From THE DAILY SCEPTIC
Kemi Badenoch’s red lines on Net Zero and the ECHR are facing open revolt from centrist Tories. The Telegraph has the story:
Mrs Badenoch has rejected some former Conservative MPs as candidates at the next election for refusing to align with her rejection of the 2050 Net Zero target and her pledge to leave the ECHR.
But centrist Tories insist that those who supported the 2050 target and Britain’s ongoing membership of the controversial treaty should be able to stand in future.
In an article for the Telegraph, Mrs Badenoch wrote that she was building a “party for the future”, not a “retirement home for failed politicians”.
She said that some of her former colleagues “should never have been candidates before” and they would soon be informed they would not be allowed to stand again.
Prosper UK – a pressure group set up in an attempt to bring the Conservatives back to the centre – claimed that a candidate’s support for Net Zero did not make them less conservative.
Responding to the Tory leader’s remarks, Prosper said: “Kemi Badenoch is right to seek candidates with serious experience beyond Westminster. But the Conservative Party must remain a broad church.
“Requiring agreement on every major issue risks shutting out talented people, narrowing the party’s appeal and making it harder to build the coalition needed to govern.” …
Prominent supporters of Prosper include Amber Rudd, the former Home Secretary, and David Gauke, the former Justice Secretary, who lost the whip in 2019 for defying Boris Johnson over Brexit.
Other backers of the group include Andy Street, the former West Midlands Mayor, and Baroness Davidson, who led the Scottish Tories from 2011 to 2019. …
Responding to her remarks, Mr Gauke said: “There are centre-Right voters who think we should stay in the ECHR and/or think we should get to Net Zero.
“After all, both were long-standing Tory Party policies. Does the Conservative Party want their support or not?” …
Prosper and Mr Gauke’s remarks were dismissed by Lord Frost, the non-affiliated peer and former Tory Cabinet minister who served as Mr Johnson’s Brexit negotiator.
“There is no point in having ‘talented people’ if they don’t want to implement the party’s policy,” he said. “That’s how the Tory party got into a mess before and repeating it will not help in any way. Kemi is entitled to candidates who want to do what she wants to do.”
Worth reading in full.
These “Tory centrists” were never really Tories in the first place. They should be in the Liberal Democrats or even the Labour party. They were responsible in making the Tories and the Labour party virtually indistinguishable during the last few years of Tory rule.
Sadly, even Boris went down that road (under the influence of Carrie, no doubt).
Boris is another Oxford classics graduate – like Jon Harvey (Count Binface).
Just the sort of background you need for dragging the UK into the 21 century. It’s their fault they’re in the mess they are now.
Just the other wing on the same bird of prey. They all hated it that the people voted Brexit. All that followed was to punish the people for voting ‘wrong’.
The same thing has happened in Australia the “moderate” Liberals are Labor lite.
In the US Trump and the MAGA movement have been purging the Republican Party of RINOs, with luck Badenoch can succeed in the UK and Tony Abbot, back as President of the Liberal Party in Australia, can do the same here.
I certainly won’t be voting Tory ever again , last time we gave them a chance and they wasted it . Over half the Tory party we’re trying to scupper Brexit a democraticly voted for policy . Then there are the other dubious actions and policies , May’s Net Zero and UN Migration pact , under Boris mass immigration, LTNs , 20 mph speed limits , city roads closed , unwanted cycle lanes installed, the whole trans multiple gender nonsense blossomed with sinister enforcement by law , and Islam given the red carpet treatment to transform the UK into a third world country with stone age laws. Then there is unnecessary On Line Safety Act , DEI throughout government and armed forces and police , white males need not apply and to cap it all total failure to deal with illegal immigration filling the UK with the dregs of the world .
I certainly won’t be voting Tory ever again
Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem etc (the entire parliamentary deckchair fleet or uniparty or parliamentary dictatorship) have decided that the seat of Clacton and the good people of that place are not worth fighting for, not worthy of representation in anything other than an establishment joke candidate. The bin has ‘their backing‘.
Between now and 2029 the gloves are off.
