HIGHLIGHTS: Keir Starmer laughs at Kemi Badenoch’s “fantasy questions” at PMQs

[@tedmaul5842]

The fact that Priti Patel is sitting beside Badenoch tells you all you need to know. She was removed from government for meeting with foreign agents, the Tories sold this country out to foreign interests, not to the highest bidder but actually on the cheap.

[@michaellawrence7570]

Excellent comment

[@freko106]

Hi Ted, I was thinking the exact same thing when Priti Patel opened her mouth.

[@dav3bassman]

And Starmer took note and copied them :')

[@barnigranero5882]

She should also shut up when I am trying to hear the questions and the answers. All I can hear is her shouting in the background. She was like this last time she was on the front bench. It's about time that the speaker told her to keep her mouth shut.

[@marksturge7536]

Well said.

[@blazzz13]

Week 2 and Badenoch is already making Rishi look like he was a heavyweight 🤣

[@molecatcher3383]

And he was only 8 stone.

[@blazzz13]

@@molecatcher3383 😂😂

[@patrickyorke3028]

She's totally hopeless.

[@ivankolinic5679]

​@@molecatcher3383 as a geologist, dont refer to him with my precious rocks

[@brianferguson7840]

​@@molecatcher3383 8 stone, wringing wet and with his pockets full of change 😂😂

[@rand0mati0n]

Badenoch misspeaking quite frequently, interesting because her style is quite confident, but it seems like under pressure she flubs more lines, without breaking her tone. Very interesting contrast.

[@jcx-200]

But I thought she "never has gaffes" according to herself

[@andreer-k6136]

English is Not her first language. Very important in such a situation?

[@MO-ss5mj]

​@@andreer-k6136 it is, shes Nigerian

[@andybeans5790]

She's reading a script, poorly

[@robertlaw.]

"flubs her lines" is an accurate description within the context of this parliamentary Punch and Judy show.

[@addisshiberou2818]

What a fortunate gift for the Labour party that Badenoch is now the leader of the opposition. The Tories are finished.

[@ozzymbonu3064]

I agree

[@geraldhammer2766]

A gift for Reform

[@Michael-ol7tt]

Idiot

[@waltham99]

Thing is Reform are a gift for Labour!

[@felixjaneway]

Lol, if this chancellor is "copy-paste" Kwasi Kwarteng was "control-alt-delete"

[@mosgrovecleancutkid681]

Ahahahaha 😂

[@AnnieSpit]

Excellent reply

[@tahirusman4918]

Did Starmer say that ? Timestamp ?

[@harryjones9353]

@@tahirusman4918 nah he didnt this guy was just making a joke

[@besovereign2032]

good one

[@VictheSecret]

It's like watching a GCSE politics student trying to get one over on Starmer, without having done any homework.

[@hellcatdwe]

Listening to Starmer and Reeves is like GCSE Economics from fifteen year-olds.

[@GeoffreyBushnell-iw2sr]

@@VictheSecret This obnoxious person is out of her depth big time .

[@VictheSecret]

@@hellcatdwe Bless. Because your Tories were such finance geniuses?

[@kier1568]

​@@hellcatdwe if you think any party in the UK has a more coherent economic strategy then I'm happy to bet my house that you haven't studied economics at any level, not even GCSE.

[@Darryl-yn9ru]

​@@VictheSecretI'm a Labour voter all my life and anyone could forsee a huge black hole in the finances. Especially with all the public sector pay rises.

[@tomconneely1361]

Tories going on about fiddling figures and budget black holes is peak irony for the week, and it's only Wednesday.

[@kevinwoods4724]

It's irrelevant if it's irony or not. So what you're saying is that it's ok because the Tories did. Good old die hard Labour voting hypocrisy 😂😂😂 You can't beat it

[@Alex-y2r6p]

I think hes saying a thief calling out a thief is just ironic. Maybe the irony is this jad to be explained 😊​@@kevinwoods4724

[@darrylscott6648]

@kevinwoods4724 I think the person is saying they aren't really the ones to judge are they ? With their track record? It's abit rich to say the least

[@dibbla]

You do realise the black hole was magnified when Labour gave in to the huge pay increase for train drivers because of the pressure from their unions?! People who on average are already paid 55k!!

[@keldsleepnot7961]

​@@dibblathe Tories lost £4bn to unusable PPE medical equipment in one year and you're complaining about a hundred million or so that actually covers 5 years previously of no pay rise, this years and next years pay rise. And it is also worth mentioning that the train drivers had actually voted against strikes for the five year period of no pay rise and what actually pushed them to vote to strike was to stop working conditions that would likely lead to some serious accidents. So your point is a bit pointless really!

