The new Dianne Abbott appreciation thread

[Digga]

irocfan said:

Supercilious Sid said:

The original complaint came from a worker for Chris Williamson, Jyoti Wilkinson (looks like a pleasant chap) https://twitter.com/JyotiWilkinson/status/10860609...
. This has Momentum's grubby fingerprints on it and is an attempt to bully. They really are the most odious faction in mainstream politics at the moment.

This fella's been reading the (updated for the 21st C) Goebbels playbook - he would have slotted right in there

"Tonight I managed to wangle myself into the @bbcquestiontime audience...."
I think he means it was his turn to have one of Momentum's block-booked season tickets.

[williamp]

Starfighter said:

The Guardian are getting on the band wagon.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/shortcuts/2019/ja...

So maybe dont clap and cheer: jazz hands are the answer??

[Europa1]

Digga said:

Tonight I managed to wangle myself into the @bbcquestiontime audience...."
I think he means it was his turn to have one of Momentum's block-booked season tickets.

No, apparently there must be a box you have to tick on the application form, as Mr Williamson said "The wangle was the fact I managed to get picked without having some underlying hatred of Dianne Abbott."

[irocfan]

Europa1 said:

No, apparently there must be a box you have to tick on the application form, as Mr Williamson said "The wangle was the fact I managed to get picked without having some underlying hatred of Dianne Abbott."

I don't have any underlying hatred of DA - I just despise [edited]

Edited by dinosaur.mod on Sunday 10th March 20:46

[Turfy]

HoHoHo said:

techiedave said:

Just watched the programme again
Diane Abbot is off her rocker with her claims
She was treated well. The only really uncomfortable moment was when the guy in the audience slips in that the only thing that scares him is Diane Abbot being Home secretary and in charge of police etc
It wasn't expected she wasn't ready but it reflects real life

In a nutshell she's thick as st and uses the race card 'You're picking on me because I'm black' whenever she feels she's looking rather stupid (so quite often it would appear)

I'm staggered Abbott, this racist, incompetent delusional wally still has a job.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/8...

[DrDeAtH]

From what I saw, Fiona Bruce was doing a better job than Dimbleby.
Maybe it's all because he would let her ramble on, rather than being held to task that she has got the sts with QT....



As an aside... James Cleverly... Moaning about being asked 'difficult questions' that's hardly racist.... It's part of the job of being a politician....

Edited by DrDeAtH on Tuesday 22 January 18:11

[Gameface]

DrDeAtH said:

As an aside... James Cleverly... Moaning about being asked 'difficult questions' that's hardly racist.... It's part of the job of being a politician....
[/footnote]

You serious?

[HD Adam]

Gameface said:

DrDeAtH said:

As an aside... James Cleverly... Moaning about being asked 'difficult questions' that's hardly racist.... It's part of the job of being a politician....
[/footnote]

You serious?

Whoosh Parrot on Aisle 3

[Thorodin]

A main plank of Labour is the often chanted accusations of Tories not only possessing but brandishing their so-called ‘inbred sense of entitlement’. Well consider the brazenness of Abbott. She is, we are told, the Shadow Home Secretary and gives forth at the drop of, well, anything really, the benefit of her considered views on the whole range of parliamentary procedures and policies.

If Corbyn succeeds, she will assume the role of government minister. When asked any pointed questions she claims victimisation, racism, misogyny and other rubbish as defence mechanisms. She would do well to consider the calibre of earlier incumbents of the same Home Office she is hoping for. Does she claim equality or even parity with the following august predecessors of such a high office?

Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington / Conservative
Lord Russell / Whig
Spencer Walpole / Conservative
HJ Temple Viscount Palmerston / Whig
HH Asquith /Lib
H Gladstone /Lib
W Churchill /Lib
H Morrison /Labour
G Lloyd George / Nat Lib/C
Roy Jenkins /Labour
J Callaghan /Labour
R Maudling /Conservative
Merlyn Rees / Labour
Leon Brittan /Conservative
William Whitelaw /Conservative
Douglass Hurd /Conservative
Kenneth Clarke /Conservative

That’s just a brief selection of her predecessors, maybe giving the merest hint of the reason behind the ridicule. She has been in position for many years and learned absolutely nothing other than sending her children to a rather good fee-paying school. Oh yes, and developed a rather thick skin.

Edited by Thorodin on Tuesday 22 January 18:44

[Hereward]

DrDeAtH said:

As an aside... James Cleverly... Moaning about being asked 'difficult questions' that's hardly racist.... It's part of the job of being a politician....

Go and have a think about this one, mate

[Burwood]

HD Adam said:

Gameface said:

DrDeAtH said:

As an aside... James Cleverly... Moaning about being asked 'difficult questions' that's hardly racist.... It's part of the job of being a politician....
[/footnote]

You serious?

Whoosh Parrot on Aisle 3

To be fair the man looks very pale at first glance

[Mothersruin]

Thorodin said:

Oh yes, and developed a rather thick skin.

Obviously not.

She cries like a weak sap at every opportunity when anyone more intelligent has a pop, i.e. everyone.

[Slaav]

Gameface said:

You serious?

So who gets the parrot? Of the three of us???

[DrDeAtH]

Slaav said:

Gameface said:

You serious?

So who gets the parrot? Of the three of us???

Let's all share this one....

[Slaav]

DrDeAtH said:

Let's all share this one....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218

[NoddyonNitrous]

DA is probably being used as a 'useful idiot' stooge in the same way as JC, though what use she is is open to question, and will be replaced by a true gulag-stuffer if Labour were to get elected.

[kev1974]

Mail Online reports that poor Fiona has become a target of hate for the Momentum mob.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6627787/Q...

More distraction from Dianne Abbott's piss poor performance.

[Fundoreen]

I saw a bit of it last week and they seemed to go after DA. I think she is a bit clever in that rather than battle it out at the time she goes for the sympathy angle next day.
I think she fills the opposition role of being awkward well but if labour were elected I doubt she would be
in a serious cabinet post.

[irocfan]

Fundoreen said:

I saw a bit of it last week and they seemed to go after DA. I think she is a bit clever in that rather than battle it out at the time she goes for the sympathy angle next day.
I think she fills the opposition role of being awkward well but if labour were elected I doubt she would be
in a serious cabinet post.

not sure I've heard DA and clever mentioned in the same breath before

[The Don of Croy]

Anybody know how she got to Cambridge in the 70's, back when it meant something, but has somehow become a person who one struggles to reconcile with that 'bright future'?