Lunchgate

I read a ridiculous article in the news last week. Someone had randomly asked Keir Starmer what he has for lunch and he said usually a sandwich, like tuna mayo or a cheese toastie, so far so reasonable and uncontravercial, then along comes Kemi Badenoch who says snadwiches aren't lunch things, theyre a breakfast things and she dosen't like moist bread and never takes a break from her desk and sometimes orders in a steak!

What a stupid spat to start! Starmer is a pescartarian, it made me wonder if Badenoch said the steak thing as some kind of attempt to annoy the person who dosen't eat meat, strange but people really do say stuff like this, it all made me think she's a sandwich short of a picnic!

  • Even the Mirror noted that her comments were just "light-hearted remarks".

    If that doesn't reassure you that she was joking around, then I'm not sure what more I can say.

  • She may have just been answering questions asked by journalists, but did she need to be so aggressive with her answers? I don't think she did.

  • She didn't start anything, create an issue, or go on the attack. She just answered questions that she was asked by two different journalists. Firstly, during an interview for the Spectator. Then during a factory visit.

  • Why did she start it then? Why go on the attack? If her lunch choices are different to Starmers and she's OK with people having unique choices, why did she create an issue out of it?

  • What a stupid spat to start!

    To be fair, I think this is more a case of journalists trying to whip up yet another supposed controversy for controversy's sake. Here's an extract from a longer quote from Kemi Badenoch:

    Asked about her stance while visiting a factory in Essex, Badenoch said:

    "I find it fascinating how interested people are in what I have for lunch." She added: "I got asked what I like to eat and I answered the question". 

    Pressed on the subject, she added: "We all have individual tastes and unique preferences. This world where we try and make everyone the same and then complain if a politician says something that might be different is quite wrong. I am someone who is happy with my unique choices, everyone should be, and we should celebrate those differences."

    From: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewxd1y99ryo

  • That'll be why she does not eat them. Always missing from her picnic!!!!   Joy

  • parliment is very very boring sometimes. I think they insert this stuff out of bordom, mistaking inserting stories about their personal foibels into parlimentory debate as wit.