Well done Ms Badenoch. A politician that has started to identify one of the problems we suffer from.

I gave up on the Tories or at least on voting for or supporting the Tories back in 2020. I’d voted Tory in 2019 only to see the Tories mess up dreadfully the response to Covid, prop the nation’s doors open to all and sundry whilst we were all locked in our homes and fail over a 14 year period to push back against Leftism in the public sphere. I also gave up on the Tories over their disastrous championing of Net Zero, their lazy acceptance of the Cult of Trans, their unwillingness to turn back the tide of deindustrialisation, their lack of support for freedom of speech and because the Tories no longer had their unique selling point of being trustworthy with the economy.

When Kemi Badenoch took over as Conservative Party leader I initially cautiously welcomed her as leader but for a long while was unimpressed by her performance, especially when she had the open goal of a clearly dangerous authoritarian and increasingly hated Labour government to fight against. ‘Surely she should be doing better than that?’ was a question that I asked myself whenever Ms Badenoch intervened or commented on the great issues of the day. I started to see Ms Badenoch less as a politician who could take on Labour at the next General Election and stave of the threat to the part from Reform but more as a temporary placeholder leader who would keep the seat warm for someone like Robert Jenrick for example.

However, I’m feeling a lot more good about Kemi Badenoch’s leadership following her performance at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday 17th December. Her robust attack on Islamic extremism was like a breath of fresh air as not enough politicians from any party have spoken up about this issue even though it’s an extremely pressing and challenging one. It was a speech containing moral clarity on this matter when so often we’ve seen mainstream politicians from both the Left and the Right morally equivocating on this issue.

Here’s a post on X containing Ms Badenoch’s statement on Islamic extremism following the Islam inspired Bondi Beach Atrocity.

https://x.com/GBPolitcs/status/2001327311401226567

I still don’t think, as some die hard Tories might do, that Kemi Badenoch is the political messiah that Britain and the British Right needs, but to show moral clarity on the Bondi Beach Atrocity and to name in the Chamber the threat we face is a lot better than many might have expected of her. If she can continue in this vein then she might pick up for her party some of the votes that have gone to Reform out of disgust at the Tories choice to embrace the more nutty end of liberalism. I don’t think she’s going to change the Tories overnight, there are still too many Tory MP’s who would be better off in the Lib Dems who will stand in her way, but she is at least making a start on doing the correct things for Britain and for Britons.

We do face a civilizational threat from Islamic extremism and it is good to see at least one mainstream politician in the UK admitting the existence of this threat. Well done Ms Badenoch, let us have a whole lot more of this sort of statement from her and from the Tories.