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Diane Abbott

Post by claretandy » Sun May 28, 2017 9:41 am

asked by Andrew Marr whether she supported the IRA in 1984 she said. "it was 34 years ago, i had a big afro then" wow, just wow, to think she could be Home Secretary.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by kentonclaret » Sun May 28, 2017 9:45 am

Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary is bad enough. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by CrosspoolClarets » Sun May 28, 2017 9:49 am

Car crash television at its finest.

I have serious doubts about the sanity of anyone on the list of people who thinks Abbott is in any way fit to be a Home Secretary, charged with keeping us safe.

Sadly that list includes Jeremy Corbyn.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Holtyclaret » Sun May 28, 2017 9:49 am

Can you imagine her in charge of the police and prisons etc.... sat and listened with my son who said she sounded thick. He's 14 .

I've always voted Tory but this is the first time I've found it a shame that there's no credible alternative to consider or pressure the government.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by claretandy » Sun May 28, 2017 9:52 am

Labour MP just said, "Diane Abbott being home secretary is like making Jimmy saville the childrens commissioner" :lol:
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Holtyclaret » Sun May 28, 2017 9:54 am

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by TVC15 » Sun May 28, 2017 9:56 am

She's a f'in embarrassment

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by fidelcastro » Sun May 28, 2017 9:58 am

claretandy wrote:Labour MP just said, "Diane Abbott being home secretary is like making Jimmy saville the childrens commissioner" :lol:
Now you're at it. There are currently no MPs... Oh and Jimmy Savile is dead, so it's at best an inaccurate comparison, and at worst rather ghoulish.

:lol:

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by joey13 » Sun May 28, 2017 10:00 am

Amber Rudd is the current Home Secretary

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by hampsteadclaret » Sun May 28, 2017 10:32 am

9..'Amber Rudd is the current Home Secretary'

She sure is and she was interviewed by Andrew Marr as soon as Diane Abbott had got out the chair, though you wouldn't know that from the first few posts on this thread.

She did not put on a great show to be frank, and was similarly inconvenienced by some of Marr's questions..one in particular....it was pointed out to her that the bomber's relatives and friends and the Imam at the bomber's mosque had all contacted the authorities and told them of their concerns about Salman Abedi as the 'Prevent' strategy encourages them to do...they were increasingly worried about his behaviour and comments and rants and so on..

She was asked in view of this if he was therefore under surveillance by the security authorities?

She was unable to answer this [in fact she didn't know !] because 'investigations were still ongoing'..

This was obviously a copout, and if she REALLY didn't know then she should know - very poor.


** I hope I'm a bit more objective than some of those who have commented above.
Diane Abbott is an incompetent liability and does great damage to Labour's overall campaign.
She should be dumped and replaced at the earliest opportunity.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by TVC15 » Sun May 28, 2017 10:54 am

The main problem with Abbott (and there are many problems) is that she is thick as pig sh-it.

Every time she is interviewed it's a car crash waiting to happen.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by ksrclaret » Sun May 28, 2017 11:02 am

Why on earth do the Labour Party have this delinquent anywhere near a journalist?

She somehow manages to make a total and utter cock up of every situation she's asked to speak about.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Sproggy » Sun May 28, 2017 11:34 am

Jeremy is so short of MP's that like him that he's had to put any old dross on the front bench. The shadow education secretary comes across as being as thick as mince too. Shame really as the manifesto is worth talking about.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by dermotdermot » Sun May 28, 2017 11:52 am

Corbyn is a dead duck. He doesn't have a party behind him. Just the dregs of the left remain. Abbott is the best he can come up with. No one with any credence in the Labour Party appears on his behalf. Just this odd bod who thinks that 'having'a rather fine afro' justified her in her support for the IRA killing and maiming members of the British public, servicemen and politicians.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Mrpotatohead » Sun May 28, 2017 12:15 pm

This is a real shame. I was convinced that my vote would be going to the conservatives, until the manifestos were released. I actually really like the Labour manifesto, I'm not entirely convinced by the costing and whether all of the promises could actually be met, nevertheless there is much more in there that appeals to me than the Conservative manifesto. However, the big problem for me is that whilst I could vote for the policies, I simply can't vote for the people who will implement them. Diane Abbott is a joke, as is much of the shadow cabinet.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by tim_noone » Sun May 28, 2017 12:28 pm

Can you imagine her in discussion with Donald trump or Putin ....

