Kemi Badenoch: 'Lunch breaks are for wimps and sandwiches are not real food'

[u/tylerthe-theatre]

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/kemi-badenoch-lunch-breaks-are-for-wimps-and-sandwiches-are-not-real-food/

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[u/socratic-meth]

“What’s decompressing, what’s that? What’s a lunch break? Lunch is for wimps.

“I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time. There’s no time,” she said.

In the same interview, Ms Badenoch argued that sandwiches are not “not real food” and that she sometimes chooses to eat a steak instead.

This is satire surely. These are the words of a lunatic.

[u/MontyDyson → u/socratic-meth]

These are the words of someone who is not in charge of their own mouth.

[u/Flora_Screaming → u/MontyDyson]

I'm not so sure about that, she manages to leave it open long enough to put her foot in it.

[u/rossdrew → u/Flora_Screaming]

Food is for wimps! I just photosynthesise carbon like a plant.

[u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 → u/rossdrew]

The concept of lunch is for wimps...why don't real alphas have a helper bring them steak which they eat at their desk. Sandwiches are for the wokerati. It's just beyond parody now...

[u/brightdionysianeyes → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

The idea that regular people should get a steak delivered to their desk and work through lunch instead of going to buy a sandwich is so balls out insane it hurts.

Plus it won't be long before she starts decrying young people for ordering food all the time and how wasteful they are...

Not to mention that every employer has a statutory requirement to ensure that their employees have adequate rest breaks throughout the day so if a business let their employees do this regularly they are liable to pay a fine and pay their employees compensation.

[u/eww1991 → u/brightdionysianeyes]

I think the person who wants to end maternity leave isn't that fussed about treating workers like people

[u/OkCaregiver517 → u/eww1991]

Oh is that on the cards now? Missed that in the general tsunami of shite.

[u/spellboundsilk92 → u/OkCaregiver517]

After testing out maternity leave three times, Badenoch now feels it’s too generous.

[u/butterypowered → u/rossdrew]

More likely to drink blood like a parasite tbh.

[u/Mont-ka → u/Flora_Screaming]

No, she's on the record staring that she doesn't make gaffes. Therefore everything she says and does is utterly deliberate and must be taken at face value.

[u/Barune → u/Flora_Screaming]

Food that plebs have prepared and bought for her. To her desk I guess so she can continue the very important job of crushing the poors

[u/FluffySmiles → u/Flora_Screaming]

Common problem for mouth breathers.

[u/CliveOfWisdom → u/MontyDyson]

These are the words of someone desperately trying to pander to what she perceives her voter-base is. Apparently - in her mind - this is some bizarre caricature of hard-right pensioners who are singularly concerned with/motivated by “kids these days” and “back in our day” clichés.

[u/concretepigeon → u/CliveOfWisdom]

It’s like the Tories are being led by that mate of your dad who’s always reposting stuff on Facebook from groups called stuff like “Priti Patel fan club” or “protect British farmers”.

[u/merryman1 → u/CliveOfWisdom]

Honestly it's one of my strongest feelings on all this - Why aren't Conservative voters more vocal on pushing back against being constantly represented by the absolute bottom of the barrel of anti-British scum who apparently seem to think all their wing of politics is ideologically now is just being cunts to vulnerable people (because its funny apparently) and using time in government as a lever to basically just rob the taxpayers.

If it were me and I was watching my side of politics go down this route I'd be quite vocal about it, so I can only conclude Tory voters like this, enjoy the spectacle, and agree with what's being said on their behalf.

[u/wkavinsky → u/merryman1]

Small c conservatives already are - even such luminaries and John Major and Ken Clarke.

[u/freddiemercurial → u/MontyDyson]

These are the words of someone with a tenuous, at best, grasp on reality.

[u/Hamsternoir → u/freddiemercurial]

You've got it all wrong, she's the only sane one who has a total and unbreakable grip on reality.

It is the rest of us who are all having a mass hallucination. This is like that bird thing where we think we see them and our eyes tell us they're real but they actually aren't.

There are a few people like Kemi who can see through this.

The alternative is that the party members have elected a leader who is totally bonkers and that would never happen.

[u/FelisCantabrigiensis → u/freddiemercurial]

Badenoch has many such words - most of them, in fact.

