The recently defeated “Conservative” Party turns to an African women to rescue them from the political hole which their previous Indian leader dug for them.
Kemi Badenoch insisted it is ‘time to get down to business’ today after being named the new Tory leader.
The shadow housing secretary emerged victorious over rival Robert Jenrick as the result of a ballot of party members was announced in central London.
In her speech, Ms Badenoch paid tribute to Rishi Sunak and also praised Mr Jenrick’s ‘energy’.
But she acknowledged that the previous government had ‘let standards slip’ and the party must woo back voters. ‘The time has come to tell the truth, to stand up for our principles, to plan for the future,’ she said. Appealing for Mr Jenrick and other senior figures to join her top team, she told him: ‘You and I know we don’t actually disagree on very much… We have come through this campaign more united.’
Ms Badenoch said Keir Starmer had given the Tories an opportunity with his shaky start. ‘The PM is discovering all-too late the perils of not having such a plan,’ she said. Ms Badenoch received 53,806 votes to 41,388 for Mr Jenrick – 53 per cent to 47 per cent, closer than many expected. Turnout was only 72.8 per of the 131,000 activists.
She is the first black leader of a major UK political party.
One can’t help but recall a few pertinent verses from the Bible.
- The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.
- As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Perhaps the Conservative Party leadership of Ms Badenoch will turn out well for the British people, but even considering the rapacious economic oppression which has been announced by the ruling Labour Party, which plans to force family farms to sell out to developers through its new inheritance taxes, I’m not terribly optimistic about the current state of the opposition.
As a general rule, history has repeatedly demonstrated that putting a foreigner in charge of anything from a local council to a cabinet ministry tends to immediately result in the adoption of a new policy of importing more foreigners. And this never works out well for the natives.