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  1. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    & the figures.
     
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  2. balkan tiger

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    Boris Johnson went to Eton, you wouldn't think so when you see him speak in public.

    Education it seems is not a good measure of a politicians worth.
     
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  3. Leon T Trout AFC

    Leon T Trout AFC Well-Known Member

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    It's like one of those seven way leader debates x 10.

    Hard to keep up and maintain stuff I'm doing/ needs to be done


    - apologies if I've missed any replies.
     
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  4. Barchullona

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    She Cambridge educated. I take it you are not? When did Hammond make mistakes in the cost of employing people? Any video links to other politicians being worse at figures?
     
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  5. Sir Cheshire Ben

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    There’s a whole host of them. They generally go unnoticed because they’re not picked up on by misogynistic racists.
     
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  6. Barchullona

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    Wilson and Powell were the two politicians with the highest educational attainments. Major was probably the least.
     
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  7. The B&S Fanclub

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    And....Where is Diane Abbott? Much like who is and where is Jacob Rees-Mogg?
     
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  8. DMD

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    To be fair, it's mainly you referencing her colour and gender, others just seem to be commenting on what they perceive as her competence.
     
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  9. Barchullona

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    Should be easy to give a few examples if there so many of them then. Otherwise it could be thought you are giving knee jerk responses without any foundation.
     
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  10. The B&S Fanclub

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    Someone needs to shake his wardrobe. I bet you some right skeletons would fall out!
     
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  11. Barchullona

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    I perceive her incompetence.
     
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  12. City Man

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    Deeply untrustworthy, just ask her colleagues and constituents.

    "Diane Abbott has been accused of cowardice and asked to apologise by a fellow Labour MP after missing the historic article 50 vote on Wednesday evening.

    Despite claims from the shadow home secretary’s office that she had fallen ill with a sudden migraine, John Mann claimed she “gave herself a sick note” rather than help to trigger Britain’s exit from the EU.

    The absence of Abbott, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, meant she did not have to choose between leaving the shadow cabinet or disappointing a majority of voters in Hackney North and Stoke Newington who wish to remain in the EU.

    She went home at around 5pm on Wednesday, two hours before the vote took place where Labour MPs had been ordered to vote for article 50 to be triggered.


    Questions were raised about her absence after she had taken an active part in a debate in Westminster less than 90 minutes before she left the Commons.

    Appearing on the BBC’s News channel, Mann, the MP for Bassetlaw, said her failure to vote was “quite extraordinary”.

    “We have some very, very ill people who turned up to parliament to vote yesterday who are so sick they cannot carry on with their work as MPs. They voted and she gave herself a sick note at 5pm.

    “We all know what is going on here. She bottled the vote. It is cowardice. You don’t abstain on the big votes. It is embarrassing to see that. She ought to give an apology to the Labour party for doing so. That is not leadership, that’s cowardice.

    “Hiding away from big votes is not the way we should be doing things. And she should have been in with me and Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell in voting the Labour line. She wasn’t, and that’s not very clever,” he added.

    Friends of Abbott said she developed a “really bad migraine” shortly before 5pm and went home soon afterwards. She informed close colleagues including those in Corbyn’s office about her illness before leaving, it is understood.

    “She had worked a very busy schedule all day. She went home because she was not well and told everyone who needed to know before she did so,” one friend said.

    Her spokesperson said Abbott would not wish to respond to Mann’s comments, adding that she planned to be back in the Commons on Monday.

    Abbott, 63, a close ally of Corbyn, was seen having a drink with colleagues in the Red Lion pub next to the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday night."
     
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  13. balkan tiger

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    Should I go back and edit my post to include "these days" at the end?
     
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  14. Phinius T Bookbinder

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    It’s not in my Manifesto
     
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  15. City Man

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    Hidden away like Keir Starmer and Lady Nugee.

    Box office poison.
     
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    How racist of him to criticise Saint Diane.
     
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  17. Asterix

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    I do. This is the land of all free. A lorry load of frozen bodies, bought the ticket to the land of plenty.
     
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  18. Sir Cheshire Ben

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    That’s only half the page?
     
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  19. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    The abuse she receives is based on her colour, but you know that.
     
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  20. Ric Glasgow

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    Perhaps she might be at home lecturing her Cambridge educated son on the right's and wrongs of allegedly assaulting 2 police officers.
     
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