Failure to renew Conservative Party could doom the West, Badenoch claims
Failure to renew the Conservative party could lead to the loss of “our country and all of Western civilisation”, Kemi Badenoch has claimed.
The Conservative leader, who said she was speaking up for “classic liberal values”, also criticised “loopholes” in liberalism which had been “hacked” in recent decades, including the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Speaking at a centre-right political conference, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) in east London, the Tory leader said: “For those of us who seek leadership, we must do better, and that is why in the United Kingdom my party is starting the largest renewal of policy and ideas in a generation.”
The Conservative leader has previously insisted she will not set out a new policy platform in haste.
She has said the previous Tory government’s willingness to announce policies without following through was among the reasons voters abandoned it at the last election.
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She also warned about the impact of polling which suggests a majority of younger Britons think their country is racist, that they are not prepared to fight for it under any circumstances, and that they would prefer to see a strong leader such as a dictator take charge.
Ms Badenoch told the conference audience “we shouldn’t be surprised” as young people “see a Parliament obsessed with trivia, presiding over stagnation despite making more and more laws”.
Problems
“They use the most novel and expansive interpretations of human rights law to avoid it, and we see that lack of confidence now in everything from law and order to national defence, a fear of sticking up for young girls being abused by rape gangs over so many decades so as not to upset community relations.”
ARC is an international centre-right political organisation founded by Canadian psychologist and political commentator Jordan Peterson, who spoke on the conference main stage after Ms Badenoch.
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Jordan Peterson was there? Sheesh. Way to go kemi, follow the loons. Badenoch invents issues that don’t exist to forward the far right aim of her party for her ideological attack on anything Labour (and basically not the re invented Tory party). She is basically following Vance who is a full on religious zelot hell bent on making things up to line his idea of the world (he is a danger to our way of life). She has sold out herself and the Tory party to an idiot that will align with putin rather than decent people. Vances speech should… Read more »
An excellent and comprehensive rejoinder to Vance (and the similarly deluded Badenoch) from Richard Murphy – https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02/15/i-dont-share-values-with-trumps-usa-and-never-will/
I listened to Vance’s speech through gritted teeth and he is happy with Putin killing off opponents and tried to demonise the UK for applying a law to prevent harassment. He is the flip side of the taliban (different religion only) and in more ways scarier than trump.
I will catch up to the link later.
But the cons have now abandon democracy.
There we go. Follow the money. Usual suspects including on of the awful people in the US government, heritage foundation and climate denial.
https://kentandsurreybylines.co.uk/politics/democracy/arc-behind-the-vision-for-a-better-world/
Gwared da ar eich hôl chi – a cerwch a’r blydi Nigel ‘na, gyda chi!
I’m not sure how she thinks abolishing human rights will impress younger voters.
You know full well that she isn’t talking about abolishing human rights. She is talking about the abuse of human rights legislation to undermine the human rights of others. It is a genuine and much-needed debate. You will recall from the Tory leadership debate that Jenrick was in favour of leaving the ECHR and Badenoch was in favour of remaining within it. All she wants to do is find a way to stop British courts from over-interpreting the ECHR to the detriment of the nation. This is a balance that other ECHR signatories seem to manage much better than us.
No other member of the ECHR seems to have this problem. How many times do we need to leave something that’s working and make it worse before we realise the problem is in Whitehall.
She is NOT abolishing Human Rights..Get your facts right.
But she wants to
Well it seems very popular in some quarters depending on the humans in question
She’s spot on! Schoolchildren should be taught that it was Thatcher’s Conservative Party who saved Wales in the 1980’s. They are the true heroes of our society.
You’re not serious? There may have been problems in the 80s but there’s nothing clever about demolishing the house to fix a leaky roof. Because now we lack the industries needed to be a global trading nation. It’s ironic that Thatcher had killed the Brexiteers dream before they even dreamt it.
It is pretty hard to conclude that deindustrialising Britain was Thatcher’s fault any more than Harold Wilson’s or Tony Blair’s.
She was the only one who believed manufacturing and industry was optional in a healthy economy. What she left behind was a smoke and mirrors economy built on financial services, which only skim off the top of other people’s wealth instead of creating it, haircuts and hospitality. And of course house price inflation which made a generation feel wealthier by the year but was nothing more than stealing wealth from future generations. To top it all, the only positive thing left in her legacy – building Canary Wharf to supply Europe’s financial services, cleverly skimming off their wealth to fund… Read more »
She trashed the place, and many other legacies led to ruin.
School children should be taught history, warts n all. Right to buy with no plan in place to replace housing stock was a good or bad? Selling off British Steel, good or bad? Selling off water… the list is long. The only thing I would rate her for is defending the Falklands.
What a vivid imagination that woman has
Appeasing fascist dictators after invading a sovereign country threatens the West. Pandering to a wannabe dictator in charge of the most powerful country in the world threatens the West. Withdrawing from the ECHR an institution that Churchill himself established, undermines the West. It protects OUR freedoms!! Allowing the likes of Elon Musk, to poison people with misinformation threatens the West. Vance criticises democracy in Europe, but says nothing about the lack of democracy in Russia, why is that? If you want to empower younger people then maybe we should invest more in education. Make critical thinking compulsory in schools, make… Read more »
Please feel free to correct me here because I’m having trouble knitting these two things together. A party that Wales has never majority voted in the history of all elections because we do not want them here is the same party without which the west will be doomed. It’s not just in PMQs she humiliates herself. She is deluded.
Read in to Vance’s recent hate diatribe, you will see the reason she is has sold out to a regime that is getting into bed with Putin. The threads are there for Kemi to see which way she is going, in Vance’s attack on a democracy whilst defending a dictator that murders his opponents and carried out two chemical weapons attack on the UK
I suggest you listen to Vance’s speech in full, rather than read the selective snippets certain media outlets feed you. His speech was about defending democracy, and highlighting how undemocratic forces in various parts of Europe are ignoring the voice of the people. You can fairly question if he is throwing stones from a glass house, but it is impossible to interpret his words as an attack on democracy and neither did he defend any dictators.
A strange way to defend democracy by openly disrespecting the democratically elected leaders of dozens of sovereign states, and by extension the half a billion people they represent.
Not if those elected leaders are disrespecting their electorate. And let’s not forget that there is no shortage of people in Europe disrespecting the democratically elected leader of the US!
How does one renew a corpse?