Sunday, 5 October 2025

Kemi Who?

Party conference season and this week is the turn of the Conservatives led by...hang on let me check my notes...Kemi Badenoch.
Kemi kicked it all off with a live interview on the BBC this morning and it was...well, not great.
The BBC kept the strap-line 'Kemi Badenoch: Conservative Party Leader' up all the way through just in case someone turned on the TV and wondered who Laura Kuenssberg was talking to because the Conservatives are sinking faster than a lead balloon with half a dozen house bricks tied to it.
Up first her brilliantly ill thought out plan to deport 150,000 people a year and leaving the European convention on human rights and when asked where they would be deported to, replied that it was irrelevant and went on to asked herself another question and went on to answer that instead and the answer was it didn’t really matter where we sent them. They could go anywhere, as far as she was concerned and only the Tories under her had the credibility and competence to pull it off.
Yes, she said it in all seriousness and to show just how credible and competent she was went on to reply that America and Canada were not signatories to the European Court of Human Rights when she was asked if she really wanted to join Russia and Belarus as the only countries not to be signed up.
Geography not big on the syllabus in her school obviously.
Laura, to her credit, didn't burst out laughing but just politely pointed out that the US and Canada were not in Europe and after a long silence, moved onto other things but you could tell Kemi was deflating and tried to boost herself by exclaiming that 'We can win the next election' and it is true that Kemi has achieved the seemingly impossible, she inherited a Conservative Party straight after its worse poll ratings and lowest amount of Parliamentary seats in its history, and taken them even further backwards.
When the worst defeat ever in your history is the high point in her party’s fortunes, it’s going to be a very long week.