Friday, January 19, 2007

Diane Abbott, Little England hater apparently…

I’ll be honest, I really, really do not like Diane Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. If there is one thing that really winds me up is the way supposedly firebrand politicians manage not to let their Soviet radicalism seep into their own domestic environs. And Diane Abbott is in the Premier League when it comes to the ‘don’t do as I do, do as I say’ brigade. I mean, super radicalism is OK for the masses, but for Ms Abbott and her public school attending kid? Nah, not bloody likely mate!

I remember when the Press found out about her kid attending a fee-paying school. Unforgivably, she cited a kind of institutionalised racism within the state school sector as the excuse to whip her kid out and place him with the Cuthberts, Algenons and Clarences of this world. Why did she do that – why not be honest and just say. "I want my kid to go to public school because I’m a selfish money grabbing fraud parading as a firebrand left wing politician who doesn’t believe anything I preach when it comes to my family. Just like Ruth Kelly, Charlie Falconer and Tony Blair"…

I always watch This Week on a Thursday night. Host Andrew Neil is brilliant, regular punters, Michael Portillo is objective and intelligent – and Diane Abbott? Mostly out of her depth. Her coping strategy for being amongst brains as sharp as steel traps is to jibe, snide and belittle both discussions and invited guests. If she doesn’t agree or disagree – she rubbishes, that’s what she does. And she does it all the time.

Last night she had a go at me – and most probably you (if you believe in a parliament for England). The question of the Union came up - Michael Portillo believes the current constitutional set up of the UK is unsustainable, Abbott condemned him as a ‘Little Englander’ from the Little England Party. When Neil asked her what she would do about it, she ignored his question, preferring to accuse the Tories of whipping up ‘Little England’ tendencies from the shires of middle England. She couldn’t see a problem when Brown takes over as PM and starts to dictate to the people of England.

Portillo tried to spell it out, what the West Lothian question meant, how unfair it was, how people in England were getting seriously fed up with it. Andrew Neil told her that the biggest issue and the biggest emailed response he gets on his ‘Daily Politics’ programme is always about asymmetric devolution and the West Lothian question. Michael Portillo nodded in agreement, Diane Abbott played the ‘Little England’ card.. "That’s just the Little Englanders complaining" she said as she tried to condemn us all to a democratic voidyness. She reckoned that once Gordon got his feet under the table everything would be OK.

Ms Abbott, this 6’ 3" twenty stoner is not happy at such dreadfully negative psycho babble – nor is he a Little Englander for that matter…

4 comments:

Gareth said...

I was astounded by her ignorance.

She actually said that only allowing English constituency MPs to vote on English issues would be like only allowing MPs with army bases in their constituency to vote on defence matters.

The woman is a fucking retard.

It was a similar argument to that put forward by Tom Harris MP when asked why he should get to vote on English matters:

The argument that I should not vote on matters that don’t affect my constituency is also, I believe, wrong. I am not gay, but I am happy to vote on civic partnerships. Neither am I disabled - does that mean I should not vote on disability rights matters? I am not a woman, so perhaps I should abstain when it comes to abortion issues?

Actually Tom, you are gay, in the newest sense of the word

Snafu said...

Why doesn't Labour accuse the SNP of being "Little Scotlanders" or Plaid Cmyru of being "Little Welshies"?

Is she being racist by describing us as "Little Englanders"?

Anonymous said...

Jack is medium height I'll have you know,

Tommy said...

She is probably really upset that she was born in England and is in reality actually ... English!
Ooooh the shame! He He