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The only one of the remaining candidates I've heard of is James Cleverly: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13834813/Mel-Stride-latest-Tory-leader-hopeful-ousted-Robert-Jenrick-tops-ballot-MPs-James-Cleverly-overtakes-Kemi-Badenoch-second-place-battle-shifting-party-conference.html


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My bet is that Kemi Bedenoch will be the first black female PM of the UK. It's a few years away yet, but she has what it takes if she stays the course.

My tip for PM after the next GE is Nigel Farage, but I don't know which party he'll be leading.

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rebbonk wrote:
My tip for PM after the next GE is Nigel Farage, but I don't know which party he'll be leading.


Whichever one offers the best opportunity for self promotion.


Wed Sep 11, 2024 5:47 pm
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Oh yes, Lex. They're all on the What's In It For Me game. Never seen a poor politician, have you?

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Union general secretaries generally seem to float around in the gravy boat too.


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Years ago my dad advised me to climb the union ranks if I couldn't make enough money at my job!

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Kemi Badenoch has been voted in as new party leader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qdnewgx19o

It'll be inreresting to see how this plays out.....


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PMQs might get interesting.

Let's see the left start calling her a far-right racist!

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Apparently, she's already been called a white person in a black skin....

The Conservatives could make huge amounts of political capital out of this (Kemi, plus 2 ethnic minority PMs - Benjamin Disraili, Rishi Sunak - and 3 female PMs), while playing on the fact that Labour has only had a line of white male leaders.


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I think Dawn Butler (Labour and of Jamaican extraction) is facing the music over this. But remember, only good old whitey can be racist, everything else is 'banter'! :( :( :(

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Attitudes definitely go both ways.


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Starmer doesn't seem to be inclined to act on this, thus living up to his nickname of Two Tier. Butler should be suspended for her disgraceful actions.

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