For a “world-class” broadcaster that costs us BILLIONS, the BBC seem ever so slow when it comes to picking up stories concerning Diane Abbott;
Ms Abbott has also provoked outrage from cabbies with another tweet. “Dubious of black people claiming they’ve never experienced racism,” she wrote from her iPhone on Tuesday. “Ever tried hailing a taxi I always wonder?” Steve McNamara, a spokesman for the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, said: “This is a typically silly comment by Diane Abbott and deeply unfair. The modern generation of taxi drivers is as diverse as London itself and most of the knowledge schools now have prayer rooms.
@HackneyAbbottDiane Abbott MP
19th century taxis? I am sure the BBC will vigorously pursue this. Yes?
Intriguingly, the Andrew Neil clip Liz Macken featured on Newsnight in your link below wasn’t him tackling Diane Abbot on claiming West Indian mums are superior to white mums, but asking her about sending her children to a public school. M/s Mackean used a number of other deft devices to deflect attention away from M/s Abbot’s history of racism.
Viz me above:
Uuf! My fail! I was clearly remembering what I was anticipating not what was actually broadcast. My apologies to Liz Mackean.
Thank you Millie for tactfully pointing out my oafish recall.
It was preceded by a narrative that she had criticised Tony Blair and Harriet Harman for sending their children to selective schools but then sent her own son to a fee-paying school (accompanied by clips of Harriet Harman and Tony Blair.) Then it went to This Week and the clip was of Andrew Neil asking her about saying black mums would go to the wall for their children. It was her answer that reverted to her son’s schooling – even though, somewhat ironically, she kept repeating that she had nothing further to say on the subject!
It’s at about 38 mins in:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b019ch5b/Newsnight_05_01_2012/
Why is this vile racist woman still in the cabinet and still employed by the BBC?
Before the good doctor or one of hsi faithful flock swoops back (and off again) that should be ‘shadow cabinet’.
But still a very good set of questions for them to field.
I rather liked Darcus Howe’s notion that you only get a post based on your skin, so instead of health Ms. Abbot shouldpresumably be Labour’s ‘Thick’ spokesma..wo..person then?
Of course I meant shadow Cabinet. Duh!
Shadow, naturally, and Diane most certainly casts a large black one. I wonder, given the BBC’s delight in slagging off Poles, whether they would also approve of Abbott’s dislike of blonde-haired, blue-eyed Finnish nurses? It strikes me as a case of beauty begetting envy in the beast: http://durotrigan.blogspot.com/2012/01/diane-abbott-professional-black-woman.html
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Its because the Fabians throughout our higher educational establishment, media and political classes have been able to get away with their claim that racism towards whites is either impossible or “not as bad”. See for example (from 5:30 in particular if you’re short of time, though the whole thing is worth watching):
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24025904-cabbies-slam-abbott-for-claiming-they-drive-past-black-customers.do
Maybe a case of moving on whilst moving past?
She is good value. As is the Auntie kapo team cleaning up.
You beat me to it! Here’s the link I was going to post (well, and now have done!):-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8997510/Diane-Abbott-taxi-drivers-refuse-to-pick-up-black-passengers.html
Ittts that woman!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8997510/Diane-Abbott-taxi-drivers-refuse-to-pick-up-black-passengers.html
‘Miss Abbott was unavailable for comment but it is understood that she was reflecting on her own personal experiences and had not meant to offend taxi drivers.’
I’d ask ’em how they know this, but as the thread was closed as soon as it has opened…again…. not really an option.
So the DT joins the BBC and Graun CiF… not in a hall of glory as a freespeech medium.
Cabbies are not racist – they just can’t stand Diane Abbot.
Me thinks this woman tweets too much for her own good.
She thinks she is an oracle.
The rest of the world just knows she is just an idiot.
With the small exception of the Broken Biased Corp.
Well Diane is an expert on this subject as she has one of the highest Taxi expenses claims of any MP. Public transport; thats for plebs!
Very good, fred, I’d forgotten about her taxi receipts. An early candidate for post of the year!
Bingo! 😀
Brillo has a few questions about her taxi habits here (worth watching to see Portillo squirm):
It goes on to the ‘West Indian mums’ thing and private school etc. Sorry if it’s been posted elsewhere!
maybe these taxi drivers, they just didn t realise, just who this erm …
beligerent, obnoxious lardarse, i mean V.I.P. minister 😀 was
oh and “most of the knowledge schools now have prayer rooms”.
UH OH!
better expand that tweet, to cover anyone carrying alcohol, anyone
with a guide dog, anyone with pork meat, anyone with a bible, anyone wearing a cross, anyone jewish…
etc etc etc etc because they re just so so so offensive 😀 .
