Diane Dives In
While the line seems to be that Diane Abbott’s entry into the Labour leadership race is welcomed, spare a thought for young Andy Burnham whose launch day has been spectacularly derailed by the shock Today program announcement from the Hackney MP.
Burnham had written for The Mirror this morning and had the day’s media planned, yet that has gone out the window now the race finally has some diversity. Within two to three minutes of being in the race Abbott also managed to upset fellow left-winger John McDonnell who has instantly refuted her claims that he would not be able to get enough signatures. Abbott’s no-love-lost attitude to the Ancien Régime might just make this an interesting few months…
Made it home but #roadtrip ended with recovery service, busted clutch and time to reflect on the grass verge
http://twitter.com/SarahBrownUK/status/14309872908
The British Obama.
Good grief, surely not! At least Obama is good at public speaking, even I have to give him that…
No he is not. But he is good at reading an autoque, I’ll give him that.
And he knows how to spell autocue
Cameron borrows can-do-better attitude from ‘brilliant Barack’
The man who could be America’s first black president won ringing praise yesterday from the man who could be Britain’s 19th old Etonian prime minister.
David Cameron said he hugely admired Barack Obama, the front-running contender for the Democrat nomination, and vowed to bring some of the same spirit to the British political debate.
“I’m enjoying watching Barack Obama. I think he’s a brilliant speaker, I think his optimism and sense of hope for the future is inspiring a lot of people. It’s great to see. Too often [politics] gets down to hope and fear and I think it’s wonderful when hope wins. I’m enjoying watching him, I must say. I think he’s compelling,” Cameron told Radio 5 Live’s Breakfast programme.
“What people like is the sense that Obama generates, that we don’t have to be like this, we can do better… I think we need that same sense of possibility here.”
“He is a very easy person to talk with, to exchange views with. He’s an incredibly impressive politician and leader but he’s also an extremely personable human being and someone it’s easy to get on with and to strike up a relationship with.
“It’s my second meeting and it’s always enjoyable to meet and discuss with him and also to meet his wife and to meet his very impressive team”
I look forward to seeing your reaction on Dave’s first visit to the U.S. as he tries to crawl up Obama’s arse to give it a good clean with his tongue.
wouldn’t that be autoqueue?
Is that french for a dildo?
Yeah, I spotted that spelling error just as I hit the Submit Comment button. It’s too late to edit it then.
Oh well.
Is it “un dildo” or “une dildo”? Or “beaucoup de dildos”?
Or even “La Dildo” or “Les Dildo”
No!! He was using a unique Baroque antique autoque. Which, as everyone knows, is of course very different from the Humorskew and pictureskew type.
I’ll get my coat on the way out…
It’s UN GODE and not un/une dildo. May her gode go with her and all those cyber postal voters in Hackney.
here’s a clip of Baraque Obama sans autoque:
This is the magic ingredient which converts a blabbering idiot into the highly intelligent, wise, hero for our times:
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1993/ii9312151a.jpg
It isnot known whether the Axelrods are in any way related to the swivelly eyed ones.
Mandlson says ” Not you Momma sit down”!!
Obama is a crook who makes the Kennedys look like saints. He is backed by Chicago mobsters and crooked land developers. He is linked with the Broadway Bank which has been loaning money to mafia figures for years (Michael Giorango, a convicted bookie & prostitution ring promoter for one) and endorsed Alexi Giannoulias for Illinois State Treasurer. Funnily Giannoulias’ family own Broadway Bank and backed Obama with $100K in ’04 and again when he ran for president.
Robert Blackwell Jnr paid Obama $100k for ‘legal’ work which then helped him to get $320k in government grants. Blackwell owned the EKI Electronic Knowledge Interchange paying $80k to BO.
The list of corrupt CEOs, bent politicians and union thugs is very very long. Obama is a very nasty piece of work and is under the control of even nastier individuals.
Obviously did not get a British education then
…or even Dyldeaux…
she’s a fkn idiot hoon trougher
Obama is not FAT
Obama is white
So is Abbot. She’s just so fat her body density’s created a quantum singularity from which even light itself cannot escape.
So let’s recap, the fight for the leadership if the New Titanic is between.
Bananaman, his special needs brother, thug Balls, Mr Eyeliner, McNochance and sweet but dim hypocrite, Abbott.
Hilarious stuff, fortunately, whoever “wins” loses.
My God, she’s F**k**g ugly though!!!
Speeches written for him and read off the autocue. When he is taken unawares he is completely inarticultate.
As for Abbott, she is useless on tv, she can’t talk without gazing at the ceiling. Can’t look the viewers/voters straight on. Hypocritical socialist who sent her son to a private school.
Her agent put her up for it.
“It can’t harm your media profile love, might get you more TV work.”
The best thing going for her is that she is no worse than the others.
So THAT’S what’s meant when I hear “damned by faint praise”
That’s we need, more foreigners in parliament
In a party that is at its core institutionally racist and sexist she doesn’t have a chance. But she will certainly be far more likely to say it like it is and be an excellent candidate. Good luck to her.
Are the keys “U I S L M” worn out on your keyboard yet LM?
Dianne Abbot has Talent
YW6C44zo24http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B
you mean
Dianne launches her campaign against a Milliband
this womans not well
Mr Unmentionable must have been the passenger.Cursed.
That’s 5 year old Fords for you.
http://twitter.com/SarahBrownUK/status/14289194125
Wonder if she ran out of petrol, after all she’s used to the little people filling her tank up, probably had a heart attack when she found out it would cost an arm and a leg to fill a tank up so kept driving.
