
sounds like the right-wing are looking for anything they can to have a pop at Labour. Diane Abbott apparently was using the context of the Slave-Trade but was foolish enough not to qualify her statement as such and therefore her words do look to be racist even if she didn't mean it to sound that way - she should really check herself before making comments as sensitive as this.
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Fri 6 Jan 2012, 20:18,
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but yeah, there's plenty of silly to go around here.
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Fri 6 Jan 2012, 20:21,
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and minding what they are saying and considerate of the effects of their words - yet often find they are contaminated with Foot in Mouth disease :D
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Fri 6 Jan 2012, 20:26,
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To be fair, I can only imagine what life would be like if someone were jamming a microphone in my face at every opportunity or reading my tweets like tea leaves. I mean, I'm barely coherent at the best of times.
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Fri 6 Jan 2012, 20:29,
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I think someone must have said at sometime "Anybody who wants to be a Politician doesn't deserve to be a Politician" It seems no one ever talks the straight truth anymore.
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