[u/Debtcollector1408 → u/MontyDyson]

No, no, you're mistaken. She said she doesn't make gaffes.

[u/L3Niflheim → u/Debtcollector1408]

Becoming the Tory leader was a gaffe in itself

[u/twonaq → u/MontyDyson]

Who’s in charge you or your brain?

[u/lowweighthighreps → u/twonaq]

'what kind of soft cunt allows the brain to take charge!?'

[u/Clive__Warren → u/twonaq]

Play a record

[u/tidus1980 → u/Clive__Warren]

There was a house with a horse in it.

[u/Visual-Report-2280 → u/MontyDyson]

What do you mean "not in charge of their own mouth"? She never makes gaffes, we know this because she told us.

[u/spamjavelin → u/MontyDyson]

I'm picturing the guy from Men In Black with the little alien driving his body.

[u/MontyDyson → u/spamjavelin]

I'm picturing a guy in the back room with an envelope full of money demanding she says this stupid shit.

[u/RefdOneThousand → u/socratic-meth]

People need breaks during the working day. Regular people need lunch breaks to do things (run errands, go to shops / post office, etc). She does not live in the real world, nor tries to understand those that do. Pure psycho behaviour.

[u/Haikouden → u/RefdOneThousand]

From what I remember there’s been at least some research on the matter and it concluded that people are significantly more productive if given time to rest, whether in the form of less days worked or more time for other things during the day.

Not at all a surprise that she’s doing shit work if she’s just working nonstop (which I also massively doubt).

[u/RefdOneThousand → u/Haikouden]

Yep - loads of evidence out there (and it’s just common sense): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9432722/. And yes, it’s easy to do what she does because she just talks crap and has no proper workable solutions to anything, just the old disproven “free-market will fix everything” ideology.

[u/Combat_Orca → u/Haikouden]

All these people who claim to work non stop are liars, it cannot be kept up for a sustainable amount of time. Musk is another one, claims he’s running 5 companies and then adds heading a government department to that.

[u/pleasedtoheatyou → u/Combat_Orca]

Yeah Musk is the best argument that at enormous companies, the CEOs don't actually do anything. They just exist to be a frontman. If they actually mattered then it would be physically impossible to do the role for 5 companies at the same time.

[u/VFiddly → u/Combat_Orca]

Musk sure spends a lot of time on Twitter for someone who works nonstop.

[u/849 → u/VFiddly]

Didn't someone work out that Musk composes and sends out ~150 tweets per day? Even at 2 minutes per tweet, that's 5 hours on twitter.... per day....

[u/BuQuChi → u/Haikouden]

In Sweden it’s a part of working laws to take a fika (coffee break) late morning iirc

[u/Prudent-Level-7006 → u/Haikouden]

Yeah if I don't rest or eat at work it definitely makes me worse at my job, woman's a moron.

She probably just means she writes for hours, and I that's one thing I can do or art, music etc at home, and I still eat and drink, but if it was under the same conditions and time constraints as my job I wouldn't be able to do it 

[u/Kat-from-Elsweyr → u/Haikouden]

The Tories keep making it worse for themselves. Why would she ever think her rhetoric would resonate with the people? What a clown.

[u/fearghul → u/[deleted]]

Would it surprise you to know, that's how it used to be...but the thing is, when output increases you'd pay your staff more and lots of gilded aged capitalists hated that idea. See Carnegie for the absolute best example, who insisted on changing steel workers pay to be a flat hourly rate rather than tied to output when technology allowed an increase in output.

[u/Makkel → u/RefdOneThousand]

Also, I can easily take breaks during the day because I am not shit at managing my time. When someone tells me that they don't have time for stuff as basic as lunch, I will assume they are either so bad at their job that they can't do it in the assigned time or that their manager are so bad at theirs they are not assigning tasks properly and overwork their teams ; in any case it does not sound good for her party.

[u/PeterG92 → u/RefdOneThousand]

But she worked at McDonalds and was working class!

[u/hiddeninplainsight23 → u/PeterG92]

No no, she said she became working class. Quite the come down after her parents travelled to the UK just to give birth to her in a private hospital. Must be quite tough to do that after coming from a private school. Sending thoughts and prayers. 

[u/robot20307 → u/RefdOneThousand]

but why don't people just have their staff do those things?

