[OT] If you are still thinking about voting Labour next month...

[harry]

Here's an additional reason.

[damduck-egg]

Harrow Grammar School for Girls wasn't it? Michael Portillo went to the Boys equivalent and they did come across each other in joint theatrical productions etc. That Abbott and Portillo show chumminess seen on TV isn't contrived f but goes back a long way despite the different paths they have taken in Politics.

G.Harman

[Michael Chare]

It just makes me wonder what is the best course of action if you find yourself in that situation. Clearly her mental arithmetic in that no doubt stressful situation, is not that good, especially perhaps for a Cambridge graduate.

[Huge]

Oh, I loathe the woman with every fibre of my being. Does she not know how to do any tone of voice other than "patronising"?

I know she sent him private while at the same time condemning private education, the hypocritical bitch.

[Huge]

Admit what has happened, apologise, change the subject and come back to it.

Of course, that would involve a politician telling the truth, so that isn't going to happen.

She read History. She's lucky not to be wearing a paper hat and asking people if they want fries with that.

[Andy Burns]

And to speak s-l-o-w-l-y so that even you l-o-w-e-r b-e-i-n-g-s might u-n-d-e-r-s-t-a-n-d me

[TimW]

On 03/05/17 10:57, Huge wrote: [..]

I find this very disturbing. Somehow we know that if Tory ministers weren't in parliament they would be leading their privileged lives elsewhere, looking after their estates and creaming it off in the City, and for Huge that's fine, they were born to rule and Huge likes to doff his cap and stare at his shoes because he knows his place.

If it's Diane Abbott though - she doesn't deserve a decent job at all, and if she sends her child to a good school it's a scandal. She should know her place like Huge does and get a cleaning job and stay in the Council Estate.

It's wrong, wrong, wrong, and another reason why we should all be praying for revolution.

TW

[Dave Plowman (News)]

But I'm absolutely certain our Tory lovers on here wouldn't accuse him of having a 'ridiculous upper class accent'.

I don't much like him either. ;-)

[Dave Plowman (News)]

It's the problem with many politicians. If unsure of an answer, say so, and offer to look up and send in the details later. But they all want to appear to be on top of everything.

[Handsome Jack]

TimW posted

No; it's a scandal if she sends her child to a good (private) school AND tells the rest of us that we mustn't do the same.

It's OK for her to do either one of those; but not both.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

+1

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Typical right wing s**te.

If you wish to improve a system, you must put up with the worst on offer for yourself to show you are genuine.

Of course when a rich right winger who normally uses private medical care uses the NHS for something serious because that is the only place with the skills, it is OK - because they've already paid for it?

It's all about keeping people 'in their place'. Which invariably means somewhere below the poster.

True socialism means equal opportunities for all. Not just those born into privilege.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Please provide the quote for her saying just that. Or could it be you've made it up?

[whisky-dave]

Which is quite worrying as how long do such things take. Nick fararia on LBC should have let her ramble on she if she'd notice her errors. Sh said sh'ed done 6 or 7 interviews before that one so really should have got the figures memorised, I don't understand how she got them so confused.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Oh c'mon Dave. It's only on here some consider themselves perfect, and never make a mistake.

[damduck-egg]

Understandable, he has long been against the UK's membership of the EU despite his Spanish background.

G.Harman

[whisky-dave]

At the time she refused to believe she'd made a mistake, that was her biggest error.

[Handsome Jack]

"Dave Plowman (News)" posted

"When the revelation first broke more than 10 days ago that the MP, who had criticised both Tony Blair and Harriet Harman over their choice of schools, was sending her child to the ?10,000 per year City of London school, Ms Abbott initially refused to comment."

Education of Abbott's son Abbott's decision in 2003 to send her son to the private City of London School after criticising colleagues for sending their children to selective schools, which she herself described as "indefensible" and "intellectually incoherent", caused controversy and criticism.

Friday, 31 October, 2003, 17:35 GMT Labour MP Diane Abbott has said sending her son to a ?10,000-a-year private school instead of a comprehensive is "indefensible". In her first detailed comments on the controversy, she told BBC One's This Week programme: "Private schools prop up the class system in society. "It is inconsistent, to put it mildly, for someone who believes in a fairer and more egalitarian society to send their child to a fee-paying school." But, she added: "I had to choose between my reputation as a politician and my son." When Prime Minister Tony Blair sent his eldest son, Euan, to the London Oratory, a selective school, she criticised him, saying people voted Labour because they believed in equality. And when Solicitor General Harriet Harman sent her son to a selective grammar school in Orpington, Kent, Ms Abbott said: "She made the Labour Party look as if we do one thing and say another."

[Andy Burns]

Let me get Dave's "precision rebuttal" in for him, neither The London Oratory or St Olave's are private schools. Though Diane Abbot did say the decision to send her son to a fee paying school was indefensible.

[Tim Streater]

Perhaps he saw through the fraud earlier than most.