Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch declares war on gender-neutral toilets and Ben & Jerry’s – 17 ice-cold takedowns
Ms. Badenoch’s priorities didn’t stop at stamping out gender-neutral toilets, of course. She also wanted to address the cost-of-living crisis, the underfunding of the NHS, child poverty shameful marketing choices of Ben & Jerry’s.
Kemi Badenoch hit out at what she described as the "Ben & Jerry's tendency" within business at her campaign launch.
She cited the firm as an example of a business whose "main priority is social justice, not productivity and profits."— lee harpin (@lmharpin) July 12, 2022
It spoke to people in much the same way as her toilet signs had.
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That hilarious thing where the party of free enterprise and free speech lectures successful businesses about what should motivate them and how they should make money https://t.co/N3hSDsrkHR
— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) July 12, 2022
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"I think I should be the Prime Minister of a nuclear power. Does a highly-profitable Vermont-based ice cream company live absolutely rent-free in my head? I am proud to say that, yes, it does." https://t.co/Ph6LmK7ZvX
— Ben Machell (@ben_machell) July 12, 2022
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I mean Ben & Jerrys was the best selling ice cream in the US last year and made $170m in profit, but tell me again how Kemi Badeonoch is the one who can get Britain’s economy moving. https://t.co/9vLozNmuOL
— Sharon O'Dea (@sharonodea) July 12, 2022
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The good news for Kemi Badenoch is that if the cost of living crisis gets any worse everyone will have to boycott Ben and Jerry’s anyway
— Alan White (@aljwhite) July 12, 2022
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Spot on Kemi. Since when did shafting workers and lining shareholders' pockets go out of fashion? https://t.co/jrtrIDAM82
— THE SECRET TORY FOR PM 🇬🇧 (@secrettory12) July 12, 2022
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Great time to piss off the ice-cream guys, do you know how fucking hot it is right now https://t.co/GmmjBNzZnO
— Rick Burin (@rickburin) July 12, 2022
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Barking. It's how you sell lots of ice cream. The reason no-one's done 'fuck the poor, we hate refugees, close all the libraries' flavour is… no-one would buy it https://t.co/QzRtpd9NgH
— John Harris (@johnharris1969) July 12, 2022
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They make ice-cream Kemi https://t.co/V8dF2EER4r
— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) July 12, 2022
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Mandating gender specific toilets, and shouting “woke” at some ice cream.
Can’t believe no one has tried it before, it seems so obvious now
— Ian Cade (@meltwaterfalls) July 13, 2022
Author Nick Pettigrew thought the comment might alienate one demographic.
Well done, you’ve lost the vote of everyone in the country who just got dumped. https://t.co/raLGdDBhdh
— Nick Pettigrew🇺🇦 (@Nick_Pettigrew) July 12, 2022
For anyone wondering if Go Woke, Go Broke applies here …it doesn’t.
Ben and Jerry's made $450 million in revenue last year, their highest on record. https://t.co/LEo1ipZ0Rs
— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 12, 2022
Adam Bienkov summed up the day’s proceedings.
I'm not saying the Conservative leadership contest seems out of touch with the country, but the big dividing lines today have included gender neutral toilets, the ideological status of It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and whether the most popular ice cream brand in the UK is woke. https://t.co/tXdDloGcsG
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 12, 2022
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