[u/GendoSC → u/robot20307]

I pay a guy to take breaks for me.

[u/Mintyxxx → u/GendoSC]

I pay a guy to munch my food then regurgitate it into my throat like a massive goose

[u/Marxist_In_Practice → u/Mintyxxx]

Bleary eyed I wake up and, in azombie-like fashion, dress myself and shamble from my home under the grey sky. I arrive at work, exhausted and drained already, only to be met with the expectant face of my boss. Her gullet lies open, waiting, as I begin the day as the Parliamentary Undersecretary for Horking Up Slop.

[u/Andrew1990M → u/RefdOneThousand]

What I’m hearing is she has terrible time keeping or isn’t setting realistic schedules. 

[u/MrPloppyHead → u/socratic-meth]

"I have food brought in" 😆 - how out of touch is that.

I mean the fact that she is a lunatic has been known for some time now.

[u/Visual-Report-2280 → u/MrPloppyHead]

Out of touch? She did two shifts in McD's making her working class!

[u/BodgeJob → u/Visual-Report-2280]

She's so quintessentially middle class British, it's fucking hilarious. The amount of ski trip holiday, "i'm really into organic these days", "yuh i did that on my gap yuh in Africa" shitmunchers who seriously think they're working class because they worked a shift at uni somewhere beneath their station.

[u/StrangelyBrown → u/MrPloppyHead]

Not having a butler is for WIMPS.

(Workers In Mundane Poverty Situations)

[u/Infinite_Expert9777 → u/MrPloppyHead]

It’s the party that only represents major businesses and a few multi multi millionaires and billionaires. She’s completely in touch with her audience

[u/GuzziHero → u/MrPloppyHead]

Tell her what, I'll work none stop without a break the day I get someone to pull alongside my truck and pass me food while I'm driving.

[u/codemonkeh87 → u/GuzziHero]

You don't do that already? Found the wimp boys! Oh and it better be a steak dinner you eat while driving, sandwiches aren't real!

[u/Due-Rush9305 → u/MrPloppyHead]

Let me just send my assistant to go and pick me up a steak from the local Michelin restaurant. Oh wait, I am the assistant and I can't afford steak

[u/callsignhotdog → u/socratic-meth]

"I have staff bring me food, I don't need a break" may not be the relatable talking point she hopes it is.

[u/MindTheBees → u/callsignhotdog]

That and dropping in choosing a steak over a sandwich was comical. However, I'm sure she's getting a £3.50 steak meal deal, £5 if you get the pepper sauce upgrade.

[u/Stellar_Duck → u/MindTheBees]

I usually go for the Tesco lunch steak deal. Drink, steak and some crisps. Can't beat it!

[u/LazyPoet1375 → u/Stellar_Duck]

Healthier if you get the little bag with two slices of apple rather than the crisps. And it impresses the serf who's bringing it to you, too.

[u/Rajastoenail → u/socratic-meth]

The woman lecturing us on British values (and how immigrants don’t understand them) doesn’t believe in the sandwich. Ok then.

[u/socratic-meth → u/Rajastoenail]

I feel like Ed Milliband has the opportunity of a lifetime to say something funny next time he speaks in parliament.

[u/AbsolutelyHorrendous → u/socratic-meth]

Kemi doesn't believe in sandwiches, Ed knows them all too well...

[u/The_Living_Deadite → u/AbsolutelyHorrendous]

I miss the days where we could laugh at our PM eating a bacon sandwich. Got too much to worry about now.

Edit: it had been brought to my attention that Eddy was never PM. Bloody false memories 😢

[u/GreatBigBagOfNope → u/The_Living_Deadite]

our PM

If only we had been on that timeline for the last 10 years

[u/Hydramy → u/GreatBigBagOfNope]

I think I'm ready for chaos with Ed Milliband

[u/AwTomorrow → u/Rajastoenail]

Yeah, Britain is absolutely sandwich-obsessed. There is very little that is as British today as the widespread consumption of decent packaged sandwiches. 

Nowhere else in the world has the packaged sandwich culture that we do - everywhere else, a packaged sandwich only exists at the shitty service station tier, and are the food of the desperate. 

