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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:

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:


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:


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:

Beth Rigby talked about how Badenoch ‘nailed it’:


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:


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

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:

Wretched

The British media is the fourth least-trusted group in the UK, and that’s official according to Ipsos:

Chart showing journalists are the fourth least trusted profession after marketing people and politicians

Commenting on the content of Badenoch’s speech without explaining the potential impact on workers shows why no one trusts these people.

Featured image via Conservative Party

By Willem Moore

This post was originally published on Canary.