Kemi gets it
Why Badenoch's response to the Islamo-left hits hard
Here’s a clip of Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, slapping down a heckler. It has been widely shared, and rightly so.
The reason it hits home is that you can tell she's genuinely sick of this hectoring brand of Islamo-leftism. Her face and tone capture the real disgust that so many feel towards that worldview. She's confronting a malevolent, racist movement that comes packaged as holier-than-thou 'anti-fascism'. Grim.
The woman shouting at her in the video perfectly embodies what’s so sinister about woke/Islamist dogma more broadly. Her tirade comes off the back of the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, one in a string of what have become near-daily antisemitic crimes overwhelmingly committed by radicalised Muslims. These include multiple arson attacks on synagogues, ambulances being firebombed, memorial walls to victims of October 7 and the Iranian regime being set on fire, Iranian-linked plots against Jewish community centres being foiled, and an attack on a synagogue in Manchester a few months ago that left two Jews dead, to name but a few.
And she’s outraged.
But not at Islamist intolerance and Jew-hate of course. Rather, at ‘Islamophobia’. She hounds Badenoch for doing the obviously decent thing — standing against antisemitic violence and abuse — and reframes it as ‘pandering to the far right’. By, erm, opposing Jews being stabbed?
It’s an entirely morally inverted ideology, built on intimidation, gaslighting, and the bastardisation of language for deeply unpleasant political ends. And we can now see, in the starkest of terms, where it leads.
It’s refreshing to watch a politician speak from the heart, in a way that isn’t contrived or obviously stage-managed. And I found it quite clarifying. With all the hysteria and deflection, it becomes easy to lose track of the underlying reality here: namely, that we’re dealing with a bunch of authoritarian progressives and sectarian Muslim agitators, including many who regularly profess support for literal mass-murdering jihadist dictatorships. And they pose a grave threat to Western public life. That remains true, no matter how much they scream ‘racist’ at anyone who mentions it.
Good on Kemi. We need more politicians who are genuine, principled, and aren’t prepared to put up with the histrionics of our activist class.
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I think she is brilliant. If the conservatives ever regain parliament she would be an excellent pm
Thank god for a rational, educated political leader. The world has too few of these.