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To find Diane Abbott hugely annoying, even when i agree with what she is saying

130 replies

brexitstolemyfuture · 03/04/2017 08:10

Is it just me, or is her voice very annoying - fake and patronising. Funny thing is but i often agree with her.

If she had professional help to speak like that they should be sacked imo.

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RachelRagged · 03/04/2017 10:35

YANBU. Cannot stand her

attilathehamster · 03/04/2017 10:38

Totally agree with countrygirl55 - whatever it is, Priti Patel has it too. I can't concentrate on what either of them is saying because the delivery is so irritating, and the effect is the same whether on radio or TV.

ssd · 03/04/2017 10:38

I feel the same op

attilathehamster · 03/04/2017 10:39

I think you can hear the sanctimonious finger wagging, IYSWIM.

DoctorTwo · 03/04/2017 10:44

I have spent the last half hour listening to 'Andrew Neil' and 'Diane Abbott' on Deadringers. Happy times...

brexitstolemyfuture · 03/04/2017 10:51

Agree about Emily thornberry also!

Bit lost with the race aspect of the Croydon attack. Has she claimed that the gang was of a certain colour? I'm reading a mixed message here, seems like she implied they are white but she paid for private school to stop her black son joing a gang, as if that's what all young black guys do? None are my viewpoint just trying to understand.

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ElizaDontlittle · 03/04/2017 10:58

I agree re Emily Thornberry.
I wonder do they really, truly back Corbyn or did they see it as the best ticket to a Shadow Cabinet position (sorry if that's too cynical).

Guiltypleasures001 · 03/04/2017 10:58

She rents from a housing association, sends to private schools and as incredibly nasty to Esther Ranzen when she ran for a Luton seat. Can't stand the woman, I think she's vile

LittleKiwi · 03/04/2017 11:06

YANBU - she has a terrible delivery. For me what really grates is her habit of closing her eyes when she's talking to someone - like she can't bear to look at them.

user1489179512 · 03/04/2017 11:06

She is an odious person who is a total hypocrite.

LittleKiwi · 03/04/2017 11:08

Priti is a disgrace.

Emily Thornberry is the worst of all Blairites. She makes me pull the most awful faces when she talks. She also does the closed eye thing. shudder

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 03/04/2017 11:22

ET is hardly a Blairite she voted against one of the most important issues in the last year of Blair being PM

But I suspect she will back anyone who gives her a shadow minister post and Corbyn hasn't got many MP's to choose from at least she was put forward a constructive argument unlike some others

brasty · 03/04/2017 11:28

Abbott and Corbyn are ex lovers

Boulshired · 03/04/2017 11:35

She has not learnt the lessons of if she is not knowledgeable or in possessions of the facts to keep her mouth shut or do politician talk of saying lots and meaning little. She didn't seem to grasp she was the comedy element on this week.

Imjustapoorboy · 03/04/2017 11:40

You are NOT being unreasonable
Awful odious hypocritical nut job. She has also helped destroy the labour party.

She will never be forgiven

Boulshired · 03/04/2017 12:01

I would also add john McDonnell sometimes agree in his sentiment but I would not trust him with my child's savings account never mind the economy.

Werkzallhourz · 03/04/2017 12:04

Except the racists, as they were true racists, are not the traditional shaven headed white assholes. They are the other racists that the left does not want to admit exist.

It is at this point that I feel impelled to make the distinction that original white working class skinheads were not racists. The traditional skinhead "Trojan" movement was built around reggae, ska, and soul; they all bopped around to Desmond Dekker.

Shaven-headed, white power, knob-head, "Romper stompers" were more commonly known as "boneheads."

Now my defence of original skinheads is over ... Grin

.. it is noticeable in my region that the most horrendous physical attacks upon asylum seekers over the last ten years have been from people of other minority groups. We had a Kurdish lad who was left brain-damaged after a street attack, and the reason given was that, as a Kurd, he must be "anti-Saddam".

We've also had street violence issues between EU migrant communities and other minority communities.

Unfortunately, Diane Abbott is very much stuck in an old paradigm of British racial tension that very much dates to the 70s and 80s, and this clouds her ability to see the actual situation on the ground in 2017.

Applebite · 03/04/2017 12:28

this - a friend of mine who lives in Wood Green posted a video on fb a while ago that he took from his window. It was a clash between Kurds and a group of guys that sounded like Isis fanboys. The Kurds chased them away pretty quickly but a few heads got cracked. there's far too many incidents and groups out there for anyone to leap to assumptions - but for a politician to do that is really stupid and dangerous.

OfaFrenchmind2 · 03/04/2017 12:51

Werkzallhourz that was quite interesting, thank you :)

TakeThatFuckingDressOffNow · 03/04/2017 22:01

YANBU - she is awful. She is so far up Corbyns backside too. I had no idea they had DTD - RANK

As for sending her kids to private school when she was education secretary for a LABOUR government. She should have been sacked for that.

So sad at what Labour has become.....

PickAChew · 03/04/2017 22:09

YANBU. She sometimes talks a lot of sense but with that sort of sigh in her voice that suggests that you don't and won't ever really get it, even if you do. Sort of female mansplaining.

Iflyaway · 03/04/2017 22:15

she paid for private school to stop her black son joing a gang

So would I. And I have a bi-racial child. (Like Obama, you know).

Thank Fuck I don't live in UK.

No difference in sending your child to Eton private school if you are white to stop them getting into a local gang (or comprehensive down the road).

I think Diane Abbot rocks. I would love her to take on the Labour leadership but British politics is so far up the far right upper class crap Tory shit, that is never going to happen...

HerBigChance · 03/04/2017 22:20

Female mansplaining is a very good description.

I'm always put in mind of George from 'Rainbow' when she speaks.

CauliflowerSqueeze · 03/04/2017 22:22

Absolutely cannot stand her. She opens her mouth really wide and pauses for a few seconds before speaking. Infuriating.