My approach will pay off eventua...

My approach will pay off eventually, says Kemi Badenoch

The Conservative leader defends her leadership as the party's conference begins in Manchester

One of the most unintentionally funny headlines the BBC has done in a while. Big Prem manager on a losing streak energy.

3 hours ago, TheSnake said:

Oh my at the half-empty reception for the Mel Stride speech

It’s Absolutely wonderful to see! Jenerick can smell blood. Hope things improve though as I want her to lead them into 2029/30!

12 hours ago, Iz 🌟 said:

My approach will pay off eventua...

My approach will pay off eventually, says Kemi Badenoch

The Conservative leader defends her leadership as the party's conference begins in Manchester

One of the most unintentionally funny headlines the BBC has done in a while. Big Prem manager on a losing streak energy.

That's literally a copy and paste job from Ruben Amorim 🤣

So, I'm bringing this up here because Tory Jenrick keeps raising it - I'm honestly alarmed and quite disgusted at a lot of the rhetoric I'm seeing right now that basically equates brown person in the UK = not British, immigrant, shouldn't be here.

I'm seeing talk like "I was in X English city or town & all I saw was a sea of brown faces" & I'm like. So what? That doesn't suggest WHATSOEVER that everyone there was an immigrant.

Wouldn't you bloody know it too. I googled Jenrick to make sure I had the party right and... his wife is an immigrant. You couldn't bloody make it up.

There's always an attempt to claim that the attacks are against migration but not to do with race. I don't know about Handsworth in particular but Birmingham as a whole is under 50% white but over 70% UK-born, which is a gap will only increase over time. As conservatives run out of road to radicalise anti-migrant discourse, the direction of travel is more frequent and explicit references to race regardless of migration status.

I'd be interested to see if he or anybody else who agrees with his statement has a comment on vast swathes of the UK being almost universally White British and whether that suggests anything about integration of those areas. At 96% White British his constituency of Newark is up there.

You’d think Jenerick was Tory leader the way the media are reporting on the Tory conference!

On 07/10/2025 at 15:55, Harve said:

There's always an attempt to claim that the attacks are against migration but not to do with race. I don't know about Handsworth in particular but Birmingham as a whole is under 50% white but over 70% UK-born, which is a gap will only increase over time. As conservatives run out of road to radicalise anti-migrant discourse, the direction of travel is more frequent and explicit references to race regardless of migration status.

I'd be interested to see if he or anybody else who agrees with his statement has a comment on vast swathes of the UK being almost universally White British and whether that suggests anything about integration of those areas. At 96% White British his constituency of Newark is up there.

People seem absolutely obsessed with race being the divider when it seems more likely in nearly every case where it is brought up that the dividing factor will actually be income or class.

Jenrick really walked around one of the most deprived areas of the country and then made that comment. You might as well walk around a slum in Argentina or Brazil and observe 'wow, you don't see many rich faces here!'

The Tories and Reform THEMSELVES make the argument that immigrants are coming to the UK and working mostly very-low-paid or insecure jobs. Then they walk around a very deprived area where only the poorest people can afford to live and see... exactly the people they have already observed are doing such jobs and so can't afford to live anywhere else. It's like they are double-bagging this issue.

What would the solve possibly be? Force white middle-class people to move out of their neighbourhoods into these deprived areas?

Jenrick knew what he was doing when he made those comments.