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    Diane Abbott confirms she will run as Labour candidate in general election
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    Diane Abbott confirms she will run as Labour candidate in general election

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    1. EdmundTheInsulter on

      Good for her, I’m sure her constituents will be pleased to reelect her.

    2. _Hello_Hi_Hey_ on

      Why is this particular person on the headline for over a week? Why is she so special for labour?

    3. bornarethefew on

      Why are so MPs so selfish … it’s the type of role you would think would attract people who are interested in national service, but are actually obsessed with self service.

    4. xParesh on

      Dear Diane, I’m very happy for you but please just keep your mouth shut until the election is over.

    5. Pokemon-Master-Bates on

      I would have been fascinated to see if she got re-elected as an independent.

      At least we have Corbyn.

    6. bduk92 on

      So now all the media personalities that were pearl clutching about her being excluded can now resume their usual behaviour of running articles criticising everything she does, and doing gotcha questions every time she’s interviewed.

    7. 0x9876543210 on

      she gets a lot of flack but she has done a huge amount for the Labour movement and been instrumental in many campaigns for human rights etc… she just isnt the best communicator in the world and has no filter.

      Ill still vote for her.

    8. VooDooBooBooBear on

      Bullshit. I really wanna vote Labour but keeping this ancient has-been around is hilariously pathetic.

    9. Careful-Swimmer-2658 on

      Correction, Diane Abbott runs as Diane Abbott (as she always does) and says she’s Labour because it suits her purposes to do so.

    10. plawwell on

      She’s one of the more eccentric Labour MPs but the good she does far outweighs the negatives. People hate her because of their prejudices but those haters won’t admit that.

    11. Spare_Bad_9301 on

      Keep going . .you help the Tories look better…and they’re terrible

    12. PlainPiece on

      Oh goody, our next prime minister was absolutely outplayed by this complete pudding brain. Inspires such confidence.

    13. GorgieRules1874 on

      Good news for the Tories and bad news for Labour. She is thick as mince.

    14. banjochicken on

      Putting the story and controversy aside, she is 70 years old. Shouldn’t politicians of retirement age, step aside and let someone younger take over?

    15. outsideruk on

      Personal ego more important than party performance. She’s 71 and seems to have reduced capability. Time to retire.

    16. StiffAssedBrit on

      She’s an even bigger liability than Corbyn.
      The British voters are pretty centrist and really hate politicians with “agendas”.
      That’ll be at least one seat to the Lib Dems then.

    18. elphas_skiddy-boxers on

      Thought she wasn’t deciding anything until speaking to whoever on Tuesday?

    19. bluecheese2040 on

      Bodes badly for starmer if he’s getting pushed around like this already.

    20. Alib668 on

      Basically by being a dick, they guaranteed the thing they didn’t want to happen. If they just shut up they would have been either in the same position but no press or writing lovely notes about how much hard work diane had done over the years

    21. Sammy91-91 on

      Lots of votes just went to Conservative / Reform.

      She will open her trap and say something stupid / racist and in 5,4,3…

    22. CensorTheologiae on

      Good – but I find this more of a fig leaf than an olive branch, unlikely to secure Labour voters they’ve lost, even though it guarantees them Hackney & Stoke N.

    23. pops789765 on

      I’m sure in her day she was amazing but she’s 70 and has no idea what the real concerns of the young people of Hackney are.

      She’s made a comparative fortune off the position, it’s time for her to move on and make way for someone who is ready to represent the constituency for the future rather than fight the battles of the past.

    25. mods_eq_neckbeards on

      Can’t stand Abbott, but kudos for earning to right to rightly stand again for her constituents.

    26. Blank3k on

      Self absorbed person wants to do what she wants, regardless of what would benefit her party during a critical time.

    27. Cynical_Classicist on

      OK, so all that stuff about Diane Abbott not running in the general election seems to have been a bit of a red herring.

    28. kernowjim on

      We need people like Diane, she’s a fine politician. You may not agree with her but many do.

    29. AllRedLine on

      Anyone taking bets on how long it is until she gets in trouble for saying something racist again?

      I’m betting it’ll be less than a year.

      If i was running the party, this would’ve been a golden opportunity to fuck her off for good. Nothing but a race-baiting liability. Shame they didn’t because this is just going to keep happening and the same argument being rehashed every time.

    31. StackerNoob on

      As racist and incompetent as they come but according to her she can’t be racist and insisting that she is racist makes you a racist you racist!

    32. No_Hunter3374 on

      Ofc she is. She wants Lab funding and support for her campaign, she wants an expense account she can claim against, God forbid she spends a penny of her own to get re elected, but she’ll campaign against Labour – that will be her shtick, her campaign style, the official opposition to Labour but running as a Labour candidate. Jesus wept.

      At least Corbyn had the respectability to go indie so his Hamas mates can support him.

    33. Thestickleman on

      I see all this stuff about her and yet I still don’t really have any idea who she is or why she couldn’t run in labour

    34. AncientNortherner on

      I await the apologists who assured me this wouldn’t happen not 3 months ago to return to the sub and explain what they have learned from their error.

      The nasty party are truly back now and with nowhere to hide.

    36. supersonic-bionic on

      Starmer messed it up. Why did they make such deal if she ia going to run as a candidate. They should have announced her as a candidate from the start instead of having Tory candidates joining the Labour party