Cliff Notes – Kemi Badenoch has lost the Tory party
- Kemi Badenoch has lost the Tory party losing the influence to keep life long tories from jumping ship.
- She said Tories who want to defect are welcome to join Farage. By encouraging them to leave, she’s accepted she does not have what it takes to make them believe that Conservative party have a future.
- Following recent high-profile defections, she suggests that those focused on political gamesmanship rather than serious policy should find parties that better fit their agendas.
- Badenoch criticises Left-wing policies for contributing to an expanding welfare state and asserts her commitment to drawing limits on state support while advocating for self-sufficient families.
Tories who want to defect are welcome to join Farage – but you won’t be happy with his pint and cigar | UK Politics News
Kemi Badenoch has told Tories who “want to jump ship” to Nigel Farage’s Reform they are “welcome to do so”.
Following the defection of former Conservative chairman Sir Jake Berry on Wednesday, the Tory leader said anybody else who wants “more welfare and higher taxes and more spend” is welcome to join another party.
In a candid admission, she said there are people “who are not Conservatives, people who have probably been holding us back for a long time, then they should go to other parties that fit in with their values”.
She will go down as the Leader who folded the Tory Party
Similar to how a football manager can lose the dressing room, Kemi has lost the Tory benches, the writing is on the wall for Badenoch. She will go down as the Leader who folded the Tory Party.
But she is determined to fight on, right till the end, until sh finally defects her self or resigns the few Tories left to the backbenches next to Greens and the doors.
“A lot of people come into politics just to play the game of politics, and they will follow polls and defect wherever they can, like they do in banana republics, to wherever they think that they can win,” she said after a speech on welfare reform.
“All of the people who are not interested in coming up with a proper policy plan and just want to jump ship, are welcome to do so, because when the time comes of the next general election, the public are going to be looking for a serious, credible alternative.
“We are the only serious, credible alternative.”
The real threat to Labour is Corbyn
Earlier this week, another former Tory cabinet minister, ex-Welsh secretary David Jones, also defected from the Conservatives to join Reform.
She take a jab at Corbyn and his new party and against Mr Farage, Ms Badenoch said: “Make no mistake, he is Jeremy Corbyn with a pint and a cigarette on welfare.
What’s worse, the stats on social media suggest he isnt very popular on there. Her video has less than 20k views, which is poor for any leader. For perspective, Jeremy Corbyn got 1.2 million on his last post about welfare.
But the Tory leader went on to say “He shows his true colours, promising these unaffordable giveaways with no plan to fix the system.”
Ms Badenoch kicked off her speech by saying the UK is “becoming a welfare state with an Economy attached”.
People, outside politics, are underestimating the impact Jeremy Corbyn will have on the next election. The former leader of the Labour party Jeremy Corbyn is on the verge of launching his new party and once he has is up and running, he will be the real threat to Labours dominance and take seats that Farage has set his sights on.
She accused left-wing Labour MPs and MPs from every other party of voting for higher welfare spending after they voted for the government’s welfare bill, which was heavily watered down following threats from Labour rebels.