Re: Diane Abbott
 

They did did`nt they !!

(come on I could not resist that, and I bet others thought it as well, before the PC crowd attack me)

Re: Diane Abbott
 

I'm not PC, I always call a spade a spade.

Re: Diane Abbott
 

no need for outright racism :lol:

Re: Diane Abbott
 

....and a black woman a monkey.

Re: Diane Abbott
 

I think Diane Abbott is an amusing sideshow, a sort of leftie equivalent of Boris Johnson. She's entertaining on TV with her mate Michael Portillo. She adds much needed colour in so many ways to British public life. But what I really like about her is the spluttering outrage she invokes in the ranting right and the Daily Heil. That alone makes her worthwhile and would render it necessary to invent her if she did not already exist.

And for those clamouring for my intervention and seeking to provoke some reaction, sorry not biting. I know that study of facts and careful analysis are not activities that you value, but even a cursory glance at my previous correspondence on the subject of racial epithets and other race-baiting will reveal that I only interjected where I thought there was a likelihood of misunderstood intent. I was looking for a dialogue which did get successfully conducted despite your irrelevant bloviations from the sidelines.

In this case there is no issue of misunderstanding the intent: it is clear. You are what you are and have revealed yourselves in this thread far more nakedly than I care to see.

Re: Diane Abbott
 

You tell em Ms.Deep Throat....right wing bastards

Re: Diane Abbott
 

Are you for real? She provokes that reaction for no other reason than because she is utterly useless. It's as simple as that.

Re: Diane Abbott
 

Same goes for Manchester. I think most of them don't even bother to read who the candidate is. If they bother to vote at all then they just immediately and instinctively write a big X on the ballot paper and shove it in the box.

It grinds my gears tbh because the city is a total mess and they mostly have successive local Labour governments to thank for that.

Re: Diane Abbott
 

As if more validation were needed....

Re: Diane Abbott
 

Are you implying that my use of the term "colour" here was inadvertently racist? It was not inadvertent and if you think it sounded racist, well, just ask one of your black friends.

Re: Diane Abbott
 

What validation? If you think it's a good idea to have a completely useless person in charge of the social welfare of a district full of people then I don't really know what to say to that.

Re: Diane Abbott
 

Well she's not actually in charge of anything, is she (except some inconsequential internal Labour party stuff)? She's a "spokesperson" and one of 650 MPs. And far from being the worst of those in fairness....

Re: Diane Abbott
 

I disagree. She's not the worst in that she doesn't appear to have any malicious intent. However she is utterly inept and has been involved in many a scandal in the not too distant past.

Re: Diane Abbott
 

She's basically irrelevant.

Re: Diane Abbott
 

I don't care what colour/race/religion politicians are but voting a Scouser in as mayor of Manchester is just wrong!