There’s a big problem with Diane Abbott. We simply don’t know what to do with her. The iconic Member for Hackney is a veritable institution. The first black woman in parliament without getting followed by security. The first black MP to shag Jeremy Corbyn. The longest lasting… errrrr… person of colour to… errrrrr… to repeatedly cock-up, fuck-up, get her sums wrong, get the plot wrong and finally, to make discriminatory statements. She spent an hour in parliament slamming private schools, whilst sending her own son to one. She worked out that employing 1000 extra police people, at 40 grand a year each would cost the nation… a lot… ok, more than £10,000!!! And then she said that Jews and Irish could never understand discrimination like she experiences. For which she was suspended from the Labour party. Which, to me, is a bit odd because of all the stupid, ridiculous, moronic things she said and did, that statement is pretty much true. But there ya go. Her party was into a massive, mainstream cleansing operation after the Corbyn departure so Diane, immaculate in her timing as ever, said the wrong thing at the wrong time.

So Labour wait until the day after you can no longer declare yourself as a candidate and restore her to their party. Awwww, nice. Why? Because they’re scared that she’ll do a Corbyn and stand as an independent in the constituency she’s held since 1987 and where, for some unaccountable reason, they seem to love her. But she won’t stand as a Labour candidate. Starmer is hoping that she’ll just walk out into the sunset with her head held high. If she can find the sunset. She’s not very good at geography. She’s 70 so she’s more than ready to become a drain on the nation’s pension pot and health service and, looking at it objectively, she should have been in some kind of institution years ago.

So having passed through ‘national box-ticked’, and on to ‘national institution’ followed by ‘national joke’ and finally reached the exalted ‘national treasure’ status, just by virtue of, again like Corbyn, never knowing when to quit, its time to bury her. I know, she’s not dead yet, but let’s not get mired down in details.

Yet in some respects she’s doing what she’s always done. Being very annoying. But as the people she’s annoying now are mainly her own party leader and his team of strategists, I’m actually quite enjoying this. But once her direction is finally decided, I think ‘out of it completely’ is the way to go. Because she was knee-deep in Corbyn’s toxic messages, complicit in his antisemitic everything and thus, no friend of mine. I don’t like her sufficiently to pity her.

Bye Bye Di

A xxxx