Diane Abbot

All we know is that she is not well. Perhaps we need to know the "idiots" diagnosis before a play is written

No. All we know is the Labour Party has told us she is not well - that doesn't mean she is (she was out campaigning today apparently). The suggestion is she has diabetes, as does May, so both sides are disinclined to make much capital out of it.

Both May and Abbott have seemed very much out of sorts and the diabetic issue explains a lot.

Personally I have suspicions over the health of anyone who ranges over a number of threads attacking other people.

'Physician, heal thyself'.....

Well if she has diabetes, I'm very sorry. I hope she can continue to lead a full political life ( if only to entertain the rest of us) Can we shut up that Mason guy now who resorted to attacking May on that basis. I do feel there is still a mysogonistic smell hanging around in our politics.

Don't forget to vote. 😳

Someone has to do a play about Michael Gove / Boris Johnson / Andrea Leadsom

She is not mocked because she is black

Or a female

It's because she is an idiot

Too
Funny

I have been watching

Various interviews

With her

Online

Rolling about on the floor

Side split from laughing so hard

Better entertainment

Than most productions

My problem with Abbott is the fact that she criticised Blair and Harman for their choice of schools for their children and then sent her own son to a private school and justified it by saying 'West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children' and that her white Labour colleagues would 'never understand' the Afro-Caribbean culture of parents wanting to do the best for their children.

This struck me as being both hypocritical and racist.

Wish her well in recovering.


During one of the Blair elections, Matthew Parris wrote an article about trying to get hold of her for a comment. She was clearly avoiding him. His conclusion was something like Alastair Campbell had locked her up for the duration.

It says a lot about Corbyn that he has no other MP’s to put into important positions in the Shadow Cabinet. But they’ve always been loyal to each other. AS a backbencher, she was entertaining and thankfully not my MP.

The prospect of her as Home Secretary is about as reassuring as the promise of Boris being the next to hold the top job.



Where oh where are the competent Politicians? Being an optimist I like to think there are still a few in Parliament, but because they don’t do soundbites, we’ll never hear of them.

You're overlooking the fact that, at that time, the state school system was failing children of Afro-Caribbean heritage. So, those colleagues' children would have fared significantly better than her children if they'd attended the same school, all other factors being equal.

It was more a clash of principles in the real world than hypocrisy. Race was the clinching factor in the problem, to which she had to react.

Born to working class Jamaican parents, earned a place at Cambridge in the '70s (for contrast, of 3,449 students accepted into Cambridge during the 2015/2016 academic year, only 38 defined themselves as black. Forty years on), worked constantly in politics since 1982, won The Spectator magazine's "Parliamentary Speech of the Year" award in 2008, and everything she has done has been under the double-microscope of being black and being a woman. Maybe she doesn't have the most impressive political record, and she certainly doesn't TV-interview well, but she can out-think any of us morons any day of the week.

I can't work out if you're doing a *thing* by the way; is it on purpose that you're calling someone an idiot while being consistently unable to spell the word? It's not translating well if it is.