So Sarah you can thank your husband for that, oh and the fact that you don’t have a hybrid, was he too cheap to pay out for a Prius? Remind him of the fact he won’t have to pay road tax on it might loosen his purse strings.
Who actually gives a damn what Sarah tweet McDoom does?.Does she think that she is soooooooooo important that any of us care? She is a f……….g bore. She obviously hasn’t got any friends. Hope her and McDoom go off to Africa and help all those poor little black people.On second thoughts what have Africans done to deserve the McDooms? I say McDoom and his beard should stay in Scotland and upset the jocks.
Where was Gordoom when the lights went out ?
Where? In the dark of course; just like Moses all those years ago.
bent over the dralon suite getting a right bumfull from the tweeter
‘ time to reflect on the grass verge ‘
would that be face down – or face up ?
Why didn’t she phone Gordon to come pick her up?
What Nokia?
The colossus called Brown, can’t actually drive.
That about says it all love. Never mind. The Recovery Service of Dave and whassis name has arrived to get us back on the road.
Diane Abbot is simply too stupid to make a success of the leadership.
Diversity blah blah blah ……Doubled her majority……(only by Postal Voting F….d.) People have been begging her to stand as she represents the women and ethnic minorities in her party blah blah blah. All white people are racist blah blah blah. Gays are great blah blah blah.
Having seen her on that late night gig with Neil and Portillo I’ve come to the conclusion that she is not up to the job. She is obsessed with all minorities at the expense of the majority. She is petulant and childish and does not listen to anybody,she constantly interrupts.Abbott is temperamentally unsuited to be a leader. (She’d obviously had too much of Neil’s Blue Nun when she decided to stand as leader of the Labour Party).
Exactly.
She should be the source of a great deal of mirth over the next couple of months…I think she’d struggle to run a bath so she will be ideal for the Labour party.
Did she really say that under Miiliband,
“it would be f… great under David Milliband” ??
check at about 2 mins 10 secs.
What’s the feminine of “S-A-M-B-O” ?
Female of S-A-M-B-O, no idea, just so long as she calls me Bwana that’ll be fine.
How good are white gays?
Are they better than blackmen or just about level?
A metaphor for the nation.
1) Recovery Service = Labour out, Lib-Cons In.
2) Busted clutch = Fucked economy.
3) Time to reflect = Why did we vote her fucking husband and cronies into goverment 3 times so that they could leave us totally busted, heavily in debt for generations and screwed with a surveillance state that has criminalised the innocent and protects the violent terrorist and crooked thieves.
Shame she has to drive a 7 year old Ford, but then hubby was expecting a limo for life, but there only for short terms of office.
Balls
Miliband E
Miliband D
McDonnell
Burnham
Abbot
spot the difference
Burnham’s a scouser?
That should help him nick a few votes
Burnham’s ministry killed 1,200 people in Stafford.
A real campaigning advantage when you’re talking about wrong-headed Labour scum.
Abbot is the only one who HAS a twat.
SMOBIL (spits martIni over bar in laughter)!
Where does she keep it? I want a second opinion.
If you can see it for the curly pubic hair!
I can certainly spot the difference between Ed Balls and Diane Abbot. Balls is an idiot.
I can certainly spot the difference between Ed Balls and Diane Abbot. Balls is an idiot.
You mean there’s a diff?
Anyway, all the same to me.
Near miss will do.
Only Ed Balls has set up a blog with an anagram that describes him perfectly:
What were they thinking when they chose that name?!!
Abbot has a twat, the others are twats.
Nearly
Abbot has a Hunt… the others are HuntS
I think the word is hoon, or should that be Huhne?
“All I’m trying to do is attempt to spread joy and felicity around the world.”
Diane Abbott
Well fuck off then!
Is that her two daughters?
Diane is going into this with her eyes wide shut
Diane Abbott voted very strongly against the the illegal Iraq war.
Ed Balls voted for the illegal Iraq war and voted very strongly against an investigation into that war crime.
Andy Burnham voted for the illegal Iraq war and very strongly against an investigation into that war crime.
David Miliband voted for the illegal Iraq war and very strongly against an investigation into that war crime.
Ed Miliband voted for the illegal Iraq war and very strongly against an investigation into that war crime.
It’s a no brainer. Diane Abbott should be elected as Labour Leader.
Say no to war crimes and war criminals like David Miliband, Ed Miliband, Andy Burnham and Ed Balls.
Say yes to Diane Abbott.
You don’t talk all that posh Diane
I talk posher than you David you fucking war criminal.
There’s a huge difference. The massed Milipedes and Burnham would keep the torch of Bliar alive, making NuLab potentially electable once more.
Abbott is nowhere, relying on the black hypocritical vote (there’s a few of ‘em in NuLab, but not enough for a majority), garnished by a few white-hating whites (there’s a few of them, too).
No, the ONLY candidate is MCDONNELL.
McDonnell would lead them back to the days of Michael Foot, Derek Hatton, Arfur Scargill and Wedgie Benn, real lefties whose programme would again make them unelectable for a decade or more.
VOTE MCDONNELL!!!
Young, gifted and black.
Yes indeed I definitely lean to the right but do like her style
How much was she “gifted”.
Well, she ain’t young, she ain’t gifted and…. Oh well 1 out of 3 ain’t bad. It’s better than Gordon The Talking Turd managed!
She isn’t exactly young either.
She has a good chance, she’s on tv and you know how the braindead like the idiots who are on telly,all I will say hell’s f*ckin bells,I thought she would walk hand in hand into the evening mists with Porterloo but then I stopped dreaming.
