Badenoch and Beth Rigby have taken their argument from this morning onto social media. Kemi accused the Sky News pol ed of parroting a briefing from Reeves’ team at her press conference this morning…
Rigby expressed surprise that Badenoch took five minutes in a testy interview to “acknowledge some responsibility” for the state of the economy under Reeves:
Badenoch wants to lay blame ALL ec woes on Reeves. It takes 5 mins of this i/v for Badenoch to acknowledge some of Tories’ responsibility. It matters cos 2/3 of voters still don’t trust Tories on economy & economy is at heart of their rebuild > 6 mins here https://t.co/yjuSGR7mOd https://t.co/LdCTVgdFtD
— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) November 4, 2025
Badenoch came back to tell Rigby to hold Reeves to account instead:
🚨Newsflash: we’re not in government anymore. It’s time to start holding the people in charge to account.
Instead of offering tissues at every Labour sob story, we need to point out the mistakes of the last budget so they’re not repeated.
Reeves promised not to come back for… https://t.co/bck750SZyT
— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) November 4, 2025
After the Chancellor’s dull here-comes-the-manifesto-breach press conference this morning Rigby was the only one with the heart to run defensive lines for Reeves. It’s lonely at the top…
This week it’s Dominic Cummings vs The Mirror’s Deputy Political Editor (Sundays) Mikey Smith. Arguing about paedo deportations…
Smith got really into the issue at the opposition post-PMQs huddle on Wednesday – probing the Tory spokesman on why Philp raised the example of the Zimbabwean paedophile who was spared deportation because he would face “hostility” in his home country. Smith’s argument is that the ruling said the hostility would actually be “substantial hostility” not just from the Zimbabwean public but also by the authorities. Nonsense…
Smith defended the ECHR on this one:
If there’s a bit of human rights law I reckon most of the public can agree on, it’s that we shouldn’t send even the worst people to be tortured or punished in an inhuman way, because doing so would be tantamount to doing it ourselves.
— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) June 18, 2025
An interesting line. Dominic Cummings gave his perspective today:
Super on brand that regime media have lost the plot so much they tweet from private accounts that the public should prioritise the safety of convicted foreign paedos over the safety of English children.
Important to realise this was the ‘mainstream sensible’ consensus for the… https://t.co/6L5aPgVoIk— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) June 20, 2025
Continue reading “Twitter Bitch Fight of the Week: Cummings Vs. Smith”
Richard Tice has come out swinging to defend Reform’s anti-Net Zero plans – that are now not official policies, rather just a “direction of travel”. Reem Ibrahim of the free-market think tank IEA took to X, joining other usually sympathetic Reform voices to slam the plans as “genuinely anti-capitalist policies. Scrap the legally binding Net Zero target. Don’t stifle innovation with ridiculous policies like this.” Tice didn’t take too kindly to the criticism…
Clueless Reem
Just embarrassing https://t.co/9ArhLZksAP
— Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 (@TiceRichard) February 13, 2025
After Tice (60) went in again on Reem (22), posting “You clearly don’t understand economics or care about ordinary people’s bills and how to reduce them.” Reem thought it would be helpful to provide a detailed thread on how making one form of energy deliberately more expensive won’t help lower bills. Ding Ding:
1⃣ Windfall tax on renewable energy power
Windfall taxes that are designed to reverse the gains from bad Government policy can be pro-enterprise.
This appears to be more anti-technology than pro-enterprise. You don’t get lower bills by making renewable energy more expensive.
