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"The media coverage of the new conservative leader is a wash about her being black and a women...." It's because the news media is obsessed with records. They love to report that a thing is more important than any other that has happened in the past. So we get stories about the first person to do a thing, the first Briton to do that thing, the first British woman to do that same thing, the first African-origin person to do it, the first person with a disability to do it, the first person under 18 to do it, etc. If there's heavy rain the news can't describe it as 'unseasonably heavy rain', they say it's the heaviest rain since 2017. They could say 'worst in 7 years', but that doesn't sound as impressive, so the 'since xxxx' format gets used a lot. It's a depressingly sensationalist method of presenting news. | |||
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"6th Tory leader in 9 years, I wish her luck , she will need it " And how many chancellors. | |||
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"6th Tory leader in 9 years, I wish her luck , she will need it And how many chancellors. " Education secretary's | |||
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"6th Tory leader in 9 years, I wish her luck , she will need it And how many chancellors. " A few | |||
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"She’ll be sacked within 18 months most likely so really who cares I think she will last longer than that as in opposition she does not have to deliver & can talk about lower tax & more growth etc " | |||
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"6th Tory leader in 9 years, I wish her luck , she will need it And how many chancellors. A few " Jeremy Hunt 2022 to 2024 Kwasi Kwarteng 2022 Nadhim Zahawi 2022 Rishi Sunak 2020 to 2022 Sajid Javid 2019 to 2020 Philip Hammond 2016 to 2019 George Osborne 2010 to 2016 I make that 7, previously Labour had two chancellors from 97-2010 | |||
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"6th Tory leader in 9 years, I wish her luck , she will need it And how many chancellors. A few Jeremy Hunt 2022 to 2024 Kwasi Kwarteng 2022 Nadhim Zahawi 2022 Rishi Sunak 2020 to 2022 Sajid Javid 2019 to 2020 Philip Hammond 2016 to 2019 George Osborne 2010 to 2016 I make that 7, previously Labour had two chancellors from 97-2010" Ouch, thank good the electorate voted out that shower of shit | |||
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"So the media shouldn't comment on something happening for the first time ever in our politics? Surely be a bit weird if they didn't mention it. I mean, I think she's an absolute lunatic and hope she never gets anywhere near bring PM, but I can still appreciate it's an important moment. In the same way it was when Rishi became leader/PM." It's not an important moment. We've already had a female party leader, and a PoC party leader, both of whom went on to be Prime Minister. Badenoch is just party leader, she might never get to be PM. If Jenrick had won would the papers be full of stories about the first ever Conservative leader whose surname begins with a 'J'? | |||
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"So the media shouldn't comment on something happening for the first time ever in our politics? Surely be a bit weird if they didn't mention it. I mean, I think she's an absolute lunatic and hope she never gets anywhere near bring PM, but I can still appreciate it's an important moment. In the same way it was when Rishi became leader/PM. It's not an important moment. We've already had a female party leader, and a PoC party leader, both of whom went on to be Prime Minister. Badenoch is just party leader, she might never get to be PM. If Jenrick had won would the papers be full of stories about the first ever Conservative leader whose surname begins with a 'J'?" We'll have to agree to disagree. She's the first black woman to lead a major political party in the UK. That's significant, even if you don't think so. You can't lump her in with Rishi as "just another ethnic" and nor with Thatcher/May/Truss as "just another woman". I agree she's very unlikely to be PM, thank heavens. | |||
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