[@Poliwhirl131]

Priti Patel deffo screams at retail workers when they make a mistake

[@davidbamford1971]

The tories have elected another dud. She might not last as long as the lettuce.

[@richardruff8712]

Yes... Shall we take bets how long she lasts ...?

[@boreilly82]

3.5 minutes in and Badenoch has stumbled her words three times. Properly lightweight.

[@clivet3252]

She hasn't said sausages

[@dianashirley-robinson6158]

I think she should get rid of orogance and focus on uniting the country and working for the people.

[@Andrew-tx9jy]

@@clivet3252 No but she made a right ham of it.

[@stefmanbrett91]

Sorry, didn't the Tories mock Corbyn for referring to real people and their issues. Now Badenoch is referring to Kelly and it's all ok?

[@andrewmark2783]

Starmer used to do it fairly often and it usually worked for him (not so much for Corbyn) so it isn't surprising that they're giving it a go.

[@grahamlees4394]

@@andrewmark2783 well, I guess they've nothing else to work with...

[@geoffpoole483]

I doubt "Kelly" actually exists.

[@alanconway94]

​​@@geoffpoole483 She probably does exist, ripping her middle class peers off for every last penny she can.

[@clivet3252]

Sorry, didn't Labour kick Corbyn out of the party and slander him all over the place?

[@iangwynne77]

The tories are finished. This woman is completely out of her depth.

[@johnhutchinson2463]

Would be out of depth in a puddle.

[@MO-ss5mj]

Nah youre just racist

[@rolandblackwell1096]

There all finished the lot are complete useless

[@chrimbus71]

cause she black yeah?

[@Trayotoo-ny3pj]

@@chrimbus71where did that come from?

[@tommyhughes2264]

Badenough and Patel, need i say anymore.

[@PaulJenner-xr4ks]

Lammy and Rayner??? Need I say anymore 🤣🤣

[@stephenhuston2780]

No you need not,she thinks she's clever you only need to look to her demeanour, the smugness oozes out of her,stride and Patel either side,tells you all you need to know about this party, that you were left with jenrick or this pouting peacock,just somes up this redundant past its sell by date party.

[@uktrainannouncements3950]

@@PaulJenner-xr4ksI’d rather them over Badenoch and Patel, two immigrants against immigration 😂

[@Wishing_you_peace]

They are getting used, both of them.

[@lesleyparnell5485]

And the two trolls the other side. Ginge and whinge are any better??

[@solennethomas7365]

The peak of irony and cheek of the woman! She is asking the Government were it will find the money that her party wasted and gave to its friends. She is as well plaved as Liz Truss to give lessons on the economy

[@martinhmh7]

I see the bully Patel is back. Badenoch is the gift that keeps giving. Her communication is abysmal, her tone condescending and her self belief way beyond her capability.

[@StopTheRot]

Absolutely NO ONE can be taken seriously if they put Priti Patel next to them.

[@AndrewWoods-sm9vx]

as opposed to having the joker angela rayner next to you or rachel (just crashed the economy) reeves

[@kevinwoods4724]

Voting Labour and expecting to be taken seriously is different I suppose 😂😂😂

[@MrCactusPunch]

@@AndrewWoods-sm9vx Crashed the economy? who ran the economy for 14 years but somehow lost 20 years of growth? What party was Lizz Truss? oh wait

[@Elphin89]

@@AndrewWoods-sm9vxthe economy crashed? I didn’t notice

[@albfromeng]

@@AndrewWoods-sm9vxshe didn’t crash the economy… what are you on about

[@dylangoddard7449]

What a gift for Labour

[@fayesouthall6604]

They need to declare it 😂

[@abstractdrumz]

@@fayesouthall6604 🤣🤣🤣

[@roderickjoyce6716]

@@fayesouthall6604 😁

[@sukotu23]

It's delightfully hilarious.

[@christopherdonnelly8517]

Your comment demonstrates why you have absolutely no future as a credible political analyst...now please go away.

[@mihangelap-williams9871]

My word she is terrible. Rishi you had it easy mate

[@steve5158]

She's even worse than i expected her to be. Its clear she really rates herself. Glorious!

[@mydayis5]

I never realised Liz Truss was such a great public speaker until I watched Kemi.

[@michaelbarnes8870]

Anyone would seem "a great public speaker" if, for reasons of your own, you simply don't like Kemi.