The taxi driver refusing to transport someone with a guide dog thing comes up every two or three months or so. Curiously enough, I can’t find any record of the Fat Taxi Inspector speaking out about that though.
They dont want to pick up Fatty Abbott , not coz shes black but because of the damage she could do to their shock absorbers.
Shes probably over the load limit for most hackney cabs
lol! nice one comrade Paddy!
But seriously; who would want to sit in a cab and listen to a load of racial abuse. Something even a cabbie does not have to put up with.
“I had that fatty racist in the back of my cab the other day…”
“cost a packet getting the suspension fixed it did”
Transport for London tell us in 2008:
“Nearly one in three people applying to do ‘the Knowledge’ to become licensed London taxi drivers now come from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.
Becoming a licensed taxi driver has become an increasingly popular career option for people from London’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities”
Diane is seriously out of touch….ready for a racist leg up into the Lords to complete her career path of disadvantage.
Red Ed had got in on this act. I kid you not…….
Just seen that as well, absolutely priceless. As Guido says, look at how far apart A and O are on the keyboard…
Can I have an O please Diane.
Red Ed, the gify that keeps on giving, bet there was a groan around BBC central when that turd arrived on Twitter!
It was probably a private tweet that doesn’t reflect the views of the Labour Party and was taken out of context anyway.
I have to say that, for someone who consistently has F-all of value to say at the best of times, he takes up to 138 characters more than needed for most of them, especially on twitter.
At least this is more entertaining than his usual ‘I am on a [vehicle] going [somewhere] to do [something trivial only the BBC will breathlessly retweet, and even them only on a day when all real news must be suppressed with trivia]’
it appears that liebore idiots only open their mouths to change feet
From One England.
Sad that ‘can I have a p please Bob’ Holdness is dead though. The first actor to play James Bond I believe.
The man was a legend.
This website hase been justified beyond all reasonable doubt this week as a result of the corrupt left wing bias of the BBC which the whole country is waking up to; they have been so out of touch and totally non-representative of the majority of UK citizens outside London and the est end of Edinburgh. The last few days have been like a national socialist propaganda exercise in brainwashing, though the BBC are worried I think; the online anti-lefty community (a huge constellation of like minds and a catalyst for potential social revolution-just look at the Arab Soring!) are growing by the minite if all the major paper blogs and comments pages (apart from the Guardian/Independent/New Statesman etc) are to be believed. Sometimes it can be dishearening when all we can do is blog and comment and share on facebook etc etc. But I think this online platform is the start of a new movement that will (however long it takes) uncover the left wing socialist inequality, hypocrisy and politically correct brainwashing/tyranny. I say keep up the good fight as they can’t silence the majority for ever or else the world will witness a true revolution that will make the Arab Spring look like an episode of Coronation Street! Viva la fight people!
PS I really should start putting on the lights when I type! My apologies for poor spelling folks!!!
Dwont wurry, it’s the gudd blackbuster points you make that count !
Mr McNamara is being far too sensitive here! It is very clear to me that Diane Abbott was referring to 19th Century European colonialism, when she said that taxi drivers don’t pick up black people!
The horses were racist.
Diane Abbot is famous for standing up for the disadvantaged and sufferers of racial discriminiation, but I notice she has said nothing about Blacks going insolvent today!
Between Ms. Abbott and Mr. Millibond’s tweets, but more there ‘it wan’t me, it was the keyboard/intern/society/lack of red tricycle when i was bedwetting’ excuses that don’t stack up, I have got to love how the twitter chatterati classes are suddenly as one on the triviality of twitter. Was it something one (or two) of ’em wrote? The BBC ‘news’ must be in lock down.
Be kind of nice to be there when some of the more sanctimonious, hypocritical tribal commentators realise the horse they’re hitched to is not just dead, but slipping off a cliff.
This isn’t actually about Diane Abbott but is spot on:
“I apologise…if” not acceptable
Another year, another apology. This time it is the turn of Phil Parkinson, a Brit living in the United Arab Emirates, whose advertisement for his gym in Dubai featured a picture of the entrance to Auschwitz and the caption “Kiss your calories goodbye.“
Almost as jaw-dropping as the repellent concept itself is Mr Parkinson’s slimy excuse: he used the image, he said, because his gym programme was “like a calorie concentration camp.” When it was pointed out that his advertising campaign was beyond inappropriate, Mr Parkinson took refuge in the 21st century version of an apology: “I apologise if I have offended anyone with the campaign. That was certainly not my intention when we created it.”
