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What's leftie about expecting farms to stand on their own two feet and stop relying on public money?

Good old traditional right wing values of state subsidies to industries. I’m surprised all these new farming supporter righties aren’t demanding state ownership to protect our food security.

I think this comes back to the question of what makes farming special? All the issues they are protesting about apply to lots of other industries.

I take it that people have picked up on her clarification that she's declared she's an ethnic enemy of Nigerians?

Totally helpful attitude towards ethnic tensions, religious tensions and foreign policy.

Think it was specifically North Nigerians.

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I'm sure she's just been misunderstood as usual. Would currently be moderately surprised if she makes it to the next election, but the alternative was the guy who subverted the planning system for a mate, so maybe she is the best they've got.

This gives a pretty good explanation of what might be behind the Nigeria comments. Assuming it's accurate then fair play to her. Why should she pretend to have performative positive feelings for a country she feels she escaped.

did work there around that time, lagos wasn't a place to linger, officials at the airport gave a 'pay or get searched' option, from memory 50 dollars, always carry some cash in readiness

we had armed guards for travel, electronics from uk gov's new 'secure' location was turning up in a local market (no way it could be used, but presumably someone decided it'd make a few dollars)

presumably she's fine with people fleeing that sort of place to make a new life in the uk

Did you read the original quote? Seems to make a lot of sense to me in context and that people are trying to hang something on her words that wasn't there.

Quite so - being a politician ought to mean trying to use language to defuse tensions rather than stoke them, and 'enemies' is one I'd hope could be reserved for wartime. I suspect that Badenoch is aware of what she was saying conflating Islamism with 'enemies'.

She also accidentally categorised all of the north of Nigeria as Islamists. Whoops.

I was just speaking personally.

Much the same. I don't see that sweeping such historic ethnic rivalries under the carpet helps anyone. Nigeria continues to suffer from the tensions created in part by arbitrary border drawing irrespective of existing boundaries. I think it's pretty clear that she now sees herself as British and her former nationality is of secondary importance. In that context she is not expressing animosity to British people from other Nigerian backgrounds but to people who try to define her as Nigerian.

I don't see why we should insist that people proudly identify with places they have for often very good reasons run away from.

You've made your disdain for the Scottish Nats abundantly clear and this doesn't look that different from some of your posts, especially, before you moved to the West Country and people annoyed you by being dismissive of people living in Scotland.

It's an inevitability that people resort to verbal short cuts that over simplify ethnic and social groups and it's also an inevitability that those who find themselves over-simplified are annoyed by it.