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Starmer Said Diane Abbot Can Run...
He couldn't have known when the election would come, but this was a business that should have been wrapped up months ago.
Does he come out of this looking like a bit of a ditherer?
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It's nonsense to suggest that Ms Abbot was being pushed out because she is black.She was pushed out because she is a hardline Left Winger who will give Starmer grief every day with a 'y' in it.The notion of deflecting her was bound to fail.If it had gone through, Ms Abbot would have stood as an Independent and romped home, to give Labour huge headaches all over...
19:12 Fri 31st May 2024
It seems obvious that Starmer is (sensibly) trying to supplant the old 'hard left' (Corbyn, Momentum, Abbott etc.) - or at least I hear and read that moderates are being promoted for seats at the expense of the v. left-wing. He's agreeing, now that it is out in the open, that Abbott can stand, of course. But the previous silence from him seems to me to indicated that he definitely doesn't want her and was stalling madly - while the whole thing ballooned. Rayner forced him to accept Abbott.
// he's not said she will be standing as the Labour candidate in the constituency she's represented for decades. //
indeed not. but according to the party machine, she is the Labour candidate for Hackney & Stoke Newington.
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Is it just me (I'm sure it is) who doesn't have a clue what SKS stands for. He just seems to bend with the wind.
At least with the nutcase Corbyn we all knew his intention was to screw the country by adopting extreme left policies (although I do remember the embarrassing interview in 2019 when he couldn't or wouldn't answer what his extreme left Government would do about Brexit).
It's nonsense to suggest that Ms Abbot was being pushed out because she is black.
She was pushed out because she is a hardline Left Winger who will give Starmer grief every day with a 'y' in it.
The notion of deflecting her was bound to fail.
If it had gone through, Ms Abbot would have stood as an Independent and romped home, to give Labour huge headaches all over again.
Now they have got to have her in the tent anyway, with the added bonus that they have advertised to the world that they don't want a long-standing party member with them because her face doesn't fit, and that has nothing whatsoever to do with the colour of it.
So Starmer manages to look weak an ineffectual because he was ready to wait for the Party Executive to meet on Tuesday, and nasty because he tried to lose an MP with a sterling reputation as a constituency MP.
He's also managed to look at odds with his Deputy because now he has to agree that she was actually right, and therefore, by default, he was wrong.
Quite how he's managed to quite so comprehensively mismanage a situation he created is quite something.
He is a weak flip-flopper, and is exposed as such yet again, by his own weak and feeble hand.
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