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Alan Haley's avatar

Thanks for bothering to even read the pamphlet and dissect it for us!

I’m also fairly ‘neoliberal and centrist’ I think. I’m definitely a Dad. I’m also an ex-CEO of a marketing agency, used to wading through meaningless bullshit. It seems to me that if Kemi had been a client of mine back in the day, we’d be having a difficult conversation.

Even as an entrepreneur - the most valued item in her stated flock - I wouldn’t recognise her language.

I think I recognise her intent though…it’s to dress something up that doesn’t maybe sound so great and far-reaching in its monosyllabic form, in an attempt to prove she really has something different to offer.

She’s trying to appeal to a bunch of intellectuals who maybe read about ‘free-market conservatism’ in Oxford, before getting their PPE, doing a gap year in Africa and then heading straight for the corridors of Westminster.

That’s not enough voters to get her into No 10. The Tory membership might. Not because they understand what the feck she’s going on about, but because they don’t know what they stand for either.

But let’s see…

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Eva Delaney's avatar

“As a child you may get better treatment or equipment at school…”.

As a mother of an autistic child I can say from experience that that is bollocks

Each child is entitled by law to an education. Conservatives put so much pressure on Councils to find money in their meagre budgets that they’ve reduced these kids to a figure on a spreadsheet. They could actually save money in the long term by supporting them properly in the right school at the start of their life whether it’s mainstream or a special school (which trust me being more expensive the Councils bend over backwards to avoid) and with access to training for teachers but by squeezing them through the system as cheaply as possible they’re actually denying them an education that they need that more able pupils take for granted.

I really find Badenoch utterly contemptible. She obviously has no clue about the reality and doesn’t care. I can see her bent over her little computer making up her latest nonsense to further her career and as a Mum who he’s even been to court and won to get what my child is entitled to I could quite cheerfully kick her up the arse.

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