[@marleneboycie4004]

I think you are mentally unwell if you think that about truss

[@pemberton6974]

Kemi Badanock bulldozing herself on question time. She is very bad at this.

[@davecap2641]

Badenough is the usual mix of arrogance and stupidity. Deals only in headlines.

[@redmed10]

Works for her party and her voters. It's the new way.

[@dp7580]

She’s inspired by Trump. Just throw words out there and let xenophobes make sentences out of it and then vote

[@terrywiseman]

Try not to be daft

[@Abioladavid01]

@@terrywiseman he has demonstrated clearly that he is daft with his choice of words, demeaning the Opposition Party leader. His and many others are yet to come to terms that a woman of color is leading the opposition which they hate to see happen.

[@jackbaynes3959]

Badenough 😂😂😂😂😂😂 too funny. My joke was: Kemi Badenoch? More like yeah we've had enough!

[@tayzonday]

This is a great escape from American politics

[@punchlinemma1908]

Tay!! Ha you're even here! Much Love and good luck with the 2nd Term..

[@MySamurai77]

The right wing politician is a black lady and the left wing one is a white guy. We are way ahead of the curve.

[@xadrian1cx]

At least in the UK tories are getting laughed at. US needs to do the same and reject MAGAs

[@galaceefunky]

exchanging the mad for the sad...

[@vivburgess4300]

Astonishing how the Tories have now discovered their social conscience now they are in opposition.

[@jamesgreen1305]

Social conscience, I hope that you are not implying that Starmer and Labour have any sort of conscience?

[@vivburgess4300]

@@jamesgreen1305 Yes, I think he does and they do. But social consciences are expensive and first of all they have to find the money. If the Tories had got the same backlash in their first year of austerity we may not have been stuck with 14 years of corruption, Brexit and a massive hole in the economy. Give Labour five years and then complain.

[@nickthepostpunk5766]

Maybe the Tories have conveniently discovered a social conscience, but the real issue is the lack of social conscience in a Labour Party that is currently in power.

[@nickthepostpunk5766]

@@jamesgreen1305spot on.

[@vivburgess4300]

@@nickthepostpunk5766 I refer you to my previous answer.

[@blackjesus9641]

I feel bad for every thinking anyone was bad at politics. Kemi is the worst one yet as far as front benchers are concerned.

[@cramster3495]

She exudes arrogance and her delivery suggests incompetence, not confidence

[@MO-ss5mj]

Nah, confidence

[@benrace1742]

Yoho

[@Abioladavid01]

Now, I know for a fact you have no iota of understanding between being an opposition leader putting nail biting questions to the PM and being rude. I know it is difficult for you and other kicking against her to swallow the fact that a woman of color is leading His Majestic Opposition Party in the Parliament

[@thefairhairedboywiththered2951]

​@Abioladavid01 - Being rude is fine in this context, however, her lack of self-awareness is not okay and makes her look incompetent. For example her jibe about him needing a script last week, when both sides obviously have prepared answers and questions was totally absurd and hypocritical. It is the same with the 'planted' question jibe, her party did it too when they were in power.

[@jallojallow9664]

​@Abioladavid01, what is wrong with you? A black man supporting a racist woman against his race????

[@reverendroar]

That’s bloody rich coming from a Tory talking about the labour budget making a social care black hole for councils when it’s ten Tories over 14 years destroying local authorities. My dad works for a council, in the forestry department, his budget has been cut more than 2/3s every 2 years. His team went from 15 to 3 in 10 years! His job is now on the line because the council can’t keep the forestry department going after further cuts and no longer getting EU funding (which was where most income for agricultural multicultural and forestry departments/groups were coming from). We’re not just destroying councils, we’re destroying the environment by cutting professionals in this field and instead councils have to raise taxes to keep social care going when that burden keeps on growing instead should be part of the wider NHS budget. Councils should providing good enough services, fuelling the youth with incentives (like NCS and youth programs), keeping their communities safe - instead they’re being run into the ground!

[@michaelcannon3172]

Labour toady.

[@bakedbean37]

"Tories over 14 years destroying local authorities." Keep going. I'm nearly sixty and they've been at that for as long as I can remember. It was very much part of Maggie's play book.

[@rogerfielding2694]

I am surprised that you didn't mention that 2T Kier's dad was a tool maker.

[@cubbyhoo]

​@@rogerfielding2694nothing they have said is incorrect...? If the Tories had won, no way would they have done anything to raise up public services. I just am so confused why everyone is looking around at nothing working and not realising that it's the party who have been cutting budgets every single year during their time in power.

