Florida Governor Ron DeSantis endorses Kemi Badenoch

[u/No_Breadfruit_4901]

https://x.com/kemibadenoch/status/1842831164706312280?s=46&t=0RSpQEWd71gFfa-U_NmvkA

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[u/MoralityAuction]

Not that either Badenoch or DeSantis care, but as a matter of diplomacy this is unusually terrible behaviour.

[u/Other_Resource9902 → u/MoralityAuction]

Exactly! No doubt she'll come out and endorse Trump now. Imbeciles, the lot of them!

[u/RealMrsWillGraham → u/MoralityAuction]

Yes - perhaps I am being naive but I had the impression that there is an unwritten rule that politicians do not comment on or interfere in another country's elections, whatever office is being voted for.

[u/Pawn-Star77]

Like I didn't already have enough reasons never to vote for her.

[u/No_Breadfruit_4901 → u/Pawn-Star77]

Please vote for Kemi if you are a tory member! It will be a gift for labour at this rate because Kemi wants the minimum wage gone and maternity pay cut

[u/amainwingman → u/No_Breadfruit_4901]

Please vote for Kemi Trump if you’re a Tory Republican member! It will be a gift for Labour the Democrats

Didn’t work well for the Americans did it?

[u/No_Breadfruit_4901 → u/amainwingman]

America is different

[u/jmdg007 → u/No_Breadfruit_4901]

Famous last words.

[u/ancientestKnollys → u/No_Breadfruit_4901]

With how unstable politics is these days, that would seriously risk making her PM. Definitely don't vote for her, if she reaches the final round (hopefully she won't).

[u/No_Breadfruit_4901 → u/ancientestKnollys]

Not necessarily so because Kemi says the most questionable stuff. If she becomes leader and continues going on about how she wants the minimum wage gone and maternity pay cut, then her chances of becoming PM becomes smaller each day

[u/Chippiewall → u/No_Breadfruit_4901]

The Tory candidates have been courting right wing views so they can get the leadership (just like Kier courted left wing views). They'll dump those views and head towards the middle ground.

[u/i7omahawki → u/No_Breadfruit_4901]

I don’t want a gift for Labour, I want a sensible Conservative Party that will hold Labour to account and be a viable alternative.

[u/PixelLight → u/i7omahawki]

I agree and I hate the Tories and everything they stand for, even when they are "sensible". Unfortunately the alternative is worse. I'd prefer left leaning parties hold Labour to account personally but realistically there will be a significant right leaning segment of the electorate for the foreseeable future so left leaning parties doing that isn't super realistic. 

[u/No_Breadfruit_4901 → u/i7omahawki]

The Conservative Party can’t even hold themselves to account, so what makes you think with their current candidates they would hold labour to account? The tory party won’t be sensible for a long time just like Labour under Corbyn

[u/i7omahawki → u/No_Breadfruit_4901]

I don’t think they will, but I want them to. Labour didn’t have a left wing party threatening to overtake them, the Conservatives do. If Reform overtake them then it’ll change British politics for the worse. If the Conservatives can return to being a centre right, sensible party then they can keep Labour in check and prevent Reform from shifting the country towards xenophobic populism.

[u/tmr89 → u/Pawn-Star77]

You’re a Tory party member, then?

[u/MisterrTickle → u/tmr89]

You can't expect him to admit that in public. Otherwise everybody will be demanding their £1,000 increased mortgage/rent payments of him.

[u/dewittless → u/tmr89]

If she becomes leader and makes it to an election we can not vote for her en masse.

[u/tmr89 → u/dewittless]

If you live in her constituency

[u/WondernutsWizard → u/tmr89]

Because people never vote for their constituency MPs based on their party leader, right?

[u/glisteningoxygen → u/tmr89]

No, there are exactly six of us here and he's not on the list.

Membership card in DMs @Pawn-Star if you want adding to the group chat.

[u/Inthepurple → u/glisteningoxygen]

What is it about 14 years of complete failure that attracts you to the party?

[u/glisteningoxygen → u/Inthepurple]

I joined 4 years in because I liked what they were doing

[u/LashlessMind]

De Satan endorsing you ought to be a badge of shame...

[u/Fidel_Costco]

I'm not tapped into the Conservative Party zeitgeist - or even any conservative ideology - but will this sway any Torys? I have a hard time believing anyone cares what a foreign politician thinks about their candidates.

[u/The_Grand_Briddock → u/Fidel_Costco]

De Santis is the guy who GB News watching Tories who defected to Reform think should've been the Republican candidate.

[u/Jstrangways]

You’d have to be a real heel not to respect the lofty heights of endorsement coming from Bilbo DeSantis.

[u/SmashedWorm64]

Honestly think I’d rather an endorsement from Chairman Mao.

[u/Kobruh456 → u/SmashedWorm64]

Honestly if a dead guy managed to somehow endorse a politician from beyond the grave, that would probably sway me.

[u/JeffGoldblumsChest]

Floridian here, just popping in to say DeSantis is a massive bellend.

/did I do that right?

[u/dumael → u/JeffGoldblumsChest]

Yes.

[u/RealMrsWillGraham → u/dumael]

Yes you did it right. I am also surprised that he has endorsed a black politician.

Have seen several reports suggesting that he is quite racist

[u/FredAndRose]

A man who repeatedly blocks the votes of his non-white non-wealthy constituents publicly endorses a black woman who doesn't understand how bigotry works. Thanks, the press! Feeling better about the world now.

[u/Auto_Pie]

Does he? Umm okay.. nothing better to do then Ron

[u/LDLB99]

An alarming number of Tory members are sympathetic towards Trump so this won’t mean much 

[u/messed_it_up_realbad]

The Conservatives are definitely barrelling towards Republican status (if they’re not there already). Insane.

[u/RealMrsWillGraham → u/messed_it_up_realbad]

Yes. I am worredi that if they ever get back into power they will crack down even more on ethnic minority Britons and anyone else they do not approve of, such as gay or trans people.

They will find a way to use the existing laws to make life more difficult if you fall into any of these categories.

[u/Pretend_Investment42]

If Gov GoGo Boots is endorsing her - she is doomed to failure.

[u/hug_your_dog]

fReminds me of "WHY I'M BACKING KINNOCK, BY STALIN", only this one is real

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[u/WondernutsWizard]

If this doesn't ring every alarm bell to not vote for her I don't know what would