"The Tory party leader just can't help herself. Every time you think that, just maybe, she is beginning to get the hang of the job, she comes up with something so deranged, so batshit that you can only sit back and admire the self-destruction. Almost as if she can't bear any idea of success. Bewilderingly, sabotaging herself seems to be her default coping mechanism. Someone who can only find satisfaction in annihilating her own party. Sometimes you even wonder if she has ever been a Tory."
"Like so much of Kemi's behaviour, this was all totally avoidable. There was no need for her to do or say anything. With Keir Starmer away in China, this was a week off for her from prime minister's questions. A slot she would delegate to the even more useless Andrew Griffith. Clearly Badenoch does not welcome any competition so Griffith might get the deputy leader job for good. But Kemi wanted, no, needed attention."
Kemi Badenoch repeatedly sabotages her own leadership with attention-seeking performances and extreme rhetoric. She uses media moments to push polarising messages that alienate moderate Conservatives and activists alike. She portrayed the party as having no future and dismissed one-nation, centre-right elements as unwelcome. The rhetoric prioritises hardline anti-immigration supporters over electoral pragmatism. Polling has fallen from the high twenties to the mid-teens, undermining any case for purging moderates. Her behaviour appears avoidable and driven by personal attention-seeking, producing self-inflicted damage to party unity and electability.
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