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Diane Abbott - Coward?
Diane Abbot wasn't 'too ill' to make a statement about Donald Trump at 5pm, but was 'too ill' to vote in possibly the most important vote of her parliamentary career.
She had a choice:
(1) follow the whip (2) follow her constituency vote. She did neither and instead chose to go home.
This is the height of corwardice.
I appreciate she is one of Corbyn's allies (speaks volumes in itself!) but should he make a stand and get shot?
Personally, I'd like to see the back of this utterly absurd woman.
She had a choice:
(1) follow the whip (2) follow her constituency vote. She did neither and instead chose to go home.
This is the height of corwardice.
I appreciate she is one of Corbyn's allies (speaks volumes in itself!) but should he make a stand and get shot?
Personally, I'd like to see the back of this utterly absurd woman.
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Gromit is correct in that this vote wasn't the most important vote in her parliamentary career - but he's only correct from a result point of view given that it was a foregone conclusion.
However, without question it absolutely was the most important vote of her parliamentary career from an integrity point of view.
Had she had the courage to vote, whichever way she would have voted would, in my view, have shown integrity.
If she had followed the whip, rightly or wrongly, she could have held her head up high and declared she had voted the way she did not just because of the whip but to support the party.
If she had voted as her constituency had voted, she could have held her head up high and said she had voted as her constituents required her to do as their representative.
She did neither.
And in doing neither has betrayed her party and her constituents.
Other Labour MPs showed their integrity.
She should be thoroughly ashamed of herself.
The 'illness' she claimed to have had is utter cobblers.
She is a liar, an embarrassment, a coward, a liability and a joke.
Patheticness personified.
However, without question it absolutely was the most important vote of her parliamentary career from an integrity point of view.
Had she had the courage to vote, whichever way she would have voted would, in my view, have shown integrity.
If she had followed the whip, rightly or wrongly, she could have held her head up high and declared she had voted the way she did not just because of the whip but to support the party.
If she had voted as her constituency had voted, she could have held her head up high and said she had voted as her constituents required her to do as their representative.
She did neither.
And in doing neither has betrayed her party and her constituents.
Other Labour MPs showed their integrity.
She should be thoroughly ashamed of herself.
The 'illness' she claimed to have had is utter cobblers.
She is a liar, an embarrassment, a coward, a liability and a joke.
Patheticness personified.
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I've just read (but not from a 100% reliable site, so I won't link to it) that she was actually tweeting at the time she was "too ill with migraine to vote". Let's bear in mind that a 'real' migraine would make it all but impossible to look at a phone/tablet screen without barfing.
If this is true it is utterly pathetic and the woman should be deselected for gross cowardice and fakery.
If this is true it is utterly pathetic and the woman should be deselected for gross cowardice and fakery.
She had a decision to make - with one of three options
1. Vote for
2. Vote against
3. Abstain and say why
Any one of those was defensible - but she bottled it and made a feeble excuse - a fabricated illness that has been exposed as a transparent lie.
Not what one has the right to expect from any MP.
1. Vote for
2. Vote against
3. Abstain and say why
Any one of those was defensible - but she bottled it and made a feeble excuse - a fabricated illness that has been exposed as a transparent lie.
Not what one has the right to expect from any MP.
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