Days after America’s midterms, and days before Kemi Badenoch’s Tories selected her for a parliamentary seat in Aylesbury, Jane MacBean used a Facebook post seen by The National Pulse to cheer a string of far-left Democratic Party victories in America — among them Biden’s Interior Secretary, who said she is “wholeheartedly against fracking and drilling on public lands”; Minnesota’s new senator, who backed making her state a “trans refuge”; and Ohio’s new governor known as “the COVID lockdown doctor.”
As this publication reported on Monday, the Conservative Party selected MacBean on Saturday for the Buckinghamshire seat Labour took by just 630 votes in 2024. She is a prolific net-zero campaigner who has written that rooftop solar would “help us reach our 2050 net zero emissions target,” and who has appeared on net-zero Conservative Environment Network platforms.
MacBean’s post was written after the November 3 elections in the United States. She said the original wording was “stolen from a message from a friend” but that did not “lessen the impact.”
“Our sisters over the pond are breaking barriers and glass ceilings today!” she wrote. “These are a few – there will be more!”
She listed Deb Haaland as the first Native American woman elected governor of a U.S. state; Peggy Flanagan, “a citizen of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe,” as the first Native American woman elected to the U.S. Senate; Gina Hinojosa as the first Hispanic woman elected governor of Texas; Keisha Lance Bottoms as “the first Black woman to serve as governor anywhere in the US”; Amy Acton as “Ohio’s first female governor”; and said “Three Black women will serve for the first time in the US Senate next term: Juliana Stratton from Illinois, Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware, and Angela Alsobrooks from Maryland.”
MacBean’s hyper-diversity post is sure to raise eyebrows from conservative voters, though some of her claims aren’t even based in fact.
Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks. for example, were elected in 2024 and have sat in the Senate since January 2025. Amy Acton is the first woman elected governor of Ohio, not the state’s first female governor.
She tagged the post #AskHerToStand, a campaign run by 50:50 Parliament, a DEI-focused non-profit launched in 2018 to get more women to stand for office, and shared a meme of the women’s restroom symbol in a cape: “It was never a dress.”
Macbean is not some low-level candidate for parliament, either. She is a long-standing party activist and one of the first to be selected by the Tories for the next general election, indicating high priority. She has also been photographed with the Conservative Party’s leadership: with Kemi Badenoch at Conservative Party Conference last month; with Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith; and with James Cleverly, the former Foreign Secretary, who left the Shadow Cabinet in late August to run for London mayor.
Who She Was Cheering.
Haaland, the New Mexico governor-elect and former Biden Interior Secretary, told the Guardian in 2019: “I am wholeheartedly against fracking and drilling on public lands.” The paper reported she is “a staunch supporter of the Green New Deal” and “would ultimately like to see fossil fuel development phased out completely on the federal domain.” As Interior Secretary, she suspended Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain leases, then canceled the remaining seven, covering 365,000 acres, in September 2023. A 2024 rule on the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska protects more than 13 million acres of Special Areas and bars new oil and gas leasing on 10.6 million acres — more than 40 percent of the reserve. In June 2023, she withdrew land within ten miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park — in her own state, the second-largest oil producer in America — from new oil, gas and mining leases for 20 years.
Flanagan, Minnesota’s lieutenant governor under Tim Walz since 2019 and now its senator-elect, backed Walz’s March 2023 order making Minnesota a “trans refuge.” She said: “When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That’s what it means to be a good parent.” Far-left Senator Sanders rallied for her in Minneapolis before she beat Rep. Angie Craig in the August primary.
Hinojosa, a five-term Austin state representative, toppled sitting Republican governor Greg Abbott, who had sought a fourth term. The Texas Tribune said she had “ranked among the most liberal members of the Texas House” and was vice chair of the Texas Legislative Progressive Caucus. The same piece said she turned to Fight Agency, “whose strategists have shaped high-profile, competitive campaigns from those of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. John Fetterman.” Abbott called her “Gender Bender Gina.” His campaign said she wants “boys in girls’ sports and men in women’s private spaces” as well as “no police” and “violent criminals out of jail and terrorizing Texas streets.”
Acton, Ohio’s former health director under Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, beat Vivek Ramaswamy to become the first Democrat elected Ohio governor in 20 years — and the first woman elected to the job, not the first woman to hold it. She signed the March 14, 2020, order closing Ohio’s K-12 schools and the March 22 statewide stay-at-home order. On March 16, she ordered polls closed on the eve of Ohio’s primary. She resigned on June 11, 2020, amid lawsuits, legislative moves to curb her powers, and protests at her home. Republican ads called her “the COVID lockdown doctor.”
Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor and a Biden White House adviser, is Georgia’s governor-elect.
Stratton, Illinois lieutenant governor under J.B. Pritzker since 2019 and now its senator-elect, lists among her Senate priorities “Securing Medicare for All,” “Fighting for a $25 Minimum Wage,” restoring Roe vs Wade, and “Abolishing ICE.” Under the Pritzker–Stratton administration, Illinois became the first state to end cash bail, on September 18, 2023. She supports that policy.
Blunt Rochester, the senator from Delaware since January 2025, voted no on the Laken Riley Act in March 2024. In the Senate, she and Maryland Sen. Angela Alsobrooks both voted no on final passage of the Laken Riley Act on January 20, 2025, which passed 64–35.
