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    Default Conservative Leadership Race

    The only one of the remaining candidates I've heard of is James Cleverly: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...onference.html

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    My bet is that Kemi Bedenoch will be the first black female PM of the UK. It's a few years away yet, but she has what it takes if she stays the course.

    My tip for PM after the next GE is Nigel Farage, but I don't know which party he'll be leading.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rebbonk View Post
    My tip for PM after the next GE is Nigel Farage, but I don't know which party he'll be leading.
    Whichever one offers the best opportunity for self promotion.

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    Oh yes, Lex. They're all on the What's In It For Me game. Never seen a poor politician, have you?
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    Union general secretaries generally seem to float around in the gravy boat too.

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    Years ago my dad advised me to climb the union ranks if I couldn't make enough money at my job!
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    Default New Conservative Party Leader

    Kemi Badenoch has been voted in as new party leader: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qdnewgx19o

    It'll be inreresting to see how this plays out.....

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    PMQs might get interesting.

    Let's see the left start calling her a far-right racist!
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    Apparently, she's already been called a white person in a black skin....

    The Conservatives could make huge amounts of political capital out of this (Kemi, plus 2 ethnic minority PMs - Benjamin Disraili, Rishi Sunak - and 3 female PMs), while playing on the fact that Labour has only had a line of white male leaders.

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    I think Dawn Butler (Labour and of Jamaican extraction) is facing the music over this. But remember, only good old whitey can be racist, everything else is 'banter'!
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    Attitudes definitely go both ways.

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    Starmer doesn't seem to be inclined to act on this, thus living up to his nickname of Two Tier. Butler should be suspended for her disgraceful actions.
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