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what do we think of diane abbot's bid to be Labour leader?

83 replies

grumpypants · 04/06/2010 19:57

thought Question Time editor bloke v rude to bring up nigel havers' letter, but otoh she is a bit 'feisty'...

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TiggyR · 06/06/2010 17:04

Her actions just sum up how the last 13 years were all about 'Do as I say, not as I do.'

TiggyR · 06/06/2010 17:03

I like her as a character/personality (but of course she's a Labour politician so she's fatally flawed )but she is (as Alouiseg pointed out) a first class hypocrite. Unforgivable behaviour. Can you imagine the outcry if Call-Me-Dave did the same?

claig · 06/06/2010 16:41

true she is another Labour hypocrite, but she is slightly better than the rest of the sanctimonious hypcorites.

Alouiseg · 06/06/2010 15:49

Just another typical labour hypocrite imo.

She is very happy to tell us how to run our pathetic little lives but her own system isn't good enough for her pfb.

TDiddy · 05/06/2010 07:55

Yvette Cooper and Harriet Harperson are Labour women who have the stature and potential to go all the way but neither is standing.

Diane Abott is improving with age and after spending much time with Portillo but I used to find her sanctimonious in her earlier days. At the time that Blair was standing for leadership I saw her a few times at a certain location and DW had to restrain me from approaching her and telling her how much I disagreed with her views.

claig · 04/06/2010 20:56

I like Diane, but she stands no chance as longfingernails says. Have just listened to Kate Hoey on Any Questions. She was fantastic, full of principle. She stands head and shoulders above all of the other progressives in the Labour leadership race. She is probably ineligible to stand, but as longfingernails says, Kate would also stand no chance, she speaks far too much sense and would expose the policies of the progressives for what they are. Cameron should offer her a top job immediately, I would trust her more than one of those Mr. Integrities.

longfingernailspaintedblue · 04/06/2010 20:02

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longfingernailspaintedblue · 04/06/2010 20:02

The Labour aristocracy won't let her anywhere near it.

You have to be descended for a communist, or prove yourself through slavish devotion.

She would be a brilliant candidate for the leadership, though obviously an awful choice (from Labour's perspective).