Diane Abbott

Diane Abbot is not the sharpest knife in the box

Diane Abbott was a clever girl at school and gained a place at Cambridge. Now, I am not a Diane Abbott fan although I must admit occasionally I enjoyed her 'double act' with Michael Portillo on Andrew Neil's sofa!

This is from an article in the Times 2005:
In her final year, the college tutor asked her the standard questions about what career she wanted to pursue. “I said, ‘I want to do good,’” Abbott told the Times. “‘Ah,’ she said. ‘In that case, you should go into the civil service, and since you’re not very good at figures, the Treasury is out. But the next most powerful ministry is the Home Office.”’

So she has proved now that she is not very good at figures but really, she should have got on top of the brief before giving radio interviews.
Was she not well or is she losing her grip? Has she been promoted beyond her capabilities, clever or not?

And yes, she has proved that she hypocritical regarding her son's schooling which makes people wonder what else does she mis-speak about?

Does this make up for Diane Abbott's gaffe?

www.thecanary.co/2017/05/03/tory-mp-slips-live-tv-seeming-clueless-damage-partys-causing-video/

A Tory MP thinks that people with permanent disabilities can get better.
He's on the work and pensions committee.

She said 'thousand' instead of' million '. Granted she became very flustered afterwards and didn't do herself or the Labour party any favours. My point was the media jumped all over it but ignored other gaffes by other people.

Did anybody watch that programme last night on stress. The presenter was put in a similar situation to DA and completely lost her ability to perform simple mathematical calculations.

regarding the £350 million on the bus. I thought it was said that it was money that COULD be spent on the NHS, not that it would be.

It was lincsb, but not many on here will agree!

I wonder if she makes the same mistakes with her expenses claims? If so, she could claim to be the most economical MP in the country.

Anya the presenter presumably isn't a professional politician attempting to convince the electorate that her party is capable of running the countries finances.

The trouble is that this feeds into the Tory-made myth that Labour can't manage the economy. Every policy that Labour promotes, the media pressurises for exact figures and "where is the money coming from?". They don't do the same with the Conservatives.
And a myth it is.

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Sorry, but the sign said
"Let's fund our NHS instead."
That does not say COULD.

Personally I think she did it deliberately. I think the MPs who stayed on have simply decided to work from the inside to overthrow Corbyn. And they're doing that by making sure they lose the election by a landslide so as to convince him to step down. I think if all the MP's had supported him in the first place, Labour, led by Corbyn, would be enjoying a far greater success.

why should all those labour MP's lie ?

IngeJones I don't think Diane Abott is one who would be working against Corbyn.
Why would decent MPs who care about their constituents and about the Labour party want to lose their seats (not to mention their jobs!)?

And, no, it is not just many MPs, it is the electorate as a whole, many of them lifetime Labour voters.

Inge Jones

Hells bells if Dianne Abbott ever used that tactic Corbyn would definitely be doomed.

Abbott is like Emily Thornberry , if they were sticks of rock they would we love Jeremy running through.

Jalima, you tell me? Loads of them have done just that - given up their place on the shadow cabinet, left the labour party, given up their seats... Anything rather than simply accept their own rules regarding how the leader is chosen. What about MPs caring about their own party members? I have spotted little of that! Don't forget Diane Abbott herself ran for leadership once, as a person who is obviously more a centerist, seeing as she sent her own kid to private school. It's not like she wanted to be serving a leftie like Corbyn all along.

Just read a tweet - Corbyn claims labour loses are down to their failure to place Abbott as minister of voting counts

Dianne Abbott did not make one mistake, say one word incorrectly she gave a totally inept interview and spoke gobbledygook.

She could not state any financial nor numbers of officers figures correctly, she made them up!

She went from the policy of employing 10.000 police officers to 250.000 !!!, then 200 + maybe 50 !!!.

She went from the cost of employing 10.000 police officers from £300 . 000 to £80 Million and carried on drifting.

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Theresa May made one mistake in one scripted and practiced speech to a collection of Tory supporters who were hand picked to hear her.
Diane Abbott made some mistakes in an unrehearsed live interview after already done 6.
Forgive me for thinking it's much worse not to be able to remember your lines than to fluff a question
Anyway TM's was a Freudian slip she thinks all foreigners should be treated badly and prevented from staying or entering the UK. She just spoke the truth for once.

I think you have missed the point sunseeker

I dont suppose she gets her son's school fees wrong.

Trisher, she hadn't already done 6. Apparently that turned out to be untrue.

I gather she "misspoke" again on the number of council seats Labour had lost.

www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2017/may/05/diane-abbott-underestimates-labour-local-election-losses-video

Not having the best week is Diane Abbott.
But surely even she could have counted up to 6? She made the claim.