Diane Abbott suspended as Labour MP.

[Sasaferrato]

Got 5 live on in the kitchen talking about Diane Abbot and a surprising amount of people phoning in saying that despite not agreeing with her politics they did not agree with the abysmal way she has/is being treated.

I think she has been treated abominably.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Ah so there was a deal and I just underestimated how petty and vindictive the party right is.

At a guess on Abbot's statement, trying to salvage the retirement angle by denying she's actively barred maybe?

If there was a deal, clearly they were hoping to keep it secret. They really are hopeless. Only way to show there wasn't a deal now would be for Abbott to stand again.

 

[GarveyLives]

so we know that there was a secret deal where she would be allowed to return but she would retire her seat
then this happens

Ah so there was a deal and I just underestimated how petty and vindictive the party right is.

"We" "know" that there was a "deal" based on the anonymous briefings from the same people that were claiming that the "investigation" "process" into Diane Abbott was "ongoing" until until that falsehood was exposed just over 24 hours ago?

 

[brogdale]

So that's cleared that up, then?

 

[Wilf]

I see starmer is saying she isn't banned but no decision has yet been made. What a loathsome human being he is. Banality/evil.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Backtracking furiously

Hopeless twats.

 

[Whagwan]

Wes Streeting on the defensive on LBC.

This Wes Streeting:

 

[Saul Goodman]

.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Backtracking furiously

Hopeless twats.

When you suddenly realise you misread the room.

 

[Wilf]

This is like some fucking case you get as a union rep. A petty but useless manager suspends a worker for months and then keeps muttering something about 'investigations' and complaints all the way up to a tribunal. Their aim is to get it out of time. Oh, hang on, it's not like that, it is that.

 

[ska invita]

This is like some fucking case you get as a union rep. A petty but useless manager suspends a worker for months and then keeps muttering something about 'investigations' and complaints all the way up to a tribunal. Their aim is to get it out of time. Oh, hang on, it's not like that, it is that.

EVERYTHING that they do is the work and mindset of a "useless manager"

 

[The39thStep]

Must say that I’ve had the impression for some time that this Labour Party leadership ie Starmer , Reeves , Rayner and Lammy etc would be tailor made to be cast as the management of Maplins in a remake of Hi De Hi .

 

[danny la rouge]

Schrödinger would love the bbc news website today. Every time I look at it it says something different about whether Abbott is standing for Labour!

 

[Raheem]

Must say that I’ve had the impression for some time that this Labour Party leadership ie Starmer , Reeves , Rayner and Lammy etc would be tailor made to be cast as the management of Maplins in a remake of Hi De Hi .

I can't imagine that Starmer would really nail a Swansea accent.

 

[Wilf]

Must say that I’ve had the impression for some time that this Labour Party leadership ie Starmer , Reeves , Rayner and Lammy etc would be tailor made to be cast as the management of Maplins in a remake of Hi De Hi .

Tbh, I get more of a Brittas Empire vibe.

 

[ska invita]

Must say that I’ve had the impression for some time that this Labour Party leadership ie Starmer , Reeves , Rayner and Lammy etc would be tailor made to be cast as the management of Maplins in a remake of Hi De Hi .

As a regular at Maplins (RIP Maplins) I think that's close but no quite right....howabout DFS Sofas...and its a bank holiday coming up....

 

[Wilf]

As a regular at Maplins (RIP Maplins) I think that's close but no quite right....howabout DFS Sofas...and its a bank holiday coming up....

'We've been very clear that these for one day only price cuts are affordable and costed...'.

 

[Wilf]

Dennis Potter came out with it 30 years ago, but he surely had the future Labour leader in mind when he coined the phrase croak voiced Dalek.

 

[ska invita]

Dennis Potter came out with it 30 years ago, but he surely had the future Labour leader in mind when he coined the phrase croak voiced Dalek.

When Starmer gets agitated (talking about the police or what not) he goes full dalek for sure. Hah Dennis Potter, knew his rotten onions

 

[Karl Masks]

I thought you only got this kind of chaos with Jeremy Corbyn

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'd love it if Abbott was the source of the leak and is now using the leak as a way to stand again.

No idea if she is deviously inclined like that, but it's possible. Would serve them right if they really did offer her this deal. If she now says 'yes, I'd like to stand again please', how do they say no?

 

[eatmorecheese]

What an absolute shitshow.

He sticks his index finger up his arse, makes it moist then holds it aloft to see which way the wind blows.

A confirmed lying coward.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Must say that I’ve had the impression for some time that this Labour Party leadership ie Starmer , Reeves , Rayner and Lammy etc would be tailor made to be cast as the management of Maplins in a remake of Hi De Hi .

Tbh, I get more of a Brittas Empire vibe.

 

[kenny g]

If she does get to stand again she will not exactly be lobby fodder material.

 

[Rob Ray]

This will now actively be worse than if he'd bitten the bullet one way or the other. He can't claim ruthlessness if he's saying they never took a decision, or avoid accusations of petty behaviour given how obvious it is, and he leaves himself wide open for Tories saying (correctly) "look, these people can't even manage a straightforward disciplinary let alone an economy."

Honestly surprised Starmer did that, part of his pitch is that he's decisive.

 

[ska invita]

If she now says 'yes, I'd like to stand again please', how do they say no?

I think she is going to retire - thats just a hunch. And all this is tomorrows chip paper

 

[Wilf]

This will now actively be worse than if he'd bitten the bullet one way or the other. He can't claim ruthlessness if he's saying they never took a decision, or avoid accusations of petty behaviour given how obvious it is, and he leaves himself wide open for Tories saying (correctly) "look, these people can't even manage a straightforward disciplinary let alone an economy."

Honestly surprised Starmer did that, part of his pitch is that he's decisive.

Yep to all of that. Next to Corbyn, Abbot is probably the next in line if you want to prove that Labour has wiped out any kind of social democratic inclinations. From his shitty perspective, there would have been resistance to an early decision to ban her, but plenty of political capital. Well, I'll qualify that, not so much political capital in terms of the normal meaning of the phrase, more about wiping out Daily Mail attack lines. An entirely nasty and unprincipled line of logic, but there was a logic there, as you say.

Sorry, this has probably been cleared up before: Abbott had already been selected by her Constituency a while back. Did that get wiped out when they had the 'investigation'? If so. I'm guessing that isn't always the case for the various Labour MPs who have been accused and then 'cleared' of sexual harassment and the like. Or is it something along the lines that all previously selected candidates have to be re-confimred by the NEC once an election is called?

 

[Sue]

Honestly surprised Starmer did that, part of his pitch is that he's decisive.

It's like people who go on about being great managers. Leaders even. Except they're just fucking shit at all of it.

He certainly comes out of this looking very slippery and dishonest. (Not that I thought he was a great bloke before mind.)

 

[Sue]

Sorry, this has probably been cleared up before: Abbott had already been selected by her Constituency a while back. Did that get wiped out when they had the 'investigation'? If so. I'm guessing that isn't always the case for the various Labour MPs who have been accused and then 'cleared' of sexual harassment and the like. Or is it something along the lines that all previously selected candidates have to be re-confimred by the NEC once an election is called?

Who knows. I'm sure they'll make some shit up though and then have to backtrack as that seems the way of things at the moment.