General election live: Diane Abbott says she has been banned from standing for Labour at election – BBC News

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17 comments

  1. Labour: just have to keep quiet in the news and should be on track for an election win.

    Diane Abbott: hold my whip.

  2. ‘on balance Mao did more good than harm’.

    Diane Abbott on Chairman Mao.

    Labour may actually win an election for the first time in 14 years.

    We just need the ship to hold steady, don’t do anything stupid, don’t fuck it up.

    This fanny just jumped back on board and is rocking and howling.

    She doesn’t give a fuck about the country, and would rather lose, again, as long as she’s in the spotlight.

  3. I’m sorry but if I were the Labour Party I’d have done the same thing. If she just ran in her constituency like the majority of MP’s do, then that would be sort of okay, but she has a habit of doing national press while being woefully under prepared. In the last election she was an absolute embarrassment. Police new recruits costing 10,000 a year springs immediately to mind. I’m sure she is an extremely intelligent woman, but the media find it very easy to make her look bat shit crazy, which is damaging to the party as a whole.

  4. A party for Natalie Elphicke but not Diane Abbott. Interesting.

  5. “banned” in the same way I am banned from standing for labour. 
    She’s not being chosen as a candidate. 

  6. Oh no!

    Anyway…

    She’s been saying stupid shit for decades now, the article wasn’t the first time shes been racist. For years she’s been grifting and now it’s caught up with her. Sad that most of the abuse she’s received is for being a black, working class female and not always the stuff she’s said but that article was the final nail in the coffin.

  7. Whatever you think about Abbott as a person or politician, she’s been treated abominably by the Party, the fact that Starmer has been openly lying about an “ongoing investigation” that he was well aware concluded in December for months should send alarm bells ringing – this is how they treat their factional enemies within the Party; they’ll behave in the exact same way towards anyone who questions them once they have control of the levers of state.

  8. We are already at that point where Labour have failed with keeping their head down and not not rocking the boat. 

  10. Oh look it’s that thing that I was assured definitely wouldn’t happen.

    Timing on this is baffling. Their campaign is just starting and now they’re just gonna get questions about this all week. Just so incompetent from the party

  12. They banned Jeremy Corbyn from standing. If they allowed Abbott to, then it would have been a double standard visible from space.

  13. Diane Abbott looks out for one person – Diane Abbott

    Another Corbynista gone, rejoice

  14. I think parties should be allowed to run who they like. Banning Abbot but not Elphicke says something about starmer but if that’s how he wants to run it he’s allowed to do so.

    What is a bit gash though is dragging the poor woman though the mud, fundraising on an attack on her and clearly stalling an investigation rather than cleanly letting her go 5 months ago. It’s needlessly cruel. 

  15. Another reason added to the long list of reasons why I am happy I’m not voting for Labour.

  16. Good, she’s an absolute disgrace and it is time she retired.

  17. If borderline personality disorder was a person I’m sure it’d look like Diane

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