[Winegums]

This went surprisingly well really. Like when the Sun tried to have a go at Brown for having bad handwriting when writing to soldiers' families after they died, and everyone got on-side with him over it.

It's also an amazingly, astonishingly, profoundly small fry infraction of rules that nobody could really care about.

[Philip Marlow]

This is the kind of solidarity I can get behind.

M&S STORES SELL OUT OF MOJITO CANS DAYS AFTER DIANE ABBOTT PHOTOGRAPHED DRINKING ONE ON TUBE

Several stores, including that in the Labour MP’s constituency, sold out of the product over the weekend. 

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... reddit.com

[Big Arnold]

Conservatives criticise ‘abhorrent’ Diane Abbott for using public transport

[crabcakes_windermere]

This is absolutely dreadful. Suggesting someone must be lying and cannot possibly have been bullied because of other things they've done, and in this case the accusation of fabrication clearly being made because that person has dared speak up against something Corbyn has suggested. And from the MP that a certain former poster regularly reminded us was the target of abuse and bullying.

[youngian]

Just noted on another thread this is Richard Littlejohn level bollocks.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Good God. Leakey actually says he isn't talking about being intimidated himself.

Backbenches, please.

[randomelement]

The tweet has been removed. What was the gist and who said

[Tubby Isaacs]

She said David Leakey is an army veteran so couldn't have been bullied by Bercow. Just like presumably Abbott, as a hardened politician, couldn't be bullied by non-entities on the internet.

Leakey had expressly said he was talking about others being bullied anyway.

[bluebellnutter]

[Bones McCoy]

Is there any meaningful content there?
I clicked everything that looks like a link and got nothing.

[lord_kobel]

https://www.politwoops.co.uk/p/labour/H ... 3570453505

[Boiler]

Diane Abbott has said she will quit the front bench of Labour when a new leader is elected. Ms. Abbott, the shadow home secretary, told Sky News that whoever becomes leader, "they have to be able to construct their own shadow cabinet".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51607512

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'm ruling myself out of a Shadow Cabinet place too.

I'm not the first person to make that gag.

[bluebellnutter]

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Judging by her numbers, Abbott is a good and popular MP in her constituency. She really ought to stick to that. The junior shadow minister role she was given by Miliband was about her level. Shadow Home Sec, way above her ability, and it showed.

But the illness thing could well have been genuine. I've been there.