Kemi Badenoch has made clear that she thinks that university-educated people who might challenge what she wants to do to this country are high on her list of the enemies of society. I, on the other hand, work at a university, seeking to produce the people who might hold her to account. Does that make me Kemi Badenoch’s problem?
Makes you our collective problem, not hers alone.
“I, on the other hand, work at a university,…”
Not for much longer, though…. Which is a Good Thing™
What does he teach at the University? Imagine having him as your assigned tutor………
As the Pointer Sisters liked to say : ‘I’m so excited – and I just can’t hide it!!! ‘
Am I your problem, Kemi Badenoch? I asked the question for a very good reason, because Kemi Badenoch published a pamphlet during the course of her Conservative Party leadership campaign. It was entitled, ‘Conservatism in Crisis, The Rise of the Bureaucratic Class’, and in it she attacked UK society.
Interesting – firstly Pro Israeli Jews, now Conservative blacks. Turns out Murphy might have a problem with ‘wrongspeak’ by minorities.
Some are those who have mental health issues. They, apparently, are a massive burden to society, and I’m going to discuss that in another video soon.
Something to look forward to….
But another group that she took great issue with are those who work in universities, and I do. And those who’ve got degrees. And I have. In fact, almost half the young people in the UK now have degrees, and Kemi Badenoch really does not like that fact.
I can almost see the Straw Man being constructed like the one Edward Woodward was facing in ‘The Wicker Man’
Her diatribe, because I can’t really describe this document in any other way, is based upon prejudice. There is no doubt about that; it’s very clear from everything that drips from it. But why does she hate those who are educated so much? Well, it’s clear that the answer comes from her analysis of electoral results in the USA.
If they come out with the amount of bullshit you haver generated over the years she’ll have good reason to.
Her claim is that those who had degrees voted for Biden in 2020 and those who hadn’t voted for Trump and, therefore, having a degree is very obviously a bad thing to possess.
Without even reading the pamphlet this is the type of arguments that would have generated a lot of ‘interesting commentary’ in my undergraduate years. Arguing against the argument you want to see rather than the one that is there.
It makes you left-wing, she claims, and that is disastrous because the left wing is the enemy in her very weird worldview.
Whereas in yours to be Right wing is to be perfectly acceptable or to be ‘God forbid’ , a ‘Neoliberal’??
And it makes you a proponent of bureaucracy, that system of government that she wishes to control by becoming leader of the opposition and so prospective prime minister, but which she apparently hates.
Excessive bureaucracy is highly problematic according to the latest report by Mario Draghi on the future of the EU. Are you a convert to Brexit suddenly?
I deliberately used the tone that I did because there is an obvious paradox in everything that she’s saying. How can she want to control government and yet hate it so much?
The condescension to her is really quite loathsome to behold
How can she hate bureaucracy and yet want to control the biggest bureaucracy that we have? Because government is inevitably, and there is no way around this, bureaucratic.
I don’t know. Unless we presume that what she wants to do is create new elites and new power structures, a new system of control, which are fundamentally different to those which have gone before.
The level of bureaucracy is what is out of control. Of course he knows this (actually I am thinking he may be too stupid to understand that)
Now maybe that is exactly what she is saying. And I am reading between the lines of this document and between the lines of what she said when she was elected very recently to be leader.
She said the Conservatives have to go back to their roots and reimagine what it means to form a government in the future. Is she saying, and it seemed to be the case that she is, that everything that the Conservatives have been doing when in office is wrong? Is she saying, like Liz Truss, that, frankly, the Conservatives have moved so far to the left, in her view, as was the view of Liz Truss, that she has to drag them into a totally different space?
They went from 300 seats to less than 120 in 5 years. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of their performance? You’d advocate doubling down?
Is she saying that education for most people is wrong because they then might question the system, which she believes she must have control of? Is she challenging the right to literally challenge, which is what a good education encourages the person to do?
You have blocked over 20,000 people on Twitter and more than 50,000 from your blog so your responses to challenges are of course the bar by which we all should be measured.
I believe she is doing all those things. I believe her paranoia about education is quite simply that it means that people, when they are informed, understand that there need to be balances in society to ensure that everyone has a chance to prosper. Whereas she takes the view, and I think it’s a eugenic view, that there are some who are naturally entitled to prosper. And the rest are destined to serve.
Unless they’re neoliberal, Conservative or back Brexit?
That is what I think she’s arguing. And my belief as an educator is that we have done our duty if we create people who challenge the worldview that Kemi Badenoch represents.
So you don’t want a Free thinker but someone who agrees with you 100%?
I am, therefore, delighted to be Kemi Badenoch’s problem. It’s my aim to be her problem. It’s the aim of most of my university colleagues throughout the UK to be Kemi Badenoch’s problem. Because our goal in life is to create people who question, challenge and change systems for the better.
