Diane Abbott to stand in for Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs

[mr_spock]

p4cks said:

Murph7355 said:

Corbyn really doesn't want to win an election does he.

Turns down the opportunity of a GE, his conference (*that* Thornberry speech makes me shudder still) and now this.

Absolutely unelectable. I live in an area who would historically never vote for the Tories because of Thatcher closing the mines all those years back and no one has moved but they'd still not vote for that shower of a party with those two as captain and vice captain.

Our local counsellor is Labour too and she's thick as absolute mince. To the point once she was asked to leave a community meeting by the chair as she'd clearly not read any of the pre-meeting notes and was asking all sorts of inane questions

Sorry for the O/T, but can someone explain this to me? Harold Wilson's Labour government shut more pits than Thatcher (290 vs 160 in a similar time frame), but they blame her for it?

[NoNeed]

Jasey_ said:

NoNeed said:

scottydoesntknow said:

Jaaws said:

Ok who was it from here who left that comment 22 mins ago? Reading that sort of thing leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

And who called for custard?

Where are these comments?

I'm guessing this one;

I wonder why I can't see them

[anonymous-user]

NoNeed said:

I wonder why I can't see them

Are you clicking the ‘comments’ link below the video?

[NoNeed]

garyhun said:

NoNeed said:

I wonder why I can't see them

Are you clicking the ‘comments’ link below the video?

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Thanks

[anonymous-user]

NoNeed said:

garyhun said:

NoNeed said:

I wonder why I can't see them

Are you clicking the ‘comments’ link below the video?

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Thanks

[snuffy]

NoNeed said:

She has 6 questions and will waste the first 3 asking for a burger, fries and a milkshake.

Can I just confirm I have 6 questions ?

That is correct. You now have 5 remaining.

[768]

oyster said:

I certainly wasn’t referring to differentiation - why on earth would you think that?

My point is that it IS significant that a black woman is representing a leader at PMQs for the first time. It’s fantastic.

To dismiss it as ordinary, or unremarkable seems odd.


(Shame it’s Dianne Abbott though)

I struggle to find it fantastic precisely because it's Dianne Abbott. They could give the job to a tumbler next week, but it wouldn't really be a breakthrough for glassware.

Fortunately for her, she only has to ask a few questions. If she can remember that she shouldn't be able to fk it up too badly.

[crankedup]

The speed of Diana’ s speech delivery could see a major overrun of PMQ today.Perhaps The Speaker will indulge her

[eharding]

Oh God.

Forgot to ask her first question.

[Troubleatmill]

She started well

[Mothersruin]

Lol, couldn't count her number of questions.

[768]

6, 7, what's the difference?

[Troubleatmill]

That was funny.
She wants to ask a 7th question.

[Oakey]

That look on her face when he said she was the first black MP to stand in the dispatch box for PMQ's

[james-witton]

Posted this on a new thread as I didn’t realise it should have been on here..

Was she sponsored by Woman’s Hour?

All six questions (ironically she lost count and wanted more) were based on anti-female bias. Even the Thomas Cook issue was put into a gender issue context.

[hyphen]

Abbott lost count of 6 questions and went for more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St0KPIU9q9U

[anonymous-user]

hyphen said:

Abbott lost count of 6 questions and went for more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St0KPIU9q9U

I was going to ask how it went but basically as predicted

[rowley birkin]

hyphen said:

Abbott lost count of 6 questions and went for more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St0KPIU9q9U

She mis-counted....

[98elise]

All she had to do was say some words and count to 6....

[robemcdonald]

I’m no Labour supporter or Diane Abbot fan, but at the same time this was happening the prime minister found £1.8 trillion down the back of the sofa and “tackled” national debt in the process. I couldn’t find any mention on the Boris (new Brexit) thread.