Kemi Badenoch and Kier Starmer watching the electoral atom bomb that just went off
The British have learned to hate. A couple of decades ago they would have got it all wrong. In the case of Kemi Badenoch, the Nigerian anchor baby who somehow got to be Conservative Party leader on the updrafts caused by the post-Covid Boriswave of mass immigration, they would previously have reacted to her by making stupid monkey noises and throwing bananas. Or even spouted expletives or theories associated with the Third Reich.
Now, however, they just politely smile, head into the voting booths, and place their Xs a couple of inches lower down; in the process wiping out over two-thirds of Conservative councillors and 18 Conservative-run local authorities, all fronted by the parasocially smiling cornrow-bedecked, gap-toothed smile of Kemi Badenoch trying (unsuccessfully) to be their friend.
Now, however, they just politely smile, head into the voting booths, and place their Xs a couple of inches lower down; in the process wiping out over two-thirds of Conservative councillors and 18 Conservative-run local authorities, all fronted by the parasocially smiling cornrow-bedecked, gap-toothed smile of Kemi Badenoch trying (unsuccessfully) to be their friend.
Make no mistake about it, the recent English local elections have been a disaster for both the main parties in the UK, but they're a lot worse for the Tories.
Most of the main Labour areas were not up for the vote this year. That'll be next year.
Also, while Labour is suffering from the worldwide anti-woke backlash, and are at least trying to adjust to it (Starmer now thinks women don't have dicks and mass immigration sucks -- hooray!), the Conservative Party's defeat is the outcome of their own repeated stupidity.
Instead of cosily surfing the rightward slant of politics under competent leaders, it has been consistently shooting bullets through its own foot for several years now under surprisingly stupid leaders.
Also, while Labour is suffering from the worldwide anti-woke backlash, and are at least trying to adjust to it (Starmer now thinks women don't have dicks and mass immigration sucks -- hooray!), the Conservative Party's defeat is the outcome of their own repeated stupidity.
Instead of cosily surfing the rightward slant of politics under competent leaders, it has been consistently shooting bullets through its own foot for several years now under surprisingly stupid leaders.
The first mistake of the Conservatives is that they never fully understood their own electorate. Essentially, the average British voter can be summed up by the contradictory phrase:
The role of political parties in this equation is to square the circle for the "humble voters" by largely ensuring the former without being too overtly the latter. Needless to say, Boris Johnson, with his "metropolitan" biases completely misjudged this. So did other former Tory leaders like Theresa May and David Cameron. But not to the extreme extent that Johnson did.
"He (or she) wants to live in an all-White country but doesn't want to be seen as racist."
The role of political parties in this equation is to square the circle for the "humble voters" by largely ensuring the former without being too overtly the latter. Needless to say, Boris Johnson, with his "metropolitan" biases completely misjudged this. So did other former Tory leaders like Theresa May and David Cameron. But not to the extreme extent that Johnson did.
The next mistake was putting in Rishi Sunak. This came on the arse-end of Liz Truss's economically disastrous one month in power, and was effectively a coup by the Tory MPs. After that, it was an uphill struggle to avoid the massive electoral wipe-out of 2024 which accordingly happened:
The next big mistake was made by the Tory party's own rank and file, when they decided to elect Kemi Badenoch leader to replace defeated Tory PM Rishi Sunak.
There were a number of reasons why they made this mistake. First, the abysmal showing of the Tories in the 2024 election had weeded out most of their talented and presentable performers, while the "diversity" candidates, like Badenoch, purposely parachuted into safe seats to protect them from the "prejudice" of the voters, managed to survive to contest the leadership election.
But, also, by the time the leadership election got under way, the voting ranks of the Tory Party had been depleted by the defection of more typical right-wing party members to Nigel Farage's Reform UK. The remaining members were thus a depleted and rather out-of-touch centrist group, who had lost track of what Tory voters actually wanted, which is, remember, "to live in an all-White country" without being "seen as racist."
But, also, by the time the leadership election got under way, the voting ranks of the Tory Party had been depleted by the defection of more typical right-wing party members to Nigel Farage's Reform UK. The remaining members were thus a depleted and rather out-of-touch centrist group, who had lost track of what Tory voters actually wanted, which is, remember, "to live in an all-White country" without being "seen as racist."
Dispirited by the Labour landslide, the shrunken band of Tory members convinced themselves that "the woke" was winning and were thus a lot more concerned about the second part of the voter paradox than the first, and accordingly put Badenoch in as their look-at-us-we're-not-racist, "based Black woman" leader.
Once elected leader, she campaigned hard on the women-and-penis issue (pushing at an open door it now seems after the UK Supreme Court's recent ruling against "chicks with dicks"), while also making anti-immigration noises. However, these latter could easily be shown to be hollow, not only by her own history as a Nigerian anchor baby, but by her previous pro-mass immigration statements.
In short, the Tory membership punched the Tory voters in the face...again, following a previous succession of hard punches from the MPs who put Sunak in, and from Boris Johnson who had allowed in the Boriswave.
Once elected leader, she campaigned hard on the women-and-penis issue (pushing at an open door it now seems after the UK Supreme Court's recent ruling against "chicks with dicks"), while also making anti-immigration noises. However, these latter could easily be shown to be hollow, not only by her own history as a Nigerian anchor baby, but by her previous pro-mass immigration statements.
In short, the Tory membership punched the Tory voters in the face...again, following a previous succession of hard punches from the MPs who put Sunak in, and from Boris Johnson who had allowed in the Boriswave.
With their donors whispering in their ears, Tory leaders have often been tempted to misunderstand the desire of the British voters not to be seen as racist. They have often been tempted to see it as an absence of a desire to live in an all-White country (or, to make some concessions to reality, a "nearly" all-White country).
It is not, it is just one half of a paradox.
Around 20 or 30 years ago, the British public put their "ooga-booga" taunts and provocatively thrown bananas to one side. They even stopped saying "Enoch was Right" every five minutes and started instead to talk about how "some of their best friends" were Black or Muslim, etc. Their political representatives, without the benefit of bananas and monkey noises to inform them, misread the signs and assumed that "infinity Bomalians" would be no problem as long as the GDP line went up. After Covid the temptation for Boris Johnson was too much, despite the fact that he had built up his career on dogwhistled racism.
However, now, the British public has found a new way to hate.
That hatred is no longer directed at the generally (but not always) innocent foreigners who have flooded into Britain and made the possibility of living in an all-White Britain increasingly unlikely.
No, their hatred this time is directed at those politicians who repeatedly show that they don't understand the basic paradox of voters who simply wish to "live in an all-White country" while not being seen as in any way "racist."
However, now, the British public has found a new way to hate.
That hatred is no longer directed at the generally (but not always) innocent foreigners who have flooded into Britain and made the possibility of living in an all-White Britain increasingly unlikely.
No, their hatred this time is directed at those politicians who repeatedly show that they don't understand the basic paradox of voters who simply wish to "live in an all-White country" while not being seen as in any way "racist."
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying his book here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia), or by taking out a paid subscription on his Substack.
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