It is a shame about your final paragraph. This absolutely isn’t a race thing from most I would hope - I know it certainly isn’t myself. There are rubbish politicians across all the parties, and Abbott was simply one of the highest profile and most rubbish ones on the Labour side.
As I say...
I did however panic, in the same way I panic when I see a famous older name I like as the thread title, thinking it’s a RIP thread. Something like “Abbott to be lynchpin of reshuffled Labour shadow cabinet”
She’s completely irrelevant, might as well ask my cat for her thoughts. If she was relevant at all to UK politics then fair enough, but everyone - including Labour themselves - see her as a bit of an embarrassment. I don’t understand why this got bounced.
It’s like bouncing a thread from a...