June 10th, 2010

Is this the End of the Itchy & Scratchy Show?

The jubilation of making it on to the ticket will pass for Diane Abbott. Not only will she be some £1,000 a week less well off for the duration of the 16 week campaign, but her seat on the This Week sofa might not be saved for her in September.  Things haven’t exactly been swell between her and Brillo since she appeared on the Daily Politics soon after declaring.

Neil quipped she was bringing diversity to the race as the only candidate to send her children to private school. Guido hears this did not go down well and there was quite the “diva moment” off air. As the summer progresses and the sure realisation dawns that she was David Miliband’s mere pawn to split the left and she isn’t going to win, might she slightly regret her unexpected decision to run?


232 Comments

  1. 1

    James Purnell was a good replacement for Abbott on This Week when he appeared.

    P.S. I missed the Ed Balls interview with Andrew Neil – anyone got the vid? I could do with pissing my self laughing this afternoon……

    • 7
      Ed Balls says:

      Anyone seen Gordo? I do miss him.

      • 178
        Guido's windowlickers says:

        Why not save time and just give each of your articles on Abbot a nice heading like.. racial abuse welcome ?

        • 216
          Komrades are kunts says:

          ROFL – a lefty complaining that Abbot is being attacked for her politics andnot her race, sexuality or gender.

          Fucking hypocrite.

    • 8
      Nick2 says:

      On iplayer in a couple of hours – & YouTube shortly afterwards probably…

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/?q=the%20daily%20politics

    • 19
      I wannabe on TV says:

      Probably best to sack Portillo as well and make a fresh start.

      £1000 for half an hours’s gossip is well excessive. Have the BBC got money to burn?

      I’m sure there are loadsa MP TV wannabes who would do it for nowt.

      • 34
        +++NEVER MIND SCRATCHING YOUR BOLLOCKS GUIDO+++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

        +++AMERICAN HELICOPTER SHOT DOWN IN AFGHANISTAN+++TIME TO GO+++GAME OVER MAN++++

        • 44
          No Bones Abbot tit says:

          that was yesterdays news

          • +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

            +++THE TALIBAN HAVE GROUND TO AIR MISSILES+++THAT MEANS WE WILL BE DEFEATED+++YESTERDAY’S NEWS? YOU MUST BE TAKING THE SAME HEROIN AS THE AFGHAN POLICE FORCE+++TROOPS OUT+++AMERICA CAN TAKE THE FALL+++IN GOD WE TRUST?+++++

          • And stop shouting you wanker.

          • YAWN says:

            yawn Yawn YAWN

          • +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

            +++TALIBAN GET HOLD OF GROUND TO AIR MISSILES TO KILL OUR TROOPS AND GUIDO READER YAWNS+++WHAT A FUCKING TRAITOR++++

          • Smig says:

            Oi! Gobshite!

            Shut the fuck up you annoying little c’unt.

            They’ve had Surface-to-Air since the ‘merkins were giving them Stingers to shoot down MiGs and MiL MI-24s in the 1980s.

            For fuck’s sake keep up you tosspot.

        • 89
          Eh ? says:

          It was reported as an RPG. Do you have a link that is quoting SAM ?

          • +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

            +++HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF AN RPG TAKING OUT A HELICOPTER?++WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS YOU FUCKING IDIOT, RAMBO III?++++

          • Montgomery Cheddar says:

            It’s pretty well documented. Iraqis shot down a British helicopter with an RPG. The helicopter in the Blackhawk Down incident was hit by RPG fire.

            Now go lick a window you loon.

          • Anonymous says:

            Link.

          • THE NAMES JOHN...JOHN RAMBO says:

            ^LOL LOL LOL MEGA WIN

          • +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

            +++TORY TROLLS DESPERATELY TRY TO USE FALSE INFORMATION TO JUSTIFY CONTINUING THE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN+++ABOUT AS USEFUL AS CHOCOLATE FIREGUARDS+++GROUND TO AIR MISSILES BEING SUPPLIED BY IRAN TO TALIBAN+++WATCH THE NUMBER OF HELICOPTERS BROUGHT DOWN EXPONENTIALLY INCREASE WHILE TORY TROLLS PEDDLE THEIR PROPAGANDA+++BRITISH TROOPS DIE BUT THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY COULDN’T GIVE A SHIT+++

          • +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

            +++I HAVE A TINY PENIS+++
            +++AND SO DOES MY MOTHER+++

          • +++THEREALSKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

            +++TORY TROLLS DESPERATELY TRY TO USE FALSE INFORMATION TO JUSTIFY CONTINUING THE ILLEGAL OCCUPATION OF AFGHANISTAN+++

          • Enjineer says:

            Rumor mill says it was a US PEDRO hit by an RPG while flying a casevac mission to get some wounded Royal Marines to saftey.

            Michael Yon has some good articles about the PEDROs, they are brave guys and girls putting themselves squarelt in harms way to casevac our guys, civillians and even the talibs. Sad loss.

