Mainstream media fawns over Badenoch's anti-worker speech

In her speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Kemi Badenoch threatened to attack workers’ rights. Despite journalists being workers themselves, many praised Badenoch’s speech. Almost certainly, that’s because they’re not the sort of workers the Tories want to screw over:

Kemi Badenoch says she will give a tax cut for private school fees and take away all the new workers rights brought in by Labour pic.twitter.com/l6M5P8kmHH

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) October 8, 2025

Easily impressed

The workers rights in question include reforms to:

Zero hours contracts.
‘Fire and rehire’.
Statutory sick pay.

Are you a worker who hates getting paid when you’re sick; who hates having job security; who loves being sacked and then re-hired with worse conditions? If so, the Conservatives are the party for you!

Elements of the traditional Tory press unsurprisingly didn’t care that Badenoch is targeting workers:

‘She has dismantled the conversations about her leadership!’

Political Commentator Charlie Rowley and @ToryBoyPierce praising Kemi Badenoch’s speech at the Tory Party conference, saying voters now know what she stands for. pic.twitter.com/lNzRWqp8n9

— GB News (@GBNEWS) October 8, 2025

Britain’s most prominent briefcase wankers ignored the attack, instead praising a proposal which will solely benefit the dwindling number of Brits who can afford to own their own homes:

The Adam Smith Institute responds to Kemi Badenoch’s leader’s speech.

A short 🧵. pic.twitter.com/wRw7ls1M2h

— Adam Smith Institute (@ASI) October 8, 2025

Annabel Denham wrote that the room was “buzzing”; she did not write that Badenoch was vibrating with rage at the thought of workers having basic rights:

✍🏻 ‘Even before she took the stage, the atmosphere in the packed room was buzzing’ | Writes Annabel Denham

Read her column here ⬇️https://t.co/L5VrdCTlGt pic.twitter.com/p8Fzma01UU

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 8, 2025

Beth Rigby talked about how Badenoch ‘nailed it’:

ANALYSIS: After a year of low energy, Badenoch upped the tempo, nailing her first conference speech as leader. What’s less clear is if this will also be her last…https://t.co/JYsp36PUNE

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) October 9, 2025

Her write up didn’t mention undoing Labour’s workers reforms, although it did mention ‘Reform’ three times, demonstrating that Westminster journalists are more interested in inter-party gossip than policies which tangibly affects workers.

Lewis Goodall, harbinger of the Tony Blair Institute, did at least acknowledge that the speech may achieve fuck all in the long run:

Strong speech from Badenoch. Well delivered. Sharp critique of government. Focussed on politically fertile territory on the economy. Eye catching policy which will get a lot of v positive press attention.

About as well as could have even expected. Which will make it all the more…

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 8, 2025

Oh, and on the topic of workers, Badenoch doesn’t seem to understand why we benefitted from access to Europe’s migratory grafters:

“15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are,” says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) October 8, 2025

Talking of things she doesn’t understand, Badenoch clearly doesn’t grasp that the Chinese Communist Party is able build better than the UK because it has ‘central planning’ – i.e. private companies answer to the government – not the other way around:

“While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors.”

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says Britain is ‘competing with restless and ambitious countries’ in a speech at the party’s conference.

🔗 https://t.co/Yb5Wfp3W8l

📺 Sky 501 pic.twitter.com/kzrhT4rXt3

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 8, 2025