Diane Abbott On Blair.

sandyRoe | 09:08 Thu 07th Jul 2016 | ChatterBank

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"...his reputation has bled to death in the sands of Iraq."
A nicely turned phrase, would it be her own or a reworking of something she'd read or heard?

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Looks like it dates back to 2003 Sandy http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/jul/14/foreignpolicy.iraq1 /// I predicted before the war that Iraq would be the political death of Tony Blair, and it is now almost Shakespearean how the pain from his self-inflicted wounds is written across his face. It is as if he is physically diminishing before our...

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naomi24

OG, she is not expected to be disadvantaged. She is expected to be true to her word – and she isn’t.

Old_Geezer

Surely her word was that it wasn't right that such privileges were available to the rich. But they are. It would be foolish to claim that, given that privileges are available, folk must not take advantage of them, it's not her remit. She is a politician and has the job of persuading parliament to change society. She's not there in the capacity of telling folk they must not take up that which is presently legal.

naomi24

She described other people's decisions to send their children to fee paying schools as "indefensible" and "intellectually incoherent”. They were her words. It could justifiably be said that she is not a woman of principle.

Jackdaw33

'Intellectually incoherent'?

What's the silly moo talking about?

naomi24

Jackdaw, more lofty, lefty, two-faced prattle.

Jackdaw33

I just can't see where either intellect or incoherence come into it.

naomi24

Jackdaw, I understand it to mean that she, as a woman of outstanding intellect and faultless moral fibre, finds it inconceivable that other people don’t share her peerless ethics - but I might be wrong. Who knows what she's talking about?

NoMercy

What she may be trying to say, in badly worded fashion, is that there's no advantage educationally to sending your child to a fee-paying school. That obviously begs the question why she plumped for a fee-paying school for her own child.

naomi24

^ I don't think so. Her argument is founded on her claimed objection to unfair advantage.

Jackdaw33

//a woman of outstanding intellect and faultless moral fibre\\

Too early in the morning for jokes.

NoMercy

As JD says, "intellectually incoherent" doesn't even make sense so it's just open to interpretation.

naomi24

Jackdaw, :o)