And the 2024 US election was of course a ringing endorsement of your beliefs in:
– The desirability of Mass immigration
– That men can simply declare themselves women and people are obliged to accept it
– The prevalence of toxic masculinity
– Net Zero
Keep drinking the Kool Aid
But she wants none of that. She wants to go back to a past, as she sees it, where power was ensconced in the hands of a few who ruled imperially without challenge from the masses. And that is the last thing that I think this country wants.
You’re the one who believes in being ruled from Brussels – the very embodiment of the philosophy that others know better. I’d say: ” physician, heal thyself” but it would be pointless.
So holding [people] to account now consists of screaming “fascist” in their faces. I don’t see how that could possibly require more than 30s of training, certainly not a 3-year degree.
I think we’re going to have to just write off a whole generation of leftists fantasist cunts like Murphy as unreachable.
He’s so desperate to be a martyr it’s almost painful to watch. If Trump or Kemi were to even acknowledge he existed let alone talk about how dangerous he is, his preening would rival Malvolio.
Matt
Exactly – there was a very interesting article in the (admittedly quite Conservative) Arutz Sheva website pointing out how offensive the comparison between Trump and Hitler (especially) was and asking why, if Trump was the new Hitler then 80% plus of Orthodox Jews supporting him was probably odd. I put that to my relative who is a co-author of Murphy’ss and his response – that ‘Orthodox Jews are also fascists’ was pretty much illustrative of the cognitive dissonance on display.
I think Interested is spot on – these people are off the reservation. I’d probably look to see if they can be got on something like incitement to racial hatred but as the BiS points out they’d no doubt welcome what they perceive as ‘persecution’
I thought he taught accountancy? It’s his job as an educator to teach the minutia of tax codes and spreadsheets.
“almost half the young people in the UK now have degrees”
So-called degrees, purported degrees. Heaps of crap, mostly. Expensive crap too. Damaging crap, quite often. Awfy sad.
An Accountant? Who would hire him as their accountant? He would not lower your tax bill , he would try and maximise it!
that ‘Orthodox Jews are also fascists’ was pretty much illustrative of the cognitive dissonance on display.
Depends which Orthodox Jews. If you’re talking about the Hassidim etc, it wouldn’t be a poor description. They share a lot of Spud’s attributes. A devotion to an obscure mysticism & a detestation of those who don’t. The more enthusiastic ones might even be up for invading Poland if they could ever agree on a date. However they’d have trouble keeping up with the Sage of Ely. I wouldn’t be the least surprised if his next book is entitled “My Struggle”.
As for the parts V_P has quoted, I couldn’t agree more with his sentiments. University graduates & the universities they attended are today’s enemy.
“University graduates & the universities they attended are today’s enemy.”
Not much of an enemy if, as reported in the election blog, nominal adults need colouring books, milk and cookies and …of all things… a Therapy Duck to cope with an election result that didn’t go the way they wanted.
Good indicator for exactly which “Institutions of Higher Learning” need to be treated to the Carthaginian Solution, though.
The “Institutions of Higher Learning” do seem to have churned out a lot of people need those emotional supports at this testing time for them. As which ones should be destroyed & ground they stood on sewn with
nuclear waste from their own research reactorssalt, starting with the Russell Group?“Not much of an enemy if, as reported in the election blog, nominal adults need colouring books, milk and cookies and …of all things… a Therapy Duck to cope with an election result that didn’t go the way they wanted”
Individually undoubtedly less resilient than their opposites in the Right, yet as a collective they form an very powerful bloc, as they and their ilk control virtually every public organisation and many large private ones as well. Its rather like the Borg from Star Trek, individually insignificant, collectively immensely powerful.
OK, I admit to pendantry (sorry, Tim, I know Polly invented it for you) but document and diatribe don’t go together. A diatribe is a verbal attack. Seems the degree doesn’t mean much about intelligence, just a badge…
Jim
Very, very true. This is rather like the conclusion of the Battle of Britain. Yes the enemy has suffered a huge defeat but they are still in a strong position. And from the UK perspective Trump is treating the worst government in human history and its Pygmy local offshoots like Sadiq Khan (who still hasn’t emigrated like he promised to do!!) with the contempt they warrant. Those of us in the UK are still being assimilated into this Borg Like consciousness.
“Am I your problem, Kemi Badenoch?”
You can almost hear the plaintive cry from the Ely end-terrace – “Don’t you know who I am?”
almost half the young people in the UK now have degrees
Which means it’s just a school leaving certificate. It’s an award for being alive at the age of 21.
Riddle me this, Batman!
If they’re all university educated,
Why are they so fucking stupid?
“ I, on the other hand, work at a university, seeking to produce the people who might hold her to account”
That’s an interesting admission of the partisan nature of his teaching.
I had an alumni news email from Sussex University yesterday congratulating Kemi as their first graduate to lead a UK party. You could almost hear the gritted teeth as they wrote that!
If he is working at a university and doing all the housework after both wives have left him, then why is he spending so much time writing stupid blogs (those who have read them declare them to be full of stupidity).
Is he an example of “work from home” means skive?