Japan is the only place that buys anywhere near to as many as we do, and they’re damp and textureless limp imitations, they just like them that way. Hong Kong has M&S and so decent ones, but that’s only because of the British population and cultural influence. 

[u/Elemayowe → u/Rajastoenail]

The Tory leader later attacked Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for saying that he might watch Love Actually over Christmas, adding that she prefers watching Die Hard over the festive period.

Picking American movies over British ones the fraud.

[u/SenseOfRumor → u/Rajastoenail]

She's actually making her own case there, being the daughter of immigrants and, clearly not understanding what lunch is.

[u/veganzombeh → u/socratic-meth]

“I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time. There’s no time,” she said.

It's genuinely baffling that she doesn't seem to realise what a massive privilege this is. Only a tiny minority of people are in a position where they can offload the work of feeding themselves onto others.

[u/Groot746 → u/veganzombeh]

She must think everyone queuing for their Tesco meal deals at lunch are doing it for kicks, lol.

(But seriously, how she cannot grasp the cognitive dissonance between "people don't need breaks" and "other people bring my lunch to me" is insane person behaviour)

[u/Flora_Screaming → u/[deleted]]

Steak tartare is for wimps too. She just has a cow led in and bites chunks off it while she's reading briefing papers.

[u/Secure_Ticket8057 → u/[deleted]]

Wimp. I just take a bite out of a passing cow.

[u/chambo143 → u/socratic-meth]

Oh god Kemi’s eating steak at her desk again

[u/RandyChavage → u/chambo143]

Christ I don’t want to be the poor sod who has to clean her keyboard

[u/Cumulus-Crafts → u/chambo143]

Imagine the smell in the kitchen microwave

[u/jj198handsy → u/socratic-meth]

She 'works' while eating a steak?

[u/size_matters_not → u/jj198handsy]

She says ‘steak’. She doesn’t mention anything else. Just a steak on a plate. She can hold it in one hand and gnaw on it while she types with the other. Totally normal behaviour you see in offices across the land.

[u/AndyTheSane → u/size_matters_not]

The Earl of Sandwich had a similar problem when trying to gamble and eat at the same time, can anyone remember how he fixed it?

[u/The_Laughing_Death → u/AndyTheSane]

That's the guy who came up with the taco, right?

[u/Stellar_Duck → u/The_Laughing_Death]

I believe that was baron Burrito.

[u/Grayson81 → u/AndyTheSane]

No, no!

Don’t be tempted to fall for that trick - that’s not real food!

[u/Captinplumbstickjr → u/jj198handsy]

Yes steak, doesn’t everyone enjoy a steak at lunchtime as they work?

[u/addictivesign → u/socratic-meth]

What has Kemi shown the public that would suggest she is not a lunatic?

[u/WaitForItLegenDairy → u/socratic-meth]

In the same interview, Ms Badenoch argued that sandwiches are not “not real food” and that she sometimes chooses to eat a steak instead.

Really?!? I find that surprising really.

I'd assumed she feasted on the hearts of unborn children ripped from the wombs of the dying mother as punishment for taking too much maternity leave and pay

🤷‍♂️

[u/SojournerInThisVale → u/socratic-meth]

I think she has a really weird sense of humour that comes across poorly. Tory members must be kicking themselves that they elected her over Jenrick

[u/SevrinTheMuto → u/SojournerInThisVale]

They do have a track record of picking the much worse of two poor candidates.

[u/JBEqualizer → u/SojournerInThisVale]

Tory members must be kicking themselves that they elected her over Jenrick

I'm sure many of them also voted for Liz Truss... They know what kind of person they're voting for.

[u/addictivesign → u/JBEqualizer]

They (Tory members) are responsible for so much grief.

[u/Secure_Ticket8057 → u/SojournerInThisVale]

Jenrick is Gareth Kennan with a (slightly) better haircut - he looks like the office grass. He's never getting elected.

I mean, neither is MadEnoch, but the point stands.

[u/RandyChavage → u/socratic-meth]

Last month it was the daily mail saying chicken sandwiches are woke, now apparently all sandwiches are woke. Ffs hands off our fucking sandwiches!🥪

[u/dospc → u/socratic-meth]

This literally sounds like a Jordan Peterson quote.

[u/size_matters_not → u/socratic-meth]

Try saying it in your head with Alan Partridge’s voice.