Fuck off about she’s gifted.
She’s a 3rd rate champagine socialist who thrives on the very inequalities she claims to fighting against.
Ever heard for irony?
And fat. Ate all the pies.
but fucking ugly – like a monkey!
Is clutch Sarah’s pet name for her ring piece?
Good for Diane, I am thrilled she’s thrown her hat in that rather boring ring – she’ll whip it up alright. At least she’s honest, like or loathe her, she doesn’t budge on her core values. Good luck Diane!
Except by sending her kids to a private school. Hardly a good socialist ethos is it?
It’s ‘honest’ in the new, NuLabour meaning of the word…
Anyone who spits in the face of the socialist ethos is fine by me
Would you send your kids to a state school in Hackney?
Nope it’s full of brown & black illegals dealing drugs and pimping off (a) the State and (b) their women
At least she admitted that she was being hypocritical and that it was an indefensible thing for a socialist to do. But she also said that she would put all her ideals and beliefs to one side for the good of her own children, which is understandable.
It also shows that she thinks that everyone else should suffer her idealism, except her own family, which is not.
Whilst I completely oppose her policies, she will make this race to lead labour into a slightly more interesting thing. I was an utterly boring irrelevance, now it will be a slightly interesting irrelevance.
It will be interesting to see who will vote for her, solely out of patronising PC tokenism, and who would dare vote against and risk being labelled a misogynistic racist!
She is a product of a Grammar school and Cambridge education, and obviously knows the value of good schooling.
If we still had a Grammar school system there would be little need to put bright children into private schools. The state system of one size fits all is doing our children a great disservice.
I have long believed that all children should get a grammar school education. One then winds up with exceedingly naughty criminals who are at least articulate.
The Abbot creature would be ideal as labour leader. Such intellect, such charm, such wit, such ineffable pulchitrudinous chicanery and possibly malfeasance as one could possibly wish for.(I always use words of which the meaning may escape me, not unlike the Abbot)…
Nick Clegg is completely untrustworthy
They are a disgusting shower of SHITS!!!!!!
NEVER TRUST LIBERALS OR LABOUR!!!
Clegg’s democrat is NOT a democratic party at all!!!
That was you wasn’t it Neddy ? Always the idealist. ROFL!
I tearch that it is impossible to terat the body as a collection of parts.
It must be tearted as a whole.
Therefore, as it is impossible to teart Noo_Lie_Bore, – it is best done awat with althogether.
QED
That was the OLD politics!!!!
I can admit when I am wrong as I have numerous times regarding this coalition on previous threads.
You are still hanging on to an old and dead argument.
You are therefore a sad loser.
Thou art verily a twat!
She is a racist. In excusing her decsion to send her son to a private school on Andrew Neill’s programme, she said she only wanted the best for her child as all black parents do. Andrew Neill had to point out to her that all parents want the best for their children, white ones, too.
Stan, if she recognises that the Labour state schools programme has been an utter disaster and commits to wholesale reform then it could be a good thing.
Experience tells me these feckers can never admit to getting it wrong though.
But . . . we never got it wrong!
Is that you Gordon?
Haven’t you done enough to trash the Party as it is?
WTF???????? Doesn’t she send her kids to a private school?
Rich socialists know better than to have anything to do with the riffraff. They are a bloody nuisance and just get in the way of having a good time at the taxpayer’s expense, don’t you know.
Private schools are us…
Oi! Watch it!
“Rich socialists know better than to have anything to do with the riffraff” indeed!
Speaking as a Rich Socialist, I resent that.
I regularly instruct the riffraff, and admonish them.
Speaking as a richer capitalist, she’s more than welcome to come and clean the office.
Harriet did not get where she is today by hanging around with commoners!
It should be a titanic battle between her and Balls for the title of ‘Most Unsuitable Person to Lead a Political Party’*. Please, please oh Lord let it come down to a head-to-head between these two hoons.
* Now that Gordoom has been evicted.
Balls would be unsuitable to lead any sort of party.
I could imagine Diane running a kind of party where one gets orange juice in plastic cups and nice chocolate cake, kind of like for someones birthday in a medium sized office. Not great fun but mildly diverting.
Which might be a suitable thing for the Labour party at this point in its history..
Don’t be ridiculous. She’d eat all the cakes before a guest arrived.
What size is her hat? There used to be a shop in Peckham called “Large and Luscious” They sold clothing size 28 to 42! I think she outgrew their stock.
PS. I am jealous because I had a Portillio Moment and she didn’t.
er, was that a ‘moment of madness?’
Should be entertaining watching her looking up at the ceiling every time she has to answer questions at PMQ lol
Someone please tell me she’s joking. I know the Labour party have had such abysmal leaders as Wilson, Fool errr… Foot, Kinnock and Gordon The Talking Turd but Diane Abbott? Surely even Labour haven’t fallen THAT low!
She was the voice of reason last week when it looked as though Gordon and Nick would cook up a last minute deal. She stated her democratic credentials fair and square. Good luck to her. Now there’s a cat amongst the pigeons.
You’re right of course, she’s the candidate of choice – by the Lib. Dems, the Conservatives, the Scottish Numpty Party et al.
Ideal choice.
Or maybe a ****** in the woodpile ?
Go on – SAY it…………………………….!!! NI**ER.
You know it’s true.
It’s NAGGER. Don’t you people ever watch South Park, FFS?
You can’t polish a t’urd.
But you can roll it in glitter.
Naw, she’s way too old for Gary
Ooh!
Oooh!
Not true. There was an episode of “mythbusters” where they actually DID!
