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Concern mounts over Dianne Abbot's health as she falls seriously ill yet again - just prior to one-on-one interview live on Woman's hour today.


Coming so soon after she was sadly afflicted with migraine which prevented her from voting on Article 50, genuine conern mounts over such a key shadow cabinet member.


Show her your support by voting for her on 8th as none of us want to miss out on her contributions in the future.

Dianne's trouble is she's had it too good for too long, with a nice comfy seat. And who wouldn't enjoy that, along with sending her boy to private shool.


Only now she gets a shot at the bigger stage, and she's unfit for the gig at hand. All the years of defending 'the party' and saying 'MANDATE' as many times as a human being can, have left her thin on policy matters, and here right now is when policy matters matter.


She might have been able to guff her way through meetings with her own party, constituency, on a TV debate. But the nitty gritty is beyond her and she's been found out.


Plus she's developed that slow-slow style of answer, which under pressure just comes across as time wasting.


Lastly, she's irritating beyond measure, she knows it, and plays on it.

Windrush Wrote:

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> Concern mounts over Dianne Abbot's health as she

> falls seriously ill yet again - just prior to

> one-on-one interview live on Woman's hour today.

>

> Coming so soon after she was sadly afflicted with

> migraine which prevented her from voting on

> Article 50, genuine conern mounts over such a key

> shadow cabinet member.

>

> Show her your support by voting for her on 8th as

> none of us want to miss out on her contributions

> in the future.


*chuckles to self

hardly a reason to vote fore someone... coz they're "ill"

*continues chuckling

Seabag Wrote:

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> Dianne's trouble is she's had it too good for too

> long, with a nice comfy seat. And who wouldn't

> enjoy that, along with sending her boy to private

> shool.

>

> Only now she gets a shot at the bigger stage, and

> she's unfit for the gig at hand. All the years of

> defending 'the party' and saying 'MANDATE' as many

> times as a human being can, have left her thin on

> policy matters, and here right now is when policy

> matters matter.

>

> She might have been able to guff her way through

> meetings with her own party, constituency, on a TV

> debate. But the nitty gritty is beyond her and

> she's been found out.

>

> Plus she's developed that slow-slow style of

> answer, which under pressure just comes across as

> time wasting.

>

> Lastly, she's irritating beyond measure, she knows

> it, and plays on it.



I'm not qualified to know what's culture and what's just her - Lots of Jamaicans I speak to speak to speak very slowly and I have read that she works very hard and well between giving bad interviews


It did feel a little racist this morning when two posh white people (Keir Starmer being interviewed by Sarah Jane Mee) were talking about her with her having no ability to respond.

There wasn't really any pressure on her on the Brillo show though. It was generally a relaxed environment where opposing views weren't seriously challenged, and consensus was seen as a good thing


Now that she's having to be more partisan and is being challenged in detail, she's been found out.

Maybe - she shouldn't get drawn into the detail then - There's something uncomfortable in my view about the way she's being demonised (Sky just did it again - "someone like Diane Abbott") - but she'll recover :)


I'm not usually that PC either - if someone says check your privilege - I normally say - yeah, I've got it :)

Last night's Evening Standard went so far but today's Times provide's puts more flesh on yesterdays health bulletin.

QUOTE...


Diane Abbott appeared to have been spotted at a London tube station chatting on her phone yesterday after pulling out of a debate on Radio 4?s Woman?s Hour because of illness.


A Twitter user named Nick Astaire posted a photograph yesterday morning with the caption ?@BBCWomansHour this is a picture of Dianne Abbot in Oxford Circus tube station at 8.40am this morning ? not seeming very unwell #whdebate.?


Ms Abbott then appeared to be caught out by an email prankster who sent her a message purporting to be from Seumas Milne, Mr Corbyn?s director of communications. She apparently said in a response: ?Do you still want to add colour to the illness story? If so maybe we should speak.? In reply to a second email from ?@Sinon_Reborn?, she said: ?I am not sure what colour I can add . . . I am worried about telling untruths about my health which are easily disproved?.


http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/savedelhi/Public%20Album/Abbot_zpssygh7raz.jpg

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JohnL Wrote:

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> Everyone thinks she's pretending to be ill - but I

> see signs of stress and distress and I'm beginning

> to hate the term "car crash interview".

>

> It can't be nice when you're portrayed as a

> national joke.


It didn't start here.


Andrew Neil used to constantly seek to embarrass her on This Week. And easily succeeded but I used to feel for her.


So even for a long time pre election, she showed she wasn't up to the required level, that's needed to cope with the political sparring that you can expect at the top in politics. Especially when the heat is on.

JohnL


I see that you already mentioned This Week - I however had a very different take on it.


I think Portillo was supportive and kind, so their interaction may have been as you said - but her interactions with Andrew Neil were embarrassing towards the end. Almost like he was trying to "embarrass" her out of the programme.

Jules-and-Boo Wrote:

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> A bit late in the game for a substitute, had to be

> done though.

>

> Is there enough time to reassure the voting masses

> that Lyn Brown is up to it?


Tories on my Twitter timeline have accused her of kicking a blind mans dog :(


Hope it's a load of rubbish

Why does it matter whether Brown is up to it (if you mean the HS job)? - Diane's only tactically 'out' until she's 'better'.


She has not resigned or been replaced in the usual sense. She's just been side-lined (to try to save votes) in a way that doesn't look so embarrassing and obvious as it did yesterday.


Her email in response to the fake one speaks volumes! Anyone who is not being intellectually dishonest can see that!!


Cynics might say that sleeping with Jezza, back in the day, means she can't be booted out for long.

It's easy gone cynical and I'm suspicious myself I must admit (it looks like she's been sidelined following some poor performances). But it is also possible that she is actually unwell. It might even explain why she's been so far off her game of late.
Maybe she really is ill? Not all health problems are as easy to spot as a broken leg. Given the timing it's natural that Labour's head of comms would be under pressure to package it into a neat statement that can be made to fit in with the bigger story. Cockup rather than conspiracy, perhaps. Also natural for other parties and the media to jump all over it, if distasteful.

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