[u/bacon_cake → u/socratic-meth]

Honestly reads like the ramblings of Elon Musk.

[u/Notmysubmarine]

" The Tory leader later attacked Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for saying that he might watch Love Actually over Christmas, adding that she prefers watching Die Hard over the festive period."

Really, this was the best option for leadership? JFC

[u/alextremeee → u/Notmysubmarine]

That line is so obviously from a PR team.

[u/Lavajackal1 → u/alextremeee]

Is PR team code for coke addicted morons?

[u/haywire-ES → u/Lavajackal1]

Yes

[u/Fudge_is_1337 → u/Lavajackal1]

It's not even really code to be honest

[u/Forsaken-Ad5571 → u/alextremeee]

A PR team stuck around a decade ago. I’m surprised she didn’t mention bacon…

[u/AwTomorrow → u/Forsaken-Ad5571]

Yeah this is such a 2010 talking point, absolutely absurd and out of touch. 

[u/purplemackem → u/Notmysubmarine]

That is such a Pick Me line 😂

[u/Notmysubmarine → u/purplemackem]

"I'm not like other Opposition Leaders, I'm worse :p"

[u/RandyChavage → u/Notmysubmarine]

“I’m not watching that soft woke shit I’ll probably just watch something cool like the Texas chainsaw massacre with the kids”

[u/plastic_alloys → u/RandyChavage]

“And instead of eating food like a pussy we’ll be snorting Bar Keeper’s Friend”

[u/dewittless → u/Notmysubmarine]

Watching Die Hard, eating a steak and sending emails explaining why everyone has to stay in the office while she tries to figure out how to add another column to this spreadsheet.

[u/WingiestOfMirrors → u/Notmysubmarine]

"she also said only pussies use can openers before smashing a tin of beans into her forehead relatedly. Upon opening the beans she took a mouthful and exclaimed 'delicious, unlike the foreign muck Keir eats' whilst swaying slightly from left to right"

[u/Craamron → u/WingiestOfMirrors]

I have a feeling she only sways to the right.

[u/AbsolutelyHorrendous → u/Notmysubmarine]

Kemi Badenoch just watches the first half hour of A Christmas Carol on loop as a heartwarming tale of a talented businessman enjoying a woke-free Christmas

[u/socratic-meth → u/Notmysubmarine]

“What kind of Nancy boy likes Love Actually?”

[u/Notmysubmarine → u/socratic-meth]

Can someone please recommend a void to scream into?

[u/CoconutCrew → u/Notmysubmarine]

Badenoch’s head

[u/The_Flurr → u/Notmysubmarine]

Can the whole "die hard is a Christmas movie" thing just end? We all agree that it is, we've all heard it, and yet a handful of people seem to think it's still an original thing.

[u/gbroon → u/Notmysubmarine]

I'm kinda on her side regarding Die Hard but would rather vote for whoever chooses Gremlins as their Christmas movie. /S

[u/thrillho111 → u/Notmysubmarine]

Can a woman display toxic masculinity?

[u/CheaterMcCheat → u/Notmysubmarine]

What a fucking wetty she is if she said that. That's hilarious. It's literally like school.

[u/Tartan_Samurai]

She's talks like one of those alpha male weirdos that YouTube tries to force into my feeds. She'll be selling trt and dick pills on Instagram before 2025 closes out.

[u/tebbus → u/Tartan_Samurai]

This is exactly what she is. Terminally online techbro, except somewhat unusually, she is a woman.

[u/RandyChavage → u/tebbus]

She’s like if Rishi Sunak was on Trenbolone and listened to Joe Rogan

[u/BetterCallTom → u/RandyChavage]

Shit. I've got loads of the miniature ones to tuck into over Xmas. Knew I should have gone for Lindt Lindor instead.

[u/brooooooooooooke → u/tebbus]

Diversity win! The most annoying sigma male you know is a woman!

[u/Ironfields → u/brooooooooooooke]

A black woman at that! Turns out grifters can hit all of the diversity points too.

[u/Quillspiracy18 → u/Tartan_Samurai]

But does she have a podcast and a £500 microphone that she deepthroats and boosts the bass on by 70%?

Unless her steroid adverts sound like she's locked in a cupboard, she won't get my vote!

