Kemi Tells Starmer He is Leading “The Paedo Defenders Party”
It was a fiery PMQs today, with Kemi Badenoch on punchy form, pummelling Starmer for his recent failures and telling him at one point that his own MPs report Labour being called “the paedo defenders party”. Isabel Hardman in the Spectator has the details.
Badenoch’s tail was up this lunchtime because she felt she had been leading the debate on student loans. Describing them as a “debt trap”, she said “it is time for all of us to do something about it” and asked whether the Prime Minister would cut the interest on the loans.
Starmer responded that he was “glad to hear that the Leader of the Opposition has finally admitted that they scammed the country on this, and that applies to everything they did in government”. He added that this Government had “inherited their broken student loans system” and would “look at other ways to make it fairer”. He then trumpeted this morning’s news on falling energy bills and took credit for that, saying: “We promised to cut the cost of living, we are cutting the cost of living.”
Badenoch replied that energy bills were still higher than when Labour came into office. She then pointed out that her party was under new leadership, and that many Labour MPs wished that theirs was too. She didn’t say this, but those Labour MPs also feel that the continued reliance of the Prime Minister on blaming the last Tory government is no longer washing with the public, who feel Starmer should have made more headway and showed far more authority by now.
Badenoch was also pretty vicious when Starmer tried his regular joke about Conservatives defecting to Reform: she told him that his party was smaller now too, and that in one case this was because a Labour MP had been arrested on suspicion of child sex offences. No wonder, she told him, to audible gasps, some Labour MPs have been reporting being called “the paedo defenders party”. She was, she added, only repeating what Labour MPs had said, something that has been picked up in vox pops carried out by broadcasters in Gorton and Denton.
Worth reading in full.
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Pot and kettle come to mind. The Tories could also be called The Paedo Defenders Party for IGNORING Pakistani Muslim Rape Gangs during their 14 YEARS IN POWER.
Was it not Labour that set up the student loan scheme.
That’s the scheme under which EU foreigners get loans they usually don’t repay.
Where English students took loans to study in Scotland but Scots and EU ones got grants.
Wow— that’s a good example of “Anglo-Saxon Privilege”, including the fact that water bills are almost free in Wales & Scotland (not sure about Northern Ireland), while water bills are exorbitant in England, in order to fund all the Third World Ethnics & hostile foreigners who refuse to pay, yet cannot be cut off by the water companies…
PMQs is a total waste of time. The questions are never answered, and once they are forced. It was always the fault of the last government. The players change, but the excuses remain the same.
PMQ is a farce. 2TK never answers any questions. He just mentions ‘the last 14 years’ and goes on the attack.
Yes indeed.
Queer stalin has one answer to all questions – “breakfast clubs, liz truss, energy bills coming down”, it’s truly pathetic.
Not true. Every week, without fail, he tells us about his amazing success in creating the effing Breakfast Clubs.
I can’t take the Tories seriously but I do have to chuckle seeing the Overton Window shift to the point where this kind language is used in Parliament by the Leader of the Opposition.
A lot has changed. Maybe not enough. But the elites have overreached and people are waking up.
Judging from the number of paedos who seem to be lurking in the Labour Party, they don’t just defend them.
If the cap fits