Diane Abbot in car crash interview

Stand down everyone, it's OK.

Good old Diane has said she 'misspoke' about this subject. So that's OK then.

The actual policy of having 10,000 more new cops was good, but policies have to be efficiently presented by competent politicians. And Diane Crash Abbot was badly fumbling over her figures £300,000 or £80million......Just listened again, was she drunk or something, that was stunningly unprofessional.

That's absolutely amazing ThebetterBettor.

I'm sure everyone will forgive Diane when they realise Donald Trump got an American Civil War date wrong.

Carry on Diane all is forgiven.

TELL DEL, she's like every time  she appears on This Week.

Mind you the others they have in her place are as bad.

drunk on the vapours of power.dont blame her or mizz butler but the people who vote for them.foiostered upon on us by the likes of chevette cooper,harpoon etc promoting multi culturisim,women only,etc short lists to get women,ethnic minorities into positions  of power and these charlatans are what you end up with

She is not fit for purpose; never has been.

If Catweazle wants to do anything in the election then bin her unmercifully..

There's an old Army adage called the 7P's she might look at applying:

Prior Planning & Preparation Prevents P1ss Poor Performance.

What cuts have there been to capital gains tax?

she makes princess tony seem like a quarter wit bless

Watched a Blair interview on a Sky feature yesterday. Answers were levels above what the current lot muster

just not to the questions he was asked,

trying to make him not sound so thick zazu

May 2, 2017 -- 1:33PM, Zazu wrote:

Watched a Blair interview on a Sky feature yesterday. Answers were levels above what the current lot muster

was he talking with his hands like a psychopathic double glazing salesmen and using words like look and listen a lot ?

you,ve got to love sky booting a dead dog like labour as it,s laid on the ground,saying their 300 million quid bill for extra police will cost 350 mill if their pay goes up with inflation even though its capped at 1% max

Don't you just love the way those communists were marching under giant portraits of the mass murderer "Uncle Joe" Stalin? I wonder if the shadow chancellor was carrying his copy of the little red book by Chairman Mao, someone responsible for even more deaths than Stalin, when he was in power.

just an inconvenient truth foinavon,is venezuela still their economic role model?

It wouldn't surprise me,Barrowboy. Didn't he say he wanted to borrow half a trillion to spend on the public sector? Nice while it lasts.

It wouldn't surprise me,Barrowboy. Didn't he say he wanted to borrow half a trillion to spend on the public sector? Nice while it lasts.

Whoops

Same old biased right wing reporting of this , the tories on the phone and all over the airwaves making a mountain out of a molehill , sure yes she was very poor in the interview but is that clown Johnson any better ? , I don't think so still its more false news to feed to the sheep

Maybe anxious, but these are precisely the sort of moments that resonate with the public - the woman is Shadow Home Secretary for crying out loud.

Not false news at all.She made a right cows arse of that interview and for Corbyn to come out and say it wasn't embarrassing tells you all you need to know about the man.Comparing Johnson to Abbot is like comparing Barcelona to Leyton Orient.Labour are a busted flush and Abbots abysmal performance this morning just underlined that fact.

Jed do you really believe most of them are not briefed by advisors and the civil service when in power , yes I agree it was a poor interview and I don't think she is of high calibre anyway , but the fact is that the real policies are never debated and what we are left with is tit-for tat ya boo confrontations all the time , and then people moan about the standard of most of them , that's why the public disengage and would rather watch Emmerdale.

Of course she would have been briefed.  Which makes her performance all the more cringe-worthy.

For your policies to be debated you need some basic grasp of words and numbers for people to know what the hell you are talking about.

The latest opinion polls for the general election have been released after being commissioned by Diane:

CON = -75%
LAB = 28,000%
LIBDEM = 30 miles per hour
UKIP = 2 apples + 3 bananas

Perhaps she thought that as it was on LBC it wouldn't matter as only stupid Labour voters in London would hear it?

In a way, it would have been more newsworthy if she'd actually said something coherent. 

Is there ANY Labour supporter who thinks this woman is an asset to the Labour Party, and a valuable contributor to public life?  The sums of public money spent on this individual in the last 30 years must be staggering.

^^^^ but no doubt she thinks she has spent her life in 'public service'

someone was joking on a thread recently suggesting corbyn was a tory stooge maybe diane abbot is too

Fairly obvious if it wasn't for the ethnic vote the toxic Abbot would be dead in the water by now.

the greens did the same thing a couple of years ago - housing.

The actual message is true though since 2010 the numbers of police have been cut by 20 thousand , so much for the tory lie about being the party of law and order , but no people would rather attack somebody who has made a mistake , the utter hypocrisy of the Establishment and its messengers in full flow.

shirley a warning - the result of 'discrimination in certain groups as candidates'  Exclude men. Exclude whites. Amazing scenes.