            For the benefit of the idiot:

            There are plenty of documented cases of RPGs bringing down helicopters you moron.

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket-propelled_grenade#Anti-aircraft

            The US did supply Stingers to the Muj in the 80′s, but it’s unlikely they have any that are still serviceable. The batteries that make them go whooosh only last about 10 years, with regular trips back to the factory for maintainance. Can’t see them lasting that long in a dusty goatshitehole like Afgahn.

          • +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

            +++BLOODY HELL WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE TORY TROLLS+++QUEUEING UP TO TELL US HOW EASY IT IS TO TAKE OUT HELICOPTERS WITH RPGS+++HARDLY INSPIRE CONFIDENCE IN THE MISSION, DO THEY?+++

          • +++HEY SHITHEAD+++

            If you’re going to try and engage in a rational debate about something important go away and learn some manners and then get your facts straight.

            +++NOW FUCK OFF AND DIE+++

          • +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

            +++IT IS OUR TROOPS WHO ARE DYING YOU SHITHEAD+++BUT THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY DON’T GIVE A SHIT+++DAVE WANTS TO PROVE HOW TOUGH HE IS BY LEAVING OUR SOLDIERS ON A BARREN WASTELAND TO DIE FOR NO REASON+++BRITISH TROOPS NEEDLESSLY DIE TO SAVE THE BLUSHES OF TORY GOVERNMENT+++

      • 189
        Christine Bleakley says:

        Yes!

      • 194
        Christine Bleakley says:

        Yes.

        Let other MPs do it for nowt as someone is getting £20 000 a week now as against £2 000 before.

    • 32
      Squatter of 66 Mottram Road, Broadbottom says:

      Purnell was crap. He sat there and murmered fuck all. There was more shine in his shirt than his personality. There was no humour to him at all. He has even said in the past he hates doing TV. He would be more suited to MoTD.

    • 228
      IwouldliketoshagMsFlint says:

      Caroline Flint is so attractive I wonder if she likes English pork sausages she has that snarl when she talks to hide her rotten crooked teeth (by courtesy of the NHS) but she is a fine addition to the sofa she even might Michael keep straight

  2. 2
    SNaP Dragon says:

    What did she actually contribute to This Week apart from exponentially increasing the amount of lines delivered with eyes rolled towards the ceiling? They should keep Caroline Flint, a much more intelligent contributor.

    • 9
      Nick2 says:

      Agreed. Diane Abbott is an embarrassment to watch. (But so is Portillo.) Time for a change of clowns, methinks.

    • 18
      AnotherMiliband says:

      Caroline Flint ‘much more intelligent’? I don’t think so. But I’d certainly give her one.

      • 45
        Imagine John Prescott without Bulimia says:

        Carolnie Flint refuses to admit Labour was/are wrong about anything though on TW

        As a backbencher Diane at least wasn’t a blind New Labourite on the sofa

        • 196
          cant hunter says:

          Caroline Flint FFS. One of the most obnoxious of Labour MP’s–and thats a pretty high standard of dislikeability. Have you heard her on QT or AQ; she has her say and then feels bound to interrupt anyone that she doesn’t agree with. She is a toady, whereas Ms Abbott has some independance of thought. Also this attractiveness-eh ?; she looks hard faced and sour, she’s nearly 50 and her hair dye alone if freed would rival the oil slick on the Gulf of Mexico. Also didn’t she carry on like a Sharon an’ Tracy when on a Tunisian freebie once, leaping into bed with the first dark skinned waiter who smiled at her. still I suppose that’s why Andrew Neil might be drawn to her.

          • she has her say and then feels bound to interrupt anyone that she doesn’t agree with.

            That’s standard leftie woman behaviour in a debate – I watched countless examples of the same ill-mannered behaviour from other socialistas yet if anyone dares point out their complete lack of manners, it’s they who end up being accused of assorted social crimes.

      • 52
        Anonymous says:

        As long as Brillo doesn’t replace her with Blears or Flint.

      • 190
        Peter Carter-Fuck says:

        Get in touch with my parliamentary escort agency. Caroline’s got a few appointments open, but she’s a popular girl, to be honest I resent the BBC stepping in and paying her a grand for an hour, I pay her the going rate of £300, mind you my clients give her a damned sight more action than Portillo does. On the other hand, Sarah Teather can fit you in most days, her diary’s pretty free at the moment, and to be honest I need to get her away from my biscuits asap.

        • 203
          I got worms. says:

          I don’t care how partisan Flinty is,

          I’d still love to shoot my hot, n sticky baby gravy over her baps, and rest my spicy sperm bag on her chin.

      • 217
        feck a flint for freedom says:

        It would be rude not to give Flinty one. She may be a lefty but she’s not as hypocritical as Abbot.

  3. 3
    Groucho says:

    Lets face it, Diane is hardly the sharpest tool in the shed

  4. 4
    Tickle Duster says:

    1K for 30 minutes of telly!!

    No wonder the country is skint.

    • 20
      Grammar School Boy says:

      Good if you can get it.