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Clarets4me » Sun May 28, 2017 12:31 pm

dermotdermot wrote:Corbyn is a dead duck. He doesn't have a party behind him. Just the dregs of the left remain. Abbott is the best he can come up with. No one with any credence in the Labour Party appears on his behalf. Just this odd bod who thinks that 'having'a rather fine afro' justified her in her support for the IRA killing and maiming members of the British public, servicemen and politicians.
It's the first time she's been on the TV for over a week...she must have escaped from the big metal box at Labour Party HQ, in which she's been kept locked up. According to Rod Liddle in the " Sunday Times ", it's the same box Jim Callaghan used to keep Tony Benn quiet !!

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by fidelcastro » Sun May 28, 2017 12:51 pm

According to Rod Liddle in the " Sunday Times "

That bastion of honour and integrity.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by BennyD » Sun May 28, 2017 12:55 pm

TVC15 wrote:The main problem with Abbott (and there are many problems) is that she is thick as pig sh-it.

Every time she is interviewed it's a car crash waiting to happen.
It doesn't wait long.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by bfcjg » Sun May 28, 2017 12:58 pm

She's the best recruitment sergeant the Tories have got.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by BennyD » Sun May 28, 2017 1:03 pm

Mrpotatohead wrote:This is a real shame. I was convinced that my vote would be going to the conservatives, until the manifestos were released. I actually really like the Labour manifesto, I'm not entirely convinced by the costing and whether all of the promises could actually be met........
Any party can promise to give a £10k payout for every tax payer and an index linked 10% pay rise every year but if they can't fund them, they are empty promises that will rapidly disappear after the election. I wouldn't trust Dustbin, his ex tart and the rest of his Trotski front bunch as far as I could throw them.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by HOPE AND GLORY » Sun May 28, 2017 1:05 pm

The best thing she ever said was about corn fields

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by BennyD » Sun May 28, 2017 1:07 pm

Why, did Jezza pork her in one?
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Holtyclaret » Sun May 28, 2017 1:09 pm

:lol:

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by HOPE AND GLORY » Sun May 28, 2017 1:10 pm

Someone did :lol:

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by IanMcL » Sun May 28, 2017 1:10 pm

claretandy wrote:asked by Andrew Marr whether she supported the IRA in 1984 she said. "it was 34 years ago, i had a big afro then" wow, just wow, to think she could be Home Secretary.
Just like Boris eh?
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by IanMcL » Sun May 28, 2017 1:12 pm

BennyD wrote:Any party can promise to give a £10k payout for every tax payer and an index linked 10% pay rise every year but if they can't fund them, they are empty promises that will rapidly disappear after the election. I wouldn't trust Dustbin, his ex tart and the rest of his Trotski front bunch as far as I could throw them.
Rich tories are rattled by a real people's manifesto! Don't believe the funding smear campaign....they say that every time (all parties). The proof is that Labour policies work and tories always crush the economy, as it keeps the poor in our place.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by fidelcastro » Sun May 28, 2017 1:15 pm

BennyD wrote:Why, did Jezza pork her in one?
And to think that people say that those on the left are the childish ones. :roll:

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by HOPE AND GLORY » Sun May 28, 2017 1:38 pm

Castro are you saying BennyD is right

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Woodleyclaret » Sun May 28, 2017 1:38 pm

Time to knight her and get her shipped off to the Lord's.
A face for radio interviews only

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by joey13 » Sun May 28, 2017 1:56 pm

tim_noone wrote:Can you imagine her in discussion with Donald trump or Putin ....
Can you imagine May and Johnson in discussions with EU leaders , no neither can I

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Holtyclaret » Sun May 28, 2017 2:05 pm

Can anyone, all other issues aside , imagine her suitable to be Home Secretary?

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Rowls » Sun May 28, 2017 2:11 pm

hampsteadclaret wrote:She was unable to answer this [in fact she didn't know !] because 'investigations were still ongoing'..

This was obviously a copout, and if she REALLY didn't know then she should know - very poor.
Oh come on. Get real here hampstead.

In a week when there has been a very public spat between UK and USA authorities over the leaking of sensitive investigative material, the need for discretion in ongoing investigations is obvious.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Rowls » Sun May 28, 2017 2:15 pm

IanMcL wrote:Rich tories are rattled by a real people's manifesto! Don't believe the funding smear campaign....they say that every time (all parties). The proof is that Labour policies work and tories always crush the economy, as it keeps the poor in our place.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by HatfieldClaret » Sun May 28, 2017 2:26 pm

So Diane Abbott went a lot further than Corbyn in admitting support for the IRA at a time when they were murdering innocents and soft targets.

I kinda don't care that she's changed her views (or hairstyle) since. In my book she's a wrong 'un.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Imploding Turtle » Sun May 28, 2017 2:28 pm

Rowls wrote:Image

I thought for a moment that your had posted a picture of Theresa May with her hair pinned back, but then i saw that there's a reflection.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by BleedingClaret » Sun May 28, 2017 2:44 pm

Without trying to sound like a psycho analyst, to me she always been full of sh@t but was coherent in her delivery if a little skittish, but now she seems genuinely confused and is coming across as dim, I wonder if she losing is her faculties.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by JegunClaret » Sun May 28, 2017 3:18 pm

Eye Candy.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by tim_noone » Sun May 28, 2017 4:59 pm

JegunClaret wrote:Eye Candy.
I re call her 15 years ago with porillo on Andrew Neil show. Wearing a very short mini :? And quite chatty. She's lost the plot I feel,like bleeding claret as observed.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by BennyD » Sun May 28, 2017 5:50 pm

fidelcastro wrote:And to think that people say that those on the left are the childish ones. :roll:
Ok. Give me a reason why Dustbin would include a fuckw!t like Abbot in a cabinet, of any sort.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by BennyD » Sun May 28, 2017 5:54 pm

IanMcL wrote:Rich tories are rattled by a real people's manifesto! Don't believe the funding smear campaign....they say that every time (all parties). The proof is that Labour policies work and tories always crush the economy, as it keeps the poor in our place.
I'm sorry mate but you are deluded. Who was the last chancellor that left a note saying 'there is no money left'. It is apparent that the Tories build the economy and labour tip the f*cker to pieces. Cue the left wing muppets banging on about something to the contrary.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by BurnleyPaul » Sun May 28, 2017 6:04 pm

BennyD wrote:Ok. Give me a reason why Dustbin would include a fuckw!t like Abbot in a cabinet, of any sort.
Because there's very few of the acknowledged sane members of the parliamentary Labour Party who are willing to serve in a Corbyn led government.

The fact that she used to shag him will also put the odds in her favour....
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by BennyD » Sun May 28, 2017 6:36 pm

Absofuckinglutely. IanMcL, take note.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Longtimeclaret » Sun May 28, 2017 6:57 pm

Diane Abbott is as thick as a brick
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by fidelcastro » Sun May 28, 2017 8:11 pm

BennyD wrote:I'm sorry mate but you are deluded. Who was the last chancellor that left a note saying 'there is no money left'. It is apparent that the Tories build the economy and labour tip the f*cker to pieces. Cue the left wing muppets banging on about something to the contrary.
The Tories have doubled the national debt since they returned to power. :roll:

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Spijed » Sun May 28, 2017 8:15 pm

Longtimeclaret wrote:Diane Abbott is as thick as a brick
I wouldn't say she's thick. She studied history at Cambridge University.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by Herts Clarets » Sun May 28, 2017 8:17 pm

fidelcastro wrote:The Tories have doubled the national debt since they returned to power. :roll:
That will be paying for all PFI Blair and Brown set up. Didn't show in their books but a massive cost to service for decades to come.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by fidelcastro » Sun May 28, 2017 8:30 pm

Herts Clarets wrote:That will be paying for all PFI Blair and Brown set up. Didn't show in their books but a massive cost to service for decades to come.
Thankfully Labour has taken its Party back since those days they were trying to be like the Tories.

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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by lovebeingaclaret » Sun May 28, 2017 8:41 pm

IanMcL wrote:Rich tories are rattled by a real people's manifesto! Don't believe the funding smear campaign....they say that every time (all parties). The proof is that Labour policies work and tories always crush the economy, as it keeps the poor in our place.
It would appear that you think that unemployment is a yardstick of how successfully government policies work.

Obviously, Labour is your favoured as they always leave more people unemployed than when they gained power.
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Re: Diane Abbott

Post by BennyD » Sun May 28, 2017 8:41 pm

fidelcastro wrote:The Tories have doubled the national debt since they returned to power. :roll:
Doubled it? And I suppose Labour helped to reduce it with all the PFI schemes that are constantly biting us in the ar5e and we will be paying for for decades to come.

Edit: I posted this before I read post #47.

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