Very good Kit Kat!!

Apparently the true cost of 10k Plod is way, way above £80m given it takes 13k to train them. Then there's equipment etc.

Is there ANY Labour supporter who thinks this woman is an asset to the Labour Party, and a valuable contributor to public life?

Jeremy Corbyn obviously does,the country needs the BBC to use her high profile more during the election run in ! No doubt she will end up in the House of Lords as Jezza's payoff when he has to stand down in July.

they were talking on the radio about the interview damaging her credibility. does rather beg the obvious response

channel4 news

hung/drawn/quartered

smell a rat here somewhere, even before flabbott flunked her figures there,d be a sky operation to rubbish the policy,

on paper there surely isnt even a hedge fund manager that could argue that stopping a cut to capital gains tax to fund police numbedrs isnt a good idea,yet sky were questioning abbott as though a perfectly sensible policy was bonkers

Corbyn would have coppers walking around with plastic truncheons and unloaded guns.

anxious 02 May 17 11:32
Politics now is all about image and soundbites  all a product of Thatcher Spiv culture

Haven't read whole thread but this can't go unchallenged.

Tony Blair introduced this country to spin, cliche, soundbite, key word politics and it was the labour supporters that fell for it and voted him in.

No matter what they profess now about Blair, they voted him in and are responsible for what happened afterwards

anxious    02 May 17 18:58 
The actual message is true though since 2010 the numbers of police have been cut by 20 thousand , so much for the tory lie about being the party of law and order , but no people would rather attack somebody who has made a mistake , the utter hypocrisy of the Establishment and its messengers in full flow.

true police numbers have been cut but more efficient use of the police budget as seen crime reduce drastically, if an automatic jail sentence was introduced for the first offence of carrying a knife instead of the second then that would make a difference.

wouldn't it be funny if Corbyn was to sack her? I might vote for him.

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Then just make it up

Absolute class

making it up was worse

i thought the funniest bit was when her feminist brainwashing kicked in,even though she was up to her neck in it with the figures & ferrari was querying her request for 250,000 more policemen she still needed to blurt out "& women",as though that was more important than the ridiculous figure she'd just spouted.

250,000 coppers at 80,000,000..works out they get paid £320 A YEAR EACH , THATS ABOUT £6.15P A WEEK .THEY WOULD LEAVE AND GO TO SPORTS DIRECT

she now as two minders to keep press away

Abbott is not only intellectually lacking she is also arrogant, which is a very dangerous combination in one seeking high office. Her incompetence in this interview was obvious, but her arrogance would not allow her to do what any reasonable person would have done - admit at the outset that they did not know - so instead she embarked on an ever-worsening string of outright guesses which quickly descended into farce. One of the most embarrassing political interviews ever.

So the tories are perfect at this interviewing lark are they do you not remember John Nott throwing his microphones at Robin day?

Or Micheal Howard refusing to answer Paxmans question 16 times was it ?

I though Miliband was unelectable but Corbyn & Abbott are in a different class when it comes to unelectability.

anx,just admit it she was too bad to defend and move on. If Labour can't understand why she is such a liablity its worrying (its not race,not gender,etc,etc), she is just not good enough.

She was very poor tree , simply not up to the task everybody knows that.

250,000 coppers at 80,000,000..works out they get paid £320 A YEAR EACH , THATS ABOUT £6.15P THEY WOULD LEAVE AND GO TO SPORTS DIRECT

Under the Tories, nurses allegedly going to food banks

Labours answer send the old bill there instead

she new the private school bills

did she go to Oxford Uni ?

Abbott's office has just confirmed Labour intend to recruit one policeman and pay him £300million. Apparently, this will be easier for Diane to remember.

She is a shoo in for Chancellor of the exchequer.
If by a miracle Labour win the election (never underestimate the electorate) she can handle the Brexit money negotiations.
The EU will surrender in a week. 

Is there ANY Labour supporter who thinks this woman is an asset to the Labour Party

I would suggest the black girl who is always standing behind Worzel might think so.

She was holding his brolly the other day. I bet she makes a nice cake..

proberly not the only thing she"ll be holding

Yes she is a disaster in waiting and yes the interview with Ferrari was abject beyond words, however yesterday, Theresa May's 'peeps' locked a load of journalists in a room to prevent them asking her questions about her parties policies. Richard Graham (Tory MP) claimed some permanent degenerative diseases 'got better' - yet was unable to give a single example of this miracle. There's also this allegation about HSBC giving dirty money to the Conservative Party coffers but, oh just go back to having your news agenda set for you....I'm sure it'll all work out just fine.

