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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Doubling down on crazy town then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That'll be Jenrick then, can't see the membership vote for a black woman. She would be hilarious though as she's both incredibly stupid and arrogant. Both are nasty pieces of work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently she's quite popular among the Conservative base. Jenrick might be a bit too Ukippy for them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep you might be right. And let's not forget that the cons base voted for Truss so everything is possible.. Regardless who wins, they're both going to try and get voters back from Reform by lurching even further to the right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Impossible to do so with an ethnic minority leading the conservatives. Racist/right wing britons won't vote for an ethnic minority to be prime minister.

Quantitive source : The previous election

Qualitive source : LBC caller says Rishi Sunak isn't British https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPYdzIt7p7s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

They'll justify it by saying she's "one of the good ones".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol. The Conservatives didn't lose because Sunak was brown.

People are so desperate to call out racism that they'll just start imagining it in places it isn't. 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

well, it's right there in the qualitive source.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One person who calls into a radio station. Great sample size there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok, and the election results has the sample size of ... just shy of 11 million right wingers. They said that they'd rather vote for a white man with little chance of getting in due to being a third party over having a brown man in charge.

How do I jump to this conclusion? The radio caller confirms what we know from being exposed to these kinds of people, and the election is quantitive proof of it too.

https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2024/uk/results

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

People didn't vote Conservative because they'd consistently failed on everything they'd promised for years. If Truss was still leader instead, the defeat would have been the same.

You're talking bollocks and trying to find racism where isn't any.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

4,117,610 million right wingers voted for "conservatives but more racist" and they're out there making it about race. yeah, sure, I'm the one jumping to conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The only person making anything about race here is you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"conservatives are raciss lol"

Kemi will win as she's been the favourite with the members all along, and Jenrick has the charisma of a wet tea towel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Another electoral defeat in five years (that's assuming either of them last that long).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't have a horse in the race really but I particularly dislike Jenrick so would have rather seen Badenoch vs Cleverly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope they pick Badenoch, she has a better chance of making the party utterly unelectable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

OK, but then Farage's new National Front wins and replaces the tories. not exactly a good outcome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Shit. I forgot about that nutcase

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

He relies on being further right than the Tories, will be harder to be further right than Kemi