantra , everything happening against the citizens of the world is on PURPOSE !!!….
I wonder if there will be some spoilt papers in constituency partys. Perhaps some MPs will select the one that is most likely to lose, so that Rishi wins?
I will be writing in Badenoch as a protest at being denied the choice by the ridiculous rules of the Conservative Party for choosing a new leader.
If anyone believes there is any such thing as democracy remaining in our political system then, quite frankly, they are deluded. There is only the illusion of democracy. The only way to cause the machine to stutter is to either not vote or to vote for an independent. A large no vote will send shivers down the spines of the elites and will cause more of the sheep to look up from their grazing. Then we have a chance of real change.
We got a leaflet from the Liberal “Democrats” asking who we voted for at the last local elections. They didn’t include the independent candidate amongst the tick box options. Telling?
Tick? No, I’m very cross!
What a dire choice.
Pick from thick, talentless, or clueless. All descriptives interchangeable. Not forgetting to ascribe dangerous to each one given that they are all WEFfers.
I am utterly baffled about the support for Truss as an allegedly “right wing” tory. I don’t think she is even truly a Conservative – let’s look at her history. Both her parents were left wing in their views (describes as to the left of Labour). Mother was a CND activist and wouldn’t even campaign for Liz when she stood for the Tories (but see below about LT’s real political leanings). Considering what we saw with Bunter and his nut job father I think this is important. Truss studied Philosophy Politics and Economics at Oxford i.e. intended from day one to be a career politician, with no intention of getting a real job and has subsequently not gained any useful work experience to be anything other than a politician. She was President of the Oxford Union LIBERAL DEMOCRATS!!!!! She was also on the national executive committee of the Lib Dem Youth & Students. In spite of this clear left of centre background she managed to become a David Cameron (remember that treacherous piece of s@*t) A-list candidate, having twice failed to get elected previously. What does that mean; two things – a) she doesn’t give a damn about anything other… Read more »
Pst … 2016 is over. With the so-called Brexit referendum won with a majority in the region of a measurement error, probably mostly because bad weather in London stopped people from voting, you’ll ultimatively have to come to live with the fact that about half of this country’s multicoloured and many-nationed voting class does not share that particular opinion of yours.
NB: This is not an opinion on this political nevergreen. It’s just a discussion which is over. Time for something more important. Like, say, despite the horrible climate emergency of a full two days of warm weather, things start to look seriously like thunderstorm in Reading.
🙂
I’d bet big money it was actually 57: 43 and would have been 62:38 if the sad mentally-ill person hadn’t been given a gun by the security services and encouraged to shoot the MP who didn’t give a toss about his difficulties.
It doesn’t matter anymore.
Still a lot to play for Brexit wise and I would not trust anyone to make the right decisions putting Britain first if they had a strong Remainer background unless they had recanted.
That’s roughly 50% of the voting population of this country and unless you’re advocating for sending them all into gulags until their death, you’ll have to start judging people by their actions and not by a single vote they made in a particular way six years ago. Boris the Johnson had a strong brexel background (to the degree he can be said to stand for anything). Due to him, the UK has been governed by WHO stooges for the benefit of foreign powers from March 2020 to January 2022.
“2016 is over”.
Their spiteful murderous insane unhinged revenge isn’t though.
Should read “Democrats”, not Democrats.
The “Conservative” party could more truthfully be called the liberal party though…
The Conservative Party is no longer conservative, the Labour Party is no longer the party of labour, and the Liberal Democrats are neither liberal nor democratic.
Told you. Toby, you need to admit that our MPs have their masters, and they aren’t us.
See my comment from yesterday:
“The notion of choice here is an illusion.
There are much bigger forces at play than what a people believing in democracy want, never mind what Conservative party members want.”
I know. Yes. At the same time I feel for Mr Young, he works so hard to uphold the values that most of us BTL hold dear! I am sure you and I, cheer him on because we the people need hard working hero’s like him and the team and we would not have the free speech union and DS and the exposes! Without them. However on the bright side Joe, I do hope I can detect ? I think ? that Mr Young and his team are beginning; very slowly, to recognise the global, Non national, non governmental, void of democratic accountable elite organisations, that are with out doubt, pulling some important, significant strings. LOOK how Tugg the soldier ‘nice’ man ( MP) and Gove, embarrassingly fell over themselves to ingratiate themselves with the heavily guarded and cloak and daggers Builder-berg demons . Unelected ! Elites. A lot of good people-are still putting the dots together; including DS and let’s not underestimate the revelation in the end! is hard to swallow, so of course the reluctance to see it is great!! Same repeated in History., “But why would they do this? Good folk ask with incredulity ”Sometimes the why,… Read more »
I completely agree. It’s because I respect Toby like crazy that I tell him what I think. The debate is everything.
Yes I definitely knew you did. !! Debate is key.
The only way Truss can and will win a GE is by going to war against Russia.
Which she would love to and will do.
So, we’re f*cked. Either way.
At least it won’t last long.
We can barely put a Brigade in to the field. We aren’t going to war with anybody.
The 296 MPs who voted against Badenoch are idiots, scum and not conservatives, who deserve to lose their seats and see their party destroyed.
But all the candidates, even Badenoch, were rubbish on covid, and all MPs except a tiny few were rubbish on covid.
I’m not aware of a single MP who was right on both lockdowns and gunk jabs.
Drax
Whoever “wins” this farce will be controlled by Billy and the WEF so our circumstances are going to become difficult to say the least.
‘Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.’
One of the few times I’ve been tempted to use a profanity on here. This is an absolute, self-defeating disgrace.
Conservative MP’s are obviously too politically stupid to see that Badenoch was their only hope. Continuity or Labour lite candidates like Truss, Mordaunt and Sunak (TMS) are all guaranteed election losers. Only a bold choice that Badenoch gave them any chance at all in a future election.
TMS are all election losers, they are unlikely to get the 165 seats that Hague got in 2001 and it would not be surprising if they dropped below 100.
I expect membership of Reform to rise rapidly in the coming months and that they will get 4 to 6% of the vote in the next election. At the same time you will see voter turnout drop to an all time low as most voters will look at the people running and choose “none of the above”.
The fools in the governing party deserve to be tossed out but the rest of us don’t deserve a Labor/SNP government that will be as incompetent and woke as the Sturgeon government.
These fools think that they were going for a “safe pair of hands” when in fact their lack of boldness in choosing Badenoch was the high risk choice.
Pity as I said in an earlier comment was half toying with the idea of rejoining the Conservative Party but not with any of these three clowns in charge (if that’s not an oxymoron). All fully paid up members of Klaus’s gang of thieves and bullies. God help each and everyone of us.