[u/loonongrass → u/Tartan_Samurai]

Hope she leans into it more and goes full whiskey and cigars

[u/gardenfella → u/loonongrass]

The Therese Coffey strategy

[u/Lopsided_Rush3935 → u/Tartan_Samurai]

Everybody knows it's gay to be attracted to women.

That's, like, weakness, bro.

[u/Snaidheadair]

Ms Badenoch has claimed that she brings lunch in to eat while working because there is “no time” for a pause.

If she's unable to manage her time well enough for something as simple as a lunch break currently, she'd be fucked trying to run a country. Bragging about being incompetent isn't the win she thinks it is.

[u/TheDisapprovingBrit → u/Snaidheadair]

I'm tempted to do a FOI request for her expense reports. I wonder how many lunches are on there?

[u/FTXACCOUNTANT → u/TheDisapprovingBrit]

Do it

[u/Alive_kiwi_7001 → u/TheDisapprovingBrit]

<tapshead>Lunches can't show up on expenses if the IEA and Taxpayers Alliance cough up for them.

[u/bright_sorbet1 → u/TheDisapprovingBrit]

Oh please do this!!

I bet she lunches at an absolute leisurely pace and at the tax payers expense too.

[u/South-Stand]

And each Wednesday lunchtime, Starmer hands her her own arse on a plate.

[u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 → u/South-Stand]

It's really funny how the tory media keep telling me she "destroyed" or "annihilated" Starmer...yet every week is worse than the last. She's so out of touch, deranged and clueless.

[u/robot20307 → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

funny until they win an election because most people get their news via memes.

[u/merryman1 → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

Seriously the media needs reigning in before we wind up like the US with a huge subset of the population effectively living in an alternate reality.

[u/AbsolutelyHorrendous → u/Agreeable_Falcon1044]

They just clip her questions, and ignore the actual response to them

[u/NoLove_NoHope → u/South-Stand]

It must be so annoying having to listen and respond to whatever asinine argument she’s picked each week.

[u/South-Stand → u/NoLove_NoHope]

It must be great to have a weak, unaware opponent. And she can’t pivot when her points don’t land she is like those big oil tankers that take four hours to turn

[u/Old-Buffalo-5151 → u/South-Stand]

He sounded genuinely pissed off this week. Sometimes its nice to be held to account because it can show where you weak points are and what needs addressing

Its why everyone agrees a good opp is important

Nothing is being achieved at the moment other than someone making government look like a fucking piss take... I would be pissed at in the same way someone gets pissed off that an opponent didn't do any prep work and making your sport look like joke because your walking all over them

[u/jtthom]

She’s just so unlikeable. It’s like she was designed to alienate absolutely everybody.

[u/purpleplums901 → u/jtthom]

Both of the big parties elect someone unlikeable straight after being kicked from government. I swear it’s just to make the one that comes after them look better. William ‘14 pints of beer a day’ Hague after major. And Michael ‘let’s leave the EEC mid-recession’ Foot (yes I know the EEC thing is ironic as fuck these days) straight after Callaghan spring to mind

[u/AwTomorrow → u/purpleplums901]

No sense wasting a good leader candidate on that fallow period after a loss when the electorate still don’t like you.

Better to offer up a loser and then wait till public opinion turns on the party in charge, then go with someone serious that hasn’t been tainted by leading during the unpopular years and possibly losing elections. 

[u/Secure_Ticket8057]

LOVE ACTUALLY IS WOKE!

SANDWICHES ARE WOKE!

LUNCH IS WOKE!

Absolutely barking mad - that's honestly the best the Tories can do?

(yes)

[u/Mc_and_SP → u/Secure_Ticket8057]

We're living in an episode of The Thick of It

[u/South-Stand]

She is tough on sandwiches. Tough on the causes of sandwiches. Sliced bread. Lettuce. A filler. She tells it like it is.

[u/ash_ninetyone → u/South-Stand]

Waiting until the lettuce wars?

Only peasants eat iceburg. I am a Romainer.

[u/Freddichio → u/ash_ninetyone]

I'm voting Romaine, but suspect my partner might vote Leaf...

[u/OneDmg]

Imagine being so out of touch with the working class that you think everyone can have food brought in by your subservient underlings.