Things will probably get worse before they get better. I think I may hybernate for the next three years.
Probably too warm for hibernation, haven’t you heard?
The tories have mainly been to the left of the US republican party and occasionally the US democrats as well. The sole exception was Margaret Thatcher who was just about politically equal of Ronald Reagan, which is why they got on so well.
Did they, really?
Ronald Reagan issued a last-ditch appeal to Margaret Thatcher to abandon her campaign to retake the Falklands and to hand over the islands to international peacekeepers, according to official documents made public today. – Sky News
On this occasion a President put America and Argentina first. I wonder why?
Uh … no. “international peacekeepers” are not Argentinians, are they?
Are they British? Er, no.
You said, “On this occasion a President put America and Argentina first.”
Not putting Britain first is not the same as putting Argentina first. And he didn’t put Argentina first, did he? He put America first, as was his duty as President of the US. He was not President of either Britain or Argentina.
That was probably the only occasion.
He tried to talk her out of it, but when she went ahead he provided the full support of the US in her efforts.
More critically, this disagreement was completely behind closed doors at the time.
Getting along does not imply agreeing on everything.
And why both are hated by the left to this day.
Except is was always about power, not about principle, as it is with most politicians
Frost should join Reform UK. The Conservatives are nothing more than blue rinse Liberal Democrats. You could say the serious Tories have already done that. I wonder why he sticks it out?
But miracles (and opportunists) come along once in a while. Today Friar Ed has considered the holy scriptures – no drilling in the North sea – and has found that there are times when one must perform a kind of climate taqiyya to further the cause.
Miliband willing to approve North Sea oil to land job as chancellor
Energy Secretary wants to prove he is a ‘pragmatist’ rather than a ‘zealot’ on environmental policy to help his case for being chancellor – Telegraph
Miliband wants the power that goes with the office of Chancellor. Depressing as the outlook might be, these econumpties continue to amuse. Labour loves to trumpet free this and that, recently they decided that unemployed parents should receive 30 hours of free (taxpayer backed) childcare each week. Why? But even better, now we have two tier water services…
Benefit claimants have been given permission to ignore mandatory hosepipe bans during current drought restrictions across parts of southern England, it has been reported. Express
They are at home all day and free to splash it around, yet someone in work paying taxes for those benefits cannot.
Trebles all round.
Addendum
Policy Exchange Suddenly Wakes Up to the Tentacles of the Green Blob
According to a new report from the Conservative-aligned think tank Policy Exchange, an ‘Advisory Opinion’ issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) may leave Britain exposed to excessive climate litigation. This litigation may include trillions of pounds in climate reparations, the report claims, and could prevent the exploitation of North Sea oil and gas, even if the government was willing to allow it. It is indeed an extremely worrying possibility and a grotesque departure from the notions of democracy and national sovereignty. But why is anyone surprised by this destruction of democratic national sovereignty? Surely that has long been the point of green globalism?
I would happily stick two finger up to the ICJ. They are probably all Fabians too.
I remember a proposal when we first head they planned to re-build on the site of the Twin Towers.
The proposal was to build 5 towers, 4 of which were the same height, with the middle “building” being about twice the height of the other 4.
And you wonder why the US is not a party to the ICJ? Well, actually the Dems and leftists like it, but Trump hates it for its attempts at power grabbing, so there you have it.
My local MP was a Tory member of the CEN – Conservative Environmental Network – i.e. pro Net Zero and a climate worrier. He was also an arch anti-Brexit MP.
He has now been replaced by a Liberal Democrat who is even more a climate worrier and wants the UK back under EU rule from Brussels.
This is in Cheltenham – home of GCHQ – about 5000 work there – so they and their families are quite a significant voter base. It is depressing how many supposedly intelligent people have swallowed the climate scare.
In the armed forces, police etc etc etc people only rise above a certain rank if they are committed to the principles of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Many agencies etc are recruiting non whites only. Not the best of the best based on merit, but…
West Yorkshire Police (WYP), one of the UK’s largest forces, is allegedly preventing white British candidates from applying as recruits in its constable entry programmes as it looks to attract “under-represented” groups instead. – LBC
The state is riddled with it and it is self-perpetuating. The idiocracy is here.