[@jonnyhume6]

​@@rogerfielding2694 so, nothing of substance to contribute, Roger?

[@jeffreyheeks]

Grief. Enough of this Tory madness. Thatcher will be rolling in her grave. This is embarrassing.

[@tequila_tibbs7938]

Yes, must be uncomfortable burning in hell

[@finlybenyunes8385]

@@tequila_tibbs7938 Never mind, she has Pinochet and Mugabe for company...

[@jeffreyheeks]

Thatcher is everything you say. But, compared to these idiots.

[@christravis8288]

I quite like the idea of that. Be a shame if she was at rest.

[@ozzymbonu3064]

😂😂😂😂😂😂​@@tequila_tibbs7938

[@TheTimelord62]

She really is out of her depth. Yet she is not a leader I don't think even the Tories see her a leader.

[@richardruff8712]

Fairly sure that Jenrick would have been better in the job.... ?

[@lindacurrie8817]

​@@richardruff8712As one Torie said she is the leader at this moment in time. Says it all and that time is ticking count down for exit will give Badenoch less than a year. She will never be PM. Tories do not want that.

[@JoQeZzZ]

"Bail out the public sector", what does she think is 'public' about the 'public' sector? It's not bailing out, it's called funding

[@InfectedByEli]

"The Tories know the cost of everything but the value of nothing"

[@Lythgoemania]

She makes Starmer look like a bastion of intelligence and charisma

[@fayesouthall6604]

He is a lawyer Sunshine

[@fayesouthall6604]

@ on the contrary he did. Saville wasn’t during his time at the CPS. Get your facts straight.

[@chrimbus71]

@@fayesouthall6604 Saville was during STarmers time

[@patrickmonkman8151]

@@chrimbus71CPS do not have the power to investigate crime unlike the police, it was mishandled by police so not much CPS could do

[@sarahjf69]

​@podge2525 because there was a lack of evidence and to prosecute would not have resulted in a guilty verdict, it would have been thrown out.

[@IndustrialBonecraft]

"I'm the one he has to face at the dispatch box...." Oh no. A serious proposition, indeed!

[@coribakescakes4279]

Fr like "OoOoh Scary"

[@JanMorristheadminmaven]

Just got in from Dodge on her horse and with her chaps and spurs looks so scary.😮😲😮😫😱😨

[@lindacurrie8817]

Yes and Badenoch says that as if she is a threat to Labour The woman actually believes that she is a force to reckon with. Astounding arrogant belief and an egoistical belief that carries no weight at all.

[@John_H_S]

I bet those letters are dropping into the 1922 Commitee intray. Bad Enoch is so lightweight.

[@fayesouthall6604]

Lightweight? She’s airborne

[@geoffpoole483]

The Tories have changed the rules since the general election. It used to be 15% of letters were required to trigger a leadership contest. It's now one third, that's forty MPs.

[@jeromefitzroy]

Yet another Liz Truss

[@jeromefitzroy]

@@geoffpoole483That’s not a lot

[@imemine6494]

Bit harsh on Liz​@@jeromefitzroy

[@TheMalcolms7]

The magic money tree is back in just two weeks lol 😂 What a line. I need to get a popcorn subscription. Forget netflix membership 😅

[@Ulysses042]

I'm surprised how bad Badenoch is at PMQs. She's often smiling nervously and this is the second week she's asked a sloppy question that allowed Starmer to point out she hasn't been listening.

[@ELCNUmorFnaMehT]

Badenoch is woeful at this

[@WichitaBen]

You could have stopped that sentence two words earlier

[@majudaem]

Truely shockingly bad

[@deborahcollard4560]

No she isnt. Starmer never answers questions accurately.

[@Bruce-yv9tm]

Poor badenoch, she's so useless at the dispatch box I'd almost feel sorry for her. But I don't.

[@richardruff8712]

YES, sorry to say it, but maybe Robert Jenrick would have been a better fit....

[@EtcEtcAndEtc]

When she was at the post office enquiry she said that "being seen to do the right thing is as important as doing the right thing", she doubled down on it when the KC raised his eyebrows and asked her if she really meant that. What a fake, proudly disingenuous person.

[@AlexisMoore-nx6wf]

0:45 "He needs to answer from his mind" 😂

[@LegsDavo]

Pre-prepare. Anyone that says this is an idiot. Preparing something is doing it in advance, so you're doing it in advance to then do it in advance again? Just say prepare. Yes, I am fun at parties.

