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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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Applebite · 04/04/2017 08:47

Sure if that's the case for you, make. It certainly ain't the case for me. I can't bear hypocrisy whether it is male, female, old, young, fat, thin, black, white or sky blue pink with yellow dots on!

Imjustapoorboy · 04/04/2017 09:00

Make nope. I'm not white nor do I feel authority figures should be. Always had an issue with Ms Abbot and Shami

The fact they are corbynites reinforces my view on them

Renaissance2017 · 04/04/2017 09:11

I tend to usually a Tory voter and I have to say I think most of the stuff she spouts is bollocks.

However, I do admit to having a bit of a crush on her..... Blush

AnneElliott · 04/04/2017 09:36

I do find it hard to understand how she got re elected by her constituents after sending her kid to a private school.

She was basically saying the schools here are shit - but ok for your kids to attend them, but not mine! How can that not have offended her constituents?

FrenchLavender · 04/04/2017 10:02

what tosh makeoutfuture

AllMyBestFriendsAreMetalheads · 04/04/2017 10:10

I also came here to say that I cannot see Diane Abbott's name without hearing it in the style of Dead Ringers Grin

endofthelinefinally · 04/04/2017 10:10

Tony Blair was/is just as bad "converting" to catholicism and getting his kids into the Brompton Oratory (nominally a state school but you have to have all the right connections and pull strings to get in).
I can't stand DA she is such a two faced hypocrite.

CauliflowerSqueeze · 04/04/2017 10:13

Where is the evidence her son is disabled ffs? He got 11 A* grades at gcse, and went to Cambridge University, Trinity College, where he wrote an article about how "outrageous" it is that so few students from state schools go to Cambridge. He mentions, ironically, that his own college has the fewest from state schools.

thetab.com/uk/cambridge/2012/04/29/does-oxbridge-deserve-you-3892

CauliflowerSqueeze · 04/04/2017 10:14

He now works for the foreign office.

ohhereweareagain · 04/04/2017 10:16

i can't stand the woman. she is a screaming liberal, something i am not

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 04/04/2017 10:17

Listened to Dead Ringers very very funny Grin

stonecircle · 04/04/2017 10:17

it may be that we have a preconceived notion about who should be speaking from authority. We may just expect a whiter, more masculine visage.

What absolute tosh Make. I mentioned Shami Chakrabati because she is in the same mould as Diane Abbott. That's the 'do as I say not as I do" mould given that she sends her son to a very expensive private school whilst slating selective education because it is divisive Hmm.

Also I've never seen either of them smile - grimace and sneer, yes - but never crack a genuine smile.

Hillingdon · 04/04/2017 10:21

As a Conservative voter long may people like Diane and Shami continue. They are awful women who spout off nonsense and then do the complete opposite.

Diane Abbot should be run out of town but 'someone' is voting for her.

I agree that JC at least seems to stand by his ideals!

CauliflowerSqueeze · 04/04/2017 10:23

JC might have divorced his wife over the selective education of their son but he STILL WENT to the selective school.

BillSykesDog · 04/04/2017 10:37

In fairness to Tony Blair, Cherie and the children were always Catholics. He is, however, still a cunt. But I have more objection to a warmongerer pretending to be a Christian and think any decent pope would have excommunicated him.

SafetyLightsAreForDudes · 04/04/2017 10:47

Cauliflower, a person can achieve A* grades, attend Cambridge and write well whilst still being autistic Hmm

(I have no idea whether DA son is or isn't autistic but nothing you stated is evidence that he isn't)

SafetyLightsAreForDudes · 04/04/2017 10:49

Anyway OP YANBU. Her voice is like nails on a blackboard to me - I think as others have said she just comes across as patronising and as if she finds other people to be beneath her

SemiPermanent · 04/04/2017 10:50

Another Dead Ringers link, because it's rude not to...Grin

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KEWkHEw3MLM

FrenchLavender · 04/04/2017 11:08

Oh the irony of that article by DA's son 😂 You couldn't make it up, could you?

CauliflowerSqueeze · 04/04/2017 12:40

safety the comment suggested that Diane Abbott had placed him in a private school because his special educational needs could not be met in the state sector. As a Cambridge graduate now working in the foreign office I am going to stick my neck out and say that's a pile of horseshit.

Imjustapoorboy · 04/04/2017 12:49

semi that is brilliant. Always make me laugh

I will out myself as a leftie who has had kids at both selective and private schools. But I have never said anyone else shouldn't. There in lies the rub with Ms Abbot

AllMyBestFriendsAreMetalheads · 04/04/2017 12:51

She is less awful than Theresa May though. At least I agree with some of what DA says.

CauliflowerSqueeze · 04/04/2017 12:59

Imjust - exactly. It's the hypocrisy that winds people up. My child is too good for that school but yours isn't.

FrenchLavender · 04/04/2017 13:14

I vaguely remember her saying he was dyslexic but I wouldn't swear to it.

FatherJemimaRacktool · 04/04/2017 13:56

Frankly if you see your ideals as a sacrifice of your child future then perhaps you should be examine your ideals.

If you think that your own party being in government for years has had so little effect on the standard of state education that you would be sacrificing you child's future to send them to a state school then perhaps you should examine your career as an MP. Engaging in an act of massive hypocrisy, particularly when the kind of person who takes others to task for their ethical failings would be another reason to rethink the day job.

She's always seemed to me to be very smart but pretty unpleasant even by the standards of most MPs. Years ago, I was in the audience of a select committee on which Abbott sat. When a Tory junior minister giving evidence made the mistake of using a pretentious word, Abbott said that of course he understood what the word meant having been to public school but he would need to explain it to 'us mere mortals' (or something very similar). I thought what absolute bollocks that was from a Cambridge graduate.

I'm a member of the Labour party and have always been on the left of it, and can't stand her.