Diane Abbott Daily Mail and Twitter

I think she is very admirable tbh, stumbled over a few facts and figures in interviews during the campaign and she's branded as useless and incompetent. At least she turned up for interviews and didn't hide in fridges

The level of vitriol Diane Abbott receives on a daily basis is absolutely dreadful and a stain on the UK.

The level of racism directed at her is horrific. I don't know how she keeps going.

She's diabetic - if the picture were real, it would be quite conceivable that she was suffering foot pain

Given she is diabetic, it could be the opposite; she may have reduced feeling in her feet from diabetic neuropathy.

Misogyny and racism? Come on 🙄 she has got lots of her figures wrong, she does not speak articulately, she does not seem very intelligent and she is incompetent. The fact that she is a woman and black is nothing to do with it. Any mp wearing odd shoes is going to get in the paper. Although can't be 100 percent sure it's not photo shopped.

No, I think they are almost exact opposite cases. Diane Abbott gets flack for nothing and Boris Johnson gets away with everything.

He is a disgusting bloke and politician. Happy to say it. There's a long list to back it up!

If Abbott had done a fraction of what Johnson has, she'd be finished.

She's diabetic - if the picture were real, it would be quite conceivable that she was suffering foot pain and this was the only shoe that fit around the pain and/or that she was in so much discomfort already that she didn't realise her shoe was on the wrong foot.

I do agree that it's misogyny and racism - JC's suits always look terribly ill-fitting but hardly anyone seems to notice that.

People say she is getting stick that others don’t but even on this thread Boris appears to be fair game whereas she isn’t. I have certainly seen far more criticism, mocking, hatred for Boris (and those who might vote for him) than I have for Diane this election. I am very uncomfortable with the personal attacks on any politician and it would do nothing to attract more capable candidates to stand as MPs. Having said that, I am all for criticism of policies, behaviour, capability to do the job they are standing for.

Still feel sorry for her though

Whoops lost my mind there scrap that about right press

Wtf why would someone fake that poor woman
Even the right wing press are printing it
I feel sorry for her

@instagramwilleatitself that's not evidence. Show me the original pic with the right shoes on and I'll believe you. The second photo is taken at 13.25 after the first was tweeted and then deleted. Time for either someone to sort Diane's shoes out or for her to get the right pair herself. She's hardly gonna stay in the same shoes all day, once the mistake was noticed!

How do you know its fake?

Because she is a woman, people feel entitled to comment and criticise her appearance. I had wondered if her foot was too swollen to fit in the correct shoe, as it appeared to be hanging out of the shoe. Or it is photoshopped? Who the hell knows these days! Bloody mean spirited either way.

Soozyloos ah I didn’t think of that. Also those pictures clearly show she’s in the same shoes WTAF? What a weird thing to fake up, and how did the labour candidate end up tweeting a doctored picture?

Some of the comments about it being a simple wardrobe malfunction are rather short sighted.
She has neuropathic pain. Its not a mistake, it is something many people with pain of that kind do to ease it!

Original pics. Clearly the same shoes.

Oh no. You patronised me. You must be clever, and right.

If you say so dear.....

I have no problem with her personally, and feel empathy for the wardrobe malfunction. However I don’t think she will make a good Home Secretary. If you feel able, over the internet, to decide that is because I am racist, think what you want to think.

Her skin colour had nothing to do with it.

But only by wearing odd shoes, has she finally shown she's human.

Questioning her intelligence, it's decline, diagnosing her health problems from afar, blaming her for the allocation of trans-prisoners.

Bollocks. It's just grasping. It's racism and misogyny.

I have gone to work wearing odd shoes and nights out with my top inside out so it might not be photoshopped.

But who knows with the Daily Mail. They just churn out the click bait.

I don’t think her skin colour has anything to do with her coming across as clueless, incompetent and unable to string a sentence together. I don’t think she does herself any favours every time she opens her mouth.

Tinkly I doubt the mp noticed.

I have never felt any empathy with Ms Abbott until this picture. I have lost count of the times someone has said to me at work "you do realise you have your jumper on inside out or you still have a curler in your hair" etc etc.

She may be all the things suggested in this thread, but for me she has finally shown she is human. I would never vote for her as my MP, but welcome to the real world Diane!

I mean, Jesus fucking Christ. Boris Johnson has been sacked from two jobs for lying. He has lied repeatedly since then. He has been complicit in trying to get a journalist beaten up. He's a serial adulterer. He pressured an ex-girlfriend into having an abortion. He doesn't even pay for the upkeep of his illegitimate children. He won't even admit how many children he has. His former boss says he's unfit for office. Long-standing parliamentarians from his own party are urging people not to vote for him.

And people here are trying to make a big deal out of the fact that Diane Abbott has the wrong shoes on? Where's your moral compass - behind the sofa?

I would rather have Abbott with an odd shoe than the lying Tory ministers who are openly racist and sometimes criminal.

That's when they're not hiding in fridges, or avoiding talking to the general public or being interviewed by journalists or lying about attacks on their staff, or spreading fake news through social media accounts. In that context, putting mismatching shoes on seems like small beer.