[@Ricimer671]

I'd sooner meet you at a party than Kemi!

[@liamofyorkshire]

All the pre-prepared, pre-preparation in the world won't give Kemi enough preparation to prepare to prepare for being prepared to deliver her pre-prepared, half-baked questions

[@MostEasterlySteve]

You, fun at parties? It's blatantly obvious you are.

[@WorldsEliteBloodrang]

I’ll also die on this pedantic hill. For me, pre-warn is the same.

[@EdwardLindon]

​@@WorldsEliteBloodrangThe phrase "Forewarned is forearmed" would suggest otherwise.

[@joachimAl]

Every answer from Sir Keir Starmer should start with 'After 14 years of failure'.....

[@jameshutton3960]

They can't because his policies are fine. Even the removal of the winter fuel allowance was misrepresented by the tories to make it sound worse.

[@chrimbus71]

@@AppreciationClub24-n8e taxes up, boat arrivals up, unemployment up, growth down. Any good news since Starmer started. Have the sausages been returned??

[@AntonJoshuasheehan]

Does ridiculous

[@caob1876]

⁠it's been like 3 months since he took office and it's already his fault. Shows you're as knowledgable as kemi over here 😂

[@OM-IMC]

I'm old enough to remember a previous Labour government repeatedly refer to '13 years of Tory misrule' ... that was Harold Wilson. It will quickly be interpreted as an excuse for his own failures, real or not.

[@Gramsci]

You can see the lights go out in Kemi’s eyes in that last exchange. It’s surprising how easily Starmer is dismissing her question, he’s not exactly mr nimble.

[@mihininja]

Yeah she is so poor at debate that she makes Starmer sound like a competent politician

[@myuncle2]

True, also I would say that the word "Tory" now represents only austerity and failure, so you can only answer to them because you have pity.

[@AndrewWoods-sm9vx]

that's because he hasn't answered them!

[@martinmurphy9679]

@@AndrewWoods-sm9vx He answered one of them twice as Kemi listens just like you.

[@doga3641]

Starmer’s years of litigation experience as a lawyer comes handy when he is answering her questions

[@dudmanjohn]

Starmer looking like a cat being attacked by a mouse.

[@AndrewWoods-sm9vx]

didn't jerry always win

[@TheRealMarkyPea]

@@AndrewWoods-sm9vxreality mate. Not cartoons.

[@FlbcImp]

Arrogance isn't a substitute for intelligence and ability.

[@deborahcollard4560]

Tell the Reverend Starmer that!

[@keycuz]

Arrogance is attractive to voters while intelligence goes over their heads.

[@cembozdag]

PMQ's is a disgrace. Reminds me of a bunch of rowdy teenagers - shocking behaviour.

[@MrJohnfoster70]

Badenoch in trouble from the beginning.

[@Chatguy3]

It’s clearly not as easy as it looks… politics is about who is the best actor and who can perform the best

[@zacurrya9485]

​@@Chatguy3It's not easy trying to hide your lack of sympathy for working people as an upper class Tory, we know

[@davidmullens2464]

@@Chatguy3 Perhaps but it didn't work for William Hague who was a wonderful performer but abjectly failed against Blair.

[@English_lifestyles]

​@@zacurrya9485If you think Labour have any sympathy for the working classes you're utterly deluded. Go and talk to any plumbers, electricians etc and see what they think of this shower of shit. I'm no Tory, but Labour are absolutely awful.

[@minifuzz5]

I can't stand either of them tbh but I give Bad Enoch a year tops;so full of her own delusional posturing,she actually thinks that people like her!

[@jimmyguitar9873]

What is she on about? completely out of her depth, embarrassing.

[@illyaedwards7188]

Starmer is embarrassing

[@JamesBorg-i1r]

@@illyaedwards7188no Badenoch is embarrassing

[@illyaedwards7188]

@JamesBorg-i1r The whole Labour party is an embarrassment

[@alexjames9332]

I love the question about the person who's going to be paying 20k in NI now, if theyre paying that much that means their company is making AT LEAST half a million a year. WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE MILLIONAIRES!!!!

[@tinachristine4573]

I've paid that much in NI and I am absolutely NOT a millionaire, not by any stretch. The taxes are high.

[@alexjames9332]

@ incredible that everyone who’s well off doesn’t think they’re well off. How much profit does your company make?

[@ysgol3]

The last answer was the best one I reckon - Badenough will have HATED being dismissed like that.

