Tory leader Kemi Badenoch reveals she’s not seen Adolescence and policy shouldn’t be ‘created off the back of fiction’
https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/adolesence-kemi-badenoch-not-watched-netflix/
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch reveals she’s not seen Adolescence and policy shouldn’t be ‘created off the back of fiction’
https://www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-politics/adolesence-kemi-badenoch-not-watched-netflix/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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I mean she’s not wrong. The show is highly sensationalised and a bit out of date when it comes to where it points fingers.
That’s a a bit rich since most of their policies came from Daily Mail articles
Reality is often worse than fiction… Like I don’t think any writer could even imagine the streak of terrible leaders for the Tory party
Edit: sorry if this is not fully relevant… but again, she is not relevant…
Does anyone actually care what Kemi Badenoch says?
Let’s face it, anyone still voting Tory at this point has either got battered wife syndrome, or is economically illiterate – or both.
Wonder what she thought about the whole Post Office scandal then? Drama is not driving policy. Drama simply brings on the conversations and focusing politicians’ and public attention to specific topics.
And yet no one has created policy off the back of it. So what’s she on about
Oh well they didn’t have much issue with it when they plastered buses in “£350m for NHS” posters lol
When fiction is based on very real social issues, it actually is a very good indicator and shouldn’t be dismissed with a handwave.
it’s hardly a new phenomenon.
”Cathy come home” brought changes in policy in the 1960’s. People are seeing something about which they were unaware and are wanting politicians to respond. They are aware that it is a Drama but it is linked to changes in the world.
Badenoch again swings and misses.
“Tori Leader Kemi Badenoch saw a Reddit thread yesterday which appeared to have replies that show some posters aligned with her worldview so she’s decided to go with it”
Tory policy has been based almost exclusively on fiction for decades
I’ve already seen this here, the conservatives (small ’C’) are all coming out on the side of incels not being a thing, don’t be unfair to boys, also have you seen what the immigrants have been doing etc. Cuts a bit too close to home for them I guess.
For sure. Adults make a fictional drama with intent of entertainment, it isn’t meant to be insightful, it is meant to entice viewers…
Public events are being cancelled due to a lack of anti car ramming emplacements. But this scrawny white kid is the threat.
It’s on my list to watch, but she’s got a point, no?
If she’d watched Atlas Shrugged and thought that was a good story to base policy on, what would you say?
These film and TV things that appear from time to time are good to start a debate, but that doesn’t mean you have to have watched the piece to be part of the debate.
Call me crazy, but maybe the leader of the opposition should watch something relevant to society that has clearly struck a chord with the public. Nobody is forcing her to make policy off it, but clearly it resonates.
Can we have a Netflix show about water privatisation please. Properly something Kemi and Keir won’t watch
If the Government actually cared about protecting people, it wouldn’t let 1,000s of undocumented young men into the country every month and leave them to freely wonder around.
I mean she’s right, she just doesn’t actually follow her own advice
On this she’s actually not wrong. (Please don’t make me defend her)
I saw it. It’s alright not really ground breaking, good cinematography some good acting. Don’t quite know why guardian readers are skeeting themselves about it.
it’s insights on the subject matter are already out of date and alot of it’s narrative is abit hyperbolic. More worryingly I’ve seen young men acting more like domestic abusers than slashers in response to manosphere indoctrination. With the mindset of “Everyone is gonna mistreat you better mistreat them harder”
Following from this the laws Keir starmer wants to pass are similarly hyperbolic and out of touch. I’m not opposed to insightful fiction about real phenomena informing our moral ethos (what else are fairytales?) but you do have to be careful with the message you take away.
“Ban smartphones and social media for under 16s”
Because over 16s have shown themselves so resistant to indoctrination… And our print media is SOO much more reliable. /Sarcasm
She isn’t wrong. Yknow you’ve messed up when even Badenoch is talking sense.
Too much highschool culture influences government. Needs to end now
1) Rwandan man walks into dance class and murders 3 little girls.
2) Pakistani man tries to blow up hospital.
3) Made up fictional story about young white british boy being a loser and committing a crime.
Guess which one of these is inspiring new laws from our government.
I have to agree with Kemi here. The show was entertaining but I don’t think it particularly did a very good job of pointing out what the issues were, or what issues should be solved other than generally there are some men who have a hatred of women. Which should not really be news to anyone. It would have been better if the show had explored *why*, which it didn’t.
Kier starmer won’t adjust policy when thousands of people protest about wanting an inquiry into grooming gangs, but he will change policy because of a TV show?
Why is policy just downriver from netflix?
Aren’t young white men one of the groups most likely to commit suicide and be homeless? And I believe young black men are not far behind. I don’t think alienating them will have any positive outcome