And to think that people complained about the Masons in the police.
yup.
Kemi following Nigel Farage’s policies almost word for word.
But we know the Tories won’t ditch the ECHR or NetZero, they’ll just change the names. Meanwhile, we’re still importing immigrants, and the Labour Party is just fiddling the numbers of millions of immigrants the Tories invited into the UK over 14 years.
And here’s a little prediction. The Clacton by-election will be a landslide for Nigel. The murder of Ann Widdicombe (an enthusiastic supporter of Nigel and prominent Reform UK member) has brought serious politics into sharp focus; people will not tolerate the joke candidate Count Binface.
£300M+ of taxpayers’ money will be wasted on a futile election despite Farage’s political party offering to reimburse the treasury for it. Every major political party (Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems) has declared they will refuse to participate, thereby abandoning their voters and depriving them of a democratic voice.
The investigation into whether he should have declared the £5M from Christopher Harbourne will be restarted. That risks a recall petition for Farage – if he’s suspended from parliament for 30(?) days, a recall can be triggered, and 10% of voters must write to the Electoral Commission to force another by-election, at the cost of another £300M+ which he would probably win in another landslide. This waste of taxpayers’ money alone will be hugely controversial.
Nigel declared the £5M was donated by Harbourne for his personal security. In an astonishing display of spite, the Starmer government cut Farage’s security detail from 6 to 1 man.
Farage has now declared that he can no longer trust government-provided security and that the Reform Party will cover the cost of personal security for all its MPs.
In light of Widdicombe’s murder, I think the investigation into the £5M will continue, if just to save the government’s blushes, but Nigel will either be absolved altogether or he’ll be ‘punished’ with a meaningless 7-day suspension from parliament which doesn’t trigger a recall petition.
It will be a massive win for Nigel whilst exposing the establishment, the media and the ‘Uniparty’ for collaborating in a vicious vendetta to unseat the leader of the largest political party in the UK (by membership), which has led 350+ consecutive polls since the Labour Party was elected.
After 35+ years of persecution for his views on EU membership, immigration, NetZero and the economy, Nigel Farage has proven himself the most visionary, resilient and determined politician of the last 100 years, comparable to Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.
Not only is the British establishment elite terrified of Farage; the EU establishment elite are as well. His election as prime minister (within the next two years, I predict) will be seismic across Europe, encouraging the right of Marine Le Pen in France and the AfD in Germany.
Parliament reduced Farage’s security by 75%
The media never mention that.
Donors covering Farage security after cuts, Reform claims
Zia Yusuf said the decision had been taken two weeks ago by parliamentary officials for “inexplicable reasons”, with party donors stepping in to “ensure that his security is shored up”. – BBC
That was just after Charlie Kirk was assassinated…..
Stir up the nut jobs, then hope that they eliminate your opposition.
The left wing way.
The by election is not costing £300M
£300k is nearer the number – and trs, Reform are paying
Yep, sorry, my typo in my haste.
I thought Badenoch was going to weed out the lefty woke remoaner element in her party. She will only succeed if she does.
Good at the despatch box one liner, but her party is soaking wet.
CV Watch:
Amber Rudd: BA History, Edinburgh
David Gauke: Law, Oxford
Andy Street: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Oxford
Baroness Davidson: BA English, Edinburgh
I am not sure why there’s antipathy towards the Human Rights Act which incorporates the European Convention of Human Rights into U.K. law.
If we were to abrogate the ECHR then that would leave the country open to all sorts of potential threats from within, don’t forget that Germany voted a certain chancellor into power in the 1930’s.
After all it’s equivalent to the bill of rights incorporated into the constitution of the United States, with one specific exception, the HRA abolishes the death penalty under all circumstances.
Article 8 in the first instance. Yes, having a cat is grounds to avoid deportation.