[@azfellcrowley5860]

Edit: NI should go to NHS... Tories are by default against NHS... she is thick... and her questions are school level... Can Tories sink lower... Thanks for pointing the right info

[@Gramsci]

NI is not ring fenced for the NHS it just goes straight into the pot at the Treasury. The original plan when was introduced was an “insurance” payment for social services but that was decades ago. Now it’s just payroll tax

[@robfodder5575]

No it doesnt look on gov website.

[@Ricimer671]

Oh yes, much, much lower.

[@MsCharlieBrown78]

Patel is back on front bench. They're finished.

[@jamesmackay6815]

Seems you are thick if you don't know where NI actually goes

[@tothepointreviews9675]

She’s not cut out for this.

[@ScepticalBrit]

Shakey hands Badenoch returns to have her backside handed to her again 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MO-ss5mj]

Give her a break

[@armaan6101]

​@@MO-ss5mj why should politicians get a break

[@petyrkowalski9887]

@@MO-ss5mjwhy?

[@Roy-gi5ul]

@@MO-ss5mjleg or neck?

[@MO-ss5mj]

@armaan6101 shes new and doing well despite the racist trolls in almost every comment

[@monro2159]

She's very nervous which is why she is stumbling which makes it feel she's not that bright. I'll judge her after 6 months of doing this. Hopefully she is taking advice and learning. And I'm a labour supporter! At the moment Starmer, regardless of avoiding questions, is coming across as the seasoned politician but I have a feeling this will change. It's important both leaders are competent because both need to be held accountable intelligently and confidently.

[@TofuBoy22]

she's clearly not had enough experience speaking off script

[@findthekeyspeechandlanguag894]

That little self-satisfied grin Kemi Badenoch maintains throughout is very grating

[@petyrkowalski9887]

As is her voice and accent

[@xbriskx]

You'd think she'd have fixed her teeth

[@chrimbus71]

do you find her uppity?

[@findthekeyspeechandlanguag894]

@@chrimbus71 no!

[@givemeabreak100]

You're joking. Look in her eyes. She's shitting herself. Way out of her depth.

[@benbaccas939]

It’s funny because she thinks she is so smart and clever

[@EdwardHohenheim]

​@@podge2525Why are you whiteknighting so hard for bad Enoch?

[@Hell_nahiris]

@@podge2525it looks like you are whiteknighting her because you are defending this misspeaking unprofessional GCSE level politician

[@Hell_nahiris]

@@podge2525 oh no I missed one word! What a tragedy, I thought you’d be fine with stuff like this no ? Didn’t the woman you are white-knighting for make such a mistake 10 seconds into the video ?

[@Hell_nahiris]

@ hmmmm, I’m not too sure why, maybe try reading your previous comments ?

[@Hell_nahiris]

@ probably the first one And literally the fact that you are arguing against me right now is enough to suggest you are trying to be a white knight for a useless politician.

[@MontyCantsin5]

0:29: ‘. . . make life more experience for everyone back home.’ Huh?

[@AlexisMoore-nx6wf]

02:46 Also its £600m not £600

[@bingdiddley]

@@AlexisMoore-nx6wf 2:52 Social Clare will need to reign in her spending then

[@glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049]

Oh so it wasn’t just me, I had to rewind and work out what she said because it made no sense

[@MontyCantsin5]

@@glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049: She was all over the place.

[@GameDevAcademy]

Wow Kier wiped the floor with her

[@deborahcollard4560]

I didnt see that. He just refused to answer questions and bragged about himself as usual.

[@slimjimrandom88]

Rubbish he dodged every question as per and used the same copy and paste answers from months ago

[@lindacurrie8817]

​@@deborahcollard4560He answered the questions she like yourself did not like the answers. One question he answered and she did not listen he had to say it again. For sure he wiped the floor with her and has to not forget to come back and polish her off. Next week will do.

[@davidfry1676]

Starmer yuk..

[@lucyroberts9226]

You go girl,your more intelligent than all the labour party put together 😊

[@thefairhairedboywiththered2951]

Badenoch is awful, criticising Starmer for "planted questions" and last week about following a script- Both sides do this, so i take it is okay if her side do it but not his? She is a total clown.

[@reverendmississippi]

This person will make Reform the opposition

[@martinmurphy9679]

The Lib Dems have a great opportunity now.

[@seethroughlife1481]

Farage would be far, far more formidable in these types of exchanges.

