Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has apologised for Brexit, net zero and immigration failures. Why stop there?
She says she wants to reclaim public trust after a series of Tory “mistakes”. But we know that these issues were not mistakes. They were policy.
It doesn’t matter that she said
We announced that we would leave the European Union before we had a plan for growth outside the EU.
We made it the law that we would deliver net zero carbon emissions by 2050. And only then did we start thinking about how we would do that.
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We announced that we would lower immigration, but immigration kept going up.
These mistakes were made because we told people what they wanted to hear first and then tried to work it out later.
And it is certainly of no interest that she said
If we are going to turn our country around, we’re going to have to say some things that aren’t easy to hear.
She was talking about future plans that will squeeze working- and middle-class people even more than we have been squeezed by the Tories over the last 14 years before Labour came back into office.
But such measures would only be seen to be justified because of the dire economic situation that 14 years of Tory economic misrule have created; if Badenoch’s forerunners as Tory leader and prime minister had made different decisions, the whole of the UK would be much more prosperous now and she would have no reason to “say some things that aren’t easy to hear”.
And of course, given that we would have been wrong to believe what the Tories said between 2010 and 2024 – as Badenoch has now acknowledged – there is no reason to believer what a Tory is saying now.
If the Tories of those old administrations were telling people “what they wanted to hear” then, it is reasonable to conclude that she is trying to do exactly the same thing now.
And anyway, where’s the apology for putting all that privatisation into the NHS?
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Badenoch has apologised for Brexit – net zero – and immigration. Why stop there?
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has apologised for Brexit, net zero and immigration failures. Why stop there?
She says she wants to reclaim public trust after a series of Tory “mistakes”. But we know that these issues were not mistakes. They were policy.
It doesn’t matter that she said
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And it is certainly of no interest that she said
She was talking about future plans that will squeeze working- and middle-class people even more than we have been squeezed by the Tories over the last 14 years before Labour came back into office.
But such measures would only be seen to be justified because of the dire economic situation that 14 years of Tory economic misrule have created; if Badenoch’s forerunners as Tory leader and prime minister had made different decisions, the whole of the UK would be much more prosperous now and she would have no reason to “say some things that aren’t easy to hear”.
And of course, given that we would have been wrong to believe what the Tories said between 2010 and 2024 – as Badenoch has now acknowledged – there is no reason to believer what a Tory is saying now.
If the Tories of those old administrations were telling people “what they wanted to hear” then, it is reasonable to conclude that she is trying to do exactly the same thing now.
And anyway, where’s the apology for putting all that privatisation into the NHS?
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The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
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