M’ark O’aten polished quite a few off, too. He was in the frame to be GiveDem leader once. Quite amusing how Clegg had to do something very similar with his policies in order to share power with Cast Iron.
But you can lick it smooth.
strange isn’t it? Its almost as if she stuck to being a basic MP for all these years of blairites and brownite tides.
Wierder things have happened (/are happening).
I wonder if she’ll say that the leader of the opposition should sit next to nick and dave. That would be snug. She’s already discovered that some tories are cuddly.
I wonder what Brillo & Portillo will say tonight on the This Week prog.
Is she Itchy or Scratchy or both?
Fair do’s to her, she remained a true back bencher throughout Gordooms reign and wasn’t afraid so slag him off…
When originally asked about her kids’ schooling, I understand she became a black blencher. Could just be a rumour though.
OOOH I’m so jealous of your nom de net SP. Wonderful beasts. Great manure too.
I agree, Abbot was one of the first, alongside John Reed, to admit Labour had lost the election on Freaky Friday.
Point of the programme is that she and Portillo went to school together, and landed up in the same but a very different place.
She certainly went up in my estimation in the days after the election – but I don’t think she has the ruthlessness to lead the fractious Labour party, esp with all those uber-machismo types like Balls in it
aren’t there any more Millibands anxious to serve their country?
Glen Millerband
ha ha ha
I prefer the Steve MillerBand
Crashed & burned.
10 Milibands would be a Centiband.
Did Mrs Mills once have a band or was it just a gastric band?
Diane could castrate Balls with her teeth.
She’s an unelectable, self-promoting, unshaggable idiot.
No, say what you really mean!
Aren’t they all.
On those that have thrown their hats into the ring she’d get my vote, though to be fair it’s not a very high benchmark.
As hypocritical socialists go, she one of the least worst, though again not a very high bench mark.
Maybe she can borrow Burnhams eye liner, now he is a grade A non entitiy, Balls Grade A tosser, Milblands, grade A weirdo’s (Gordon was an A+ weirdo).
Atleast she seems relatively normal (for a politician) and can speak in something other than the ‘Nu Lab Spin@ Language that will now hopefully die out.
W.W.
Oi, leave Emily NoMates out of this!
She’s actually just been elected! Completely unshaggable though.
And therefore a thoroughly welcome addition to the caucus race.
I hear she’s supported by Elvis Costello.
Should make a fine team.
Really? He doesn’t look strong enough.
Wasn’t the Abbotractions Elvis’ backing band?
At least we may get some insight into the shitslinging
At last the contest may have some balls (other than the ed variety). At least she’s not going to sound like a clone with the “we lost touch” “gotta reconnect with people” “immigration” “housing” blah blah mantras repeated in a sterile robotic fashion by the other contenders (including now Andy “eyelashes” Burnham).
She is a bit of a loon though.
http://www.dianeabbott.org.uk/upload/images/Home%20page%20banners/sebcoe.jpg
Which one’s her?
She’s the LOON under the five ringpieces….
Which is which?
Should we read any significance into the naming of the Olympic mascots after an edge where the wood’s in trouble and a hospital for people with spinal injuries?
from “The Times” June 2009.
Diane Abbott, the maverick Labour MP who horrified her fellow leftwingers in the party by sending her son to a private school, has enrolled him in a sixth form in Ghana so he can “get in touch” with his African roots.
James Thompson, 17, her son from a brief marriage to a Ghanaian architect, has been studying for an international baccalaureate and helping African orphans to read and write.
Abbott, 55, the Cambridge-educated daughter of Jamaican immigrants, became Britain’s first black woman MP when she was elected to the Hackney North and Stoke Newington seat in north London in 1987.
She established a reputation for opposing privilege but was accused of hypocrisy in 2003 for enrolling James, then 12, into the City of London school rather than an inner-city comprehensive.
She had previously criticised Tony Blair for sending his sons to the opted-out London Oratory school and Harriet Harman for choosing a grammar school outside her constituency for her children.
Abbott admitted her decision was “indefensible” but went on to explain it in an interview with a newspaper, for which she was reportedly paid a sum equivalent to a term’s fees. She said she had to weigh her political reputation against her son’s best interests “and I chose my son”.
She added that her decision was not unrelated to gun crimes in her constituency.
James prospered at the school, whose alumni include Herbert Asquith, Kingsley Amis and Daniel Radcliffe, the Harry Potter actor, and achieved 11 A*-grade GCSEs.
Abbott travelled to Ghana to visit the Hermann Gmeiner International College at Tema — named after an Austrian philanthropist who set up SOS Children’s Villages for abandoned and orphaned children after the second world war.
She pays £3,000 a year in tuition fees plus £2,400 for her son’s board.
James’s campus adjoins the Ghanaian branch of the charity and he has agreed to do 150 hours of “community service” helping its orphans as part of his two-year course.
Titi Ofei, the principal of the college, said: “His mother wanted him to get in touch with his African roots.”
Abbott declined to discuss her son’s progress: “It is bad enough being a politician’s child at the best of times.
But the tidal wave of press criticism and comment about my choice of secondary school was not a pleasant experience for my son. For that reason, I avoid talking or writing about him now.”
What’s wrong with? – so long as she brings back Grammar Schools in London!
That would be a Gmeiner School then
That is truly dreadful.
You mean that Hopeless Hattie was allowed to breed? How could that have happened.
I consider this to be a positive.
May I ask — A positive what?
John McDonnell hasn’t ‘refuted’ her claims; he’s just rejected them.
Nationalise the banks!
Oh, hang on a sec…
The fact that she is devoid of any intellect, depth of thinking and utterly unelectable on a national level makes her a perfect candidate for Labour. I wish her every success.
Got to agree.
This has made me fookin millenium
The lazy, hypocritical, incompetant, racialistic pig, ‘i doubled me majority of lazy benefits scrounging degenerate filth’ Abbot wants the leadership…oh thank you Lord.
As she trousers her massive BBC wages for talking smug, sneering, shyte on a cheap sofa, she really must be able to connect to her troglodyte voter base….hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I’m so sorry there aren’t any good schools in Ackney for your little Leroy madam.
Why dont you get a gig on the twisted BBC? you could send him to private school then sucka
Cmon Labourite lobotomites, you urgently require a dream leadership ticket: Balls ‘n Abbot……..what a fookin beauty
You’re easily pleased!
You off Susanna Reid these days then?
How will Diane explain New Labour’s Big Black Hole ?
She should close her legs and it will be gone???
LOL !
Diane as leader and Hattie as deputy? That could be interesting.
They’d be so busy shagging each other they wouldn’t have time for much else.
Di & Hattie, the dream team.
Got any piccies of that?
I’ll be supporting Jack Dromey after the labour victory of 2012.
Looking forward to seeing what Scratchy and co make of it all….
Beeb need to fire her till after the leadership election IMHO
They never let you down, do they Mr Fawkes ? LOL!
Thats because we’re all “Progressive” now !
Yeah – weese orl wun wiv the sheeple.
innit
‘n that
like
no wot oi mean?
Hello Mrs. Duffy. What a lovely woman you are.
She’ll also be a welcome comic relief from the new coalition government. I’m fed up to the back teeth with their endless speeches about what they’re going to do and their airy fairy philosophy. I wish they’d just get on with it. All I want for me is to keep as much as my own money as possible and all I want from them is efficiency.
Wavy Davy has just said that ALL Bills will now have a “public reading” stage so the big society can have their say. What is the point of having a government that outsources the governing to the governed?
It’s called spreading the blame.
They’re the government for God’s sake. They’re spending their entire time writing speeches and giving press conferences for the sole purpose of explaining themselves. When if ever are they going to get on with the business of governing the country? They seem to be paralysed by inaction, endlessly repeating themselves and their philosophies and who they are and what motivates them. I don’t care. Get on with it.
They CANNOT get on with it until after the Queen’s speech!!! FFS!
I am actually happy that they are spelling out in more detail what they are actually going to do. A lot of it is bloody good stuff too.
Now when is the last time you could say that about a government plan?
Yes, we are almost a week into the new government and they have not yet changed the world. Shocking!
oh, I don’t know – it’s stopped raining
No, much better to leave it to a small, secret corrupt cabal to rip us all off instead is it?
Fuckwit!
And why are they constantly pandering to the press? The press have only got about 5 questions/observations that they repeat endlessly like a bunch of autistics: “What’s going to happen when (insert unanswerable question about the future)”; “When is the coalition gong to break up?”; “That’s not what you used to say”; “How can two parties possibly (insert proposition that they themselves couldn’t cope with)?”; “Who decides (insert quibble about unimportant minutiae)”; and a range of questions about the distant past or the far flung future. I’m not just sick of the questions. I’m also sick of the answers.
I suggest that you are the avatar of all the “undecideds”
That was the attitude of the party formerly known as NewLabour. It allowed them to keep their governance firmly on the sofa, or latterly within the range of the tactical ballistic nokia, so firmly that Parliament never got to hear of their decisions until after the MSM had been informed of the latest flight of fancy, by which time it was too late for debate. To ensure that there was never enough time for Parliament to perform it’s scrutinising function, MP’s holidays were made longer and longer, the working week was truncated for “family-friendly” reasons and Standing Orders were increasingly used in situations for which they were not designed. So get off your arse and make this unexpected chance to keep the Executive under scrutiny work. Or vote for the socialists and return to lobotomy politics.
An intellectual colossus
I want Hillary Benn to stand
Labour must show, like Kim Il Jong, that the Leadership of Socialist Parties is hereditiary
None of this Old Etonian nonsense…
How do you know when labour think they’ve got a really talentless fuckwit on their hands ? They put him in charge of agriculture, so he can cause maximum collateral damage in the bits that always vote blue. And boy , hillary didn’t disapoint them !
Ideal labour leadership material then.
The Really, REALLY talentless fuckwits, or Mp’s who need to be advised that they have no future in the Labour Party, end up in the MOD.
No! The Really, REALLY talentless fuckwits, or Mp’s who need to be advised that they have no future, end up in International Development
No! The really, REALLY talentless fuckwits who need to be advised that they have no future..end up voting Labour.
But what about John Prescott’s son. He wanted to stand in his pa’s old seat and was not selected. What a shame.
Just wait until my two are grown up. They will dominate the world and save it from the Tories. just like their dad before them.
Ahha!
Ha Ha!
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Get in there love ! Well done !
I reckon she will win. The more in fighting amongst this rag-bag bunch of fuckwits the better.
If a Milliband is selected then Liebore are well and truely fucked.
they are all f…cked anyway. I am the Ruler and Saviour of the World.
The center ground sure is crowded, the liblabcon is merging into one entity.
The punters are confused, conviction going down the toilet, traditions going by the bye, manifestos shredded and one gimongous shit storm about to hit the fan.
Every thing is up in the air and when it comes down the middle class will be desimated.
Mean while keep being enthralled by the snakeoil salesmen baffeling you with bullshit by the ton.
Something strange is going on.
Labour (had they been re-elected with Gerrymandered constituency boundaries and questionable postal votes) would have made sure that we’d have PR so that they’d have a guaranteed ‘Progressive’ majority of the Left in Parliament. Forever.
The Conservatives (having won the election despite the above) are going to seal a deal with the Lib-Dems which gives their coalition a guaranteed ‘Progressive’ majority of the Centre-Right in Parliament. Forever.
I’m glad the unflushable turd of British politics is gone but await the end of the new government’s honeymoon period with something akin to dread.
Found Diana’s running partner – the prospective Huntservative for Blackpool (Pinkwater) Centrall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztEuju1u5xs
Gobbldeygook Prescott taught that guy all he knows.
Lovely though Diane is, God bless her, she is not the sharpest tool in the box.
As Labour leader, her education policy might be interesting seeing as she sent her son to the private City of London school.
If only she was a Muslim – she’d have ticked all the boxes.
How so?
Is she a one-legged lesbian?
Only if she was a lesbian as well.
Baroness Uddin for Leader of the Labour Party
Her only policy :
Build palaces in Bangla Washa for all Labour MPs and Peers..
How about that ?
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO STANDS. I AM THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD! I WILL BE BACK.
The caption writer at Sky News on form today:
“A bus driver tells how he narrowly avoided plowing into a baby as it sat half-naked in the middle of a busy road.”
Another beneficiary of NuLiebour’s education, educashun, educayshon….?
In San Antonio USA ?
She’s a gross hypocrite, gross, an idiot, supremely arrogant, a trougher, and is despised throughout her own party – she’s a natural.
Quite canny though here – all she’s doing is trying to nail the female vote. As we all know, women, on average, just aren’t that bright – Labour women least of all – and when faced with a choice between four indistinguishable men, and a Wimin, they may well plump for her on identity grounds. Bizarre, but there you go. She can’t win of course – BUT she can “do a Harriet”. Sneak the deputy leadership.
What puzzles me is why Hattie isn’t doing this. Or….
Hmmm. I wonder…
Plump being the operative word
On the contrary Fishface, most women are far too intelligent to get involved in politics with all its sordid infantile point-scoring. I’m a sad exception – but the male psyche interests me in all its manifestations
It is interesting that Diane has thrown her hat in the ring. She is a high profile backbencher who wields influence through the media.
Is Diane a serious contender? I think Diane is probably the only likeable and popular MP left in Labour, the others are as popular as catching scabies. The party needs someone who will make Labour likeable again and Diane can achieve this. Diane is the gimmick needed to increase popularity for Labour while making the leadership contest more interesting. As a leader Diane is just to nice to be one.
the only thing that has made her look likeable is sitting next to that arse portillo
There’s always Dennis Skinner, but he really is as honest as the day is long. Not Labour leader material then.
I’m disappointed Skinner isn’t standing – he’d make an admirable Opposition leader, and since he’s in his late 60s he’d only be around for long enough to allow the other arseholes to grow up a bit.
Labour really should look to their strengths, and Skinner, though misguided, is honest and true to Labour principles.
Balls
Miliband E
Miliband D
McDonnell
Burnham
Abbot
Seems the conclusion from the Brown era is “If Gordon could do it, anyone could do it!”
Except Hattie.The bar hasn’t quite fallen that low.
Is it Burnham B-u-r-n-h-a-m or Bumham B-u-m-h-a-m ??
it’s eyeliner bumingham actually (little known except in leigh)
Tsunami warning in westminster
Diane just about to jump in the members’ swimming-bath
Apparently Diane is the daughter of a Jamaican welder and a nurse.
I wonder what it was like growing up with a welder for a mum?
I can recommend it. No metal in our household remained unfixed. Also, we took it in turns to wear her goggles when she went out.
what a feeling
We used to have a dog called Welder. Every time someone kicked it, it made a bolt for the door.
Like it!
I have always had a thing for Diane. Barking mad but fiesty
Vote Balls get Brown
Vote DMili get Blair
Vote EMili get Brown
Vote Burnham get Blair
Vote Abbott get something new
Get some black ham…………………………
Shiny shoes???
This is going to be a wonderful contest, should see some real shinnanigins.
Gudio
You must be happy about thing in this Labour Pantomine for Retarded Chilrdren
That the Labour Party is no entirely GUIDOISED
They read this blog for their ideas and laughs…(and Ed Millichild’s people told you…)
They have become infantilisied and the playthings of this Blog
Well done…
What about the Balls, you have forgotten the Balls, I read that he WILL be Leader
No, he will be a BLEEDER.
Balls in a sac – isn’t that a scrotum or a “scrote”?
“As Labour leader, her education policy might be interesting seeing as she sent her son to the private City of London school.”
Thats a no brainer. We define all schools and private so everyone gets the opportunity to go to one. Simples.
Blair got away with this for years
London Schools and the Black Child
http://www.dianeabbott.org.uk/lsbc.aspx
One might note that by some statistics, black kids do better than white ones.
The big problem is actually living in London.
The question I want posed is to Banana-boy.
Remember when he was waffling on about (Lisbon Treaty) it isn’t a consitition, its a few minor ‘tonal’ amendments in wording, nothing that requires a referEndum, blah blah blah.
Where does he stand now, no longer a paid lackey but a visionary leader (in his dreams)
that fucks Burnham’s launch up
indeed it does.
Interesting that those who have put themselves up for the leadership are all well know newstasi hierarchy. I don’t remember any of them showing any contrition. And just as Eyeliner is about to declare Abbot expresses her interest. Eyeliner has been shafted. Excellent!
The white upstanding newstasi men are all shits and Dianne has at least made it interesting now – all ferrets in a sack together – hope newstasi dies
It just gets worse, is labour now merely a party of immigrants? I dont see any representation of the white working class here, English or Polish. Perhaps at least they will now have the decency to campaign under their true banner instead of pretending they represent “the workers”.
Abbot FFS, and people here think she might make good??
Wavy Davy and Nicky Egg, recommending Camilla Bungs Wunga for ermine? Have we all been stitched up yet again in oder that they can all keep their lucrative jobs? Even that total failure Brown is still being paid by us.
So it will Abbott and Balls fight to the finish
I prefer Abbot and Costello
The more the merrier.
stop going on about the labour party ffs……..
who gives a monkeys about a bunch of pilliocks that couldn’t run a bath?
i want to know when blair,brown,badger,mandy etc are going to be prosecuted
for treason?
and kerry mc cartney-the twitter shitter…….dont ler her off the hook…….
gordies euro long position looking really great right now………..
Did you think I wanted to make poverty history ???
I actually wanted to make prosperity history.
You’ve achieved that.. what are you going to do next?
Abbott will simply fit on them all and fart until they either die or give up.
er, is that an epileptic kink?
Abbott never looks anyone in the eye when she speaks to them. She has a face like a bloke at the urinal.
She’s perfect.
Dunno, mate. Me and ol’ one-eye always look each other in the face when having a wazz.
Anyone else think those Olympic toys look like cocks? I expect to see lots of men at the BBC shoving them up their arses.
Opposition and govenment have both ordered a container load.
I would like to thank the ConDems for doing away with that awful woman Mrs Balls’ HIPs. As a result I am £400 plus VAT better off.
Whoever buys my house will be no worse off as his solicitor would have had to carry out his own local searches anyway.
I’ve never liked mrs balls hips – nor have I had sex with that woman
Her real name is Mrs Hips-Balls, but she changed it for political reasons.
Labour will get the Leader they deserve, it matters not who it is, their party is heading for the political wilderness, Labour the Party of no Money Left.
OT – UNITE gets injuction overturned.
And the woman who killed her kids in Spain used to work for children’s services. Bonkers broken Britain.
Why are Scousers such shit stirrers?
Tony woodley is the perfect example
Coz it beats working for a living?
Thieving ram raiding joy riding dole collecting scum. Yet more lemmings being led over the cliff by a thick scouser.
You forgot drug dealing you insensitive clod!
please speak poper la
what yer ment was “coz it beetswerkinfuralivin’ (it’s all one word) la, awerite!
BA staff pension scheme will collapse also
So when BA goes bust they lose their jobs and half of their pensions…
SUICIDAL
PS Air France/KLM declared a loss of 1.5 BILLION EUROS yesterday…without strikes…
This is no time for a novice.
Because it’s NOT about working conditions or lost perks or salaries for these old “Class Warriors” it’s all about the “Eternal Struggle” of Marxism against Capitalism represented in this instance by Willy Walsh and BA…it could just as well be someone else or some other organisation…it’ really doesn’t matter a toss as long as the workers can be stirred up to futile action which will see them the poorer and the union the stronger in political terms which is the guiding principle for these peopleThe BA Dispute is just another waymarker along the way to the “Workers Paradise of Socialism” for these diehards of the left. Never mind the fact that BA will lose business and probably go bust into the bargain with the Cabin staff losing their jobs…and let’s face it they’re unlikely to find another in the industry paying the same rates or with the same perks
This Pantomine will not be complete without HOOLIGAN PREZZA STANDING
It is a MUST for Zanu Labour to show they are a SERIOUS PARTY…
Andy Burnham is definitely the only candidate I’d consider doing.
I’m right behind Ellie on this issue
Why Ed Balls should lead Labour – great piece by @BevaniteEllie in today’s Guardian online: http://bit.ly/arB3zj
“Why Ed Balls should lead Labour
The former schools secretary has the fire in his belly to bring the party back into government and reconnect with voters”
Let me stop you there Ellie.
“Why Ed Balls should lead labour?”
Because it is only appropriate that the New Labour War and Torture party be led by a fascist war criminal who dresses up in Nazi uniforms for a laugh?
Send me a fiver first.
ROFL
Pull the other one Martin…
Come on Martin
Get real
The Labour Party is entirely spaced out
Just headless chickens spouting yestedray’s slogans,
Labour have ruined the country, left the Largest Financial Black Hole in British History..wake up
Or are you all on cocaine ? Or just natural nutters ???!!!
Send me a fiver and I’ll give you her phone number.
O/T
What is that ass Opik Limprick still doing in Westminster ?
I thought he LOST HIS SEAT FFS
He’s like a bad smell that just won’t leave. You can add in Mandelmong, Campbell and others who also don’t know when to leave the stage.
He is reminding us of the support of Katy Green.
Balls to your partner, arse against the wall,
Labour were fucked on a thursday night, and won’t be back at all.
Abbott to your Partner, state schools are the best,
Not for me I’m special, I just mean all the rest.
Bagels to your partner, foreskin in the bin,
Double Marx for breakfast, washed down with Victory Gin.
Love it to bits!!
And looking forward to the dozey-doe
I say !
Well said
Ms Diane Abbott will win !
What does PB say?
She should make a good punt !
I doubt that she would float.
I must admit I rather like the idea of Diane Abbot standing for leader. Met her a few times when living in Hackney and she is a pretty smart operator. OK she probably won’t get it but will garner enough votes to split the Balls vote. Best of luck to her!
Hi!
I’ve just called by to say that Noo_Lie_Bore done it for me and the missus!
She makes a good living out of all the Noo_Lie_Bore ‘ooman rights industry bullshit we created – and Di was an important part of that.
So she has my support.
I just coin dosh myself!
Please, please can we have a full box of frogs, may Harpie Harmad stand too.
McDonnell to your partner, money grows on trees,
Teamsters are the future, guess who pays the fees ?
Burnham to your partner, eugenics on the cheap,
If you’re old or ailing, your body joins the heap.
On Al Beeb, Coalition Government will spilt on Europe, IHT, Income Tax, HIPS, Human Rights Act etc. etc.
Meanwhile the fraternal comrades and sisterhood are holding afour month long leadership election. Candidates can be chosen from a wide goup which reflects the cultural, ethnic and sexual diversity of a modern progressive party, ie a bunch of identikit middle class public sector Oxbridge clones who cannot run a whelk store or recognise economic growth in the private sector unless they can tax it until the pips squeak.
I almost never watch AlBeeb these days – I refuse to pay my TV tax and urge others to do the same.
One sparkling exception was last Friday’s Heaven 17 concert on BBC4 – the whole of Penthouse and Pavement played live for the first time.
Awesome – took me back to my late teens when I not only wore out the vinyl on that LP, but played the tape full blast on my Walkman till it had drop-outs.
Happy days!
Eeyup, Guido – what happened to the 1922 committee post?
It was there half an hour ago, but now it’s gone – has someone got to you or what?
Not that I give a shit, you understand…
Diane Abbot’s campaign song just announced…
More hopeful…
Rather see her throw her hat in the ring than Harriette HARPI ——on a different not wots the point of SAida Warsi? is there one?
The battle for Labour’s soul.
http://fxbites.blogspot.com/2010/05/battle-for-labours-soul.html
Will Diane Abbott offer private education to all? She thinks its good for HER kid. Why should the rest of us put up with crap state shit churned out by Liebour?
Don’t forget that Diane is a Champaign Socialist who doesn’t believe in selective education …………….. except for her own kids that is
We are ideal coalition colleagues.
I wonder if the snatch is as black as the thatch ?
dunno but its dark and deep
Vote balls get brown
Vote Abbot get black
Just leave it at Vote Balls.
Send me a fiver.
Well, well, well that’s NuLab ticking all the ethnic diversity buttons.
Not sure how she’ll go down with the rank and file given her history of private education.
Yo Sis Abbott welcome to the LabBrawl Ball(s)
That sounds warm and sincere enough for the proles to swallow.
Thank Satan, that bparked her knockers in the election.
It should head off any tricky challenge from Mad Hattie or Yvette Braun aka Balls Trolly Dolly.
I can’t believe the campaign is going so well.
I think I will take a few days off to buy another house on my expenses.
Can always rent it out to Diane’s constituents.
Way to go , Sis. Yo babe.
That’s 3-or-4 (depending if you believe Chris Huhne) of those running for Labour leader who were involved in sabotaging Lib-Lab coalition talks; a coincidence, surely.
David Miliband (Chris Huhne said he was obstructive)
Ed Balls (Vince Cable, followed by everyone said he was obstructive)
Diane Abbot (appeared on TV to said she wouldn’t support a coalition)
Andy Burnham (also appeared on TV to say he wouldn’t support one)
Ed Miliband (nothing to do with it)
John McDonnell – Who? Isn’t that the chap Brown beat for the leadership?
If I were Labour I’d be voting for the lesser of two Milibands.
Ah, well enough of this Balls – I’m off to get my prescriptions!
Who cares who the party wants who does Ellie Gellard want?
I’m standing against those two hideously white posh boys.
I would not vote for Condoleezza Rice, and I do not care that she is a black woman. Yes, I would vote for a white man against her if his views were closer than hers to mine, which would not be terribly difficult. Yes, I would have voted for George Galloway against Oona King. Diane Abbott does both her sex and her ethnic group a grave disservice by putting herself forward merely because “there has to be a black woman candidate”. What, any black woman candidate? Oona King? Condoleezza Rice?
Abbott falsely told John Humphrys that John McDonnell had conceded and withdrawn, claim which the Today programme has had to correct. There is no way that both she and he will secure thirty-three nominations. McDonnell, who would certainly have won forty per cent of the constituency section in the immediate post-Blair days and who might even have carried that section at that time, is seeking to identify, and to begin to build, the Labour Left Party to be set free by electoral reform. Abbott merely thinks that one of the candidates should be a black woman, just because.
As for her having sent her son to a private school, that does not compare to Ed Balls’s having attended one by the choice of his parents. However, it must be said that Harold Wilson sent his children to private schools while he was Prime Minister. Anyway, the school attended by the Milliband brothers was at least as swanky as that attended by Balls, only maintained at even more direct and generous public expense. Andy Burnham, however, may be a grammar school boy, since those beacons of educational light and hope were maintained by Labour in Lancashire in spite of Margaret Thatcher first as Education Secretary and then as Prime Minister. Someone should ask him about grammar schools. Alas, we probably would not be surprised. But we might, just might, be.
All this has just reminded me to get a new plunger for my toilet.
Just watched serial bullshiter Diane Abbott destroyed on ‘this week’ by Sir Digby Jones. Tears of joy in my eyes. Can’t wait for the labour leadership contest to start.
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Apart from sending her son to a fee-paying school (don’t tell me that in Hackney she “had no choice” – most Hackney parents really have no choice and have to put up with what they are given) did she not call for a Labour government to sack all the judges and put in new ones who would go along with their wishes?