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AIBU - Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn

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Lloyd45 · 06/02/2018 18:49

To expect to see Diane Abbott or Jeremy Corbyn on TV commemorating and celebrating a 100 years of the woman's vote? You would think especially Diane Abbott would be standing up celebrating women in politics and what it has taken for women to have a place in parliament

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Fekko · 06/02/2018 18:52

Labour has no voice to commemorate sufferage considering their current antics.

They’d only go and mention the whole ‘identifies as’ thing, and tell us all how men identifying as woman these days have got it much harder than the women fighting for the vote back in the day.

InfiniteSheldon · 06/02/2018 18:52

He's a misogynist, she believes white women are beneath contempt so I think their reactions are in line with their views

beluga425 · 06/02/2018 18:53

twitter.com/HackneyAbbott

gussyfinknottle · 06/02/2018 19:02

Two things: he indulges women hating so I'm not surprised. However, this is 100 years since some women got the vote. If they were old enough and had property. We should celebrate the century of equal voting for all over 18s. Which is ..... 2045? Or a bit earlier. Help me out MN.

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Lloyd45 · 06/02/2018 19:03

It's all very well on social media but they should've been on TV if they want to win votes. The links you have put up are for the converted. The left wing Guardian, Diane Abbotts twitter and Jeremy Corbyn's facebook 🙄

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UpstartCrow · 06/02/2018 19:04

What like on their TV program? That they commission?

RusholmeRuffian · 06/02/2018 19:06

Last time I checked neither of those people had their own chat show

Butterymuffin · 06/02/2018 19:06

That takes the agreement of the broadcasters so isn't exactly something they can control. Their social media is different and if they have marked the occasion there I don't see the issue. I am frankly not a big fan of Corbyn or Abbott, but this does come across as picking at them no matter what they do.

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Lloyd45 · 06/02/2018 19:08

I just think they've missed an opportunity

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ajandjjmum · 06/02/2018 19:12

Voting age was reduced from 21 to 18 in 1970 gussy. I remember it!

Justanotherlurker · 06/02/2018 19:18

But why would this be used to win votes?

It's an acknowledgement to a landmark historical event, not a political point scoring exercise..

gussyfinknottle · 06/02/2018 19:19

She just needs to ask her son's godfather, Andrew Neil, to put her on his show.

SmurfOrTerf · 06/02/2018 19:28

Its Corbyn and Abbott that have stopped me voting Labour. They both hate women.

Andrewofgg · 06/02/2018 19:45

Equal voting for 18s was 1970.

Corbyn and Diane Abbott are keeping out of it because it was a coalition government which gave women the vote at 30 and a Conservative government which made it 21 for all.

A bit of trivia: who were the first 18s to vote?

Not the young men and women who got the vote in time for the election in 1970. The young men who had fought in the First World War - they were allowed to vote in 1918. Of course by the next election in 1922 they had all reached 21 so that special concussion lapsed.

Andrewofgg · 06/02/2018 19:47

Corbyn and Abbott are in any event haters of freedom. They went on a admiring East Germany after the Wall when it was obvious that it only existed because its citizens could not escape.

LifeBeginsAtGin · 06/02/2018 19:48

Re Twitter sadly DA seems to have used this historic event to self congratulate herself on being the first black female MP on at least 3 tweets under the # votes100 etc Hmm

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Lloyd45 · 06/02/2018 19:49

This is why they need to be on tv as a lot of potential voters think they hate women, they should be bending over backwards to win these votes. Torrid are messing up big time and still labour wouldn't win an election.

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Justanotherlurker · 06/02/2018 19:49

Corbyn and Diane Abbott are keeping out of it because it was a coalition government which gave women the vote at 30 and a Conservative government which made it 21 for all.

Yeah there is a that small point to it, there would be a lot waiting for the inevitable political point scoring that Corbyn/Abbott would have tried to spin on it to highlight the issue.

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Lloyd45 · 06/02/2018 19:50

Torres I mean

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specialsubject · 06/02/2018 19:50

Universal suffrage for 21 and over regardless of wealth was 1928. Bit early.

Justanotherlurker · 06/02/2018 19:51

Torres I mean

Yeah Chelsea really overpaid for him to be fair, his best days where at anfield Grin

Unfinishedkitchen · 06/02/2018 19:51

This thread is super weird. That’s all I’ve got.

user1471450935 · 06/02/2018 19:56

Can I ask you amazing Ladies, I am Dad, of 48, so my memory of the suffragettes is 33 year old history and the recent film. Plus odd clip on TV/youtube. But was the suffragette movement Apolitical, has in it was backed by women from all backgrounds, obviously not the establishment, or was it affiliated to certain political parties.
I am thinking it covered all classes, we as a family watched a programme about three brave ladies, who where been honoured statues, in their home towns. All came from very different backgrounds.
I believe Mrs May did a speech in Manchester, but would it have been better if all the leading Women Mp's from each party could have shared a platform for honouring very brave women.
Think it a subject that honestly should be above party politics, bit like honouring remembrance day, personally. But I freely admit I am a male, so rightly on day's like today I should probably shut up and melt into the background and let you Ladies celebrate our victories, which obviously took to long to win, at too high a cost