Diane Abbott Park.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10725365/Park-named-William-Gladstone-rebranded-honour-Labour-MP-Diane-Abbott.html

Gladstone Park in northwest London could be renamed after Diane Abbott MP.

Schoolchildren as young as five asked for suggestions for public space's name.

They were earlier briefed on the killing of George Floyd and 'systematic racism.

I'm surprised they didn't say peppa pig or Barney the dinosaur park.

[ToraToraTora]

Perlease!

[Togo]

Diane Abbot Park? It will be open 26 hours a day and 9 days a week.

[ToraToraTora]

TBF I do find it remarkable that someone who is a MAABOF as she is still gets 1000s of ostensibly sane people to vote for her.

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\\TBF I do find it remarkable that someone who is a MAABOF as she is still gets 1000s of ostensibly sane people to vote for her.//

Are you saying Labour voters are sane.?

[Khandro]

Could it be, 'cos she's black?

[ToraToraTora]

dunno what I was thinking webbo!

[mushroom25]

// I'm surprised they didn't say peppa pig or Barney the dinosaur park. //

nah, peppa pig would have offended the area's large islamic population. and that barney - well......

[Atheist]

Aaaaah! Easter Sunday. What better way to start the day than
1 A chunk of Easter egg?
2 A good chuckle at the follies of some of my fellow subjects?

I'm gonna have a chunk of egg. Happy Easter to one and all.

(To clarify point 2 above. the follies do not belong to the posters above me on the list, but to the other lost souls, the ones who are pitied or disliked by the posters above me on the list. No trolling here, then).

[douglas9401]

Some say there's a bag crying out to be renamed.

[New Judge]

//...still gets 1000s of ostensibly sane people to vote for her.//

39,972 at the last count (70.3% of the vote).

She has represented Hackney North & Stoke Newington since 1987. It was my childhood constituency and that of my parents until they moved in 1994. It was formed in 1950 and has had only three MPs in that time - all Labour. There was a joke when I lived there that the Labour Party could buy a large block of wood, pin a red rosette to it and it would be elected as the constituency's MP.

Many parts of the area are what is euphemistically termed "deprived" but increasing areas are becoming gentrified. My Mum & Dad sold their house - a three bedroom Victorian terrace - in 1994 for £100k. It sold two years ago for £1.95m. The North London chattering classes seem to love it (though I wouldn't live there for a pension) and it is unlikely to see any colour other than red on its MPs rosette even when Ms Abacus decides to turn it in.

[naomi24]

I too know Hackney well … and I wouldn’t live there either.

[Gromit]

Classic Daily Mail.
It hasn’t even happened but it could happen.
I am sure long serving MPs get things named after them in constituencies all over the country, all the time.

And it is not going to cost three hundred thousand, and thirty four, nine hundred and seventy four thousand pounds.

[goodgoalie]

I lived in Stoke Newington for nearly 20 years and Diane Abbott was, and is, a spectacularly poor MP. I remember one occasion during a general election campaign when she hid in the back of a bookshop lest she had to actually expose herself to any questions from, or interaction with her prospective constituents. Quite how she has lasted so long is an enduring mystery.

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Gromit
\\I am sure long serving MPs get things named after them in constituencies all over the country, all the time.//

But they don't ask 5 year olds.

[Gromit]

// they don’t ask 5 year olds //

Why not. 5 year olds will use the park.

The process for changing the name is not outlined in the article. There seems to be a list of possible names from local residents and children. It could just as easily be named ‘Rainbow Park’ as no decision has been made.

[Togo]

//Why not. 5 year olds will use the park.//
Cant alert.

Sponge Bob Park it is then.

[ichkeria]

“Heroes of Mariupol Park” would do me.
And I’d force Diane Abbott to open it

[New Judge]

//Why not. 5 year olds will use the park.//

How many five year olds do you imagine would be aware of who William Ewart Gladstone was and what his claim to fame was? Come to that, how many would have heard of Diane Abbott. The idea of naming places like parks and roads after figures from history is to preserve that history for future generations. If you are simply going to rename everything when all those remembering the particular historical figure has died out you may as well ditch history entirely.

[Gromit]

Togo,
A 5 year old will not be choosing the name. That will be done by a Council committee or local vote.

I would prefer a name chosen by grown ups - Boaty McBoatface Park would be fun.

[New Judge]

There is no need for a name to be chosen by anyone. The park already has a name.