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An undergrad reading Biomedical Sciences, a massive Fernando Alonso fan, and a LibDem - no wonder I’m always in the middle of controversy!
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I think Kemi forgot who the prime minister was when she was appointed Trade Secretary. #ukbudget
Badenoch claims she has never seen 'this level of chaos' ahead of a budget as Labour showing now In a statement last night Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, said it was “good” if Rachel Reeves has ruled out putting up income tax. (See 8.40am.) This morning she said the government was being “completely irresponsible”. In a clip for broadcasters, asked about the overnight story from the Treasury about income tax not going up, she said: "It’s quite clear that the government doesn’t know what it is doing. What they have announced today is completely irresponsible, given all of the announcements about all the tax rises they’re going to raise. It’s very clear that they’re in a mess. They’ve been talking about tax rises on income tax for ages now, weeks and weeks throughout the summer. Now that they’re saying no. It’s good if they’re not going to increase income taxes. But the truth is they shouldn’t be increasing any taxes at all. But I’ve never seen a government do this in the run-up to a budget. I have never seen this level of chaos, this level of irresponsibility." The two statements aren’t completely incompatible – Badenoch’s overall point is that Tories don’t approve of tax rises, and they think the government’s handling of this has been a mess – but you could be forgiven for being confused Badenoch also said this was a “government in chaos”. She explained: "The day before yesterday, the prime minister had to refer himself to a standards adviser. He’s got three or four members of his cabinet who are being investigated for all sorts of things. You look at what happened the day before yesterday, hearing about a coup. Some cabinet ministers want to overthrow the prime minister. They are not focused on running the economy."
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Kemi Badenoch genuinely shocks me at how terrible she is as a Tory leader. I knew she would be bad, but come on... she makes Truss look competent.

This is the same Kemi Badenoch that hacked Harriet Harman's website to say she was defecting to the Tories.
A screenshot from The Guardian website, detailing an interview of Kemi Badenoch. It details: "He's convening cabinet to talk about Gaza. He's not in a position to sort out that problem. But, OK, let's say we give them statehood and then what? Does the problem disappear. No, it doesn't. It doesn't fix anything at all. He is doing this to solve a political problem because a lot of people in his cabinet want statehood for Palestine. [the following section is highlighted] They are student campaigners, lifelong campaigners. This is the sort of stuff that they like [end of highlight]. And he's dealing with an internal party problem rather than dealing with the problems of this country."
July 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Found this in my camera roll from 2024.

Could not agree more.

(see what I did there)
A poem titled “The Farage Twit”, with a featureless Cat in the Hat on the left hand side. It reads: I do not like this Farage twit I do not like him, not one bit I do not like his made up stats I do not like his beery chats I cannot stand his tiny-mindness When it comes to those behind us I do not approve of “them” and “us” I would not like him on my bus I think it’s time we made it clear We’re British and you’re welcome here I think we need to think again Would we really want his as our PM?
June 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM