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.

Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary is bad enough.

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.

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.

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

She's a f'in embarrassment

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

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.

Amber Rudd is the current Home Secretary

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 !!

According to Rod Liddle in the " Sunday Times "

That bastion of honour and integrity.

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.

She's the best recruitment sergeant the Tories have got.

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.

The best thing she ever said was about corn fields

Why, did Jezza pork her in one?

Someone did

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?

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.

BennyD wrote:Why, did Jezza pork her in one?

And to think that people say that those on the left are the childish ones.

Castro are you saying BennyD is right

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Rowls wrote:

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.

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.

Eye Candy.

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.

fidelcastro wrote:And to think that people say that those on the left are the childish ones.

Ok. Give me a reason why Dustbin would include a fuckw!t like Abbot in a cabinet, of any sort.

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.

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....

Absofuckinglutely. IanMcL, take note.

Diane Abbott is as thick as a brick

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.

Longtimeclaret wrote:Diane Abbott is as thick as a brick

I wouldn't say she's thick. She studied history at Cambridge University.

fidelcastro wrote:The Tories have doubled the national debt since they returned to power.

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.

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.

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.

fidelcastro wrote:The Tories have doubled the national debt since they returned to power.

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.