Starmer Said Diane Abbot Can Run...

[sandyRoe]

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?

[sandyRoe]

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-actors-writers-call-out-systemic-racism-over-abbott-treatment-2024-05-31/

[bhg481]

I think it leaves it obvious that the looney left is still in charge of the party and will make a move to consolidate that if Labour win the election.

[jourdain2]

One thing is certain; Starmer comes out of this knowing that he cannot rely on his Deputy (Rayner) to support him.  Cracks are showing.

[bednobs]

but him and rayner are saying the same thing arent they?

[Ellipsis]

> Does he come out of this looking like a bit of a ditherer?

Yes.  Not the best leadership in this case.

[jourdain2]

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.

[bednobs]

according to spungle here,he'd said a couple of days ok she could run:

Spot The Liar in The AnswerBank: News

which was before AR said it, no?

[naomi24]

He said she's not been banned from standing but he's not said she will be standing as the Labour candidate in the constituency she's represented for decades.  True to his record, he's again playing with words  - and making fools of those who will listen.

 

[bednobs]

sorry, my ability to post links is still non-existant!

it's about 12 posts down

[mushroom25]

// 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.

https://vote.labour.org.uk/hackney-north-and-stoke-newington

[naomi24]

Mushroom, Why is she saying she's banned from standing then - and why isn't he saying she has been selected?

[Deskdiary]

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).

[douglas9401]

 "True to his record, he's again playing with words  - and making fools of those who will listen."

 

Well he has studied at the feet of the masters for 14 years.

[naomi24]

^Yes indeed.  Jeremy Corbyn & Co.   Starmer used to be a great fan - but he changed his mind yet again - allegedly.

[douglas9401]

🙄 

[sandyRoe]

I'll be the vicar if Bray, Sir.

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[Peter Pedant]

Starmer stymied - as soon as an election is called this awful demon emerges from under the stairs t remind everyone of the chaos of a Labour admin

as for Diane ( bless) saying one thing one day and the opposite the next so  what?

[andy-hughes]

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.

[jourdain2]

Ta, Sandy.

[Old_Geezer]

Can she ? Can't picture her in the 500 metres somehow.