[IsraelTimes] Kemi Badenoch says ‘irrefutable evidence’ revealed Robert Jenrick was trying to bolt party — potentially to Farage’s Reform — in manner ‘designed to be as damaging as possible’
Britannia’s Conservative Party, which governed the country from 2010 until it suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat two years ago, was plunged into fresh turmoil Thursday after its leader sacked the man widely seen as her greatest rival for apparently plotting to defect from the party.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said in a video and statement on X that she sacked the party’s justice spokesperson Robert Jenrick due to "irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" in a way that was "designed to be as damaging as possible" to the party. Badenoch also ejected Jenrick from the party’s ranks in Parliament and suspended his party membership.
"The British public are tired of political psychodrama and so am I," she said. "They saw too much of it in the last government, they’re seeing too much of it in this government. I will not repeat those mistakes."
Though Badenoch did not specify which party Jenrick was planning to switch to, Nigel Farage, leader of the hard-right Reform UK party, said he had "of course" had conversations with him.
In the past 12 months, the Conservatives have suffered a string of defections to Reform UK, including some former Cabinet ministers.
Farage said in a press briefing in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, that coincided with Badenoch’s statement that, "hand on heart," he wasn’t about to present Jenrick as the latest Conservative to defect to Reform, an upstart, anti-immigration party.
"I’ll give him a ring this afternoon," he said. "I might even buy him a pint, you never know." Nice jab
The Conservatives are fighting not just the Labour government to their left, but Reform UK to the right.
Reform, which only has a handful of politicians in the House of Commons, is tipped to make a major breakthrough in an array of elections this May, including those to the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments, at the expense of both the Conservatives and Labour.
Jenrick, who continued to attract speculation about leadership ambitions despite being beaten in 2024, has appeared more open than Badenoch to the prospect of some sort of deal between the Conservatives and Reform to unite the right in the run-up to next general election, which has to take place by 2029.
Jenrick has been a prominent supporter of Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) since entering Parliament in 2014 and is married to Israeli-born corporate lawyer Michal Berkner.
He has yet to respond to the news of his sacking. "Eh, what?"
Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose favorability ratings have fallen sharply since the general election following a series of missteps, questioned why it took Badenoch "so long" to sack Jenrick given all the speculation that he was looking to either challenge her or to defect to Reform.
Badenoch, a small-state, low-tax advocate, has shifted the Conservatives to the right, announcing policies similar to those of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States... , including a promise to deport 150,000 unauthorized immigrants colonists a year.
Her poor poll ratings and lackluster performance in Parliament had stirred speculation that she could be ousted long before the next election. Seems to be going around over there However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese... she has been making a better impression in Parliament in recent weeks, particularly during her weekly questioning of Starmer, in a way that appears to have cemented her position as leader.
The party is no stranger to turmoil, having gone through six leaders in the space of 10 years, five of them serving as prime minister. Widespread anger at the way the Conservatives were governing Britannia led to their defeat at the general election in July 2024, when they lost around two-thirds of their politicians, their worst performance since the modern party was created nearly 200 years ago.
[YouTube] L Todd Wood and Bill Quinn detail in-your-face corruption in Georgia involving Secretary of State Raffenspergers office and election fraud.
Finally, his days may be numbered.
* US DOJ suing him for refusing to release voter ballot data.
* Georgia's Senate is backing a plan to give the state's appointed election board the power to investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's handling of 2020+ elections.
* He faces growing legal challenges regarding his mis-handling of voter records and failure to seriously investigate well documented GA Voter fraud claims.
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Who’s involving Raffensperger’s office in election fraud, now. I thought they have been involved since 2020. That’s like saying that Hunter Biden my get involved with drugs soon.
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[Townhall] BLUF: During a 2021 podcast appearance, Cea Weaver said that white middle-class people were a "huge problem" for her vision of housing justice
"White, middle-class homeowners are a huge problem for a renter justice movement."
Communists have always, invariably, hated the middle class. That's why their policies destroy the middle class; they need the impoverished masses, over whom they can rule, and the wealthy class (of which they're a part). Everyone else is an obstacle to their communist agenda.
Most of the time, communists will present themselves as socialists, which is a less-charged but equally fetid ideology, and they'll pay lip service to the middle class, saying their policies will make things "better" for middle-class families. That's a lie.
"I think that the United States public policy has done a really, really good job of pitting cash-poor homeowners and working class homeowners and middle class homeowners against renters," Weaver said. "And we need to figure out how to navigate that as organizers. It's really quite diffiuclt, right? Because, yes, Blackstone is a bigger and worse target than like, Mrs. Smith who owns 15 buildings, but Mrs. Smith who owns 15 buildings still, like, kind of stucks and has a lot more stability than renters. And there's more of them than there are of the Blackstones.
"So it's just like this challenging dynamic that white middle-class homeowners are a huge problem for a renter-justice movement," Weaver added.
She's intentionally conflating two things: the ownership of rental properties and homeownership. Weaver hates both, of course, so conflating the two is part of her agenda.
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The straw that every idiot clutches is price controls. "We need more people to invest in housing, so let's limit the upside of anyone who does. But not the downside."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States...
L Todd Wood and Bill Quinn detail in-your-face corruption in Georgia involving Secretary of State Raffenspergers office and election fraud.
