Bennet Morka, CITP, MBCS

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[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

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[Bennet Morka, CITP, MBCS @benmorka]

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[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Badenoch's Purge is a Mercy Killing, not a Massacre

For years the Conservative Party's problem was not policy. It was character. It kept promoting people who talked like conservatives and voted like technocrats, who nodded along to net zero targets they privately doubted and treaties they privately resented. Kemi Badenoch has just done something rare in British politics: she has looked at that habit and called it what it is. Cowardice dressed up as pragmatism.

Her decision to block former MPs from standing again if they still cling to net zero, or still defend Britain's subjection to Strasbourg, will be painted by critics as ruthless. It is not ruthless. It is honest. A party that lost catastrophically in 2024 does not get to relitigate that defeat by recycling the same faces and the same instincts. Voters did not reject the Conservatives because the party wasn't nice enough to its old guard. They rejected it because it had stopped standing for anything distinguishable from the consensus it claimed to oppose.

Net zero and the ECHR are not minor technical disputes. They are the clearest tests going of whether a politician actually believes in national self-government, or merely enjoys the theatre of it. A candidate who still insists Britain must hit arbitrary carbon targets, whatever the cost to industry and household bills, has not learned anything from a decade of rising energy prices. A candidate who thinks Strasbourg's rulings are compatible with controlling Britain's own borders is not being moderate. They are being evasive.

What makes this striking is the alternative Badenoch is proposing. Not more career politicians, not more special advisers who have never run so much as a corner shop, but people who have actually built things, taught in classrooms, served in uniform, or kept a small business afloat. It is an unfashionable idea: that competence and conviction matter more than polish. But it is exactly what a party trying to prove it has changed needs to demonstrate, not merely announce.

Compare that with the government it is up against. Much of the current Parliamentary Labour Party arrived from the charity sector and NGOs, backgrounds built around advocacy and institutional compassion, not the harder trade-offs of running a country. It shows in the instincts on display: a preference for managing sentiment over confronting problems. Badenoch's bet is that Britain needs fewer people trained to represent a cause and more who have had to deliver a result.

There will be a cost. Some of the rejected will go to the papers. Some will drift to Reform, adding to a defection story that has already dented the Tories once. Badenoch's response, "so be it", is the correct one. A party terrified of losing people who do not agree with its direction will never have a direction. Every serious political project involves deciding who does not belong in it. The Conservatives spent the last parliament unable to do that, and the country noticed.

Contrast this with the alternatives on offer. Reform's vetting has produced candidates that make its own leader wince. Labour, with over four hundred MPs, could not find anyone better to replace Starmer than a man who once lost to Jeremy Corbyn. Against that backdrop, a party willing to say no to its own former MPs looks less like an act of cruelty and more like the first sign of a functioning institution.

None of this guarantees electoral success. Polling still has the Conservatives level with Labour and behind Reform. But recovery has to start somewhere, and it rarely starts with comfort. Badenoch is betting that voters can tell the difference between a party performing seriousness and one practising it. That bet is worth taking.

[Sallie @Fr12ee44Spewxh]

Looks like eyelashes and black Tshirt Burnham has sent out his first call to action email telling them to all slander Kemi. MPs we’ve never heard of on here posting about today’s PMQs.

They expected an easy ride, but instead Kemi told some home truths that have struck a nerve.
The Conservatives are back. 💙🇬🇧🔥

[ARISE NEWS @ARISEtv]

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[Bennet Morka, CITP, MBCS @benmorka]

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If your employer offers contribution matching, maximise it where you can. You're reducing your tax bill & effectively getting free money added to your retirement pot.

[Charlie @CheckCharlieB]

1979 Changed Britain. 2029 Can Too.

[Bennet Morka, CITP, MBCS @benmorka]

@KemiBadenoch is one bold leader I admire. Love her or hate her, she is saying the right things especially looking at the big picture, the future we want our kids to live in.

https://t.co/c9f0XG9yJV

[Thomas Evans @Renewal2030 🇬🇧 @ThomasEvansAdur]

Punishing today’s Conservatives for the mistakes of the past isn't just counterproductive—it’s completely self-defeating.

​Think about it: it is exactly like a football fanbase refusing to support their club because of a terrible previous season under a completely different manager. It makes zero sense.

​For years, the core complaint was clear: "We don't have an ideologically true Conservative leader, and we don't have real Conservative policies." Well, now we do. Under Kemi Badenoch, the landscape has completely shifted:

​The Principles: She is delivering the authentic, common-sense conservatism the grassroots have been begging for.

​The Vision: She is actively dismantling a decade of misrule and rebuilding the party from the ground up.

​The Momentum: Her message is resonating, and her leadership is popular.

​But Kemi cannot do this alone. She needs our support to make this renaissance a success.

​Right now, the political landscape is fractured by a protest vote that achieves nothing. Splitting the vote for Reform—a party that operates as a volatile one-man band and routinely borrows policies from across the aisle just to patch a manifesto together—doesn't help a single soul in this country.

​Worse still, let’s look at what Reform actually represents. The Tories are true blue. True Conservatism is blue.
Voting turquoise—a diluted, compromised blue—gets you a diluted form of conservatism that actively drifts leftward in Northern regions just to chase Red Wall populism. It lacks core stability.

​The Conservative Party offers tested, experienced, "old school" representatives who understand how to govern and how to fight for traditional values.

​It’s time to stop looking backward at past grievances and start looking forward at the real alternative. If you want genuine, un-diluted Conservatism, back the leader who is actually building it. 🇬🇧
​Back Kemi. Back the Blues. 🌳

#KemiBadenoch #Conservatives #UKPolitics #Tories

[Bennet Morka, CITP, MBCS @benmorka]

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[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Bennet Morka, CITP, MBCS @benmorka]

@afcbournemouth Come on!
Go for the win. We believe in you!

[Bennet Morka, CITP, MBCS @benmorka]

@TheBig6ixShow 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Remember, if you want to get Britain working again, vote Conservative!

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Today I have been from Wandsworth to Croydon, Bromley to Enfield, and Barnet to Harrow and Hillingdon, and one thing is clear: only the Conservatives have a serious plan to get Britain working again.

Tomorrow, vote Conservative for a stronger economy and a stronger country.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Here’s how I see it.

[Bennet Morka, CITP, MBCS @benmorka]

Love this from @KemiBadenoch

[Jerry Barnett @JerryBarnett]

I've never voted Tory in my life, but at this moment in British history, there's literally only one party leader who manages to speak with intelligence, empathy and moral clarity

[Bennet Morka, CITP, MBCS @benmorka]

@piersmorgan 😂😂

[Bennet Morka, CITP, MBCS @benmorka]

@Eniolorunda I don't believe you have said anything off. I think you are absolutely right with your analogy. The truth is bitter and often tastes awful, but if we take it in and get better, there is no stopping us as a nation.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

BOOM! City choke.
BOOM! Everton stand tall.
BOOM! Arsenal 5pts clear.
BOOM! Last 3 games all in London.
BOOM! It’s in our hands.
Take us home, @m8arteta 👊