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I think most of us wish Badenoch well. I note senior Tory figures are already slip-sliding away! Good show. I agree with Andrew Lawson below, she will succeed if she has the moral integrity and fortitude to stand up for what she believes.

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I like Kemi but I do wonder if she is going to have enough support within the party to be able to stand up against the lefties in their ranks.

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The last black leader of the conservative party and PM was a super rich, woke, privileged failure who led the party to electoral disaster and allowed the present weak and destructive Labor leader to become the PM. He is now very unpopular after only a short time in the job. A bit like our Aust PM, who is all talk and no substance; lacks leadership and has done nothing to strengthen the nation or build wealth,military security or national unity and has dropped living standards and allowed massive unwanted immigration. The birth rate, an indicator of a healthy society has collapsed.

Will this new black woman leader be any good? Depends on her values, morals, beliefs and if she has a backbone to actually stand for something constructive.

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Meritocracy ? about bloody time . More power to her .And what is so unusual for a labor leader to lack guts ?

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Another Iron lady in the waiting room

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I don’t think so. She used to write fur the Spectator.

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Could use her over here.

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If she speaks up for the Nigerian Christians who are being killed and kidnapped at alarming levels I might have some respect for her.

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Absolutely. Sport on! Concur totally! Damn good point.

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The world is silent on the persecution of African Christians especially the Nigerians .

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This disgraceful state of affairs is one of my hobby-horses and I take every opportunity to write about it or to raise the subject. I agree with you completely. May God look upon them with mercy.

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And what about the plight of the white Christian English speaking South Africans languishing in squatter camps after being shot and kicked out of their homes and farms ?I understand between 4 and 6 hundred thousand These people in the main would meld into our population seemlessly but our gutless ,useless government are too afraid of offending our masters in the UN .

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Absolutely. I agree. We could have the white farmers here but our government is behaving disgracefully. We take the Arabs before them.

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Who hate our guts for not wiping our arse with our hands ,

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Thank you, very much for reminding me, mate. I have been preoccupied with the Nigerians, the Copt, Indians and Chinese! But you are so very, very correct. Why we don't accept them as refugees is a national stain. I was very vocal on this point several years ago, during the Rudd years. To their shame the coalition took bugger all interest. The swineherd Turnbull and Morrison, the purported Christian! Yeah - Right On Boris!! I am filled with disgust at our pathetic government[s].

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Thanks for that comment as for the opposition we didnt have one after Tony Abbot was knifed by that creep Turdball . We have got a chance with Peter Dutton but I cant see any benefit for our South African Kith and kin .

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"the progressive commitment to identity politics is only ever about securing power."

On the money, James.

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Maybe. I am not confident in Mrs Badenoch. In fact it wouldn’t matter who the Tories put in they are a silly party who believe in nothing. If Farage and Tice can get themselves together and really oppose with strong policies about immigration, freedom and rein it in spending, then things might change.

Robert Jenrick sounded like the stronger candidate. He looked like he was going to get some change going. But now the Tories will just mark time and maybe limp to a victory next tine but need to rely on Reform to govern, if the Tories don’t continue to implode.

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Farage would seem to be a better bet At least he hasnt got the baggage of a gaggle of bed wetter lefties to contend with in his party .

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But is that willing to do the hard yards and truly oppose the woke nonsense. At the money he and Tice and Badenoch have walked away from deportation and remigration. Is Farage just a businessman playing at politics.

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Time will tell but my gut feeling is not .(hope so anyway )

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Kemi Badenoch certainly is a straight shooter, but will or can her rhetoric on immigration be translated into action. Or is it far too late for the UK.

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I wouldnt write the Brits off just yet Joseph Kennedy (US ambassador to UK in 1940 )gave Britain six weeks before the Battle of Britain (Hitler was his little best mate )

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Spot-on James. Starmer’s comments on Kemi’s skin colour & gender are demeaning, why even go there?

Go Kemi!! 👏🏼👏🏼

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