Diane Abbott quits the shadow cabinet.

Quit before she was pushed out more like. She was an embarrassment it seems strange that after her car crash interview when she said immigrants didn't have to speak English to work over here the next day she's out of the shadow cabinet. She was a hyprocrite sending her son to private school and after the fiasco when her figures didn't add up its a wonder she later this long.

suziewoozie Mon 24-Feb-20 12:15:40

'Yes a lot of the abuse she received referred to her weight, her colour and her sex and then went to say things that are truly truly awful.'
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Do you ever read the ' awful' descriptions you apply to other politicians?

Do as I say not do as I do comes to mind.

Yehbutnobut Mon 24-Feb-20 12:23:05

' I think the moral high ground must go to those who try to defend the abused who cannot answer back for themselves, rather than those who always see the worst in people.'
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Or be a ruddy hypocrite.

Do you think Dianne Abbott was ' Defending the Abused ' when like the rest of the Labour Party she chooses to defend John Bercow over the bullying allegations made against him by tweeting and belittling the ex Black Rod, David Leakey??

And so it goes on.

And on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.

Yes POGS and remained silent when Luciana Berger , Ruth
Smeeth and others were bullied , not because they are black
but because they are Jews

No loss to the cabinet. If you ever watched her on Question Time she could be obnoxious. A few years back there were certain remarks made about white people. I really don't want to get into that. Most of you here like her and that is fair enough. I don't.However, I am sorry she is unwell and has personal problems. I do not like her as a politician and I do not think she is a nice person. Folk probably think the same about me.

It's pretty easy to kick somebody when they are down. Who inspires hope?

Does the phrase ‘broken record’ come to mind?

Who would want to be a politician? You can't win.
I suppose it's fame and fortune at first, but that never lasts.

Excellent news IMO. ?

Does the phrase ‘broken record’ come to mind?

Yes, it does. Usually when your disagreeing with other people's opinions suozie.

As for Diane Abbott, I'm another that struggles to reconcile hypocrisy with being a good MP, as I struggled with Blair too.

And on and on and on and on and on and on

How jolly awfully lucky that there’s. no hypocrisy among Tory MPs - jolly jolly good.

Y'know Meghan would say: "The goal is to focus on what connects us, rather than divides us"

Taken from Jack Monroe's blog. Something for all those belittling her to think about
Diane was first elected as an MP in 1987, the year before I was born. She has been dedicated to serving the British public for longer than I have even been alive. Hold that thought. Understand it.
Diane was the first black woman to have a seat in the House of Commons. She MADE HISTORY. Her father was welder, her mother a nurse. How many working class kids do we have in politics these days? None, really.
Diane went to Cambridge University to study history. IN THE SEVENTIES. In 2017 only 15 black kids went to Cambridge.
Diane worked for the Home Office in 1976. She was so smart they put her on a course to fast-track her career.
Diane was Race Relations Officer at the National Council for Civil Liberties from 1978 to 1980.
Diane was a TV researcher and reporter from 1978 to 1985. I know a lot of those. They’re fast thinkers, avid fact hounds, brilliant minds.
Diane’s political career began in 1982, on Westminster City Council. Then in 1987, I’ll say it again, she became the first black female MP.
In 2008, her speech on civil liberties in the counterterrorism debate won Parliamentary Speech Of The Year in the Spectator awards.
She founded the Black Child initiative, to raise educational achievements among black kids. She shared her platform.
She’s been the Shadow Minister for Public health, working tirelessly to tackle Tory cuts to children’s services, maternity care, all of it.
In September 2011, the Telegraph called her ‘one of Labours best frontbench performers’. The same Telegraph now monsters her for clicks.
Diane was one of 16 MPs to write to Miliband in 2015 asking him to commit to opposing further austerity measures. She did that for all of us. Diane was one of a tiny handful of MPs to defy the Labour whip and vote AGAINST Tory austerity cuts. Those cuts are KILLING people.
Diane has consistently voted against a reduction in spending on benefits. She has consistently voted for and campaigned for higher benefits over longer periods for people unable to work due to illness/disability.
In March she raised the issue of cuts to domestic violence services, in the House of Commons: “women and children are turned away daily”.
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You can read the whole thing here
cookingonabootstrap.com/2017/06/07/we-need-to-talk-about-diane-abbott-now-explicit-content/

And Chew if you actually read my posts on this thread you’d see that they are basically about the nastiness of starting this thread in the first place and the motive for the pile on on a black left wing woman who has faced awful abuse and is going through a bad time health and family wise at the moment. What delight do her critics get from this thread? What insight? What difference does it make?

trisher we are both wasting out time.

Diane Abbott blamed the media for reporting on her disastrous performace on LBC, in which she suggested police officers could be paid 30 pence a year.

30 whole pence?

Oh no don't tell the spelling police. *performance

And on and in and on as depths of stupidity and inanity are plumbed beyond any ones wildest imaginings.

Trisher - your post of 17,36.
Well expressed.
She's genuine.

But sadly Fennel she’s black and left wing and somfair game for the steel toe capped brigade.

£10,000…pounds a year. The fees of the posh City of London school where she sent son James. She had previously attacked fellow Labour MPs Tony Blair and Harriet Harman for sending their children to selective schools.