[@AmbulanceWaitTimes]

@@seethroughlife1481 pish

[@chrisboggon9467]

The opposition would of course be the Lib dems

[@jefferyjimson8574]

This is some of the best wrestling I have ever seen

[@britishbachelor9820]

It's funny how everyone in the comments is backing Starma's tax rises. 😂

[@lindacurrie8817]

It's a case of nothing left when look down to fill the coffers and have to look up to fill the coffers and the Tories do not like that Me well all in it together is just and fair

[@debracooper1901]

Because they’re the ones not being taxed more

[@asjmooney]

Badenoch speaks like she’s ran all of her questions through an AI chat bot

[@lindasaroucos5718]

Why does she smile when they criticize her??? Looks very odd.

[@mihininja]

She's coping

[@Mastermayham]

She getting paid lol

[@jenlin6715]

Must be defense mechanism

[@MrCactusPunch]

Must have a humiliation fetish

[@Jojoeyjo]

She has nothing to lose.

[@davidquinn5603]

Ms Badenoch is a load of BS.

[@SimplySketchyGT]

Microsoft did a 4 day work week trial in Japan. Same pay as a 5 day week and found their employees were 40% more productive. That's not part time, that's more work productivity for the same amount of money. That's called efficiency.

[@AndrewWoods-sm9vx]

might work in japan but they have a decent work ethic there. Wouldn't work here especially in the public sector - since working from home started (and many in the public sector refuse to go back), efficiency has further plummeted. Give the average person a 4 day week, and thursday afternoon becomes the new friday afternoon!

[@nodwaa9227]

Ahh yes Japan with the highest suicide rates.

[@MrCactusPunch]

@@AndrewWoods-sm9vx Japan have a terrible work ethic, for the hours they spend working they are not productive. Turns out make people work too much they just look busy. Maybe look up some statistics before you talk

[@woddletoddle]

@@AndrewWoods-sm9vxwell yeah mate obviously

[@josephp9141]

@@AndrewWoods-sm9vxtru that

[@zthde]

It’s bad enough them two battling it out but to see Patel next to her makes it look like a joke 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃😡😡😡😡😡

[@czgibson3086]

That was crushing. Starmer made her look utterly foolish. Just the kind of hopeless leader the Tories deserve.

[@an9886]

Badenoch is about as professional as a school child.

[@deborahcollard4560]

@@JanMorristheadminmaven I dont think so. You sound very racist re your statement about May looking human. You look about 16 judging from your photo.

[@JanMorristheadminmaven]

@deborahcollard4560 I didn't think about that, so will delete it. I think I meant to say intelligent. I wish! I'm now an OAP.

[@cinnamonoa]

It's kind of amusing the way british politics is done in the house of commons, it's so unproffessional lol

[@grahambuckerfield4640]

The real work is done in areas like select committees, this is an hour or so in a week. These committees are usually televised but it’s not theatrical so doesn’t get the same interest. Sometimes they do, such as the select committees looking at, for instance, the Post Office scandal.

[@californiadreamin8423]

Care to point out where it’s being done professionally ?

[@1inchPunchBowl]

Your first PMQ's I take it? This is only a tiny part of how the house operates. Its just a public session done once a week.

[@undead_corsair]

PMQs is mostly theatrics.

[@markbennett6658]

It’s unprofessional to spell unprofessional incorrectly!😂

[@simonwolfe529]

Badenoch is not a natural speaker....she is in bad quick sand here making Starmer look good

[@lindacurrie8817]

More than looks good he is good. A decent man wants to put the country first. Extremely difficult task when the foundations have been taken down by the Tories. However foundations when relatively good Labour can build on that. Change is very welcomed as the same old Torie old was only working for the minority. One blessing the Tories are opposition hopefully for a very long time.

[@gavsmi6452]

Badenoch needs to up her game quickly. Starmer is coming across completely unfazed.

[@fionaalsofiona2835]

How the Tories have got the bare faced cheek to ask about social care funding. After fourteen years of relentlessly starving social care, the NHS, education, etc of funds.

[@lorenzobianchini4415]

Priti Patel really is an arrogant woman sitting as if she was somebody who is relevent.No she isn't!!😅😅😅

[@rikhammond5842]

Struggling to decide on who has the smuggest face: Badenough or Pretty Vacant.

[@mihininja]

"Pretty Vacant" is the best thing I've read all day

[@richardruff8712]

Both...?

[@davidabaxter]

Her confidence in her own stupidity is bewildering: "I welcome him back from Azerbaijan... where he will make life more experience..." Eh!? "Experience"? We all misspeak occasionally but she failed to even register that she had🤦

[@godsglorygodsglory1832]

She corrected herself....

