‘Lunch breaks are for wimps’ & sandwiches are not real food…
 

Lunch breaks are for wimps, says Kemi Badenoch…

Kemi Badenoch has said lunch breaks are “for wimps”.

The Conservative leader revealed she brings in food to the office and eats while getting on with her work because “there is no time”.

She used a line from Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko when explaining that she does not spend time away from her desk for a midday meal.

Gekko, played by Michael Douglas in the 1987 film set in the world of New York corporate finance, famously declared: “Lunch is for wimps.” He was also known for the quote: “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”

Mrs Badenoch also declared that she did not believe that sandwiches were a “real food” and that she “would not touch bread if it’s moist”.

Her revelations come after she was criticised during the summer for not attending hustings to spend time with her family.

Criticism over children

Christopher Chope, a Tory MP, sparked controversy when he said she was “too preoccupied with her children” to be leader of the opposition.

Asked about her down time since becoming leader, Mrs Badenoch told The Spectator: “What’s decompressing, what’s that? What’s a lunch break? Lunch is for wimps.

“I have food brought in and I work and eat at the same time. There’s no time.”

The Conservative Party leader, who worked at The Spectator before leaving in 2016, also revealed some of her lunch preferences, expressing a distaste for sandwiches.

In her interview with the magazine’s new editor, Michael Gove, and Katy Balls, its political editor, she said: “Sometimes I will get a steak... I’m not a sandwich person.

“I don’t think sandwiches are a real food, it’s what you have for breakfast. I will not touch bread if it’s moist.”

Mrs Badenoch became the leader of the Tories in November, after a lengthy leadership contest in which she ultimately beat her nearest rival Robert Jenrick, now her shadow justice secretary.

She put the embrace of capitalism at the centre of her pitch, and said that it should no longer be considered a “dirty word”.

The former business secretary became embroiled in a row over whether or not maternity pay was set at the right level for businesses, after suggesting that it was “excessive”.

Mrs Badenoch is said to have quit her job at The Spectator in 2016 because she felt it would be “unfair” to keep the post open while she went on maternity leave to have her second child.

She also joked during the interview for the Christmas edition of the Spectator that anybody who puts decorations up before 1 December “should be fined”.

“That’s my ban!” she added.

The Tory leader went on to criticise Sir Keir Starmer for revealing that he might watch Love Actually over the festive period, as she believed that the film has “quite a lot of dark undertones”.

“There is a British prime minister who’s messing around and is not doing the foreign policy properly, people are cheating and there is a lot going on there if you move away from the smiley, happy, cheesy stuff,” she said, adding that she prefers watching Die Hard.

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im sure she said this in jest and frankly I would not expect the PM to have a lunch break tbh

She’s the gift that keeps on giving

Well that'll endear her to the common worker, I'm sure.

it may have been a joke, but having worked in the city, i've experienced people glaring as our squad headed out to the pub for lunch and i know who was happier at the end of the day :laugh:

Those were the days pub lunchs and back to the office afterwards :laugh: wonder if that still happens

If Kemi were on the left, anyone criticising her would be called racist, that said she is terrible at PMQs :laugh:

Kemi won't be leader next year

Pick up your steak for lunch, and jump in my get to **** bin alongside starmer.

Its reform for me from here on in.

Of course
I would not make a thread on this


Had to be a Pigeon
pecking at this.

Always trying to ruffle a few feathers that one :oh:

it's a load of guano.....

I had a homing Pigeon once

I sold it 24 times

clever buggers

She’s lovely isn’t she

…:laugh:…it’s good to chirp in with a thread now and again, sir…

#LetThemEatSteak

Lunch breaks are very important. We always take them.

Didn't you used to say you were a labour voter? :laugh:

That's not true, is it now? David Lammy is criticised more by the left than by weirdo centrists or the right, so there's that.

Nope, I have voted Labour in the past but I wouldn't say I have been a consistent Labour voter, I have voted Lib Dem, Independent and spoiled my vote so what would YOU call that seeing as you know so much about me, also I voted to REMAIN,I know you decided because you like to pigeon hole everyone that I voted to leave :hee:

Also what is so weird about being on the centre?

Said the Rose's hazelnut and caramel to the Rose's caramel.

Sorry, I've been eating Rosie's today.

Because it's not really a true ideology. The centre basically always capitulates to the right, but they just don't want to admit they love the cruelty.

Difficult to try and decipher what you mean here, because this post is verging on incoherent, but the bit in bold is not true. I've never said you voted leave. And I can't pigeon hole you to other people. Complete nonsense.

How have you deduced that I believe I know so much about you? I just remember you saying previously you were a labour voter, but it's going to be from years ago, so I could easily be completely misremembering, which is why I posed it as a question, rather than a definitive statement.

You posed it as a question, then added the sniggering smiley.

Sniggering smiley

If I'd wanted it to be a gotcha, I could have used the search function.

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That's too much information Kemi.:laugh:

That's more of a faux centre person imo.

Anyone that's truly centre in Politics should be trying to aim for the best policies that the left and the right bring to the table.

Unfortunately like you've already said Slim, most of these Centre parties always end up picking a side.

Taking "Bread and Circuses" quite literally.

She really would be better looking at how she is going to see off the Reform lot, instead of saying nonsense like this.

Lunch breaks are extremely important as are other breaks in the working day.
As for sandwiches, what possessed her say such tripe.
I make my own sandwiches plus as a vegetarian I like to be inventive with sandwiches too.
A sandwich can be better than a hurriedly bought or prepared other meal.
Plus more nourishing too.

She's quite a disappointment unfortunately.
Because all she seems to be doing is feed more to the Reform lot.
Unfortunately too, considering Starmer is really poor at PMQs, she's at times even worse.
I just shake my head in disbelief at what she raises.

Again we are left with 2 of the worst leaders possible.
In my view, there's not ONE good leader across ALL the Parties.
Even in BOTH the Green leaders.

Kemi Badenoch really needs to prioritise where her battles need to be massively better than she is doing now.

The search function for what, are you saying I am lying? because I am not ...search away

Don't be ridiculous

No party is truely bad or truely good they all have something to bring to the table, and some policies that should be roundly rejected

the centre ground is where the majority of the planet reside in politics. It's laughable to criticise that position

Indeed. I can understand the point, Slim, that a lot of people on the right CLAIM the centre because they're not yet emboldened enough to declare that they are in fact on the right - but that's "internet stuff" / SoMed and forum rhetoric.

In the real world, the vast majority of people lie "around the centre" on the majority of issues and will shift left or right on specific issues usually depending on personal biases and experiences. Free-thinking people at least, not copy-paste-opinion Trumpists etc. or their equivalent to the left, which obviously does exist.

It depends on the people you encounter and the circles you move in. These days the vast majority of people I work with are just-left-of-centre and (believe me) it doesn't mean that there aren't strong opinions and convictions. They're just rational, reasoned, adult opinions with some element of practicality, rather than internet naval-gazing, idealism and point-scoring. Which I will concede - we're ALL guilty of. It's a guilty pleasure. It's not the real world, which can be easy to forget.

I'm doing what Miss Kami asks, no lunch break for me today.

I 100% agree with your points Joey.