      Wonder what earner Brillo is on?

      • 41
        Pacman says:

        Well I’m on a million quid per year. Stop belly-aching and pay the fucking Licence Tax Fee.

        • 120
          Smig says:

          Up yours Paxo. You’re having no more money off me.

          Get a proper job you socialist sycophant.

      • 42
        Fat boy Prescott says:

        a decent amount if they take into account he’s the only decent interviewer in the whole corporation

        • 82
          FED-UP TAXPAYER says:

          NOBODY whose remuneration comes from hard-taxpayers should get more than the Prime Minister does.

          • FED-UP TAXPAYER says:

            * hard-pressed

          • Blue Lady says:

            Since one of Gordon’s last spiteful acts was to give his successor a £50,000 pay cut and add on the 5% volutary cut by Dave Cam, there will be now lots more people in the public sector on more than the P.M. (Cameron now earns £142,500 p.a. compared to Brown’s £198,00 p.a.)

          • Twitcher says:

            Anyone seen the great McBustard?

          • Airey Belvoir says:

            A pond to a penny that Gordo is holed up inn the Priory, Glasgow, and getting daily visits by train from Sarah. Press are all holding off on the story as with the Blair daughter.

  5. 5
    MP Watch says:

    SC – Home Affairs Keith Vaz
    Carry on oily sleaze!

    • 12
      Nick2 says:

      How can such a compromised MP can keep a Committee chairmanship, especially a Labour one under a Tory/Lib Dem government?

      If he was voted in by his fellow MPs then they’re all tarnished by association.

      • 21
        Cato Street Conspirator says:

        Vaz! In that strange world a perfect set of Committee chairmen would have been Vaz, Blunkett, MacShane, Hoon, Hewitt.

        • 43
          P. Mandevilson, the Eminence Greasy says:

          To maximise the sleaziness of that little cabal of toads, they should all report up to me.

    • 205
      I got worms. says:

      Is Sid James in that one?

  6. 6
    Derek Draper says:

    If she goes I’ll step in.

  7. 10

    The ‘public school’ thing should be brought up every time she makes an appearance on the tv.

    Fucking hypocrite.

    And put your cleavage away you tart, no right minded man will want to look at those.

    • 14
      Left minded man says:

      num num nunm – sorry I disagree

    • 165
      Blue Lady says:

      What’s so unusual about a Labour politician sending their child to private school, remember Ruth Kelly sending her child to one even though she was the Education Secretary at the time. What’s good enough for our children isn’t good enough for theirs. Does anyone know which school Leo Blair goes to – probably a private one -but only for security purposes of course. Nuliebore is full of hypocrites.

      • 175
        Terry Leahy destroyed Britain says:

        Did it start with Denis IMF Healey sending HIS sons to private school? I bet he wasn’t the first.

  8. 11
    Grammar School Boy says:

    What is the point of her candidature?

    I hate to quote the terms but apart from the obvious gender/ethic differences she is simply another Oxbridge political career politician with a legal rtraining and background.

    However I do hope she goes far in his contest; I thinks she’s barking!

    • 15
      Grammar School Boy says:

      ethic AND ethnic…OOPS!

    • 56
      Anonymous says:

      The further ,the better. Preferably, out of sight & sound.

    • 79
      Zed says:

      Yes – but she adds “diversity” on her own terms, I suggest.
      She chooses white, middle class, 40 something, males as a reason why she needs to add to the leadership candidacy.
      So… add black, woman.. (manderist and racist) and that’s OK… as none of the other candidates are racist, anderist, private-school hypocrits.
      Voila ! Diversity in Dianne’s universe.
      Cow.

    • 179
      Cynic says:

      her candidacy could be political?

    • 227
      Rufus Stone says:

      Yes, she’s barking. That’s ‘cos she’s a dog

  9. 13

    Heard on R4 y’day, stating hat the only reason she is attacked re the private schooling of her kids is because she is female.

    Sigh. No doubt Harthing would approve.

    • 24
      Cato Street Conspirator says:

      And she carried that line onto Channel 4 News as well. SnowWhite didn’t challenge it though, fair dos, the woman on the BBC did.

      • 83
        Anonymous says:

        Nope.
        Can’t challenge her for being black.
        Can’t challenge her for being female.
        She understands the “protection” that PC gives her.
        (Can we point out she’s the only fat candidate) ?
        Go on, Dianne, play those cards.

    • 80

      I listened to that too Elby

      “Why did you send your kid to private school?”

      “We all have difficult decisions to make and as a single mother, it was a difficult decision.”

      I still have absolutely no idea why she sent her kid to a private school other than assuming she didn’t want him to end up an unemployed Uzi toting gangsta rapper, hooked on crack with 20 kids by 20 women and a vocabulary of 12 words, innit.

      • 86
        Anonymous says:

        However, she claims that after 13 years of Labour, she now has no less than FIVE good local schools she would now be pleased to send her son to be educated.

        Sure, Dianne, Sure.

      • 121
        Unsworth says:

        No, but it was ‘difficult’ – so that’s OK.

