Kemi backs Zelenskyy

 Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch posted the following in support of the Ukrainian president today:









Massed Russian bots and paid agents, and some people in the West who really need to think carefully about listening to Putin's propaganda machine, have been repeating ad nauseam the suggestion that Zelenskyy has cancelled elections.

No genuine democrat likes cancelling or postponing elections. But it can be very difficult to hold them when you are at war with an enemy who is firing missiles at or dropping bombs on large areas of your country.

When Britain was at war with Nazi Germany it was agreed, through the proper legal and constitutional channels, to delay the general election until after VE day. This did not make Churchill a dictator and as soon as Hitler was defeated he called an election and accepted the result when he lost.

Holding an election in Ukraine in the absence of a ceasefire would be extremely difficult and would certainly put the lives of voters at risk. Can anyone credibly argue that a Russian regime which has bombed maternity hospitals and schools would not target polling stations? And how could Ukrainian electors in parts of the country occupied by Russia be able to vote?

And I'd be fascinated to hear of any genuine polling evidence to back up the allegation that only 4% of Ukrainian voters approve of their current president. If anyone reading this thinks there is a shred of evidence for this allegation, please leave a comment and please tell me who conducted that poll and where it was published.

According to the American National Review, results of the most recent Ukrainian poll of which they are aware of are as follows:

"The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) conducted a telephone survey of 2,000 people living in Ukrainian-controlled territory between 2 and 17 December, around a month after Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, which reignited speculation about possible peace talks with Moscow.

According to the results, at the end of 2024, 52 percent of Ukrainians polled said they ‘trusted’ Volodymyr Zelensky."

The Review added that Zelenskyy appears to be about as popular in Ukraine as President Trump is in the USA. Details can be found by clicking on the link below:

National Review article on Ukraine Feb 2025

Of course there should be elections in Ukraine as soon as possible after the war ends but to blame Zelensky for the fact that it has been difficult to hold them while Putin is invading and bombing his country is victim-blaming of the worst kind.


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