Many congratulations to Kemi Badenoch on her Tory Party election victory. A momentous achievement and thoroughly well-deserved in my humble opinion.
Ms Badenoch has shown great poise and dignity, yet she has demonstrated a steely determination and resolve too. These are the virtues with which we ought to not only identify but embrace wholeheartedly as well. Here is a leader who could very well become PM, which is exactly what we need right now.
Is this Maggie Mark II, Possums? No. It isn't. How about Kemi Mark I? Well, that's more like it. This lady's her own person, undoubtedly honed by the example of Maggie, but this is certainly no reincarnation.
What somehow detracts from something that should be celebrated for many good and valid reasons is when Dawn Butler saw fit to do precisely what Kemi doesn't do. Ms Butler inserted the race card into the deck.
She shared a social media post by Nels Abbey, a London-based Nigerian journalist, featuring “seven rules for surviving a Kemi Badenoch victory”. These highly offensive remarks were re-posted on X stating….“Today the most prominent member of white supremacy's black collaborator class (in Britain) is likely to be made leader of the Conservative Party. Here are some handy tips for surviving the immediate surge of Badenochism (ie white supremacy in blackface).”
Now, if the boot was on the other foot, Possums and a Tory or Reform UK MP had uttered such contemptible words, either via X or otherwise, then can you imagine the fallout? What a spectacle would have been in store of hyperventilated (mostly faux) exasperation.
During the summer riots a zero-tolerance approach was rightly adopted to (so-called) right-wing thuggery with swift and harsh justice applied without fear certainly; the favor part has to be debatable since there are many clear cases of gross judicial overreach.
By any definition this implies double standards when measured against this clear race-baiting example. And what does Two-Tier do about it? Apart from mildly rapping Ms Butler over the knuckles, sweet bleep all! Commenting on the post, Two-Tier said: “She shouldn't have said what she did, and she has deleted it, and quite right too.”
That's it? Only a mild rebuke and nothing further? In opposition, Sir Keir stripped the whip from Rupa Huq after she described Kwasi Kwarteng, the then Tory chancellor, as “superficially black”. Ms Huq apologized for the comments, made at the 2022 Labor conference, and was readmitted six months later. Where's the consistency, where's the gravitas? How about practicing what you preach in zero tolerance for racism, Prime Minister?
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, had likewise earlier described the comments as “clearly appalling”. Pressed further as to why no action had been taken against Ms Butler, she said: “As I said, I haven't seen the post and I think those sorts of issues around party issues, those are always ones for the Whip.”
That Pontius Pilatean moment is equally despicable, passing the buck by effectively deflecting perfectly legitimate outrage at such blatant race-baiting.
Ben Obese-Jecty, Tory MP for Huntingdon, maintains Two-Tier should have sanctioned Ms Butler as he did with Ms Huq, saying “It never takes much for Labour's mask to slip. Dawn Butler is not alone on the government benches in holding this view of Kemi.
This will be a test to see whether Keir Starmer removes the whip, or effectively condones Butler's abhorrent approval of this smear.” Any comment, Ms Cooper or Prime Minister?
Kwasi Kwarteng also echoed calls for the whip to be removed, accusing Ms Butler of engaging in “really hateful divisiveness” telling GB News: “I genuinely think that, given what she's said, she should have the whip removed from her. There should be some disciplinary measure.”
Nevertheless, Two-Tier welcomed the election of Ms Badenoch as Tory leader, saying that “the first black leader of a Westminster party is a proud moment for our country”. What kind of hypocritical plonker says something like that with a straight face?
It states the obvious, but it's amazing how much non-prejudicial expression fails to resonate with those who somehow see themselves as the standard bearers blocking anything politically incorrect. In other words, unless it carries an official woke stamp of approval as jiving with the prescribed narrative it shouldn't be taken seriously, or it should even be ignored entirely.
Kemi Badenoch is the newly elected leader of the Conservative Party on merit pure and simple. It doesn't matter where her ancestry originates; it doesn't matter what her ethnicity is; it doesn't matter what her religion is: and it sure as hell doesn't matter what her REAL gender happens to be! She's the person for the job. End of.
The PM and his Labor faithful should get a life, get over it, and rather apply their attention to the mess THEY are making of the government.