Badenoch talks sh*t
Yesterday, newly elected Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch took part in her first Prime Minister’s questions in that role.
However, the session did not necessarily turn out to her advantage and The Guardian’s political sketch writer John Crace took full advantage of her failings to mock her performance unmercifully.
However, her lack of political guile was not Badenoch’s only failure at the despatch box yesterday. Her failure to understand the English language was also revealed.
As reported by Sky News, KemiKaze (as Mr Crace terms her. Ed.) 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.
The prime minister and the foreign secretary met him [Mr Trump] in September.The remarks in question by Mr Lammy appeared in Time magazine in the year in question under the headline I’m a British Lawmaker. Here’s Why I’m Protesting Trump’s Visit to the U.K.
Did the foreign secretary take that opportunity to apologise for making derogatory and scatological references, including, and I quote, ‘Trump is not only a woman-hating Neo-Nazi sympathising sociopath, he is also a profound threat to the international order’, and if he did not apologise, will the Prime Minister do so now on his behalf?
Whilst Mr Lammy’s remarks could be regarded as derogatory if one’s politics tend towards the (extreme) right, like Ms Badenoch’s, there is nothing your ‘umble scribe could find in what Lammy wrote for Time that could in any way be described as scatalogical, as per her question from the despatch box.
Is it possible Kemi Badenoch does not understand the definition and usage of that particular adjective?
Your correspondent believes this is definitely the case. As anyone with access to a dictionary – be it online or analogue – will confirm, the adjective scatalogical has two meanings, i.e.:
- characterised by obscenity or preoccupation with obscenity, especially in the form of references to excrement; and
- of or relating to the scientific study of excrement.
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’s language as derogatory (it was honest. Ed.) let alone scatalogical is beyond the mental abilities of your ‘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.