      • 126
        jgm2 says:

        Yeah. But you see she’s a ‘victim’ having been abandoned by her husband and so it’s really a man’s fault that her boy has no positive role models and so that’s why he had to go to a posh school with a lot of white kids rather than the local schools almost entirely populated by the offspring of black single women or Somali immigrants.

        I don’t blame her.

        But she can shut her fucking gob and stop defending the abolition of grammar schools and private education because, when the chips are down, she did exactly the same as 99% of people who could afford to.

        Preening, affirmative-action-indulged, doughnut-scoffing, eye-rolling gobshite.

    • 140
      Eric Wimp says:

      Harperson was on R4 today explaining why she wants the Shadow Cabinet to be split 50:50 male:female in the future. Nice to think that Nye Bevan could be booted out of cabinet for the likes of Blears. Females should only be in Cabinet if I can knock one off over the thought of their red box. Caroline, get your gap-toothed laughing gear round my majority.

  10. 17
    No Bones About It says:

    A a case of desire over riding reason. serves her right the fat cow

  11. 22
    Cockney Christian says:

    Ah, well Guido – see, Brillo misunderstood. Diversity and equalityand race are issues that can only be employed to reflect positively on ethnic minorities.

  12. 25
    Mezzanine Floor says:

    she’s the dark horse candidate – the token intelligent one

    • 122
      Unsworth says:

      More strong Mocha coloured, I’d say.

      • 151
        The Ape Man Commeth says:

        One of those little millipeople (the snotty one) looks a bit off color to me is he sure he’s not from a hotter clime, somewhere with more sand than Blighty perhaps?

        • 180
          Unsworth says:

          Slight touch of the tar brush, eh?

          But maybe he’s just not very good at personal hygiene routines.

          Then again, possibly both.

  13. 26
    Koba says:

    Portillo will have a bit more space on the sofa now

  14. 27
    DJFunk says:

    Cleavage begone!

  15. 28
    Brillo says:

    DA is a hypocrite…like so many from the Labour party!

  16. 29
    tat says:

    Good on you Guido !

    The chief blogger of Order,Order, Guido Fawkes, has turned down an annual bonus of £500,000, the site has said.

    It is the second year in a row that Mr Fawkes has turned down a bonus

    • 47
      CCTV says:

      He has, however, accepted the complimentary champagne, and was last seen staggering up Whitehall under the wieght of a nebuchadnezzar.

  17. 30
    No Bones Abbot tit says:

    Her boys in public school was known for a long time,especially by Mr Fucking rightious dude Brillo,

  18. 31

    Flint was only window dressing.

  19. 35
    Broken down voter says:

    Laugh? I nearly bought a licence.

  20. 46
    Hector says:

    They should both go. Not sure who to replace them with though. What were David Davis and Hazel Blears like on there the other week?

    Maybe get a few of the recently retired MPs on. Widdy and Prezza maybe? Might need an extra sofa though!

  21. 49
    +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

    +++DAVID CAMERON VISITS AFGHANISTAN+++TALIBAN SHOOT DOWN AMERICAN HELICOPTER WITH GROUND TO AIR MISSILE+++WITHOUT AIR SUPERIORITY ALL IS LOST AND WE WILL BE DEFEATED+++TIME TO GO BEFORE THAT HAPPENS+++BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE AFGHANISTAN+++AMERICAN TROOPS DEFEATED AND HAVE TO LEAVE WITH THEIR TAILS BETWEEN THEIR LEGS+++JUST LIKE VIETNAM ALL OVER AGAIN+++

    • 101
      Anonymous says:

      FFS – it was an RPG. Think otherwise ? Post a link. Twat.

      • 133
        Andy Coulson (Chief shoe polisher:1st Class) says:

        That’s it chaps, keep repeating “it was an RPG, it was an RPG, it was an RPG” and maybe our dreams will come true.

      • 135
        THE NAMES JOHN...JOHN RAMBO says:

  22. 51
    Groucho says:

    I like Diane on This Week, she really makes me laugh and not just because she is so comically clueless.

    I love the way she gets chippy when there is a younger more attractive female guest on the couch. This is quite common, as most women fit into these categories. Diane’s eyes stop rolling around all over the place and shoot venom across the studio.

    Get Jamelia back on. That was hilarious – I though Diane was going to walk over and smack her.

    • 61
      Anonymous says:

      I thought the eye rolling was her impression of Blunket.

    • 104
      Jan says:

      The funniest moment on This Week was when Constance Briscoe was sitting on the other sofa.If looks could kill poor Connie would have been dead on the studio floor.Both Connie and Abbott’s families might come from Jamaica but there the resemblance ends.Connie of course is a feisty girl who is a no-nonsense hardworking legal woman who has had a really hard life and doesn’t seem to be too keen on all this ethnic and diversity bull. (She is one person who I would really love to meet). Abbott on the other hand thrives on ethnic and diversity blah blah blah and has been living off it all her adult life.Connie was decrying all the diversity nonsense and Abbott could be seen spitting at her rival. Connie won hands down. Abbott is a wacist and for her age I find her incredibly childish.All that eye-rolling from a woman in her fifties is sad. Her hypocrisy knows no bounds.A bit like Cherie and all that ‘I am a hardworking mother’, (gulp),’doing what’s best for my child’. Both Cherie and Diane went to top Grammar schools yet don’t think they should be available for other working class children .Cherie’s boys of course went to the Oratory and Diane’s son was sent to a private school.Total f……g hyprocrites

      • 150
        Groucho says:

        Ah yes, I remember the programme.

        As you say, Constance is intelligent, feisty, attractive and did well in her career entirely on merit.

        All things which Ms Abbott finds extremely threatening.

      • 177
        Violent Lizabeth Bott says:

        A wight went seeker.

  23. 53
    albie here says:

    Prezza and Widdicombe,jeez how low could AlJaBeeb go if they went for those two has beens.

    • 77
      jgm2 says:

      Prezza? The useless cu*nt just sitting there Touretting ‘Ashcroft’ or ‘For the many, not the few’ and suchlike shit at every opportunity like some mad bag-lady at the shopping centre.

      Useless cu*nt. Just like some 14 or 15 year old kid heckling in the school debating society. For all the illumination he brings to any debate he might as well be shouting ‘BOGIES!!’ in a bookstore like Dick and Dom.

      Childish, overindulged cretin. Nothing constructive to say. Nothing useful achieved. Department of 2000 to make him feel important and their combined contribution was to okay the building of 100,000 homes on a fucking floodplain. Morons all. Every one of ‘em should be hunted down and fired.

      And astonishingly he manages to parlay this lack of IQ into lecturing the Chinese on ‘Climate Change’. More fucking money-laundering.

      If they’d given the 2,00 useless cu*nts a pick, a shovel and a bricklaying course they could have build 100,000 homes in the past 10 years instead of wanking in the toilet cubicle for 10 years.

      John Prescott? Useless cu*nt. Not nearly enough TV programs dedicated to taking the pi55 out of him.

    • 95
      Lard Presclott of Bulimia, Bog Seats, Beams,Bellies,Banjos,Punches, Pies, Jags 'n' Shags says:

      There is no sofa available anywhere in the world to accommodate Widders’ posterior and mine at the same time.

      • 102
        jgm2 says:

        Yeah. Probably best to just get in a few railway sleepers or bales of hay. Make sure the studio is on the ground floor too. Wouldn’t want the whole set rematerialising in the lobby.

    • 174
      Dig for Victory says:

      The more I consider some one from Next/New/Old Labour to replace DA the more I realise there is no one, no one at all. Why not give the other parties a ‘turn’ on the sofa

      Blackberries just coming into bloom!

  24. 54
    Frank Bruno says:

    I look good in drag innit.

  25. 59
    Postal Vote says:

    … bringing diversity to the race …

    PS Any news on the twitter postal voting saga in east Bristol and what was the total of number of postal votes in Balls’s seat (has Whelan already arranged another seat for him?).

  26. 67
    +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

    +++TALIBAN GET HOLD OF GROUND TO AIR MISSILES BUT ALL GUIDOS READERS WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS DIANE ABBOTT’S MINGE+++WHAT A BUNCH OF FUCKING USELESS TWATS+++DEFEAT IS STARING US IN THE FACE AND GUIDO’S READERS DON’T CARE BRITISH TROOPS WILL DIE FOR NOTHING++++GUIDO’S READERS ARE TRAITORS++++

  27. 73
    The Court of Public Opinion says:

    [OT] The Americans are now stressing the “British” in BP and talking of the special relationship being strained over the oil leak. Well, after we were forced to poodle along with their Iraq & Afghan oil wars and got nothing back but dead servicemen its the least we can do to return the favour. You wanted fucking oil, yankees – there it is, get mopping.

  28. 74
    Kalahari-Wood-Pecker says:

    £1,000:00 a week?

    Looks like she spends it on food!

    • 110
      Lizzie says:

      Well spotted!

    • 111
      nell says:

      They could always employ margaretmoran or jacquismith to take diane’s place on the sofa , I hear they are both desperate for a job.

      • 128
        The Court of Public Opinion says:

        And they have more cred.

        • 134
          jgm2 says:

          Jacqui Smith? The woman who called the police into the HoC over a slightly embarrassing immigration leak? Thus overturning completely the principle that Parliament is sovereign?

          The only good thing that achieved is that those cu*nts claiming parliamentary privilege to avoid prosecution for looting the taxpayer have had the whole concept of ‘parliamentary privilege’ hacked from under them because it clearly no longer exists.

          I wouldn’t trust Jacqui Smith to collect trolleys at Tescos.

          The dole is too fucking good for her and the other 400 Labour MPs who just screeched like howler monkeys applauding the Maximum Imbecile for the past 13 years.

          Fuck her. And them.

