Diane Abbott : Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:27 pm  

- why is she still in a job?

Shouldn't the John Terry police squad be paying her a visit now?

Re: Diane Abbott : Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:31 pm  

Obnoxious self publicist, do we expect any different from her.

Re: Diane Abbott : Thu Jan 05, 2012 3:34 pm  

I detest the woman, but I was actually quite shocked both at the blatant casual racism, and the lack of wit, to tweet something so obviously wrong to the wide world.

Re: Diane Abbott : Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:13 pm  

She's a full-weight sanctimonious, hypocritical 2@. I was more surprised she attempted the "out of context" excuse. How are things taken out of context on twitter, given the paucity of available characters? If I was to have a conversation with someone, the last medium I'd use would be twitter.

She should resign simply for being stoooopid

Re: Diane Abbott : Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:25 pm  

Gorgeous George was defending her with his usual alacrity today, saying only the stupid would have taken it out of context.

Re: Diane Abbott : Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:27 pm  

rover49 wrote:

Gorgeous George was defending her with his usual alacrity today, saying only the stupid would have taken it out of context.

It would appear that context is everything. cf. Jeremy Clarkson

Re: Diane Abbott : Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:06 pm  

She should go forthwith. This is blatant racism and from an MP of a so called egalitarian party. If she stays it shows the abject hypocrisy of Labour and indeed the bias of Race Relations legislation. So, she should go or Race Relations legislation should be removed from the statute book. Are the police to investigate?

Re: Diane Abbott : Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:22 pm  

Unlike Clarkson, there is no 'context' defence. It's an insult to the intelligence. A combination of being too stupid not to make such a howler, and again allowing a sighting of a huge shoulder chip. Comparable in many ways with her previous gaffes on Finnish nurses and West Indian mothers.

Re: Diane Abbott : Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:55 pm  

Us white people should just stop bullying her

Re: Diane Abbott : Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:04 pm  

Could tell just by looking at her she was the chip on the shoulder type.... wait, was that very racist of me?