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

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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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Imjustapoorboy · 03/04/2017 22:23

Ifly so the only way to stop her son joining a gang in London was private school. Yeah right

As he was already middle class the chances of that was diminished. It's an excuse not a reason. And it's insulting to all the parents of kids that don't join gangs. No matter what the colour of their skin is

Iflyaway · 03/04/2017 22:25

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

Ridiculous to hold people to this ridiculous class thing that British politics is still riddled with. Never heard no-one complain about the Tory Eton clique that is still ruling the country. Hmm

RubyRedRuby · 03/04/2017 22:25

doctortwo did you have it recorded or is it available online now? Dc and I love DIANNe Abbott! Also, Gove's phone calls and the Donald Facts. Would love to listen to it again.

Imjustapoorboy · 03/04/2017 22:26

May didn't go to Eton. She's a woman

user1489179512 · 03/04/2017 22:29

Allegedly.

Caprianna · 03/04/2017 22:33

yanbu

ClarkWGriswold · 03/04/2017 22:37

Iflyaway I agree; thank fuck you don't live in the U.K. If you think Diane Abbott should be Labour leader!

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 03/04/2017 22:42

Abbott has been very vocal about the unfairness in the education system and i am sure she has made jibes about Tory cabinet and Etonian

Yet though her son would have got into a good state school she choose to privately educate him which I can understand but when you are a far left wing politician it is going to be thrown back at you

DrDreReturns · 03/04/2017 22:44

I've said this before but I think she is thick. Or if I'm being charitable lacking in common sense. I know she's got a Cambridge degree but I don't think she is all there.
Iflyaway the point is she spent her whole political careeer deriding private schools, but when it was her child she sent him to a private school! That's what annoys people. If she hadn't made it a central tenet of her political beliefs no one would have cared.

MrsFogi · 03/04/2017 22:47

Listening to "Diane Abbott" and "Andrew Neil" on Dead Ringers is one of my greatest pleasures in life Grin.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 03/04/2017 22:50

I think Diane Abbot rocks. I would love her to take on the Labour leadership

So, I imagine, would many conservatives Wink

EnjoyYourVegetables · 03/04/2017 22:51

I remember really liking her when she first was elected an MP.

Then I had a huge guffawing episode when I learned that she and Corbyn went on a romantic motorbike tour of the old East Germany. And the thought of that perhaps being true makes me smile to this day.

(I don't know if it's been confirmed?)

So on balance i think her existence makes the world a bit brighter.

DoctorTwo · 03/04/2017 23:53
is all on the Youtubes RubyRedRuby. It's all still gloriously funny.
minifingerz · 03/04/2017 23:54

I can't forgive her for sending her dc to a private school. She's an appalling hypocrite.

ginghambox · 04/04/2017 00:06

Has she apologised yet. No fancy that the silence is deafoning.

TuftyFinchy · 04/04/2017 00:40

I find her dude genius, insincere and patronising. The thing that most galls me is an article she wrote, possibly an editorial. No, a column - didn't she have a Colin somewhere? She wrote, in print, with time and allowance for revision, with reference, and defence of, sending her son to private school "the decision to send my child to private school is devastating". I'm not quoting directly but I remember she used the word devastating in reference to her argument. For that one word, in relation to her son's education, I judged her and have massively disliked her ever since. She chose the word devastating! In choosing to send her son to private school. An educated person equating that with devastation. Stupid woman, with her touchy geeky of Michael Portillo's red trousers. She has no intelligence, Cambridge or not. John Craven has more political savvy than her, I fact any of the Countryfile presenters do. John Craven is lovely.
She did ride around with Jeremy Corbyn on a motorbike but it was around the streets of Catford with a stop at McDonalds (not drive in).

TuftyFinchy · 04/04/2017 00:42

*disingenuous
And other revisions. I don't think I meant Colin.

northernmonkey1010 · 04/04/2017 02:58

She's a racist

FirstOfHerName · 04/04/2017 03:20

Do I hear the sound of a dog whistle?

BillSykesDog · 04/04/2017 03:25

Ridiculous to hold people to this ridiculous class thing that British politics is still riddled with. Never heard no-one complain about the Tory Eton clique that is still ruling the country. hmm

Er. Labour are quite keen on criticising 'the whole class thing'. Which is the point. They are telling other people that we shouldn't be run by private school cliques or send our children to grammars yet they choose exactly that sort of education for their own children while lecturing other people about how terrible it is.

And incidentally, the Tory clique has gone.

BillSykesDog · 04/04/2017 03:26

Sorry, the Eton clique has gone.

SamanthaBrique · 04/04/2017 03:36

I've never understood why Abbott is still criticised with such vehemence for a decision she made over 10 years ago. Was it hypocritical? Probably. Should it be the defining moment of her political career? I don't think so. I'd rather save my vitriol for the Tory politicians who voted for austerity cuts that targeted the most vulnerable in society. And who gives a shit if she and Corbyn were an item in the 70s?

FrenchLavender · 04/04/2017 04:40

YANBU. As a black, female politician of very long standing, she's something of a pioneer, so I really want to like her and respect her, but God I loathe the odious woman. Hearing her speak is like fingernails down a blackboard to me. Not only do I dislike the actual sound and tone of her voice but she is quite the most patronising and condescending person on the planet. Every word she utters drips with scorn and superiority.

I don't know whether she's actually like that when she's not wearing her politicians hat or whether, when she was a young, she tried too hard to cultivate gravitas and fierceness in a political world dominated by white men and over egged the pudding which has become an ingrained habit. If that was the case then I'd understand and sympathise, but someone should have told her to tone it down years ago.

Having said that, I just can't imagine her being anything other than prickly, defensive and arrogant in RL. Certainly every interview with her I've ever read would support that.

She is also a massive hypocrite, straight out of the 'Do As I Say, Not As I Do' school of New Labour politics. So yeah, let's just say I'm not a fan.

FrenchLavender · 04/04/2017 04:58

Never heard no-one complain about the Tory Eton clique that is still ruling the country

Actually that particular famous Eton clique is no longer running the country in case you haven't noticed,, but surely you can't be serious about never hearing anyone complain about it? 😂😂😂

FrenchLavender · 04/04/2017 05:01

Samantha do you think time heals everything then? Hmm

Shocking hypocrisy should never be forgiven in politics.

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