  29. 76
    Spank Sinatra says:

    I guess her enforced absence from the sofa will leave her more time to sit on the toilet and possibly try and think up a policy. The question of course is whether or not 16 weeks on the lav will be enough. The considered view is that she will run out of time.

    What an asset to have on national television reminding the electorate that she is the best the party can cobble together after all those ‘babe’ years! Am so enjoying……..

    • 106
      Lizzie says:

      Desperate times, a desperate party holding a desperate leadership contest, and a desperate country left behind following the “There’s no money left” party’s handling of the economy. Sometimes I am lost for words which is rare for me.

  30. 81
    +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

    +++SORRY OBAMA BUT YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN NOW SON+++THE IRANIANS HAVE GIVEN GROUND TO AIR MISSILES TO THE TALIBAN AND THE SHIT IS GOING TO HIT THE FUCKING FAN NOW MOTHERFUCKER++WE ARE OFFSKI YOU STAY IF YOU WANT+++THEY FUCKED UP THE RUSSIANS WITH THOSE MISSILES AND THEY HAD HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TROOPS+++YOUR HELICOPTERS WILL BE DROPPING LIKE FLIES+++TROOPS OUT+++GAME OVER MAN++++

    • 87
      jgm2 says:

      Hmmm. If Iran has supplied ‘em with Surface to Air missiles (more likely to be Pakistan I’d have thought or one that the yanks themselvessupplied 20-odd years ago) then that should give the yanks all the excuse they need to give Iran a bit of shock and awe.

      Wouldn’t put anything past Obama now. The guy has clearly lost the plot talking about kicking ass at BP and firing managers and shit. He’s off his fucking head – he’s as bad as George W.

      • 160
        +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

        +++WHY DO YOU THINK THEY JUST IMPLEMENTED A NEW ROUND OF SANCTIONS?+++DO KEEP UP YOU RETARD+++

    • 116
      Anonymous says:

      Guido – can’t’ you just bloke this ctnu’s IP ?

    • 125

      If you go to B&Q you can get some capslock unsticker. £1.59

      • 132
        B&Q says:

        IT DOES NOT WORK . MUCH LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE I SELL. I GET A HIGH PRICE THOUGH .

  31. 91
    Geezer says:

    Don’t fuck with the Brits O Bummer.
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=165041

  32. 96
    Lizzie says:

    What a waste of a thousand bucks, I shall write to the BBC and complain how my hard earned tax money is being wasted on the likes of Diane Abbott.

  33. 98
    • 141
      nell says:

      GMfoodgate looks likely to be the next scandal after climategate doesn’t it especially given carolinespelman’s recently quoted support for it.

      Sorry haven’t got the link now but there was an article the other day about monsant++o and it’s development of gm foods in the third world. monsant++o sells the unsuspecting farmer the first years seeds fairly cheaply. The farmer is then required to sign legal documents forbidding him to use any of the seeds from that crop for the next year’s needs. The farmer is also required to sign an undertaking to buy that next year’s seeds from monsant++o.

      What happens when its time to buy the next year’s seeds? monsant++o hugely increases the price?!

      In India a number of farmers have found that a) the crop has not fared well under drought conditions ,so their income from sale of crops falls and consequently b) they have a greatly reduced income that means they have to borrow to buy that 2nd year seed crop. Many have gone b+++ankr+upt.

      Not surprisingly farmers linked to monsanto in India have an exceptionally high rate of suicide.

      • 145
        Head Lizard says:

        I have read that,.will dig the link up later, got 2 year old grand son here tapping away at keys

      • 185
        Dig for Victory says:

        Sounds like the street dealer approach, that fucking country has no morals, the rest of us are just consumers

    • 146
      Smig says:

      Soylent Green is people!

  34. 100
    +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

    +++TALIBAN TURN THEIR FIRE ON AMERICAN HELICOPTERS USING GROUND TO AIR MISSILES+++TORY TROLLS TURN THEIR FIRE ON DIANE ABBOTT+++SAYS IT ALL REALLY DOESN’T IT+++

    • 124
      Head Lizard says:

      stop shouting

    • 127
      nell says:

      http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/27635/20100609/four-us-soldiers-killed-by-taliban-rpg-attack-on-helicopter.htm

      No need to shout but it helps if you post a link to give more information.

      This has been a bad week for deaths in Afghanistan our own troops, the americans and some other NATO troops.

      I’ve always thought, given the Afghans history and tenacity, that we wouldn’t be able to win this war. But let’s face it the RPG’s have limited scope in attacking helicopters , what is really taking it’s toll on our men is the IED’s. It remains to be seen whether the coalition can move any faster than the snailpace of the previous labour government in getting proper kit and equipment out there to deal with it. I do hope so!

      • 137
        Well Said says:

        Good point nell.
        I think the point skybreaking news is making is that if we lose air superiority we are totally fucked.
        And on that point he is of course right.

        • 156
          THE NAMES JOHN...JOHN RAMBO says:

        • 158
          THE NAMES JOHN...JOHN RAMBO says:

          Game Over Man

        • 221

          No, Skybreaking’s “point” (aside from demonstrating his lack of manners) is that the Taliban have suddenly acquired a sophisticated, layered air defence system and this is the sign we should be pulling out NOW! The problem is his argument holds as much water as a rusty collander.

          The Afghan Muj have had SAMs since the eighties (Charlie Wilson’s war, anyone?) and even if they didn’t, assorted impoverished brown people have been swatting US helicopters from the skies with old-fashioned bazookas (as appears to be the case here) since the Battle of Mogadishu if not before. In other words, Skyfalling’s hysteria is misplaced and ill-informed. His inability to recognise this even when presented with facts simlpy reveals he must be some sort of adolescant “activist” of the type that infests sixth form common rooms and student union debating societies.

          • Sorry, forgot to add.

            Now can we get back to the subject in hand – trashing Diane Abbott’s competence, appearance, character and morals?

          • +++SKYBREAKINGNEWS+++ says:

            +++BRAVE TROOPS ARE DYING AND YOU TALK OF MANNERS???+++
            YOU ARE A NUTTER++++

          • BRAVE TROOPS ARE DYING AND YOU TALK OF MANNERS???

            Yep! And fro good reason.

            Britain is fighting a war. The death of soldiers is a sad consequence of fighting wars. Debating whether we should continue fighting that war is perfectly natural and rational.

            But if you want to make your case it is better made using truth rather than wild speculation and easily disprovable statements (people won’t write you off as the sort of fool who exagerates unnecessarily), calmness (people won’t write you off as a nutter) and good manners (people won’t write you off as some sort of foul mouthed child unworthy of attention beyond a damned good hiding). Oh and pick the proper forum – here we are debating Diane Abbott’s suitability for leadership of the Labour Party.

            Follow these simple rules and I think you will recieve a more sympathetic hearing – hell, you might even find some people agree with you.

    • 197
      Snotrocket says:

      OK….I’ve tried to stay on the sidelines, but SKYNEWS – of the illiterate shouting (do you, I wonder conduct your personal life in upper case as well?) – I really have to take you task for the fundamental failure of your argument.

      First of all, whenever has it been the case that the loss of a helicopter, by whatever means, is the signal that we have lost air superiority? Had you been around in 1940, would you have picketed the gates of Biggin Hill telling our pilots it was a a lost cause (that’s the Battle of Britain, in case you are too ignorant to see the connection)?

      What is it that in your mind decides that, all reports being to the contrary, you persist in repeating that the helicopter was brought down by a SAM, when all the news feeds say it was an RPG? You are either being extremely arrogant (a possibility, I think we can entertain, don’t you?), or you are playing mind games.

      There is also the fact that the last time a person like you entertained such thoughts and statements when his country (I take it that the UK is your country?) was at war, we were able to name that person: he was a Quisling; or he was Lord Haw Haw – and he was hanged for his treason. Well, I think that that is what you are.

      You are an apologist for a regime – a terrorist regime – that thinks nothing of using children to set bombs, or protect bomb-makers/planters – and even less of HANGING seven year-old children ‘pour encourager les autres’. LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7147378.ece

      If you think that supporting the ideas of such a regime and insulting the memories of the fallen by your trashy, arrogant, bombastic, illiterate, illogical, contrary and traitorious cant, you have another think coming. We are made of sterner stuff.

      People like you crawl out from under your stones and attack at what you think is a soft underbelly. You insult the collective and individual (your egregious attack on JGM2 earlier was disgracefull). You are not someone worth engaging in any kind of dialogue: that I have done so makes me feel dirty; that it needed saying is beyond dispute.

      SKYNEWS, you need to crawl back under your rock. You make me sick.

  35. 114
    Brennen says:

    taking us for a ride,£200 a day for putting oil booms down

  36. 119

    £1,000 quid!

    I wondered why they never asked me on. I always asked for £5,000 an hour.
    You know, the standard Buyers/Hoon /Moran rate.

    Buck up Abbott. “equal pay for equal work” and all that solidarity guff.

  37. 138
    streamfisher says:

    Ha,ha,ha, what a dissembling scrotum sack of wind (just seen Brillo interviewing Balls), cuts! I see no cuts, now we are in opposition, he’s now against the free movement of labour within the EEC, I think, because in the same interview he also said he thought it was a good thing, you can see he is from the Gordon Brown school of politics (remedial school) the technique is just the same, never give a straight answer to any question and if possible never answer the question put at all, just woffle off on an oblique tangent.

  38. 144
    Mr Plum says:

    Just wondered how much porthole gets a week

  39. 149
    A Firm Pair Of Breasts says:

    She is only a candidate because she is a black socialist. Makes Zanu Labour look inclusive when really they are not.

  40. 153
    The Morris Marina a nasty log laid by British Leyland says:

    The fucking BBC are going bonkers over Abbott as the next mong to lead the Liebour party. I hope she gets it, she’s a fucking racist and a snob.

