Will no one rid us of this foolish woman?

Em3bbs · 20 Apr 2019 at 16:47

Acme said:
The kind of people who like Farage wouldn't care.

Agreed, but it would be a bigger media/forum ****storm if that happened I reckon.

Jokester · 20 Apr 2019 at 16:49

It might be M&S, but it's still a tinned cocktail. Classy.

FoxEye · 20 Apr 2019 at 16:59

Jokester said:
It might be M&S, but it's still a tinned cocktail. Classy.

I can't see the problem with tinned cocktails? Unless the tin ruins the flavour? I've never had one.

Guess I'm not really all that classy tho tbh

MartinPrince · 20 Apr 2019 at 17:00

robfosters said:
I am in no way her biggest fan, but this is an utterly stupid and pathetic thing to be dragged over coals for. We’ve all had a sup on the train. Not as if she was downing 2 litres of cider. She was sipping on a little tin of mojito.

Some people seriously need to get a life.

Quite right. I'm definitely not a fan and find her quite inept at times. I would fear her as home secretary far more than Corben as Prime Minister but, come on, this is a bit much.

UberTiger · 20 Apr 2019 at 17:01

The mojito is the best one too. Mighty tasty.

TBH I completely forgot that you weren't supposed to drink on the tube.

Seems so stupid that she's sincerely sorry. Whatever, she wasn't blotto and causing trouble and she wasn't bothering anyone. Seems the twitter outrage machine is bored and in full force again until something equally dumb appears on their radar.

Ocean Breeze · 20 Apr 2019 at 17:09

What a time to be alive.

I swear the internet has made people more stupid than ever.

It's a small can, she's not drunk and not bothering anyone. Leave her alone.

Akagi · 20 Apr 2019 at 17:10

FoxEye said:
I can't see the problem with tinned cocktails? Unless the tin ruins the flavour? I've never had one.

Guess I'm not really all that classy tho tbh

Tins are plastic lined anyway.

Bear · 20 Apr 2019 at 17:40

MartinPrince said:
Quite right. I'm definitely not a fan and find her quite inept at times. I would fear her as home secretary far more than Corben as Prime Minister but, come on, this is a bit much.

So you think that the shadow Home Secretary openly breaking the law and posting it up on social media is ok? It would be as stupid as filming herself breaking the speed limit in her car and posting that up. As stupid as the law maybe, an MP shouldn’t be openly breaking the law, least of all a shadow Home Secretary who's job is to in part potentially deal with law and order.

robfosters · 20 Apr 2019 at 17:43

Bear said:
So you think that the shadow Home Secretary openly breaking the law and posting it up on social media is ok? It would be as stupid as filming herself breaking the speed limit in her car and posting that up. As stupid as the law maybe, an MP shouldn’t be openly breaking the law, least of all a shadow Home Secretary who's job is to in part potentially deal with law and order.

I don’t think she was the one to put it on social media.

Bear · 20 Apr 2019 at 17:48

robfosters said:
I don’t think she was the one to put it on social media.

Fair enough, she mildly less stupid.

StriderX · 20 Apr 2019 at 17:51

I wouldn’t even care if she snorted a line of coke and put it on Facebook, because they all do it anyway.

This is just puritanical hypocrisy.

MartinPrince · 20 Apr 2019 at 17:56

robfosters said:
I don’t think she was the one to put it on social media.

You're right, she wasn't. As mundane as it is, it is still against the law. When you're a public figure even littering can prove a hazard. She's done the right thing by owning up to it straight away and not trying to pass it off as much a do about nothing.
At least not compounding her error like Fiona Onasanya.

Scania · 20 Apr 2019 at 18:01

I’ve no time for Abbot, and frankly a photo of her holding a bottle of scotch in a brown bag would explain a lot, however, we don’t need this non story to prove she’s wholly unsuitable as a potential Home Secretary, she’s already more than proved that point.

K.C. Leblanc · 20 Apr 2019 at 18:12

robfosters said:
I don’t think she was the one to put it on social media.

She apologised via twitter. The person who caught her was a retired police man who apparently likes tweeting racism.

robfosters · 20 Apr 2019 at 18:16

K.C. Leblanc said:
She apologised via twitter. The person who caught her was a retired police man who apparently likes tweeting racism.

Let’s not go down that road eh. That words not been mentioned once in this thread. Let’s not start now.

Em3bbs · 20 Apr 2019 at 18:18

K.C. Leblanc said:
She apologised via twitter. The person who caught her was a retired police man who apparently likes tweeting racism.

No agenda here, but things like that are often posted and then reposted without any citation, sometimes true, sometimes not. What had he tweeted before?

Nasher · 20 Apr 2019 at 18:20

Em3bbs said:
No agenda here, but things like that are often posted and then reposted without any citation, sometimes true, sometimes not. What had he tweeted before?

Probably nothing, but everyone who speaks out against Abbot is racist according to social media.

Em3bbs · 20 Apr 2019 at 18:23

Nasher said:
Probably nothing, but everyone who speaks out against Abbot is racist according to social media.

Well to be fair she does get a fair share of racist abuse so it could well be true. I just hate these throwaway weasel word "apparently" posts without any context, which are then reproduced in similar posts, even if true or not.

Destination · 20 Apr 2019 at 18:28

Fubsy said:
This is Dianne Abbot, there is a high probability that she didn't even realise it was a mojito and just thought she's got a lime flavoured soft drink from M&S.

I tend to agree.

Orionaut · 20 Apr 2019 at 18:28

Bear said:
an MP shouldn’t be openly breaking the law, least of all a shadow Home Secretary who's job is to in part potentially deal with law and order.

Hmmn.

So...

Are you saying that an MP who...

1) Openly ( or at least unashamedly) breaks the Law should be disbarred (or whatever it is that happens to MP's)

2) By implication, An MP should not put themselves in a position where they are able to cast a vote to decriminalize their criminal behaviour?