Diane Abbott confirms she will run as Labour candidate in general election

29 comments

1. Good for her, I’m sure her constituents will be pleased to reelect her.

2. Why is this particular person on the headline for over a week? Why is she so special for labour?

3. Why are so MPs so selfish … it’s the type of role you would think would attract people who are interested in national service, but are actually obsessed with self service.

4. Dear Diane, I’m very happy for you but please just keep your mouth shut until the election is over.

5. Bullshit. I really wanna vote Labour but keeping this ancient has-been around is hilariously pathetic.

6. Correction, Diane Abbott runs as Diane Abbott (as she always does) and says she’s Labour because it suits her purposes to do so.

7. Oh goody, our next prime minister was absolutely outplayed by this complete pudding brain. Inspires such confidence.

8. Good news for the Tories and bad news for Labour. She is thick as mince.

9. Putting the story and controversy aside, she is 70 years old. Shouldn’t politicians of retirement age, step aside and let someone younger take over?

10. Personal ego more important than party performance. She’s 71 and seems to have reduced capability. Time to retire.

11. She’s an even bigger liability than Corbyn.
    The British voters are pretty centrist and really hate politicians with “agendas”.
    That’ll be at least one seat to the Lib Dems then.

12. Thought she wasn’t deciding anything until speaking to whoever on Tuesday?

13. Bodes badly for starmer if he’s getting pushed around like this already.

14. Basically by being a dick, they guaranteed the thing they didn’t want to happen. If they just shut up they would have been either in the same position but no press or writing lovely notes about how much hard work diane had done over the years

15. Lots of votes just went to Conservative / Reform.

    She will open her trap and say something stupid / racist and in 5,4,3…

16. I’m sure in her day she was amazing but she’s 70 and has no idea what the real concerns of the young people of Hackney are.

    She’s made a comparative fortune off the position, it’s time for her to move on and make way for someone who is ready to represent the constituency for the future rather than fight the battles of the past.

17. Good. Now, can we all concentrate on beating the f’ing Tories again.

18. Can’t stand Abbott, but kudos for earning to right to rightly stand again for her constituents.

19. Self absorbed person wants to do what she wants, regardless of what would benefit her party during a critical time.

20. OK, so all that stuff about Diane Abbott not running in the general election seems to have been a bit of a red herring.

21. Anyone taking bets on how long it is until she gets in trouble for saying something racist again?

    I’m betting it’ll be less than a year.

    If i was running the party, this would’ve been a golden opportunity to fuck her off for good. Nothing but a race-baiting liability. Shame they didn’t because this is just going to keep happening and the same argument being rehashed every time.

22. They should have blocked her. She is a total liability.

23. As racist and incompetent as they come but according to her she can’t be racist and insisting that she is racist makes you a racist you racist!

24. All Labour had to do to win was nothing. If they don’t…

25. Dianne abbot is just a walking advertisement for the tories…

26. She’s 71 in September and has clearly been declining mentally for some time. Those around her shouldn’t be letting her stellar reputation become so tarnished.

    Retire, go spend time with your family and friends.

27. This whole episode has been an embarrassment for Starmer and his allies.

    Just a few short weeks ago, Starmer, his frontbench, the NEC and Labour-adjacent media were telling everyone who’d listen that Abbot had engaged in unforgivable antisemitism, that she hadn’t followed the recommendations of the Labour disciplinary process and that she was a disgrace to the Party. Now they’ve having to endorse and support her as Labour candidate.

28. She’s 70 years old so £80K in the bank for bimbling along giving the impression she’s doing something and relying on the ethnic vote keeping her in the life she’s been accustomed to since 1987 is just brilliant for her. Personally, I wouldn’t give her the time of day as a useless has been that relies on racism to keep herself relevant.

29. Despite what’s happened recently she’s a fucking clown. Guess we are in for another 10 years of fuck storms.