{"id":82362,"date":"2025-05-15T07:41:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82362"},"modified":"2025-05-15T07:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:41:40","slug":"badenoch-and-starmer-fascist-enablers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/15\/badenoch-and-starmer-fascist-enablers\/","title":{"rendered":"Badenoch and Starmer: fascist enablers"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Crace, The Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer, made an important point in his column yesterday<\/a>. He suggested, when discussing yesterday's Prime Minister's Question Time:<\/p>\n

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But both leaders appeared to have sated their blood lust for the time being.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He added:<\/div>\n
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Maybe it\u2019s the weather. A sense of it being too nice to be bothered. Or maybe it\u2019s battle fatigue. It\u2019s just too hard to keep on caring when every day is a new shitshow. Or maybe it\u2019s that Keir has finally given up on Kemi. Has stopped treating her and the Tories as serious opposition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Tories have given up on Badenoch.<\/p>\n

Starmer has given up on Badenoch.<\/p>\n

I suspect Badenoch has given up on Badenoch.<\/p>\n

It's only because there is nothing noticeable for the Leader of the Opposition to do after a massive loss in a general election that, I suspect, explains why Badenoch is still in office. Her performance rivals that of Liz Truss, and certainly makes the dire performance of Iain Duncan-Smith in that role (for those old enough, and awake enough, to remember it) look like a stellar performance.<\/p>\n

The trouble is, this matters now. It's not Ed Davey who is seeking to lead the Opposition in her absence. It is Farage.<\/p>\n

Starmer is already letting him run the government.<\/p>\n

Now Badenoch is letting him run the Opposition.<\/p>\n

If fascism is to be beaten in the UK - and beaten it must be - then we need to have politicians able to challenge rather than embrace and enable it.<\/p>\n

Starmer is not that politician.<\/p>\n

Nor is Badenoch.<\/p>\n

And that's what really worries me about where we are. Two utterly incompetent people are making life so very easy for Farage. That should be worrying everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Crace, The Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer, made an important point in his column yesterday. He suggested, when discussing yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Question Time: But
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