Picking Badenoch is such an own goal, left leaning and moderate people don’t like her because of the far-right culture war rhetoric and she’s very unpopular with the Reform voters she’s suppose to win back.
There’s plenty of conservative voters who are not raging racists. At least there used to be, since there isn’t much space for them in the party anymore they’ve gone to the Lib Dems for the most part
The vast majority of voters for both main parties are not racist.
I mean, Conservative members (who are generally more right-wing than the electorate) have literally just voted for a black woman as leader over a guy throwing all the red meat he possibly could at them.
Supporting Thatcher didn’t make the Tory membership suddenly stop being sexist, and choosing Badenoch isn’t going to stop them being racist. In both cases “except her, she’s one of the good ones” is all they need to say.
Human nature is a lot more complicated than you think. Badenoch as a black woman, has managed to be both racist and misogynistic, while not seeing any issue with that.
If a black woman can be racist then I guess the conservative electorate are okay with that. For now anyway, I still have my doubts about her long-term survival.
Picking Badenoch is such an own goal, left leaning and moderate people don’t like her because of the far-right culture war rhetoric and she’s very unpopular with the Reform voters she’s suppose to win back.
To be fair, when would a Conservative leader ever appeal to someone who is “left-leaning”?
There’s plenty of conservative voters who are not raging racists. At least there used to be, since there isn’t much space for them in the party anymore they’ve gone to the Lib Dems for the most part
The vast majority of voters for both main parties are not racist.
I mean, Conservative members (who are generally more right-wing than the electorate) have literally just voted for a black woman as leader over a guy throwing all the red meat he possibly could at them.
Supporting Thatcher didn’t make the Tory membership suddenly stop being sexist, and choosing Badenoch isn’t going to stop them being racist. In both cases “except her, she’s one of the good ones” is all they need to say.
Human nature is a lot more complicated than you think. Badenoch as a black woman, has managed to be both racist and misogynistic, while not seeing any issue with that.
If a black woman can be racist then I guess the conservative electorate are okay with that. For now anyway, I still have my doubts about her long-term survival.
the big society tories make some mealy mouthed “commitments” to recognising there is a problem, like Cameron.
NB : I am not saying he did things well, I am saying he at least tried to pay lip service