Olukemi Badenoch has just promoted Tom Tugendhat in her Tory Shadow Cabinet.
The great political selling point of Tugendhat is that he’s supposed to be a serious player on defense and national security, especially when it comes to China.
So we better not talk about how his parliamentary aide Christopher Cash was caught up in the Westminster China spying scandal.
Many will recall how Cash was accused of collecting insider info about UK politics and government policy, and passing it to a Chinese intelligence agent, who then forwarded it to Cai Qi, one of the most senior politicians in China. Cai is often referred to as President Xi Jinping's right-hand man.
But perhaps that was just a fluke, eh? And maybe Tugendhat really is the real deal for Kemi’s Cabinet?
Let’s consider what he believes:
1. Tugendhat voted Remain.
2. He doesn’t want to leave the ECHR.
3. He recently advocated for 6-figure net migration.
4. He is a war hawk and a liberal international interventionist.
Privately schooled. The son of a High Court judge. The nephew of a former Tory MP and European Commissioner. He went to Cambridge, then to the Foreign Office and into Afghanistan “nation-building” circles.
His 2024 Tory leadership campaign attracted large donations from figures including former McKinsey global boss Dominic Barton, ex-Goldman Sachs banker Michael Sherwood, billionaire investor Lord Michael Hintze and businessman Michael Tory (seriously), alongside substantial corporate support.
Barton even went on to become Canada’s Ambassador to China, by the way.
Naturally, Tugendhat has been an outspoken critic of Nigel Farage. He accused him of being “deeply irresponsible and dangerous” after Farage protested the establishment’s attempted cover-up following the Southport stabbings, wherein Axel Rudakubana murdered three children and injured ten others at Taylor Swift-themed dance class.
At the time, Farage suggested a terror-link and demanded better communication from authorities with the public. As the case progressed, he turned out to be completely correct, just as in the assassination of Ann Widdecombe, when authorities tried to originally dismiss the political terror attack as a “burglary gone wrong.”
If you wanted to manufacture the archetypal British foreign-policy establishment politician: elite background, Whitehall, military high command, City money, international institutions and the Tory One Nation tradition, you would struggle to produce a more complete uniparty specimen than Tom Tugendhat.
If this is Kemi’s big signal to the country, God help her.
🚨 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS: A 14-year-old girl, Tamar, gets run over by an Iraqi asylum seeker who was scrolling on his phone. He leaves her to die in a ditch and flees to Germany
The police? They tell the mother it was "a German" to "avoid creating a Geert Wilders moment."
The prosecutor's office? 8 weeks in prison: 2 for looking at his phone, 6 for fleeing without calling for help.
The mother had to fight alone for 6 YEARS to finally bring this monster to justice. Meanwhile, 4 Iraqi migrants in the car, zero serious investigation, and Tamar's body moved to cover up the evidence.
8 weeks. For a life stolen. For a child abandoned like a dog on the roadside.
Is this what "European justice" looks like in 2026? Protecting migrant criminals over our children?
If this doesn't revolt you, you're already dead inside. SHARE MASSIVELY.
What sentence did this guy really deserve? 🔥
@EdwardJDavey There’s a certain type person…
They’re too self-righteous (delusionally so) to vote Conservative.
They’re too wealthy to vote Labour.
But they want to feel good about themselves, and feel justified in their deluded self-righteousness.
That’s who @EdwardJDavey represents.
Sir Ed Davey has hinted that he would be open to a pact with the Conservatives after the next general election.
The Liberal Democrat leader explicitly ruled out a deal with the Tories before the last general election, with his party going on to gain dozens of their previously safe seats⤵️
https://t.co/YpA3K0IgDN
We all know it. The reason Labour *refuse* to publish foreign national offenders' statistics, and why David Lammy has launched a legal appeal to stop it, is because it will confirm the left have lost the argument.
We all know what the stats will show
This is a blatant COVER UP!
Do you know why conservatives haven’t clamped down on immigration?
Because the biggest losers will be corporations.
Modern conservatives are corporatists not capitalists.
So their corporate mates will have to pay higher wages in order to attract British labour.
Labour have engineered the biggest political coup in modern UK history.
Labour brought in a new leader from outside the PLP, and timed the coup to coincide with the 6-week summer recess, so And¥ Burnham hasn't had to set foot yet in the House of Commons as Prime Minister, and will only have to endure 2 PMQs when Parliament returns on September 1st before the conference recess starts on the 15th.
The timing has allowed Burnham and his hand-picked staff and team of ministers to run riot, upending centuries of tradition and history and radically changing how the country is run without oversight.
In his first week as PM, Burnham created a 2nd de facto capital city when opening Number 10 North in Manchester, a few minutes down the road from his family home.
Without any, consultation, debate, or scrutiny, Burnham committed the UK to £Billions of extra government spending and changed where and how the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, Ministers of the Crown, and hundreds of civil servants work.
Last week Burnham and his henchmen set in motion changes that will radically affect how the regions operate, with a group of 14 super mayors, 10 of whom represent the Labour Party, given powers to overrule local mayors in such matters as planning permission for new housing estates, and funding for major regeneration projects.
The Mayors have already been called to meetings and briefings at Number 10 North. The creation of super mayors cooperating and reporting to the PM is nothing less than a naked power grab by Labour.
Burnham and his Cabinet Sectary, Antonia Romeo, have ended the pretense of the Civil Service being impartial.
Among the devolution program for the regions are schemes to send teams of civil servants around the country to advise and work with the mayors. The plan for these civile servants is for them to gain experience in local government which will equip them to become "future leaders".
The coup has been planned for over a year, and the plotters couldn't be happier with the way it is going.
All hail Admiral General Prime Minister And¥.
Grad jobs have reduced by 50%
Yet in the same time - the govt have awarded grad visas to
90,153 Indians
42,220 Nigerians
And 30,464 Pakistanis
Labour are taxing away our jobs, whilst forcing us to compete with hundreds of thousands of foreigners.
A betrayal of British young people
@KEdge23 Let’s conveniently forget the part the Conservatives played in getting us into this mess.
Let’s conveniently forget Kemi Badenoch consistently voted with the government.
Let’s not forget the Conservatives always pay lip service but never deliver.
@mikecosgrove I thought it was bad when it took 8 months to land a job after my MSc.
I thought it was already crazy how much degrees were devalued compared to my parents or older cousins generations…
I can’t even imagine being a new graduate in this job market.
They sold off your assets to foreign corporations.
They outsourced your jobs to foreign countries.
They flooded your jobs market with foreigners.
Now they’re letting foreign tech firms take the last jobs.
What you gonna do about it?
In case you're wondering, this was what systemic racism *actually* looks like:
Leaving a man to die on the lies of a murderer and even then *still* trying to support the murderer's lies.