[@AndrewWoods-sm9vx]

don't mention sausages - i mentioned them once but think i got away with it!! Those on here above the age of 30 will understand!

[@givemeabreak100]

ESOL Fail

[@scalarnai]

The UK Punch and Judy show. Judy is definitely getting punched. 😂😂

[@katrinacottus1965]

I’m loving the new Tory leader mimicking Corbyn with her public letter reading 🤣🤣🤣 Nice one you absolute GOON of a party, pretty unconvincing sitting next to PP 🥲

[@mihininja]

For once Kier starmer finally looks like a good politician, I don't know if it's because Badenoch is such a poor opposition or the man has finally taken some lessons in public speaking. But for once he sounds competent and passionate. I just hope he keeps improving.

[@bonk5207]

I think it's confidence

[@patrickmonkman8151]

He’s been like this at pmqs for years, it’s no coincidence he’s already on his fourth Tory leader!

[@jamesthomas4841]

"taken some lessons in public speaking" He was a QC for fucks sake. He was the second youngest barrister to made QC ever. Of course he is a competent speaker and always has been. You are perhaps confusing the ability to emote and make sound bites over fluency in putting an argument.

[@The_Original_KL]

He's settling in to being the PM. It's took a little while.

[@alsayedfakhri4597]

The only person not knowing what was going on was Kemi and the post office compensation.

[@king.k0ng]

They all seem so happy and cheerful, must feel nice to laugh and to joke around

[@fitzjameswood5486]

It's as if the House of Commons has become a new Mike Lee play....'Nuts in November'

[@williamgannaway8183]

She's essentially Liz Truss making a sick joke in blackface.

[@GeoffSh4rt]

Come the new year, the Tories will be looking for a new leader.

[@Jonathan-m9y-26]

Mr Bean and Ronald Mcdonald are potential candidates.

[@dombo813]

That derisive "ha-ha" at 0:43 really sums the modern tories up.

[@scotteverett5932]

Couldn’t even read her first question correctly

[@russellmarriott9396]

It’s not great for our parliamentary system to have such a useless leader of the opposition.

[@chaptermastermarneuscalgar6926]

The main issue is that it's most likely going to remain this way until the Lid Dems become the official party of opposition after the 2029 general election because the Tories are basically out of good options when it comes to picking a leader. Prospects for the Tory parties leadership get even worse once you realize that there are still some Tory MP's who still think Boris Johnson can still save the party and lead them to a win at the next general election if he returns in 2 to 3 years time.

[@marksturge7536]

Yeah I reckon they will.

[@jackspring7709]

"Keir Starmer Laughs at Badenoch, Badenoch Laughs at Kier Starmer - and Both of Them Laugh at the Rest of Us". I've fixed your title for you.

[@JasonEwing-x1q]

She can only hear her own voice 😮like most Tory leaders.

[@cbolt4492]

What a farce

[@strictlygrey]

Badenoch already seems like she's playing debate club politics. She seems completely out of her league.

[@jackybogues2495]

Hi white privledged racist

[@HookHouse]

Tories need to sit down and shut up. We don’t want you We don’t want you as an opposition We just plain as day! Don’t want you!

[@slimjimrandom88]

Yer cos we want Labour 😂

[@delaPole]

Two PMQs in and Starmer must be rubbing his hands with glee thinking “Is that the best you can do?” I know it’s early days and Badenoch might get better at this (and there’s a ton of room for improvment) but I doubt it. People with her level of arrogance can’t conceive of needing to improve as think they are already at the top of their game. I give her two years at the most as Tory leader before another regicide.

[@johnadamski6246]

To see Priti vacant on the front bench again with her arrogance and smirk is sickening

[@WipeoutFPV]

Kemi Badebollocks 😂

[@martinmurphy9679]

KemiCalalley

[@Handsome81]

Tories are finished, evil 😈 Patel is back too 😮😮

[@ehilton96]

We will never see another Labour government in our life time the amount of ill will this govt has collected from the people of this country in its first few months.

[@joachimryan7706]

My word, she's not good at this.

[@peterturnball8310]

You can see Badenoch getting more and more tetchy with each question, though she was slightly less patronising and condescending than usual. Starmer had the confidence of someone who couldn't believe his luck with what he was up against.

[@skyhigheagleer6]

This bill has not been paid for 14 years, nothing works! How dare you tax people to pay it!!

[@skyhigheagleer6]

/s

[@michaellawrence7570]

Patel and badnerock both evil and a disgrace