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David Tennant has been embroiled in a war of words with U.K. Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch just days after he was honored at the British LGBT Awards.

Tennant, who picked up the Celebrity Ally award at the ceremony, gave an acceptance speech in which he said how important Pride was to his family, saying “we have skin in the game.” During his speech he also mentioned the U.K. Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, who has said she would exclude trans women from single sex spaces.

“I suppose if I’m honest I’m a little depressed by the fact that acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it as long as they’re not hurting anyone else should merit any kind of special or award or special mention because it’s common sense, isn’t it?” Tennant said in his speech. “It’s human decency. We shouldn’t live in a world where that is worth remarking on. However until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist anymore — I don’t wish ill of her, I just wish her to shut up — whilst we do live in this world I am honoured to receive this.”

After the video went viral on X, formerly known as Twitter, Badenoch responded on the platform, saying: “A rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can’t see the optics of attacking the only Black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end. Tennant is one of Labour’s celebrity supporters. This is an early example of what life will be like if they win….Do not let the bigots and bullies win”

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Do not let the bigots and bullies win

Said one of the worst bigots and bullies in a party largely made up of some pretty terrible people.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (4 children)

love how she's about to be irrelevant in politics after accomplishing nothing

[–] Weirdfish 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zorque 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don't you think she looks tired?

[–] HowManyNimons 1 points 4 months ago

I can hear the sound of empires toppling.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I always thought he said fired and everyone just went along with it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Well she's on fire now, Maggie's in the mud!

I know you're referencing Doctor Who but

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

When you think about it that's true of a lot of them. They make a huge amount of noise it is to be sure but they don't really achieve anything.

Look at Jacob Reese Mogg, he seems pretty relevant, important within the party, and influential in politics in general, yet he's done bugger all. His entire career in politics essentially was him just appearing on television and being a twat, and backing whatever brain dead policy the conservatives have come up with on that particular day. All he achieved was to make everyone hate him. The exact opposite of what a PR representative is supposed to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

if he was sos for business even for a few months , he probably approved some mergers or squashed some competition enquiries and got a few NED positions or something out of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

He's basically just a team mascot.

[–] tankplanker 6 points 4 months ago

Please tell me she is on course to lose her seat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Kemi just like me frfr

[–] [email protected] 95 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not only is she a bigot and bully in her own right, she also can’t read or understand spoken English.

[–] Zachariah 38 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I can’t read spoken English.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just need to learn to lip read

[–] Zachariah 6 points 4 months ago

I’m honestly terrible at this, but you win at identifying spoken English that can be read.

[–] Visstix 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah 1 points 4 months ago

that’s written English

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can you spoke readen English, though?

[–] Zachariah 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] radicalautonomy 3 points 4 months ago

Whycome only occasionwhile?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

i think only Stephen Fry is allowed to make audiobooks

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 80 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

When the controlling conservative party under-represents your sex and race in the U.K. government and you call the Labour Party and its supporters racist because they dare to criticize you, "the only black woman in the U.K. government", on policy. Why aren't there other black women in government, Kemi? And why does that make the dislike of you and your policies automatically loaded with bigotry? Smh.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago

I can't imagine a faster way to turn the public against you than to take a potshot at David Tennant lol.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago

Imagine being minister for equality in the conservative party.

That's an oxymoron if I've already heard one. Although perhaps her job is simply to increase the inequality since that lines with conservative views.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As of 2022, Kemi Badenoch is believed to have an estimated net worth of $3 million.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think she's worth even one millionth of that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well she might have a bank account of 3 million but she's got a worth value of about 45p, and it's only that high because the CO² she gives out keeps some plants alive.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

To be honest I have seen Tennant act like an rich, arrogant, entitled prick, but Shakespeare wrote the part that way for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“A rich, lefty, white male celebrity..." - well, she's not wrong. Must make a nice change for her.

"... he can’t see the optics of attacking the only Black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end." - and why hasn't her government appointed any other black women?

"This is an early example of what life will be like if they win…." - sweet.

"Do not let the bigots and bullies win." - see above.

[–] HowManyNimons 2 points 4 months ago

and why hasn't her government appointed any other black women?

Because their biggest donor hates all black women.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Kemi, you've gone on record essentially saying that the UK is colourblind. you've also said that, in your experience, racial bias always comes from the left. in light of this, what would you say are the optics of your now turning around to say this?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This is an early example of what life will be like if they win…

Well, if anybody was still undecided...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

A vapid bigot in a role about equality? Yeah that tracks

[–] MehBlah 8 points 4 months ago

She unarmed in a battle of the wits with him.

[–] LordCrom 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

That's him.

[–] dellish 5 points 4 months ago

That's Doctor to you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

[…] until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist anymore […]

Just an unfortunate choice of words. It would have been easy to foresee how this could be interpreted. That doesn't mean she's right, though.

Also, does anyone have a proper definition of optics (in this context)? I've heard this word a lot, but I still don't quite understand it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Optics meaning like how it's viewed by the general public or somebody not in the inside group.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Optics in this context helps to identify a person who failed gsce coordinated science - probably a B-tech in marketing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Bring the Tory Equality Minister is kind of like being the Environmental Impact Advisor for BP.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Makes me laugh that she thinks calling Tennant Rich is an insult when Sunnak is literally richer than the King