— Reem Ibrahim (@ReemAmirIbrahim) February 13, 2025
Tice valiantly defended each policy from attack—though not without lobbing a few barbs at Reem along the way:
My point is there are not proper standards and regulations in U.K. for these and even with them, the fires are toxic, cannot be put out and are dangerous
Being blase about this is disgraceful https://t.co/ty6BqxO20w
— Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 (@TiceRichard) February 14, 2025
Might be a pointless scrap by the time Reform’s manifesto actually takes shape…
For a man who’s a repeat loser, Jolyon Maugham never seems to get used to it. Still sore from losing the case against the Institute of Economic Affairs, The Good Law Project has now issued a formal complaint against the Charity Commission over the “handling of the radical rightwing think-tank.” Christopher Snowdon of the IEA came out swinging…
It’s quite simple, Jolyon. The Commission doesn’t need to carry out a new investigation every time someone makes the same baseless complaint about the IEA. It has heard it all before and rejected it.
— Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 (@cjsnowdon) May 16, 2024
The fox-beater came back with an empty accusation – that Snowdon was a “repeat offender“. To which Snowdon egged him on…
What offence have I repeatedly committed? Careful now.
— Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 (@cjsnowdon) May 17, 2024
True to form, Jolyon couldn’t come up with any actual evidence against Snowdon. Meanwhile, The (Not Very) Good Law Project have filed a complaint to the Charity Commission against GambleAware for allegedly “promoting” gambling. As Snowdon noted, this looks like “a dash for cash from anti-gambling groups trying to knock out a competitor.” Follow the money…
Carol Voderman has been making the most of her freedom to parrot anti-Tory abuse on X. Her latest victim is Tory Party Chair, Richard Holden, tweeting a long list of so-called “facts” attacking him for writing to Keir Starmer over Rayner’s tax affairs. She may regret her choice of target, as “Dick” didn’t hold back…
Nice to see you leaping forth to a good trolling sesh @carolvorders!
Think we can both agree that the only stench here emanates from Angela’s inability to answer basic questions and Sir Keir’s unwillingness to ask them… >>> https://t.co/ZABLsFNetL
Your logic is that no-one… https://t.co/V3fieHmA3Q
— Richard Holden MP (@RicHolden) April 8, 2024
Holden made a fair point about Voderman’s post, saying her logic is that “no-one should dare question” Keir or Angela, and that the post looked suspiciously like a Labour Press handout. To be fair, she has been getting cosy with the Opposition recently…
Dick. You’re now into blatant lies about me.
You’re the Conservative party Chairman for goodness sake.
Grow up
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) April 8, 2024
Carol hit back with “grow up”, while Holden lashed back that she had “nothing positive to offer…Alastair Campbell and Labour would be proud”. Vorders signed off with “now run along. I have work to do“, though didn’t clarify who exactly her work of anti-Tory rants is for. In this case, there can be only one loser…
It’s Valentine’s Day, and the Tories and Labour press teams are celebrating the annual festival of love in the only way they know how: using the theme to attack each other. No love lost here…
Labour’s digital attack team took to drawing up a mock Spotify Valentine playlist for Sunak, twisting romantic song titles to rip into Rishi’s poor track record on achieving his pledges. Probably not a playlist Sunak will play tonight…
Labour is red, the Tories are blue, Rishi Sunak has failed, he’s done nothing for you. pic.twitter.com/1jI0bxGUzx
— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) February 14, 2024
The Tories took a raunchier choice for a doting gift to Sir Kier, making a twitter thread of “Starmer Sutra” all the different positions the Labour leader can take. He may have preferred some flowers, though it is a compliment to his flexibility…
The Starmer Sutra is the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for the politically promiscuous.
Written by the father of u-turns, this is the definitive how-to guide on flip-flopping into different positions on anything.
*Only available in paperback and spineless editions* pic.twitter.com/Lb3e1fr07k
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) February 14, 2024
So far they’ve nine posts of times Starmer has flip flopped. Here’s one…
STARMER SUTRA, POSITION 9:
The non-dominatrix. pic.twitter.com/jd4BjuY9KI
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) February 14, 2024
Roses are red, violets are blue, the Tories are down, though now Labour is too…
Kemi Badenoch defended her decision not to force Tory councils to hold elections in May, telling GB News:
“It is Conservative policy that we should have elections, but I’m not a dictator. You know Nigel Farage, no one else makes any decisions, he’s a one-man band.”