{"id":14768,"date":"2024-11-07T11:28:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T11:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14768"},"modified":"2024-11-07T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T11:36:10","slug":"badenoch-talks-sht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14768","title":{"rendered":"Badenoch talks sh*t"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/11\/Kemi_Badenoch_MP_crop_2_2024.jpg\" alt=\"Kemi Badenoch, official portrait\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14785\" \/>Yesterday, newly elected Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch took part in her first Prime Minister&#8217;s questions in that role.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>However, the session did not necessarily turn out to her advantage and The Guardian&#8217;s political sketch writer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/nov\/06\/hypocrisy-student-politics-and-scoring-cheap-points-kemikaze-gets-to-work\"> John Crace took full advantage of her failings to mock her<\/a> performance unmercifully.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>However, her lack of political guile was not Badenoch&#8217;s only failure at the despatch box yesterday. Her failure to understand the English language was also revealed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/badenoch-urges-starmer-to-apologise-for-lammys-derogatory-comments-about-trump-13249391\">As reported by Sky News<\/a>, KemiKaze (<em>as Mr Crace terms her. Ed.<\/em>) challenged Keir Starmer on remarks made by current Foreign Secretary David Lammy in 2018 about the present president-elect of the United States, the disgraced former 45th president, insurrectionist, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual predator, business fraudster, congenital liar and golf cheat, one Donald John Trump.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>The prime minister and the foreign secretary met him [Mr Trump] in September.\r\n<br \/><br \/>\r\nDid the foreign secretary take that opportunity to apologise for making derogatory and scatological references, including, and I quote, &#8216;Trump is not only a woman-hating Neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath, he is also a profound threat to the international order&#8217;, and if he did not apologise, will the Prime Minister do so now on his behalf?<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\nThe remarks in question by Mr Lammy <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5333087\/david-lammy-trump-uk-visit\/\">appeared in Time magazine<\/a> in the year in question under the headline <em>I\u2019m a British Lawmaker. Here\u2019s Why I\u2019m Protesting Trump\u2019s Visit to the U.K.<\/em>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_14781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14781\" style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/11\/Trump_Baby_Balloon_at_protest_in_Parliament_Square.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump balloon in Parliament Square protest in 2018\" width=\"357\" height=\"279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/11\/Trump_Baby_Balloon_at_protest_in_Parliament_Square.jpg 357w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/11\/Trump_Baby_Balloon_at_protest_in_Parliament_Square-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Trump balloon in Parliament Square protest in 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>Whilst Mr Lammy&#8217;s remarks could be regarded as <em>derogatory<\/em> if one&#8217;s politics tend towards the (extreme) right, like Ms Badenoch&#8217;s, there is nothing your &#8216;umble scribe could find in what Lammy wrote for Time that could in any way be described as <em>scatalogical<\/em>, as per her question from the despatch box.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Is it possible Kemi Badenoch does not understand the definition and usage of that particular adjective?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Your correspondent believes this is definitely the case. As anyone with access to a dictionary &#8211; be it online or analogue &#8211; will confirm, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/scatological\">adjective <em>scatalogical<\/em> has two meanings<\/a>, i.e.:\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n<li> characterised by obscenity or preoccupation with obscenity, especially in the form of references to excrement; and<\/li>\r\n<li>of or relating to the scientific study of excrement.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n<\/p><p>Whilst Mr Lammy condemns Trump in the strongest terms for his racism, misogyny, religious bigotry and other shortcomings, the language used is not peppered with obscenities relating to bodily functions or faeces, so how Ms Badenoch can characterise Lammy&#8217;s language as <em>derogatory<\/em> (<em>it was honest. Ed.<\/em>) let alone <em>scatalogical<\/em> is beyond the mental abilities of your &#8216;umble scribe, unless as intimated in the title to this post, she was using her anus as her major organ of speech. which only serves to emphasise her ignorance.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, newly elected Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch took part in her first Prime Minister&#8217;s questions in that role. However, the session did not necessarily turn out to her advantage and The Guardian&#8217;s political sketch writer John Crace took full advantage of her failings to mock her performance unmercifully. 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