Diane Abbott

[daisya]

http://www.politics.c...ter-white-people-jibe

Would be interested to hear what people have to say about this one.

[ummmm]

Bit daft.

It's hard to have a strong opinion about it as I know the written word doesn't always come across as intended.

[Khandro]

I'm not a great fan of hers, but I don't think she could be accused of racism, and by the way, it is historically true ! Politicians would be well advised to not twitter, it gets so many get of them into hot water.

[AB Editor]

Her comment seems fine to me in the context of Imperialism/Colonialism, it was a handy skill for the Empire! I think people are being a little over-sensitive.

[AB Editor]

Well drummed up by whoever pushed this into the press though!

[naomi24]

Can't stand the woman. She always has been two-faced.

[joggerjayne]

Diane Abbott "should lead by example" and resign ??

LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL ... !!! ... and LOL !

The same Diane Abbott who berated private education as elitist and divisive ...

... and then sent her children to a private school?

THAT Diane Abbott?

Well known for ... ... ... "leading by example" ??

More LOL's !!!

[anneasquith]

its difficult to judge without seeing the full context of the tweets.

[LoftyLottie]

Completely agree with Naomi, and I personally think she is racist. Always have done.

[mccfluff]

do you have the tweet she was responding to? it doesn't seem to make much sense

[LoftyLottie]

Agree with Jayne too.

[mickrog]

this woman has a track record of racist comments.....cant stand this egoistic woman

[joggerjayne]

I don't think it's hard to judge.

It is a critical and offensive comment.

It singles out "white people" as the target of the comment.

If it was the other way round, and someone had said

... "Black people love [something negative]" ...

... then people like Diane A would be down on it like a ton of bricks.

[LoftyLottie]

Very true Jayne.

[mickrog]

very vert true jj

[ladybirder]

And I agree with Naomi, JJ and LL. Two-faced supercilious woman.

[ichkeria]

Rather a naive comment by her perhaps but not racist. Lots of people make ill-advised, sweeping statements about "white people" and "black people". As someone else has commented there is a bit of historic background to this which may or may not be appropriate today.
And as I said elsewhwhere, Twitter is like an online toilet, and it is a fact of life that people cr*p in toilets. One day we'll get over the novelty of it.

[ichkeria]

I like her - I think she's great. You need a few people to set the splutterers off :-)

[tamborine]

Ed, imp/col is how most immigrants 'chose' to live in UK. They wanted to live here as Brits, under our laws.

At the time of imperialism there was global colonisation; if it wasn't Brit it could have been russian, chinese, turkish or spanish.

[mccfluff]

http://www.dailymail....ide-rule-comment.html

half of it doesn;t make sense and what does is coming off pretty racist to me