That is no apology. Rather, it is: “Oh, dear, I’m sorry somebody noticed.” We have heard similar weaselly responses in recent weeks from MPs Paul Flynn and Aidan Burley, who each, in their own way, managed to cause maximum offence and then appear baffled that anyone had been hurt by their behaviour.
Frankly, we are sick of such lamentable and clearly not genuine apologies. Parkinson, Flynn and Burley were all only sorry because they were found out. “I’m sorry if what I did caused offence” is fast becoming the last refuge of scoundrels.
And Abbott took the unapologetic “apology” a step further, accusing people of interpreting her remarks maliciously.
Casual racism.
Just come in.
Gather she`s not been ditched over the side of Labours Slimcea balloon then!
Fair enough….well then let them carry Abbott,Balls etc around like an untreated hernia until they go for some elective surgery.
Stafford General might be worth asking…can you do liposuction on the fatheads still playing at pirates on the Good Ship Gramsci?
She was also criticised during the MPs expenses scandal, after claiming £142,000 in 2009, including £1,100 on taxis.?
£1,100 on taxis, clearly she doesn’th ave a problem getting one then!!
She does now!
While accepting that fatty abbot along with her big mouth has a huge arse and thus sucks in all the light around her (like a black hole, and what an A hole at that) but that shouldn’t deny us posters a new comments board.
So how about it folks.
Or should I stamp my feet (As I watch people trying to cover Abbot in white lard and try to roll her into the thames) and play the racist card in which to get a white honkey to do my bidding?
this horrible racist woman should be investigated by the police to see whether or not criminal proceedings should be taken against her
Thus speaks a white Diane Abbot, surely?
No, Hippie, thus speaks someone who believe that “What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander”. Fatty Abbot is just being hoist by her own petaed. She should be used to it – it’s happened to her on other occaisions (eg private schools for her own offspring).
petard
On the BBC Today programme they TELL the public directly from the headline what it should think about this affair.
Abbott tweet ‘not a resigning issue’
And to reinforce this message they cite two sources – a Diran Adebayo, and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown who are the ‘experts’ in dismissing Abbott’s tweets.
Like with ‘Climate Change’, the BBC doesn’t believe they need to include any other view.
“If we go by the daft definition of racism proffered by Diane Abbott’s own social set, then she *is* a racist ”
by Brendan O’Neill
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100127879/if-we-go-by-the-daft-definition-of-racism-proffered-by-diane-abbotts-own-social-set-then-she-is-a-racist/
He is another example of what he is railing against:
asking whether someone is or was racist has become interchangeable with asking if someone is a racist. It’s as if no one could be for a moment or in a particular instance racist by virtue of a word or action in passing, without being somehow cast irredemably as a racist, which is a kind of blanket labelling or branding.
Is Diane Abbott racist? By any reasoned, rational assessment, of course she isn’t. There’s far more to being a racist than writing the occasional clumsily worded tweet. But if we go by the definition of racism proffered by Abbott’s own social and political set – particularly by the Labour Party – then she is a racist.
Almost everyone seems to get caught in this kind of thinking.
One of Abbott’s “reasons” for not sending her brat to a Hackney comprehensive was that the schools there were full of racists. So she was making up racist slurs (against the teachers and kids) even then.
Be a little charitable to Dianne Abbot . She sends her offspring to private school for the elite and finds out that a hard working Black Cab driver could just about afford to do the same .
Isn’t it strange how all those people who, under somewhat different circumstances, are so quick to make accusations of racism have rushed to defend their heroine?
Darcus, Yasmin and now even that multi talented socialist (I’m taking the piss!) Billy Bragg has stuck his ugly old head above the parapet.
Where were they when Carol Thatcher found herself in hot water?
This kind of thing is just a smokescreen allowing Abbott to escape the racially divisive statement she made.
So sad that Cameron hasn’t called for her to be sacked from the Shadow Cabinet, instead allowing the noise to further entrench her position and privilege.
I expect the “conservatives” have a much better chance of winning an election against Milliband, Abbot and Harman. They certainly don’t want people like Frank Field leading a Labour Party.
As an aside – I know of many people who will be up in arms against Abott and the champaigne socialists leading the Labour Party, yet come an election they will still vote for them.
“Every educated person is a future enemy.”
Martin Bormann
Indeed.
Though I have concerns about any democracy run on a choice of the ‘least bad’, and ending up with a Cameron Conservative Government of Mediocre Talents crowing about a ‘mandate’ of the people based on the public being so appalled by a Miliband/Abbott Labour option.
Though that is what the BBC seems determined to foist on us, so maybe they should be left to do so, and in such a cack-handed way that Labour is further tainted by their metrosexual, white-gulit, green-blinkered, race-obsessed, multi-culti (bad bits censored) world view endorsement.