As for the truth

Fully over-headed cost of a Met Police officer is £75,883 pa. Mersey Police is £68,046 pa.

Labour's 10,000 extra bobbies costs 680-758 million pa.

fooooooooook me putting aside the woeful abbott and any other promises made for a second,
is there a single serious unselfish person alive who given the choice by the governing party to either

A, PUT MORE BOBBIES ON THE BEAT
B, GIVE A CAPITAL GAINS TAX BREAK

99% of people voting wouldnt no what capital gains tax was and wouldnt be able to quote you the current figure,there,s a 1000 posts over this forum about abbott but the current figure and the cut figure arn,t mentioned once

This is what happens 1tp when the tory lie machine gets into full spin , the real message is lost

the message was lost yesterday because dianne abbott walked into lbc studios not knowing her **** from her elbow,not because of any conspiracy.if you have a good message present it properly,no ones fault apart from her own.

my short political career over - volunteered to put election leaflets oot - two went mental because I pressed button to get in stairwell

Green Party

The state of the Labour Party is lamentable when people like Abbot are positions of authority. I haven't even heard the interview yet but heard her defending it or trying to.

There is no money for what we need...decent houses, decent jobs, a decent Health Service, decent schools. Where is Labour going to find the money?

Here are some other questions...why do we need Trust's, why can't we Double Irish our wages? why doesn't the Tax Man come to lunch with us to discuss how much we decide to pay in tax? How can someone's wife live in Monaco and yet receive all his wages tax free? Why didn't the Government use Tax Payers money to bail us out of credit card debt? Why did the Government bail out rich people who lent money to corrupt Governments like Greece?

The fact is the real mug is not Dianne Abbott. It is us. We are here to serve the rich and powerful and do nothing and let people like Dianne Abbott represent us. This really has to stop if we are to be nothing more than serfs.

There is no money for us and our needs because the rich are taking more and more of it.

That is the real crime WD, the quality of candidates is abysmal and allows for parties to promote members based on their readiness to join in rather than any spurious claims to ability and competence.

But does not the system reward the arrogant and deluded?

How many honest, straight talking politicians ever get near the front benches?

I would promote Frank Field in Labour, a decent bloke who would win Labour a million votes if he were more prominentin their party .

It's aaaaa uuuummmmmm dddeeeerrrr ooooohhh uuuummmmmmm welllllll ooooohhhhhh um aaaahhhh...............That was a political party message on behalf of the Labour Party.  Well done agent Abbott, we'll have to pull you out soon, even Jeremy will cotton on that no one can be that thick ! Actually hang on............

May 3, 2017 -- 7:02PM, Injera wrote:

But does not the system reward the arrogant and deluded? How many honest, straight talking politicians ever get near the front benches?

It's a collusion in deception with the Electorate though.

Firstly, there a re huge swathes who vote the same way as they've always done and therefore can be taken for granted. I've always been in constituencies that have a solid majority for one party so my democratic effect has been negligible in my lifetime. Point being, you can take these people for a ride and they just stare out the windows (or lick them, more likely).

Then you've got this charade that we can have decent public services, armed forces, no potholes in the roads without having to pay for them. Any candidate approaching this issue with honesty wouldn't get a sniff of power.

We can't even speak honestly. We are allowed to say 'Asian Rape Gangs' (which they are not) but not 'Muslim Rape Gangs' (which they are). Colonise language, tell people which words they can and cannot use, irrespective of context (Folks I give you the phrase 'The 'N' word' used extensively by grown adults) and you end up dancing on a pinhead discussing syntax rather than homelessness and literacy levels.

Nick Clegg's political career ended when the Liberal's had to support the introduction of tuition fees in a coalition government where they were the minor party. Instead of apologising he should have fronted it up and gone 'Honestly? This is real-politik. If you wanted free tuition you should have voted for us in larger numbers. You didn't and so I'm having to retain some degree of honour by taking collective responsibility for this policy.' Honesty - which I would have respected but he'd rather apologise.

good post Sir Roger

Ditto,

Agree totally roger, I don't agree with Labours borrow now pay later promise's Im not to sure either how the Tories low tax party pans out. If we don't all pay our fair share how does society function ? However given the choices I'll stick with Theresa

imagine if everyone in the country took the torys at their word and didnt borrow to pay later and lived within their means ,the country would be bankrupt within a year.even the richest in the country dont use or invest their own money but borrow it from somewhere,

I think Abbots plan was not to have 10,000 from day one, but 10,000 at year four.  e.g. 1,000 extra year one, 2,000 extra year two, 3,000 extra year three, 4,000 extra year four.

