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Author: Paul Doran
Fuelling the fire, and getting burned while doing it
Credit: The Conservative Party
Kemi Badenoch's future as leader of the British Conservative Party is in doubt. While the hard-right populists of Reform UK are giving Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer serious cause for concern because of their consistent poll leads, Nigel Farage and his rag-bag army of nostalgists, reactionaries, disruptors, conspiracy theorists, and bigots may well have done for Badenoch and the Tories. As she leads them into their annual conference in Manchester this weekend, there are serious questions about whether Badenoch will still be leader by the summer. Especially if - as anticipated - the right-wing vote in next May's local government and devolved elections swings heavily to Reform and away from the Tories.
To give Farage credit, he is the only British politician who is rising above the herd, and whose message is resonating with a large swathe of the electorate. It is just a pity that the message is one of hate, fear, and division, and is devoid of any meaningful and workable policies other than to tell the people what [and whom] they should be afraid of, and who is to blame for their lot in life.
Starmer is too lawyerly, too forensic, and perhaps just to nice to take the fight to Farage. Ed Davey and the Liberal Democrats are valiantly trying to, but the UK media behaves as if it is they [and not Reform] who have only 6 MPs in the House of Commons, while in fact their 72 MPs get very little in the way of mainstream media coverage. And the faithful lapdogs of the right-wing lugenpresse have already begun their campaign to discredit Green Party leader Zak Polanski.
Which leaves Badenoch and the Tories. She had a golden opportunity to find a space in the British political spectrum for thoughtful, moderate and pragmatic conservatism. She could have led a centre-right party that stood for traditional Conservative values like small government, low tax, enterprise promotion, and sound fact-based government, one which eschewed extremism and blinkered ideology. Instead, she was tempted by the chimera of far-right extremism [only outdone by the man who may still want her job, the execrable Robert Jenrick].
Example: this week, Badenoch met publicly with Turning Point UK [TPUK], the British wing of late extremist Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, remarkable in itself but she also then directed her followers on X to TPUK's account. This is the same Kemi Badenoch who - on 24 August 2025 - publicly decried "the rise of ethno-nationalism and racism on social media". Talk about things that make you go hmmm. . . . .
Surely, Badenoch knows who she is dealing with when she so publicly endorses TPUK? If these people were around in the early 80s they would surely have been trashing the late-night bars at Tory party conferences proudly wearing their "Hang Mandela" T-shirts. These days they attend "peaceful" Unite the Kingdom rallies and chant such edifying slogans as "Starmer loves rent boys" and "The more bombs get dropped on Gaza, the harder my d+ck gets".
Lets not forget of course, some of the choice comments "Saint" Charlie Kirk made about black women, black women just like Kemi Badenoch: "If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?".
Or this little gem: "If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously."
Kemi, if you happen to read this, how can you complain about online racism and hatred, and endorse people who promote online racism and hatred? These are no brave crusaders for free speech. They are people who want to say hateful things with no consequences. And let's not pretend, your appeasement of them doesn't buy you any political points or any exemption from their racism and misogyny. They just think Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke is a useful idiot.
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