[u/duxie]

First the culture war and now the sandwich war. The tories have lost the plot

[u/Flora_Screaming]

From what I've seen of her she seems to be pretty thick. Basically twerking for an audience of right-wing Americans, and doesn't seem to realise that she's in the UK where that kind of thing doesn't go down all that well.

[u/AbsolutelyHorrendous → u/Flora_Screaming]

Yeah I get the feeling she's spent too long with engaging with Right-Wing reactionaries in the US, who are (by British political standards) fucking insane

[u/Grayson81]

“What’s decompressing, what’s that? What’s a lunch break? Lunch is for wimps.

“I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time. There’s no time,” she said.

90% of the time when I’ve worked with someone who never has enough time to do their job and works through lunch, it’s because they’re crap at their job, bad a time management and frazzled because they don’t take proper breaks.

It’s different for purely physical labour (ie. If you can shift 100 widgets per hour you’ll shift more widgets if you work more hours) but for most work that involves using your brain you’ll be much more productive if you decompress, recharge and work more efficiently for future hours.

Someone who says “what’s decompressing?” and says that they don’t have enough time isn’t impressive. They’re not fit for a junior management position in a crappy office. If they tell you that they think they should be Prime Minister, you should tell them to fuck off.

[u/merryman1 → u/Grayson81]

Or on the other side - She doesn't understand any of this because she's never actually worked hard enough a day in her life to understand the need for or value of decompressing. Its alien to her because she clocks off at 4pm just as fresh as she was when she clocked in at 10:30.

[u/the-evil-bee]

In the same interview she unironically compared herself to Daenerys from GoT and even The Spectator had to add that this was not great.

Trainwreck.

[u/Ruin_In_The_Dark → u/the-evil-bee]

‘I strongly associated with Daenerys"

Is that before or after she fucks her nephew and burns a city full of defenceless innocent peasants to death in a raging inferno?

[u/cunningham_law → u/Ruin_In_The_Dark]

Beloved princess of the people, Daenerys, CANCELLED by WOKE, MIGRANT-LOVING Stark trust fund baby whose mismanagement caused COLLAPSE of northern border control agency

[u/Necessary-Product361 → u/the-evil-bee]

Badenoch insists she is a ‘much misunderstood character’.

Lol what? She fucking genocided an entire city, how is she misunderstood?

[u/Groot746 → u/Necessary-Product361]

She probably thinks Dany was "cancelled by the left" (for the harmless crime of genocide)

[u/GiveOverAlready → u/the-evil-bee]

Fans of the series will know that Daenerys is eventually assassinated by her nephew after she develops a tyrannical streak – but Badenoch insists she is a ‘much misunderstood character’.

Classic.

[u/talesofcrouchandegg → u/the-evil-bee]

A character for whom the most generous interpretation is 'crazy and massively naive'...

[u/MousseCareless3199]

I'm right-leaning, but Badenoch is just bad. She'll be gone before the end of next year.

[u/FaceMace87 → u/MousseCareless3199]

So what are your thoughts on sandwiches? Real food or just woke propaganda pushed by the left?

[u/K0nvict → u/FaceMace87]

I’m not a big fan of the brown bread sandwiches /s

[u/Kinky_John_Fowler → u/K0nvict]

I think we should allow sawdust and plaster of Paris back into our bread, sort some of these woke kids out who have the gall to require sustenance to live, add cholera back to the water supply as well while we're at it to get the pubs booming again

[u/NoLove_NoHope → u/FaceMace87]

Didn’t you see the news the other day? The young are preferring woke fillings over a good old right-wing cheese and pickle!!

[u/AngrySaltire → u/FaceMace87]

First it was semi skimmed and skimmed milk, now its the sandwhiches. Is there no end to the lefty madness ! /s

[u/melody-calling → u/FaceMace87]

I’m part of the sandwich eating wokearati

[u/RedofPaw → u/MousseCareless3199]

Honestly what's it been? 5 weeks? Surely past time for a new tory leader.

[u/gazchap]

Nice to see the Conservative party really upping their game in terms of trying to relate to the common man and woman of Britain.

[u/SP1570]

From the same person who thinks mothers on maternity leave are simply sponging off society

[u/Basic_witch2023]

Lunch breaks aren’t needed when you get paid for doing sweet Fanny Adams 🤷‍♀️ try a real job Kemi!

