Dianne Abbott would be a wonderful pm

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I think she would do wonders for the country. Really wish she would cue milliband and be our next pm.

She has been pretty quiet recently, could this be because she is planning this?

Sir- without giving any examples of these, you haven't got a leg to stand on!

What did she say about the judges (yes, I'm too lazy to Google it)?

What judges?

MonstrousRatbag and TheDogsMissingBollock To repeat an earlier post:

She once said that the first task of an incoming Labour Government would be to sack the judges and replace them with reliable appointments.

You might not like all the judges we have but it's not difficult to see what would happen when in due time the electorate voted that government out and put another in.

So much for an independent judiciary.

And I'm not sure that if she were PM there would be an election when the time came if she thought they would lose.

I will try to find it on Google. My recollections is that she meant the entire judiciary.

Andrewofgg, thanks for indulging my laziness.

Oh, yes, that's pretty fatuous.

She's hardly the only politician to come out with statements of rank stupidity though.

I'm also too lazy: obvious search terms produce thousands of results. One of them being when she said that if redundancies are necessary it should not be last in first out: white men should go first.

As for being fatuous and rankly stupid; there's a difference between broadcasting (and the last remark was on the radio) and print, where you can be expected to measure twice and cut once!

She's not the only politician, no - but she's the topic of this thread, and some of her views and opinions are so extreme and ill-judged that she really, really isn't the person who should be leading this country.

Admittedly, she's a firebrand but i get where she's coming from. (Although it is too extreme, obviously). She is however, rightly critical of the overwhelmingly white/male/middle-upper class judiciary which is such a solid part of the establishment. The same establishment which enabled the original injustices/institutional racism re Lawrence, that permitted the likes of JS to run amok and is still covering up re Elm guesthouse allegations. The same esrablishment ehich rnsures only 5% of alleged rapes are orosecuted??
Well thank God for DA amd her ilk for kicking ass and upsetying people! At least she questions, makes headlines, upsets the applecart!

but she's the topic of this thread

Oh, thank you for pointing that out.

You're most welcome Monstrous.

Questionning, making headlines and upsetting the applecart don't make someone a good PM.

TheDogsMissingBollock help me out here. In what context is the bit about the Finnish nurses acceptable?

She included the magistracy who are 52% female and of mixed ethnic origin depending on the areas where they serve.

In any case almost any judiciary is better than one appointed by each incoming government to serve its own ends.

YABU

I won't ever forgive the woman for sending her child to a private school.

And she's the West Indian version of Hyacinth Bucket.

Enough said.

Root- that's her personal choice!

That's missing the point too. She thought state schools were good enough for other people's kids.

Politicians who attack the private schools - or whose party does - can't complain about being regarded as hypocrites if they send their own children to them. Charlie Falconer kept his children at public school and abandoned the search for a seat in the House of Commons. A Labour politician (who can afford the fees) must make a choice and she made hers.

Well, she's announced she intends to put herself forward as Labour's candidate for Mayor of London...

Well, at least she retains a sense of humour.

She lost all credibility with me, when I read an interview in which she said that her best investment was her son's education. Well, I suppose Westminster School is pretty handy for her workplace...

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Frightening prospect! Her comments about West Indian parenting aside, the hypocrisy of sending her child to a private school is so typical of the Labour luvvies - state education is alright for everyone's elses child, but not quite right for their own! (Don't even get me on to Mariella Frostrup in the Sunday Times yesterday who describes herself as a 'socialist' then 'blushingly' admits to sending her child to private schools and is banging on about private medical insurance not paying for menopause treatment.....) By the way, have absolutely no problem with privat ed and would have sent my own if I had the funds, but this double standard really really annoys me.