However, government policy still influenced (albeit badly) by a £4Bpa compelled fee propagandist outfit with clear social engineering agendas (borne of self-determining hiring policies if not corporate ‘expectation’ form the top) is not healthy.
And I don’t care if such as the Daily Maily (The Telegraph’s recent slef-censoring has shown them as bent on free speech as CiF) is also dominant.
It is because many opt to pay to read it. Not a perfect measure, but better than a zero option compulsion supported by all who infest Westminhster, as they can be bought off easily with a slot on QT or DP.
Well, the next time she accuses someone of racism it’ll be Abbott calling the kettle black.
or maybe pot belly calling the kettle black 😉
This article in The Guardian tries to play things down…
Diane Abbott and the Twitter race row: we are getting over-excited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/jan/06/diane-abbott-twitter-row-over-excited
I’m sure they would do the opposite were it a white Tory MP that had voiced similarly racially tinged opinions. The comments aren’t going their way, though. There’s one that includes a response from a Conservative MP that I think hits the right note, although I can’t help feeling a sense of schadenfreude here. If you make a career out of playing the race card, don’t be surprised if you are judged harshly over the slightest slip of the tongue.
So Diane Abbott said some stupid things in which most reasonable people will disagree with. But, we Conservatives should be hesitant about jumping on the “PC” bandwagon, tearing our clothes, wailing and gnashing our teeth.
In doing so we walk into the elephant trap, set for us by the left, in which any misplaced remark or statement leads to a vicious bout of condemnation, followed by calls for the Guillotine – a sort of reverse McCarthyism if you like. Forget Abbott and think Clarkson for a moment, and you will see what I mean.
Left-wing witch-hunts (they are invariably left-wing) are not particularly savoury, and have become the norm in recent years. The hunts have claimed numerous scalps -and are a sign of the guillotine culture we now live in. If we indulge in the same, we give licence to our opponents and agree that the methods they use are the accepted ones. It is no good claiming, imagine if a Tory had said it – and what would happen as a result. My answer is so what: Tories should be better than this.
Conservatives should remember Voltaire, and vigorously argue the case against Abbott et al. We believe in free speech after all. Let the public judge – they will hoist Diane Abbott on her own petard – much better than any Westminster show-trial.
IainDale Iain Dale Am hearing Diane Abbott has pulled out of a long arranged paper review on #skypapers tonight with @nigel_farage. Can’t think why!
Odd. Usually a media whore (it is a common, if less than flattering – well.. http://wn.com/BBC_twitter_fearne_cotton_media_whore – phrase, Dr. Gregory) like Ms. Abbott can’t be kept away from our screens.
Anyway, good news, Mr. Miliband is ‘booked’ for Today next week.
Guessing he has been assured no tricky questions to spoil his reintroduction to a swooning audience as the saviour of the future?
I’ve just been applying a bit of Lee Jasper logic to politics.
The BNP are utterly unelectable
>Therefore the BNP have no power
One cannot be racist without power
>Therefore the BNP are not racist.
Perhaps they could stand on this platform in 2015? “Do you hate racism… and blacks?”
I wonder how Lee Jasper, Jo Brand et al explain the power/race dynamic in the context of adult Pakistani men gang-raping young, vulnerable white teenage girls?
Another dishonourable mention for the Biased Beeboid Corporation in the national press, in reference to the Abbott brouhaha – and yet another instance of Abbott’s views on the topic of skin colour and education. This time it’s from Graeme Archer’s column in The Telegraph:
For what it’s worth, I expect she will survive, politically; but this column isn’t about the double-standards of the Left, nauseating though they are. If you doubt the hypocrisy, imagine if Miss Abbott were white, a Tory, and her derogatory comments had been about black people: the fuss she’s endured since Thursday would have been like a walk in the park, compared with what she’d have experienced at the hands of the BBC. But it’s exactly this sort of response which bothers me the most.
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But this is what Miss Abbott had to say, during a discussion about Hackney’s Mossbourne Academy, one of the most successful examples of what can be achieved by a school liberated from local education authority control: “We know what parent power means in London. In practice, it means giving power to small groups of white middle-class parents, or if not to capture by one ethnic group as opposed to another, the best organised. Actually, if you want to empower the breadth of the parent body in inner-city areas you have to look to the local education authority.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/8998384/Diane-Abbotts-real-offence-is-to-deny-children-the-best-start-in-life.html
More about that boy’s schooling. (Is there no end to it?)
It says he went from City of London school to a school in Ghana for sixth form study and is now at Cambridge. Ho hum. No shortage of money then.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083704/Divide-rule-Diane-Abbott-sent-son-6-000-private-school-Ghana.html