Diane Abbott - Coward?

[Deskdiary]

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.

[emeritus]

In a nutshell, she Bottled it !

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/02/diane-abbott-missed-article-50-vote-due-to-migraine-her-office-says

[whiskeryron]

Lose her NOW

[Old_Geezer]

I think you are making a fuss over nothing. Some folk were incapable of voting, as their duty to represent the democratic will of the people clashed with their desire to be more concerned about avoiding change, and it's associated short term upheaval, and keeping this nation ruled by an outside power group. So they compromised and let the others decide for them. It's a better alternative to betraying democracy as some of the others did.

[ChillDoubt]

Had to laugh at the This Week programme(shown last night)she was part of for so long. They closed the programme with a montages of her, the final shot of which was #PrayForDiane.

Hope her migraine disappears cos she's certainly given her ex (JC) a big one!

[ChillDoubt]

Montage singular.....*** tablet!

[douglas9401]

It may be something more serious than a migraine, an inoperable brain tumour even.
Just imagine.

[Tilly2]

I don't like Diane Abbott but as someone who has the occasional migraine, I know that they can be debilitating.....and I wouldn't wish a brain tumour on anyone.

[anneasquith]

" should he make a stand and get shot "" bit extreme to use firearms .

[ToraToraTora]

Brexit flu old chap, lot of it about!

[Ellipsis]

I'm not a fan of Diane Abbott but she made her position pretty clear on Question Time the week before:

[Ellipsis]

Let's try that again shall we?

I'm not a fan of Diane Abbott but she made her position pretty clear on Question Time the week before:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08c3tcv/question-time-26012017

Skip to 26:17

Given that she didn't make the vote due to claimed illness (rather than abstention), that video is the lasting record of her position on this matter.

[Gromit]

// the most important vote of her parliamentary career. //

No it wasn't. The Bill was always going to be passed whether she voted or not.

[Gromit]

She is in parliament to represent her constituents, so she should have voted against the Bill.

But she did not want to defy the Party and leader. She should have.

[grumpy01]

This is yet more evidence that Labour cannot provide an effective opposition and definitely are not ready for government.Until the union puppet masters withdraw their support of jeremy Corbyn then Diane Abbot is, unfortunately,along with Emily Thornberry,going to figure on the "opposition" front bench.

[shoota]

There is only one person that Diane Abbott is interested in 'serving' and that is Diane Abbott.

[naomi24]

shoota, you got it in one! Dreadful woman!

[ludwig]

Ridiculous behaviour. She should have either voted or abstained. As gromit says, she should probably have defied the whip, but either way to not even have the bottle to come out and declare a position one way or another but resort to pulling a 'sickie' is utterly pathetic.

[ludwig]

Ridiculous behaviour. She should have either voted or abstained. As gromit says, she should probably have defied the whip, but either way to not even have the bottle to come out and declare a position one way or another but resort to pulling a 'sickie' is utterly pathetic.

[ladybirder]

Agree with all that's been said. Allegedly she was on Twitter a short time after the vote, so I read somewhere. I see Margaret Hodge missed it as well, another one I can't stand. Don't know what her excuse was.

[ludwig]

The disappointing thing is that unfortunately this episode can't make the woman look any more ludicrous than she did beforehand.