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Agreed. She’s been a victim of being held up to different standards her whole career. And the scandal of the antisemitism in the party, and the need to deal with it has meant this is another example. I suspect that, given the stage of her career and how she’s been treated etc, she is being cantankerous and they would quite like her to retire. If they end up with c. 450 MPs they are going to have to deal with more dissenting voices though. If she wants to cause a big stink and basically be a Tory enabler after the last 14 years she can do one though.

We've heard this song before https://twitter.com/mufcscoop/status/1795572958687358998?s=61&t=dT18lkv_gtx3CedULmHiZg

Aye, it was during the period when they were being hypersensitive and trying to show that Starmer was zero tolerance, and they completely overreacted. Mind, you can guarantee that if he hadn't immediately acted, it would have been used as a stick to beat him with by both Tories and the press. Which kind of underlines that she should probably have put a bit more thought into what she was doing and considered possible consequences. Or she knew and she was just seeing if she could test boundaries - that's what I mean about whether she's actually more of an arse pain than we realise.

New FT model to play with.

What Renton said was true as well. She made a clumsy point which she apologised for but it wasn’t antisemitic imo. If I understood properly she meant people from the traveller community and Jewish people weren’t always immediately identified as such, in the way a black person is identifiable by the colour of their skin. Therefore the prejudice they face isn’t the same.

I don't know whether she's a bigger headache behind the scenes than any of us realise, because otherwise what you say makes perfect sense.

I don't know what their plan was if the election was in November. Presumably they always wanted to do this manoeuvre during a campaign (but handle it better) cos it would all be done and over with quickly. But if the plan was to make her wait another 5 or 6 months in limbo, that's a pretty appalling way to treat someone.

Also, they should have and probably still should just let her stand as a Labour candidate. What difference does it make? If they stop her they’ll have to answer questions about it for days.

Yeah and the BBC were all over it like a rash. So you can see why labour were being careful but they seem to have made a right fucking mess. Especially as the outcome of the investigation was known in December. The BBC going the whole fucking parliamentary legend and trailblazer thing about her as well, man. I don’t remember that attitude when she was in the shadow cabinet. In the same news bulletin they made a huge thing out of Rayner, despite them being completely exonerated. Saying it still hasn’t gone away. I do think Abbott has been treated quite shabbily in general here though.

Looks like Labour have handled the Abbott thing terribly. They'd come to an agreement with her to restore the whip and then she would announce that she was standing down and bow out gracefully. But some dipshit yesterday told the Times she was "barred from standing" and now it's all become very acrimonious. I think the terms of the agreement were pretty much that she wouldn't stand, but when you've taken all this time to engineer an outcome, got the outcome you wanted, and then still managed to fuck it up is pretty shit.

Also, its mad how many people don't know that Bumder schools are run as charities and are exempt from tax.

Its about time, but I still dont think Labour will follow through with it.

Loads of these schools can’t even operate as a viable business without the tax breaks, etc. Despite charging exorbitant fees. Little wonder that they turn out so many entitled cunts who think the rules don’t apply to them. Fuck the lot of them tbh. They’re a massive part of the mess the country is in.

It would be hilarious after ALL THE HARD WORK Erik has done and then Sir Jim single handedly gets them demoted to another competition.

My money is on UEFA not making a stand 😒 Lots of talk of Chelsea declining their Europa League place to avoid FFP scrutiny from UEFA too. We’re only a Villa disqualification due to their fans abysmal accent away from the CL group stages tbh

The fallout from the privileged for this on X is magnificent. Apparently Labour are ruining the country because some of the upper middle class now can't afford to send Tarquin to private school. Well, maybe get rid of your Netflix account and mobile phone like the rest of us.

This is supposedly the seat Iain Dale is getting after he announced he was leaving LBC to run. If Labour and the Lib Dems voters even remotely get their shit together on tactical voting, it'll be a short lived break from LBC.

On the plus side, they might have to drop into the conference league cos Nice are already in the Europe League and got there by finishing higher in Ligue 1. Ineos are in talks with UEFA and are "confident" everything will be fine, but I'll direct you to Ratcliffe's confidence that they would get Ashworth for a song. If UEFA don't take a stand here, then this rule basically goes in the bin and it won't be long before clubs under the same ownership are playing one another in semi finals, with all the controversy that would bring.

"The polls WILL narrow" latest. Polling conducted Mon and Tues of this week so this is the remix of Ignition, hot and fresh out the kitchen. Say what you want about R Kelly, but you'll be humming that absolute banger for the rest of the day.

Bridget's come a long way from her Wednesday Addams days.

Or turn up naked

... no, I'm not going there

And don't forget the genocide

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