They deal with diversity better than labour that’s for sure!
Labour can’t get away with being as diverse as the Tories.
People feel they can trust a black or asian Tory not to open the borders and just let all their mates in.
Just look at how often right wingers try to link Sadiq Khan to Islamic extremism for no good reason at all.
The parliamentary party is not the Tory membership.
Hmmm I don’t know, I don’t think the last election is great evidence of that. It’s probably one of the unique circumstances that also helped Reform.
The public and the party ranks are different imo. Race definitely plays a role when it comes to trust with the public, the Tory party seem happy with anyone who drinks their kool-aid.
Badenoch is an odd case either way, the other day she was talking negatively about Lagos to prove her right wing credentials.
She’s popular with the membership, that’s whats propelling her bid.
Probs not amongst reform membership
I reckon he wins by at least 20%. Tune in next week to find out.
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1848060925661843803?s=46
Our politicians are so shit
After Starmer’s garbage comments on the issue, I guess the Tories were feeling left out to prove their credentials.
He wrote: “I’m not ashamed of our history. It may not feel like it, but many of our former colonies – amid the complex realities of empire – owe us a debt of gratitude for the inheritance we left them.”
What a bastard.
You can draw a tough line on repearations but those are highly disqualifying ignorant comments.
Jenrick confirming his status as an opportunist worm. Kemi for leader
Indeed. There’s a massive difference between being against reparations and saying the countries that were invaded and had their populations enslaved and deported owe Britain a debt of gratitude.
That’s some deeply stupid stuff.
Pretty comprehensive win for Kemi. Glad the membership saw through Jenrick and his Rightwing grift. I would still make JRM as chairman though
Kemi has potential but I’m not sure she has the discipline plot the path to power given the electoral map and staying power of reform.
She really needs to drop the cultural war stuff now that she’s leader. She should model herself on Cameron as the tip of the Tory umbrella. The Tories arent reform and they shouldn’t try to out do them.
Similar to KS, and like she did during the leadership election, don’t outline policy yet. Small c conservatism should be the broad direction of the Party’s stance and messaging.
Damn, all the diversity in the conversatives party. Never would’ve thought she was gonna win. Thought it’d be close, but that Jenrick would come through.
All the interviews I’ve watched her in, she’s performed extremely strongly in. She’ll be fierce competition for Labour and honestly wouldn’t be surprised if she becomes Prime Minister over the next 5 years.
Whether this country would vote for a black anything to be leader though, remains to be seen.
I agree, but they are never going to let that stuff go.
Some.of the culture war stuff she won’t drop and she shouldn’t I think.
A lot of the electorate agree with her on it.
He just has to smooth the edges a little.
https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1852676831154930128?s=46
Important point.
Kemi it is then.
Fair play she got the position she was after.
A very nasty woman though who I hope her and her acolytes doesn’t win any election.
While people talking about mental health is a positive, the socialisation of mental health so everyone has to treat you differently has failed to improve people’s mental health outcomes. As one academic put it, across the West, ‘the meaning of ‘safety underwent a process of ‘concept creep’ and expanded to included ‘emotional safety’… The subjective experience of ‘harm’ became definitional in assessing trauma’. Psychological and psychotherapy professions numbers went from 102,000 in 2002 to 223,700 in 2023. In 1999 the NHS spent £4 billion on mental health, which had risen to £16.8 billion by 2023/4.
This approach now offers economic advantages and protections. If you have a
neurodiversity diagnosis (e.g. anxiety, autism), you are in a category similar to race or
biological sex in terms of discrimination law and general attitudes. As a child, you may
well get better treatment or equipment at school – even transport to and from home. If
you are in the workforce, you are protected in employment terms from day 1, you can
more easily claim for unfair dismissal, and can also require your employer makes
‘reasonable adjustments’ to your job (only revealed after you are employed). By 2024,
mental health was the number 1 issue for new welfare claimants, with this as the
primary claim for 41% of all new disability related benefit claims.
Election years away and my options are looking pretty shit.
Could one argue that we do have a ‘mental health endemic’ in the UK though?
Much more than other states in Europe from the looks of things. 41% of disability benefits cited from mental health alone is quite alarming (assuming those stats are true).
Is life really that bad nowadays, or are we now living at a time where millennials, Gen Z and alpha’s aren’t used to ‘going without’ (especially Z’s and alphas) and so therefore anything that isn’t a perfect Instagram life, is now considered a half-life?
Each to their own, describing people with autism as having economic advantages (What is that anyway. Freedom pass?) is a ridiculous statement and most definitely not accurate nor is it fair to the unique experience they have with the world.
Extremely nasty to go after them (by extension the disabled) like that for the suggestion of a ballooned spending.
Goddamnit, where are my economic advantages?
The economy has basically been in the toilet since the crash of 2008, what’s this notion that the younger generations are used to not going without or living some sort of lifestyle of abundance? They’ve not grown up in a prosperous Britain that has given them a sense of entitlement to a life of comfort.
Millenials grew up expecting to be better off than their parents and to be able to casually buy a house, and the 08 crash disabused us of that notion, but younger generations didn’t have the same expecations we did.