Kemi Badenoch shouldn’t stoop to David Tennant’s level

David Tennant’s acceptance speech at the British LGBT Awards was replete with all the telltale signs of ‘Celebrity Activist Syndrome’. He didn’t feel he deserved an award; his views were just ‘common sense’ and ‘human decency’. He has found a cause that just happens to confirm that he is a really great guy, which is the best kind of cause if you ask me. The cause in question is gender identity ideology, for which Tennant has become a prominent activist, though his activism mostly seems to involve wearing a variety of T-shirts with surly slogans. And while trans lives matter, it seems others don’t, for Tennant also used his gong show gushfest to say that such awards would be necessary ‘until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist anymore’. After a brief pause, and cheering from the audience, he added: ‘I don’t wish ill of her, I just wish her to shut up.