The request to HM the Queen by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson to prorogue or suspend Parliament, possibly to stop Remainer MP’s from putting a spanner in the Brexit works, has caused a Remaniac melt down of epic proportions. We’ve had Greens and Owen ‘the Boy’ Jones, calling for protests and a petition has been started by a Remainer called Mark Johnson stating that Parliament should not be dissolved unless there is an Article 50 extension or Brexit is cancelled altogether.
These Remainers and an assortment of various left wingers have been crying enough tears that could fill an Olympic sized swimming pool because it appears that they have been outmanoeuvred by Boris Johnson. There has also been a demonstration outside the Palace of Westminster addressed by the usual sort of suspects whom many of us would not trust to run a bath let alone a country.
Dianne Abbott is one of those who spoke at this recent demonstration at Westminster and what she said was a great stinking heap of untruths, hyperbole, hypocrisy and political and historical ignorance. She addressed the demonstration and according to a report on Sky News said: “At the end of the day, it doesn’t exactly matter where you stand on Brexit, it matters where you stand on Tory prime ministers closing parliament because they don’t want to give people a say.
“If this was a Latin American country it would be called a coup, complete with American president publicly backing it. We have to stop this coup, not just for parliament but for this country’s future and for our children’s future.”
These are the words not of a respected elder stateswoman, but instead the words of an individual who has become a byword for ignorance, incompetence and hypocrisy. It’s really easy to pick apart Dianne Abbott’s short statement and show it to be the pile of steaming horseshit that it really and truly is.
First of all her statement is based on the untruth that ‘the people have not had their say’. This is incorrect, we’ve already had our say back in 2016 and the people, in a decision devolved to the electorate by Parliament, chose to leave the EU. What Dianne Abbott is plainly upset about, seemingly to the extent that it has addled her political judgement, is that the majority of British people polled freely voted for something that she and other Remainers didn’t want. Dianne Abbott and her Remainer lefty cohorts are demonstrating that they are behaving with all the maturity of a toddler having a tantrum because they can’t get their own way.
Secondly there is the issue of hyperbole. This was not a ‘coup’ and Britain is not a Latin American country prone to military involvement in government. We are instead a mature democracy where the electorate chose independence above being shackled to the European Union.
The matters of hypocrisy and political and historical ignorance can also be shown by her words pertaining to the prorogation. She decries the use of this procedure by Mr Johnson but has either ignored or is unaware of the fact that suspending Parliament for political reasons was used by none other than Labour hero Clement Atlee in the late 1940’s. When Labour wielded the prorogation big stick back then it was used to prevent the House of Lords from interfering in Atlee’s plans to nationalise Britain’s Iron and Steel industries. In fact Atlee both used the suspension of Parliament and the provisions of the 1911 Parliament Act, that reduced the power of the Lords, to push this ultimately disastrous policy through the Houses of Parliament. Dianne Abbott is the queen of double standards in today’s politics. She decried private education whilst sending her own children out of her Hackney borough for education and has made statements about the superiority of Black mothers that could easily seen as ‘racist’. Similarly she attacks Mr Johnson for suspending Parliament whilst ignoring the fact that other governments, including the 1945 Labour Government, did the same and for much less sound reasons than respecting the outcome of a public vote to leave the EU.
I find it astonishing that this appalling two faced, incompetent moron is even an MP let alone a person shadowing one of the highest offices in the land that of Home Secretary. Dianne Abbott is a classic example of someone who has been promoted way way beyond their capabilities or competences. As far as I can see, not just from this recent Westminster demonstration statement but also by her string of fiscal and numerical gaffes, Dianne Abbott’s only real talent is for incompetence and generally being so awful that she makes some other Labour representatives look good in comparison.
Dianne Abbott has at least achieved one thing for the short term and another for the long term. The short term one is that we now all know whose side Dianne Abbot is really on and it’s certainly not on the side of the majority of British people who voted to leave the EU. The long term achievement of her Westminster demonstration appearance is to remind voters just how utterly shit and bereft of political talent the Labour Party has become since the time when in living memory it encompassed the likes of Lord Peter Shore who saw the dangers inherent in the EU and fought against it. Labour is now a party that arse-licks both the EU and Britain’s Muslim communities and can no longer be honestly described as a party that represents the interests of British workers. Labour is not the party for the toiling masses or the working class who wanted to better themselves, instead it is the party of screeching, ignorant harridans like Dianne Abbott whose loyalty to traditional Labour values is tenuous at the least and non existent at worst.
In a way I’m glad that Dianne Abbott made this speech outside the Palace of Westminster, It will have at least cured a lot of people of the desire to vote Labour. I suspect that even those who are only attracted to Labour because of their promise of ‘free stuff’ paid for by the toil of others, may be put off by Dianne Abbott and the prospect of her becoming Home Secretary rather than just shadowing that position. To paraphrase or rather mangle George Orwell’s words, a vote for Labour is a vote for a future where Dianne Abbott is stamping her feet on your face forever. That, you may agree is a most unpleasant prospect.