That way they can say 10,000 extra police and say a relatively small budget( whatever it was she finally come up with!)   Of course, the ongoing cost would be great after year four.

I am not sure she has the brain to remember that though.

Good stuff roger.

One issue I'd take though which does in fact reinforce your point....Clegg's career is NOT finished and neither is Blair's or Osbourne's and neither is Alistair Campbell's..

They continue to get air time, peddling their garbage.  They're front and centre of debate and so their profile increases leading to new jobs and even greater income and so the merry go round of idiots spouting lies continues..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4469820/Diane-Abbott-MP-100k-tax-payers-cash-TV-speeches.htm

Shadow Home Secretary has been paid more than £110,000 in licence fee payers' money for her political knowledge on the BBC's This Week at £700 an appearance since 2003.

Ms Abbott is also in demand as a speaker – earning thousands more for appearing at literary festivals and corporate events.

She also earned £4,000 from speaking on a Thomson Reuters panel in the aftermath of the last election and £500 for taking part in the Selfridges Beauty Project'.

In 2014, Ms Abbott was paid £2,000 for speaking at a 'Citywealth Power Women lunch' in January; £1,000 for making a speech at a 'diversity event' that same month; £2,500 plus expenses for speaking at a 'Women in Politics' event in Jersey in July and £2,000 to talk at the BNP Paribas-sponsored black history event in October.

Selfridges Beauty Project'... was she the 'before' in a 'before and after' session?

700 quid is that what they get for going on this week with Andrew neil

A head like a Boxer

Would Not Get a Kick in a stampede

Abbots has just released a statement saying her figures are correct.

Mike Ashley is being put in charge of the pay structure .

1 in every 10 working people in the UK looks like they will be police officers , like the way she tried to blame him for mentioning 250,000 too.

I wouldn't trust her to count her fingers and thumbs correctly, never mind putting her in charge of anything.

Flabbott is at it again:

https://order-order.com/2017/05/05/new-diane-abbott-maths-fail-local-elections-special/

Diane Abbott is asked by ITN if she knows how Labour are doing in the local elections:

Reporter: Do you know the number of net losses so far for Labour?

Diane Abbott: At the time of doing this interview I think the net losses are about 50.

Reporter: There are actually 125 net losses so far.

Abbott: Well the last time I looked we had net losses of about 100 but obviously this is a moving picture.


Expect Diane to be asked a numbers question every single time she’s near a reporter until June 8…

A possible move to 'Countdown' in the offing?

Here's another number for you all to try and wrap your head around….Abbott is 1/200 to retain her Hackney North constituency.

You ain't no Vorderman sis!

Abbott on Countdown.

Numbers chosen 100, 25, 10, 6, 5, 1, target 621.

Abbott's solution 100 x 10 then divide by 25 x 6 and add 5 + 1.

There you go 621 if I'm not mistaken.

It's going to be a Tory landslide isn't it

May 4, 2017 -- 7:41PM, casemoney wrote:

Would Not Get a Kick in a stampede

Diane Abbott.... I honestly wouldn't kick her out of bed.












I'd have to hire a fecking forklift.

Its utterly astonishing that she has any position of responsibility in the Labour party, in fact its astonishing she can hold down any kind of job at all. She`s an imbecile, who is so far up her own aSS its untrue. Utterly unemployable in my opinion. The latest car crash is just another in a long line,  - Chairman Mao - despite killing zillions - being a force for "good"..... West Indian Mums better than any other Mums and given the chance to change that she wouldnt....the free taxi rides you and I have been paying for her to get home.....how whitey likes to play divide and rule.....how comprehensive schools are the best for everybody, but Im sending mine to private schools....Im a traditional Labour voter, and have never voted Tory, but this vile wretched person has given me no choice but to vote Tory or abstain

Yes it will be a Tory landslide ;when the chips are down the great majority of people in this country are prepared to vote sensibly;they can recognise a dead duck when they see it. The Labour party will come back in one form or another and as soon as they replace the present shambolic leadership with someone like Hilary Benn at the helm they can start to rebuild themselves .It's not that long ago that the Conservatives lost the plot and quite rightly were punished by the electorate and yet they came back.....everything in life just goes round in circles.

I daren't write my views on Abbott as someone would undoubtedly get me banned and i'm on a 'last chance' having been accused of a racist comment when Yaya Toure threw his toys out of the pram when Man City 'dissed' him by not giving him a big enough birthday present.Oh for a successor to Enoch Powell and an end to political correctness.A spade is a spade,not a shovel.

Have to agree with your post posy,they take turns being useless and then recover to be less useless and back into government. It does worry me that Labour can be so bad and not understand where they are just now. Hague and IDS spring to mind in a similar state.