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Jul 12 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
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Non-dom billionaire-owned Spectator magazine's ex-Director Kemi Badenoch, is second favourite to replace non-dom billionaire-owned Telegraph & Spectator magazine's ex-employee Boris Johnson. 😬

But who is Kemi Badenoch, & why do malign foreign/non-dom billionaires❤️her?
Badenoch worked as a systems analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, before - like every other candidate in the #ToryLeadershipContest - pursueing a career in 'consultancy & financial services', working as an associate director of private bank & wealth manager, Coutts.
In her maiden speech as an MP on 19 July, 2017 Bademoch described the vote for Brexit as "the greatest ever vote of confidence in the project of the United Kingdom" and cited her personal heroes as Winston Churchill, Airey Neave, & Margaret Thatcher.

In April 2018, The Mail on Sunday obtained a video of an interview that 'ethically challenged' Badenoch did, where she confessed to hacking into the website of @UKLabour MP Harriet Harman in 2008, when she was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

news.sky.com/story/tory-vic…
Like so many hard-right Tory MPs & high profile Republicans, Badenoch is another extremely dangerous & divisive culture war fanatic, skilled in 'divide & rule' & Steve Bannon's approach of 'flooding the zone with shit'.

In a #BlackHistoryMonth debate in Parliament in 2020, Badenoch emphasised the government's opposition to primary & secondary schools teaching 'white privilege' & similar "elements of critical race theory" - despite CRT NEVER being taught in schools.

Unhinged ill-informed extremist ConservativeHome readers voted Badenoch's speech on critical race theory 2020 'speech of the year'.

Her speech was dangerously divisive culture war bullshit, imported directly from the extremist wing of the US Republicans.

In 2021, ethically challenged Badenoch published a series of tweets in which she included screenshots of questions sent to her office by HuffPost journalist Nadine White who she, as a result, accused of "creepy & bizarre behaviour".

theguardian.com/media/2021/jan…
White subsequently made her Twitter account private, citing the abuse she received. Badenoch's actions were criticised by both the National Union of Journalists & the Council of Europe's Safety of Journalists Platform. Badenoch was defended by Boris Johnson's press secretary.
In March 2021, Badenoch was encouraged to "consider her position" as an equalities minister by Jayne Ozanne, one of a group of Govt LGBT advisers who quit their roles due to the decision by the Govt not to ban conversion therapy; a speech by Badenoch was described as "appalling".
During a debate in the House of Commons in April 2021, Badenoch criticised Labour's response to the Govt's grotesque whitewashing report compiled by the Commission on Race & Ethnic Disparities, which had declared Britain was not institutionally racist.

The report was widely condemned as a travesty & missed opportunity by charities & many other organisations, but culture war extremists Badenoch inevitably defended it, & accused Labour of "wilful misrepresentations" over the report.

In September 2021, Badenoch was promoted to Minister of State for Equalities & appointed Minister of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government. Shortly after Vice News said they had received leaked audio from 2018 in which Badenoch mocked gay marriage.
Having been a staunch supporter of Boris Johnson, on 6 July, opportunist Badenoch resigned from Govt, citing Boris Johnson's handling of the Chris Pincher scandal. Two days later she launched a bid in the #ToryLeadershipRace.

She describes herself as a "cultural Christian". 😬

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