    • 169
      Rhett Butler says:

      99% of blacks are racists,hence the black association for this and that,black music,black pudding,black holes,the colour black

    • 199
      HenryV says:

      Well the Labour leadership appears to be the only political story Al Beeb care about. It is if for them the election never happened.

  41. 156
    albacore says:

    That picture at the top is so 1960s.
    Reminiscent of some hyped-up, one-hit-wonder pop group.
    Only minus the talent.

  42. 161
    Afghan RPG Expert says:

    ALLAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ACKKKKKKKKKKKBARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

  43. 164
    Afghan RPG Expert says:

    We learn our mad skillz from the infidels games.

  44. 167
    HenryV says:

    Private school? FFS

  45. 181
    PM says:

    Looking at that photo, she’s got a decent cleavage for a 56 year old.

  46. 191
    Blazing Saddles says:

    Note: We should remember Diane Abbott’s

    1. Complaint that the NHS was employing “Blonde, blue-eyed” Scandinavians instead of recruiting black nurses from Jamaica.

    2. Sending of her son to a public school rather than one of those Hackney state schools crammed with wondrous amounts of diversity, most of it black.

    3. Contribution to the BBC’s black history year by writing a piece about how blacks had always been in Britain which included the hilarious claim that when Caesar landed his army was comprised entirely of Centurions all of whom were black.

    David MIlliband’s anxiety to get Abbott on the ballot can be seen as a manoeuvre to strengthen his own position because he thinks Abbott will take left wing votes from Ed Milliband.

    • 193
      Danny Romalotti says:

      She complained about Finns who are not Scandinavians.

      • 215
        Ignorant Cunt says:

        Fuck it, they all look the same to me!

      • 223

        A debatable point. Technically the Finns aren’t from the same ethnic stock as the classic “Vikings”. In fact, as far as I can gather they play the same role in the Scandanavian ethno-soup that the Welsh play in Britain – the last remnent of the previous occupiers shoved to the fringes by a more aggressive Germanic invader. The Celts aren’t Anglo-Saxon, but in most people’s eyes they are still part of the British mix; I guess the same can be said of the Finns and their cousins the Lapps/Sami.

  47. 198
    Snuggles says:

    The sending her son to private school should always be brought up at every debate. Let’s see how she defends the “indefensible”. I do remember Harold Wilson sent his sons to a private school as well – so again nothing new from Labour!

    • 201
      Zed says:

      She’ll have a handful of reasons and excuses ready forevery interviewer.
      However, her reasons are insupportable.
      Do as I say, not as I do, Comrades.
      Period.

  48. 200
    Babar was a very porly baby elephant says:

    O/T
    Isn’t it nice that Frank Field has agreed to cooperate with the coalition in looking into possible social welfare reform ?
    How the LieBour faithful must detest the man even more for his decency and commitment to inclusive government in the best interests of the country (rather than embrace him as a possible saviour).
    Indeed, the appointment may be a decent leg-up to the Speakers role in-the-not-too-distant-future.
    God’s speed, Frank

  49. 202
    Babar was a poorly baby elephant says:

    Mr Cameron said he understood Washington’s “frustration”, adding the UK stood ready to help BP with the clean-up – referring to 600 tons of chemical dispersant that have been made available.

    Should UK Government back BP both politically and financially as a last resort ?
    Bearing in mind the onslaught that the US has set upon our biggest company, the effect on it’s share price (and the pension funds it remains a major part of) together with the possibility of a (US?) company eating it up when the share price is in the tank, and that the defence of our national interest as an island dependent on oil supplies, I truly believe that our Government has a genuine strategic UK special interest in defending BT at all costs.

    This is no time to stay inactive by allowing “market forces” to take its course.

  50. 204
    Day Dreamer says:

    Did it or did it not happen? Are the Cameroon and friends all OK in Afghanistan ??

  51. 206
    Wonka says:

    vo/t

    Could somebody please explain to me why BP is getting all the shit from the yanks?
    1) BP appears to have contracted an American company “Transocean” to drill a hole in the sea bed in an attempt to find crude oil (to hugely benefit the American economy) which had been agreed and encouraged by the President of the United States.
    2) This American owned and operated exploration rig exploded due to some apparent fault in the equipment.
    3) It has been stated that it has been perceived that the potential problem could be resulting from the cementing process.
    4) According to the Transocean web site the cementing equipment is third party equipment owned by Halliburton.
    5) So apart from contracting American companies to do the work for them having initially been encouraged to undertake the task by dear Present Obama.
    6) WHY THE FUCK IS THIS ONCE BRITISH COMPANY GETTING ALL THE SHIT

    • 213
      Grammar School Boy says:

      Barry has low personal ratings and family baggage to address.

    • 214
      Anonymous says:

      Time for us to stand up to the Brit hating president! No song and dance required, quietly inform him that we have started withdrawing our troops from Afghanistan. Would love to see his reaction!
      I think obama has proved the saying, “americans don’t have friends, they have interests”.

  52. 211
    worried says:

    am i the only one staring at her cleavage?

    Googles “Whose nailin’ Abbott”



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