Diane Abbott GQMF
This was meant to be a GQMF post all about DIANE MUTHAFUCKING ABBOTT, but it got slightly derailed by the fact that I don’t actually like Diane Abbott, and nor do I think she’s a genuine BAMF.
HOWEVER. Compared to the Milibros and BurnBalls, she’s the baddest-ass mofo in Westminster.
Evidence, you cry?
The ‘award-winning’ speech against 42-day detention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VtW0uDJbUg&feature=related part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDw-ej-o86Q&feature=related part 2. WATCH THIS. You need it in your life.
This is the kind of conviction that I wish the leadership of any political party would aspire to. But then, being a back-bencher gives you the leeway to stand up on matters of personal conscience.
Abbott doesn’t have the front-line experience to be Opposition leader, and nor would I want her to. I like her as one of Labour’s left-wing stalwarts just like I like her cosying up to Portillo on the This Week sofa, damnit!. The party needed people like her when they were in power to hold the government to account, and they need people like her now to remind them exactly where they’re going wrong in trying to re-connect with traditional Labour supporters.
I am glad, though, that she’s got the nominations and will be part of the hustings for the duration of the leadership battle, because she serves to highlight what a FUCKING DISGRACE it is that the only credible contenders are the PALE MALE NEW-LABOURITES. As a woman, and as a socialist, I could not be any less enthused about the array of stuffed socks the Party’s being asked to choose between.
Harm-inator! Coops! Why no standing, bbs? (However much I understand Cooper’s decision, I don't have to like it).
As my right hon. friend, a fellow lolitician, has concurred: DMil might make a credible (if dull, nauseating, ineffectual) PM, but be a woeful leader of the Opposition. Can you imagine him taking DCam to pieces during PMQs? No, me neither.
Diane Motherfucking Abbott could. Labour HBIC.
HOWEVER. Compared to the Milibros and BurnBalls, she’s the baddest-ass mofo in Westminster.
Evidence, you cry?
The ‘award-winning’ speech against 42-day detention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VtW0uDJbUg&feature=related part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDw-ej-o86Q&feature=related part 2. WATCH THIS. You need it in your life.
This is the kind of conviction that I wish the leadership of any political party would aspire to. But then, being a back-bencher gives you the leeway to stand up on matters of personal conscience.
Abbott doesn’t have the front-line experience to be Opposition leader, and nor would I want her to. I like her as one of Labour’s left-wing stalwarts just like I like her cosying up to Portillo on the This Week sofa, damnit!. The party needed people like her when they were in power to hold the government to account, and they need people like her now to remind them exactly where they’re going wrong in trying to re-connect with traditional Labour supporters.
I am glad, though, that she’s got the nominations and will be part of the hustings for the duration of the leadership battle, because she serves to highlight what a FUCKING DISGRACE it is that the only credible contenders are the PALE MALE NEW-LABOURITES. As a woman, and as a socialist, I could not be any less enthused about the array of stuffed socks the Party’s being asked to choose between.
Harm-inator! Coops! Why no standing, bbs? (However much I understand Cooper’s decision, I don't have to like it).
As my right hon. friend, a fellow lolitician, has concurred: DMil might make a credible (if dull, nauseating, ineffectual) PM, but be a woeful leader of the Opposition. Can you imagine him taking DCam to pieces during PMQs? No, me neither.
Diane Motherfucking Abbott could. Labour HBIC.