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friendlygingercat
As a lifelong Tory (albeit very much to the right) I was watching this conference. The stadium was half empty and the applause luke warm. Apparently 50% of the members want Kemi gone. She has rules out any collaboration with Reform but it looks like all the parties are moving to the right.
Kemi was never right for the job. I think it's because I have a sense that she doesn't have strong original ideas, she tends to follow a theory and isnt great at targeting "lets intervene "here" on "this".
And I may be wrong, but maybe a certain arrogance towards the grass roots conservatives? I'd need one who is, to answer this point really.
Kemi first stood as an MP in 2010 under her maiden name of Adegoke. It was in Dulwich in south London, which has a number of black residents. Her pitch was that she was a Nigerian and would be a representative for Nigerians in Westminster and would dispel the idea that all Nigerians are fraudsters. Her father came from Nigeria to help her with canvassing. She was trounced by Tessa Jowell.
In the intervening years, she lost her claim to represent blacks and has turned against some of them. She has denied that there is institutional racism in the UK, even though she earlier claimed that racist attitudes stopped her from becoming a doctor. She seems a little confused! The truth is, I think, that Badenoch's priority is herself. She has an inflated opinion of her own abilities and is extraordinarily arrogant. The black voters in Dulwich saw through her in 2010 and I think others are seeing through her now. Her skin colour and gender are a distraction. People have been afraid to criticise her in case they are accused of being racist or sexist, which has protected her to some extent. She latches on to anything which will, in her opinion, win her votes.
