[satnav]

She has been pretty poor as leader of the opposition but she hasn't been helped by the fact that most of the shadow cabinet have been lost in action. The shadow chancellor has missed plenty of open goals, the shadow Foreign Secretary has been silent on Ukraine and Tariffs and the Shadow Home Secretary just comes across as a prat. Over the last week IDS has been on the news more than the entire shadow cabinet.

[Youngian]

Meanwhile Jenrick has been making plenty of 'what would Nigel say' videos.

[Andy McDandy]

She has been pretty poor as leader of the opposition but she hasn't been helped by the fact that most of the shadow cabinet have been lost in action. The shadow chancellor has missed plenty of open goals, the shadow Foreign Secretary has been silent on Ukraine and Tariffs and the Shadow Home Secretary just comes across as a prat. Over the last week IDS has been on the news more than the entire shadow cabinet.

Most of the experienced ones quit or were ousted at the GE. She's got the creepy twins (Whateley and Trott) but none of them are really making any impact.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Jenrick was the main one in a Mail splash that the Government should stop "appeasing" Muslim terrorists on the back of the attacks in prison. The attacker was working in the kitchens, not sitting in his cell eating Lobster Thermidor. I don't think this prisoner ought to have been anywhere near knives, but I'm not aware this policy has been changed since Jenrick was in the Justice brief.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Most of the experienced ones quit or were ousted at the GE. She's got the creepy twins (Whateley and Trott) but none of them are really making any impact.

It's very difficult for a shadow to make a big impression at the best of times, even the Shadow Chancellor- Philip Hammond was barely noticed as the actual Chancellor. But Mel Stride doesn't seem to be up to the job, and barring a big collapse in employment, which we haven't seen yet, he's probably not going to improve.

One of the few Shadow Chancellors to make an impression is George Osborne, but that was only really true post-crash when he had a simple (and disastrous) austerity message to push. When he rather sensibly was matching Labour's spending plans, he wasn't cutting through.

[davidjay]

I wish a senior politician would have the balls to say, "I don't have time to watch television. I'm too busy running the country."

[Yug]

Now trying to make British society as toxic as the USA.

The recording of non-crime hate incidents by police forces in England and Wales should be scrapped in all but a few cases, the Conservatives have said.

The party will try to amend the government's Crime and Policing Bill to ban forces from logging such incidents, except in limited circumstances.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) had "wasted police time chasing ideology and grievance instead of justice"...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70zlgz4yjeo.amp

Nothing to see here. Just a national political Party doing their best to make bigots and bullies lives easier.

It's very easy to claim everything is tickety-boo when thoudands of low-level incidents are deliberately left out of the records.

[NevTheSweeper]

Now trying to make British society as toxic as the USA.

The recording of non-crime hate incidents by police forces in England and Wales should be scrapped in all but a few cases, the Conservatives have said.

The party will try to amend the government's Crime and Policing Bill to ban forces from logging such incidents, except in limited circumstances.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) had "wasted police time chasing ideology and grievance instead of justice"...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70zlgz4yjeo.amp

Nothing to see here. Just a national political Party doing their best to make bigots and bullies lives easier.

It's very easy to claim everything is tickety-boo when thoudands of low-level incidents are deliberately left out of the records.

Except that the present Labour government is creating a toxic environment in this country, eg, for LGBTQ+, the elderly, the disabled, refugees, the working class, and supporting bigots.

Say what you want about the Conservatives, at least they're honest about their intentions, in contrast to Labour....

[Andy McDandy]

In that case, why don't you fuck off and join the Tories?

Always wanted to say that line.

[NevTheSweeper]

In that case, why don't you fuck off and join the Tories?

Always wanted to say that line.

That's what the Corbynistas said back then. Guess what? Labour got trounced in 2019.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I've seen stupid before, but never this sort of stupid.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Why stop at Kemi Badenoch? Starmer and Jean Marie Le Pen, they're basically the same,

[Crabcakes]

Except that the present Labour government is creating a toxic environment in this country, eg, for LGBTQ+, the elderly, the disabled, refugees, the working class, and supporting bigots.

This sudden concern being entirely consistent with suggesting you’ll vote Reform, of course.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Even by Kemi's standards, this is a bizarre attack line. Especially for local elections where many people want exactly this from a local councillor, and will vote for smaller parties and independents who they think will put the work in. Beats voting for a pub bore who'll bang on about EU mandated trans toilets or whatever.

[Crabcakes]

I’m genuinely not sure she could be worse at this if she tried.

[Andy McDandy]

While in recent years there's been much success in courting the thick and proud of it vote, and railing against the clever bastards, I'm not so sure there's much mileage in going after the popular and competent bastards.

I think her comment was either to paint LDs as Ever Decreasing Circles type interfering neighbours, or to say they were good for local issues and not much else. In the latter case, an odd thing to highlight at local elections.

[Youngian]

Kemi made these remarks to Jordan Peterson. A commentator from Canada, where conservatives have also shit their pants.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Kemi has been fulsome in her praise of the Canadian Tories. Poliviere was doing proper conservatism, unlike (by implication) Rishi Sunak. One area where Poliviere had got some traction was housing supply, which Kemi is unlikely to be able to run with. To his rare credit, Simon Clarke used to push this but he lost his seat and I can't think of anyone else who does.

We'll see very soon how good Kemi's Poliviere judgement has worn.