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Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick will be Tory leader as Cleverly is eliminated
(www.theguardian.com)
Doubling down on crazy town then.
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That'll be Jenrick then, can't see the membership vote for a black woman. She would be hilarious though as she's both incredibly stupid and arrogant. Both are nasty pieces of work.
Apparently she's quite popular among the Conservative base. Jenrick might be a bit too Ukippy for them.
Yep you might be right. And let's not forget that the cons base voted for Truss so everything is possible.. Regardless who wins, they're both going to try and get voters back from Reform by lurching even further to the right.
Impossible to do so with an ethnic minority leading the conservatives. Racist/right wing britons won't vote for an ethnic minority to be prime minister.
Quantitive source : The previous election
Qualitive source : LBC caller says Rishi Sunak isn't British https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPYdzIt7p7s
They'll justify it by saying she's "one of the good ones".
Lol. The Conservatives didn't lose because Sunak was brown.
People are so desperate to call out racism that they'll just start imagining it in places it isn't. 😂
well, it's right there in the qualitive source.
One person who calls into a radio station. Great sample size there.
Ok, and the election results has the sample size of ... just shy of 11 million right wingers. They said that they'd rather vote for a white man with little chance of getting in due to being a third party over having a brown man in charge.
How do I jump to this conclusion? The radio caller confirms what we know from being exposed to these kinds of people, and the election is quantitive proof of it too.
People didn't vote Conservative because they'd consistently failed on everything they'd promised for years. If Truss was still leader instead, the defeat would have been the same.
You're talking bollocks and trying to find racism where isn't any.
4,117,610 million right wingers voted for "conservatives but more racist" and they're out there making it about race. yeah, sure, I'm the one jumping to conclusions.
The only person making anything about race here is you.
"conservatives are raciss lol"
Kemi will win as she's been the favourite with the members all along, and Jenrick has the charisma of a wet tea towel.
Another electoral defeat in five years (that's assuming either of them last that long).
Don't have a horse in the race really but I particularly dislike Jenrick so would have rather seen Badenoch vs Cleverly
I hope they pick Badenoch, she has a better chance of making the party utterly unelectable.
OK, but then Farage's new National Front wins and replaces the tories. not exactly a good outcome.
Shit. I forgot about that nutcase
He relies on being further right than the Tories, will be harder to be further right than Kemi