Diane Abbott

It has a lot to do with everything, if she was a Tory she'd have gone by now. You don't think that being in the safest seat in Labourland gives her an advantage?

Some of the shit she's said in the past would have seen her out on her arse if she wasn't in that seat.
If it's the safest seat in Labourland they wouldn't have a problem retaining it if she was ditched. - Unless you believe it's the safest due to her actions and she'd take a load of votes if she stood as an independent.
 
If it's the safest seat in Labourland they wouldn't have a problem retaining it if she was ditched. - Unless you believe it's the safest due to her actions and she'd take a load of votes if she stood as an independent.


The reason she got it is because it was safe, it was safe well before she even got there. They could ditch her but they wont, she should have gone ages ago with her racist remarks.
 
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She wouldn’t be someone I’d vote for but she also seems as though she’s a free hit to abuse which is a bit sad.
She’s made her fair share of gaffs like most politicians but I’d be wary of putting her gaffs on the same scale as the nasty party who look like they go out of the way to damage the country in order to profit personally.
She just doesn’t seem to have much common sense rather than be an outright ****.
 
I was talking about this with a friend. As he put it

It occurs to me that nobody has really looked properly at Hester's motivation for donating so much cash to the Tories.

It's bad enough that his company has benefitted from government contracts awarded by the Tories to the tune of some £400 million, and that he no doubt anticipates being awarded further lucrative contracts should the recipients of his largesse somehow manage to remain in government after the election, and perhaps a peerage further down the line.. It is very obviously pork barrel politics in its most blatant form.

But there's another reason why this rich and powerful man donates so much money to the Conservative Party. I'd suggest that it is because Hester clearly feels comfortable in expressing his offensive and racist views in the orbit of that particular party. He thinks that the Tory Party is a safe place for someone like him to call explicitly for the murder of a black female member of parliament - and, judging by the mealy-mouthed eventual responses from Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch, and sundry other government apologists, it really is.

The whole affair exposes the Tories on a number of levels - racist, misogynist, corrupt, in the pocket of rich business men, hypocritical, unprincipled, ugly.

Let's say it again - these bastards cannot be gone soon enough.
 
I thought it was a really bad look for all parties, the speaker, and parliament as a whole that Diane Abbott was not given the floor on a PMQs focusing on the prime minister not condemning racism about her!

She was like an eager school child with her hand up, clearly had something to say, and she got overlooked all session.
 
I thought it was a really bad look for all parties, the speaker, and parliament as a whole that Diane Abbott was not given the floor on a PMQs focusing on the prime minister not condemning racism about her!

She was like an eager school child with her hand up, clearly had something to say, and she got overlooked all session.
For me, that was poor (and deliberate) from Hoyle. That will just make things worse now.

Irrespective of your feelings for Abbott, she did not deserve that racist vitriol thrown at her
 
I thought it was a really bad look for all parties, the speaker, and parliament as a whole that Diane Abbott was not given the floor on a PMQs focusing on the prime minister not condemning racism about her!

She was like an eager school child with her hand up, clearly had something to say, and she got overlooked all session.
They reckon it was because it all ran out of time. 11 questions from labour and 4 from the Tories were scheduled, but because of all the shouting and long discussions they couldn't fit everything in.
As you say though, not a good look.
 
I thought it was a really bad look for all parties, the speaker, and parliament as a whole that Diane Abbott was not given the floor on a PMQs focusing on the prime minister not condemning racism about her!

She was like an eager school child with her hand up, clearly had something to say, and she got overlooked all session.

Would it be a stretch to think that Keith Barlow has had another word with Linzi and told him not to take the question from her?
 

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