[u/LeatherPickle]

Reading through her comments with all the weird pseudo-machoism it sounds like she's trying to position herself as a copycat of Trump or even Tate.

I think it's a 100% calculated move to motivate the same sort of people that led Trump to his presidency

[u/BadgerSmaker → u/LeatherPickle]

She's watching Fox News 24/7, I guarantee it

[u/barriedalenick]

There is a British prime minister who’s messing around and is not doing the foreign policy properly, people are cheating and there is a lot going on there if you move away from the smiley, happy, cheesy stuff

Fantastic stuff there, truly from the mind of one of the greatest thinkers of our time.

[u/aalborgamtstidende]

If we get the politicians we deserve, surely we must have been an incredibly naughty bunch of rascals.

[u/newnortherner21 → u/aalborgamtstidende]

I find it hard to see that we deserved Liz Truss or Boris Johnson. Or to have Chris Grayling, Grant Shapps and Chris Pincher in government.

[u/concretepigeon]

She sounds mental obviously, but even in text there’s also a smug, mean spirited quality to her speech that comes across.

[u/Groot746 → u/concretepigeon]

I think she's genuinely one of the most spiteful leaders of a major political party I've ever seen, the resentment just emanates from her 

[u/mrmarjon]

Look at meeeeeeeee! I want to run the country but my time-management means I can’t find time to eat. But I’d be brilliant, really I would.

[u/Radiant_Pudding5133]

I’m honestly impressed at the way the Tories are managing to appoint a bigger fuckwit with every leadership contest.

How does this tool give you the impression of someone electable?

Not that I’m complaining, mind.

[u/Longjumping-Buy-4736]

“There is a British prime minister who’s messing around and is not doing the foreign policy properly, people are cheating and there is a lot going on there if you move away from the smiley, happy, cheesy stuff”

Strong ‘girl you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with at a party’ vibes in that comment.

[u/Questjon]

If you don't feel like you need a break in the day you're probably not working hard enough, or doing a real job.

[u/ash_ninetyone]

Who tf has steak for lunch at work if it isn't a trip out of the office or on a lunch break?

I have sometimes eaten at my desk but everyone full time is entitled to a 30 minute break period. That break period typically coincides with lunch (or dinner/ tea if you work late shift patterns)

Out of touch with everyone else, who doesn't work as an MP and can just nip in and out of their constitution office as they feel like.

This reads like a line from OFAH where Del in his yuppie phase refuses to eat breakfast because it's for wimps

[u/LadyMirkwood]

Is she trying to sound like Alan Partridge or does it come naturally?

[u/ShapeMcFee]

And she talks about the looney left . Maybe she should have a snicker , she's a right diva when she's hungry

[u/OkTheory3378]

One thing that’s become clear is that she is really dim.

Also the ‘work ethic’ thing she’s going for is funny, given that she is renowned for being unable to attend a meeting on time, and that civil servants had to routinely go to her junior ministers for sign off on things because she refused to do her ministerial work.

[u/GiveOverAlready]

If she's got no time for a lunchbreak as Leader of the Opposition, best not give her a job with duties that matter like Prime Minister. Poor thing would have to forgo personal hygiene.

[u/coffeewalnut05]

Is this satire? What on earth is she talking about?

Actually taking breaks and not consigning yourself to being a slave isn’t for “wimps”, it’s called being a healthy, balanced human. Not that she would know what that’s like.

[u/flossgoat2]

Demand for food banks has never been higher... politician grandstands on eating being a sign of weakness, the privilege of rejecting specific foods, and having lunch brought to her.

At what point do they introduce the policy to have each town or region in the country earn its food ration by competing in a national competition. Call it something snappy, like Hunger Games.

[u/South-Stand]

This is what happens when you have watched James Cleverly at too many cabinet meetings go on about his hairy ballsack, seen the chaps guffaw and chortle, and conclude ‘I too will go on about my hairy ballsack’.

[u/Background_Dish_123]

There's a lot of political capital to be gained from behaving like an arsehole these days. It says a lot about the country we have become (or always have been?)

[u/therealhairykrishna]

She talks like an 'alpha male', middle management, bell end. One of those guys who has to send you a pointless check in email at 1am to show off that he's working late. Whilst not actually achieving anything.