One thing I think most of us can agree on is that Diane Abbott is either an idiot or a terrible communicator or perhaps both. My feeling is that’s she is both. “Ah, but she went to Cambridge,” I hear you say. I admit that’s the one thing I simply do not understand.
Apparently, Ms Abbott receives a shed load of racist post every week which is automatically passed on to the police. It is my fervent hope that whoever sends her the racist filth gets hauled up before the beak. However, let’s not confuse racism or piss-taking and ridicule.
I do not take the piss out of Abbott because he is black: I do so because she is useless. In the same way that I do not take the piss out of Theresa May because she is white. I do so because she is a ghastly, third rate politician with a voice that grates every time I hear it.
There seems to be an unsaid rule that one must not say anything about Abbott no matter how ridiculous she appears. If she makes basic arithmetical errors or decrees that Chairman Mao did more good than harm (and she really did say that), she deserves what she gets.
Abbott shadows one of the greater offices of state, for God’s sake, so we should have high expectations. It says a lot that the modern Labour Party chooses someone who comes across as, well, a buffoon. And buffoons come in all shapes, sizes and colours.
