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Diane Abbott on This Week
Diane Abbott succinctly summed herself up when she was asked about Insurance companies having to do away with the female allowance on car premiums when she said : "Well I don't drive, so it doesn't affect me".
How to make friends & influence People :eek:
How does this self centred woman even make it onto the shadow cabinet benches, I do not know anyone who has a good word to say about her.
How to make friends & influence People :eek:
How does this self centred woman even make it onto the shadow cabinet benches, I do not know anyone who has a good word to say about her.
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I wanted Andrew to ask her how what she would think if it was black drivers that paid more due to statistics.
She ended up, resorting to, just shouting in Michael Howards face, as if that is the way you win arguments and convince people.
This Week doesn't work with people that are still involved in politics officially, like in a cabinet or shadow cabinet, They cant afford to take the p##s any more, out of their own parties.
So if the question was about racism towards Asians, she would have answered, oh I don't care about that, it doesn't affect me because I'm black.
Oh i know what you mean but if she doesnt drive it doesnt effect her so she may not have had sufficient knowledge to offer a response on the issue. Had she done so and it was then jumped on as an 'official response' she could have just created problems. However she didnt say, looking at the OP post this is, that she 'didnt care' just that it didnt effect her. I'd rather have MPs keep quiet about things they dont not jot about then think they have to offer sage wisdom on all and sundry.
Sometimes it better to be thought a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt
I must admit she was entertaining when she used to sit with Bib Fortuna......I mean Portillo. But it's probably a better show without them.
Would you send your kids to a public school too?
You've lost me?!
What's that got to do with anything? I don't have children anyway, and don't intend to have any.
She famously looked at the local comprehensives in Hackney and thought I'm not sending my kid there. So she paid to send her kid to a private fee paying school instead.
Of course as a left wing Labour MP, with a policy of being pro comprehensive education, she was accused of hypocrisy.
She would force others to have to send their kids to a comprehensive school, but not do it herself. Her justification was, I put my own children first, if their is a clash with policy.
The other poster was saying, would you do what she did if you were in her situation?
Don't blame her. And if I had kids and I could afford to, I'd do the same with them. Good for Dianne.
She won't be the first MP guilty of hypocrisy and she won't be the last.
I still like her more than a lot of politicians, and found her engaging on This Week and when she appears on Question Time.
She's a lot more preferable to Jacqui Smith!
LOL!!!!!!:D:D:D
Maybe laubour dont want her on too much as she is quite honest and says what she thinks. And dose not always toe the party line. Micheal Howard was alwful last night. I liked that scottish women they had on a few weeks ago. I ope she come back agin.
She not only displayed hypocrisy on the issue she justified her position by bringing race into the issue despite it being irrelevant to the debate.
She made reference to West Indian mothers 'going to the wall' for their children as a form of justification. When Andrew asked whether she thinks Asian, Irish or European mothers should or would do the same she replied 'No comment'.
Just a few years before she raised the question in Parliament as to why Tony Blair sent his children to a religiously selective school, yet she proceeded to send her own to an academically selective, fee paying one,
Her remarks on the insurance rulings don't surprise me as she has always been very self involved. But don't then go by the name 'feminist' as she always does.
she brings up race often and cant wait to denigrate whites when the opportunity arises and then promote her own race
I really like him and Diane was right, he's sort of rehabilitated himself to become a "national treasure" according to a lot of people on twitter!