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Diane Abbott in fine form this morning...
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David Blunkett votes Tory? Well, I never...
This woman was standing to be our Home Secretary. That's a very important role, and whomever wants to fill it needs to be up to the job and scrutinised to ensure they are. But no, the Guardian thinks she's been bullied:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...abbott-bullying-shadow-home-secretary-attacks
Oh, and they think it's the Tories fault, and orchestrated to be two days from the election - this thread is over a month old!
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...abbott-bullying-shadow-home-secretary-attacks
Oh, and they think it's the Tories fault, and orchestrated to be two days from the election - this thread is over a month old!
rotflmao
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Bit early to hit the sauce dear boy. Top trolling as ever Clampy continuously looking for a bite or nibble on that hook.
Bit early to hit the sauce dear boy. Top trolling as ever Clampy continuously looking for a bite or nibble on that hook.
It's not trolling son, I mean every word of it. That's part of the problem with right wingers like May, they refuse to take anyone but themselves seriously. It's a selfish trait of the right but luckily it's usually their undoing.
Good spot that.
Blackadder
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Her recent poor performances are explained by the fact that she's a shit politician. She hasn't been stumbling and looking ill, she's been speaking in her trademark slow and patronising way, while trying to bluff her way through answers. The only difference between now and the past is that we have an election coming up where she's standing as a member of the shadow cabinet. In previous elections she's not had to do any interview of importance.
That't the bit I really hate. She doesn't appear to have the intellect to be an MP, let alone hold an important ministerial post. She is even worse than Boris and his blustering buffoonery.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at Labour headquarters this week after each of her car crash interviews.. Being at Tory headquarters after TM's "strong and stable" U turns must have been a giggle as well.
Good move by Corbyn but he should have done it weeks ago.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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To be fair to the Guardian, that article is clear that she's being objectively shit at her job as well as implying bullying.
Blackadder, Blackadder please. You know. You know
as well as I do
that if I can make this sentence last for 5 minutes
we'll have run out of time.
Indeed. The media could then have put the same questions to Lyn Brown to see if she's up to the job. Realising your mistake the day before the election is simply not good enough.
The whole country knows she's been shit, even the dimwitted Corbyn has realised, so the Guardian know they can't pretend otherwise, and this bullshit about bullying is simply trying to detract from the real issue - that Corbyn was happy for her to be Shadow Home Secretary.
The only other interview I remember of a lead politician being so out of their depth was Natalie Bennett. And that was one interview. Abbott manages it every interview. Incompetence on that level, from someone who could be our Home Secretary, needs to be addressed. It's not bullying.
TWOCHOICEStom
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That means "Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off" for old FOGIES on here.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Dunno. I didn't read it as them trying to detract from her being completely shit: the article clearly states examples of it after all, and makes efforts to not excuse her terrible performances. I took the point of the article to be about whether the response to her bollocks has been commensurate to the scale of her bollocks. In my eyes this isn't a detraction - it's just a side issue.
FWIW it's worth I agree with you. It's not bullying at all, and her performance this election is fully deserving of the scorn it's received.
Indeed, prior to her resigning, only this morning I was talking about Dianne Abott. In respect of all of these television interviews, when I watch them I sort of regard them as job interviews. I watched live (purely by chance) Dermot Murnahan's interview with her a couple of days ago and on that basis you would not give DA a job in a fast food chain, let alone one of the great offices of state....so, so, so out of her depth.
Oi I'm an "old fogie" and I knew that.
Tubby-McFat-Fuc
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If she's suddenly that unwell to be on indefinite leave, then can we presume we will be replaced as a candidate in the election for Hackney?
Lucky escape. Imagine La Abbott running the economy.
She has only got an outstanding County Court Judgement against her for £535 from December. Unbelievable that anyone could have thought these muppets could run the country. Wait until the papers get hold of this one it will run and run,
Oh sorry - hang on a sec. No its okay it's not DA its our PM, my mistake.
She has only got an outstanding County Court Judgement against her for £535 from December. Unbelievable that anyone could have thought these muppets could run the country. Wait until the papers get hold of this one it will run and run,
Oh sorry - hang on a sec. No its okay it's not DA its our PM, my mistake.
midnight_rendezvous
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Definitely dodged a bullet there! Bet she wouldn’t want to build more food banks either!
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Think DA would be great running some sort of social enterprise, but a govt minister is a step too far for her .
For the record I am not a fan of Diane Abbott, in fact I can't stand her. I tell you what I dislike more than her though. Double Standards.