Greene: Badenoch might as well say vote Lib Dem

Responding to Kemi Badenoch’s appearance at the Scottish Conservative conference, where she indicated that recent defections from the party are ‘a good thing’, as well as implying that two current serving Scottish Conservative MSPs should leave the party due to their support for gender reforms, Scottish Liberal Democrat Jamie Greene MSP said:

“Ms Badenoch must know by now that political success comes from persuasion, not arrogant pomposity. This “good riddance” attitude is precisely the reason so many have left the party in droves, myself included.

"Now it looks like she wants to bizarrely cast off two current serving Scottish Conservative MSPs for not being Conservative enough, due to their support for gender reforms.

“When her party lost direction and lurched to the extremes, the rational response should have been some deep soul searching as to why their narrow-minded rhetoric is costing them votes and losing them members.

“Her instinct to casually dismiss anyone scunnered with the Conservatives illustrates perfectly just how out of touch she is with the existential crisis her party faces.

“By undoing Ruth Davidson's broad-church Conservativism in favour of right-wing propaganda, she and Russell Findlay seem set to consign the Scottish Tories to the history books for a generation.

“Kemi Badenoch might as well just come out and say it: if you don’t like us, you should vote Lib Dem.”