Badenoch Gives Conference Address
Kemi is the final of the four. The fever dream beauty parade ends after this…
Keynote Speech at Conservative Party Conference 2024 https://t.co/KTpdywXDeI
— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) October 2, 2024
A rabble-rousing speech. In summary:
- Starts: “It is time to tell the truth.”
- She says enough of politicians doing their own thing, bemoans spin.
- The Conservative Party reverses decline, the country needs it.
- She grew up in a place of fear.
- She is a Conservative because she has seen what happens when a country loses sight of Conservative principles.
- Party lost faith and stopped acting like Conservatives, and acted like managers. Going after Labour votes lost Tory votes.
- No greater example than Net Zero.
- Promises must come with a plan. Plans should be based on principles. Tories did not keep their promises in government. Taxes and immigration.
- Where is the wealth creation of the 1980s? Wealth is not a dirty word. It should be defended and encouraged.
- Labour targets savers and wealth creators while taking money from a millionaire.
- Battle for ideas against the left is now on. Against “socialism in a suit.”
- Pitch to youth.
- Declares victory on trans as Labour now sides with her.
- “If the law says you cannot deport a foreign child abuser, than the law is an ass.”
- If Kemi is leader a comprehensive programme will be initiated not seen since the likes of Keith Joseph’s.
- Targets Human Rights Act, Equality Act, Civil Service, Health Service, Quangos, Bank of England, Judicial Review. “Rewire, reboot, reprogramme.”
- Party is not a club or faction but a movement.
- Jokes about people saying she likes a fight: “I don’t know where they got that idea.”
- “We are going to have fun” in opposition.
- Defends capitalism and enterprise to beat poverty. Take the shackles off the economy so that it can fly.
The members liked that one…