Migrant facing deportation wins right to stay in Britain… because he’s got a cat
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-1221353/Youve-got-cat-OK-stay-Britain-officials-tell-Bolivian-immigrant.html#ixzz0UOCRatRZ
Going to have to put off that BBQ. They’re a bitch to skin anyway.
Nah, you just get PETA activists to guilt it out of its fur
I’ve been told that if you scare them enough, they will jump right out of their skins.
This is Article 8
”Right to respect for private and family life1
Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
2
There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.”
Nowhere does it say anything about owning a cat or any other pet. It was the judges on the Asylum and immigration tribunal that passed down this judgment back in 2009, not the letter or, I would argue, the spirit of the HRA/ECHR. There’s also the phrase “respect for”, which means it is unlawful for the state to intercept a person’s (e)mail, invade a person’s home or interfere with their family life except under the conditions listed in paragraph 2.
“except”
With the appearance of that word, all bets are off. What follows is that respect for privacy follows government whim.
Privacy is become a privilege, removable at official will.
The antipathy towards the ECHR/HRA may be somewhat misguided. The decisions which most enrage us are made by activist judges. I see no reason to spend a lot of time drafting laws to resist such judges, nor repealing laws they’ve wilfully misconstrued. There is no decent, honourable reason to recruit nor retain such judges.
Unfortunately I don’t know how to get rid of them now they’ve embedded themselves. I’d be genuinely interested to hear from anyone who sees a way.
They too have to be fully on board with EDI, EID, DIE etc
If you find a way, please forward to the US.
England is so far gone, now, that restoration of common law and equal justice is going to take a modern Cromwell. Absent that, it’s Islam.
It’s strange that human rights are observed by America, Canada, NZ, Australia etc. and they aren’t in the ECHR.
Probably because they and the UK were operating human rights long before the EU turned up.
I have written to my tory MP on several occasions about the futility of net zero, energy security and the ‘renewables’ scam, and the only answers I ever got from him were that he ‘supports the (then) government’s position on energy and climate’. He’s still my MP, one of the few to survive the carnage of 2024. I shall not shed a tear if Badenoch dismisses him.
She will not, of that I am sure.
Support for Net Zero may or may not make you less conservative. (In my opinion, it does) However support for Net Zero definitely makes you less intelligent.
Think you may have cause & effect reversed. Less intelligent -> support NetZero.
Although I can’t argue that support for nonsensical causes does inhibit critical thinking…
Cute, intelligent and brave.
A deadly combination.
I sometimes wonder if government by coalition is the right approach. Seeing where the UK ended up after years of it makes me doubt its’ effectiveness for the people as the UK goes deeper and deeper down the Marxist rat hole. Badenoch’s approach to support is very Trumpian and kudos to her.
The UK has been a socialist nation for a long time now.
The last thing the Establishment wants is a climate realist in power.
How about a test for candidates on the AMO cycles and impacts on regional and global temperature metrics. It beats finger pointing, posturing, and distraction strategies of lobbyists. A follow-up test on missed predictions by climate “experts” and advocacy groups might also be necessary.
This is a really big issue not just in the UK. I don’t understand UK politics but the US suffers the same problem. I think of it as the single issue problem. Here in the US healthy majorities in the House and Senate are critical and of course the President. The party that holds the majority sets the agenda and has more control. Republicans are notorious single issue voters. One of our biggest problems is letting our chance for a majority slip away because some politician isn’t all in on a voters issues. They would rather sit on their backside and let democrats win then compromise and vote for a candidate that doesn’t agree with them lockstep. It is stupid. It is better to run the show with some colleagues being a little wishy washy than play catch up with the other party running the show. I don’t hitch my wagon to individuals rather I hitch it to ideas, the candidate whose ideology is closest to mine gets my vote. I have held my nose in the voting booth at times but majorities are worth compromise.
From across the water it looks like some Tories are waking up to the legitimate threat that Reform presents; the new party has taken over part of the Thatcher brand; it is good to see that the Iron Lady’s legacy is still alive in her old party.
Oh hang Prosper UK and nut zero-
BP unveils fresh £750m blow from failed bet on net zero