REMINDER FOR NON-BRITS:
Kemi Badenoch—the new leader of the Conservative party—is a woman of colour.
But she's also:
— a climate change denialist
— denies institutional racism exists
— a militant transphobe who wants to strip transgender people of civil rights
— believes the British Empire was beneficial to its colonies
— opposes marriage equality
— Prejudiced against autism
... She's the most right-wing leader the party's ever had.
(She's the anti-Kamala Harris.)
@cstross And the really scary thing is, she’s still a more moderate choice than Jenrick.
@KimSJ Jenrick's face gives me flashbacks to the class bully when I was attending a grammar school in the 1970s, and his statements tend to reinforce the negative impression …