What's next? (shadow) Home Secretary?

If Dave can coax her to get over her telly-appearing addiction. Oops, freudian slip there.

Tony, if people don't know the difference between Labour and Tory post-97 with minimum wage introduced, mainly, then you should now be banging your head against the wall.

These far east terrorist chancer events took advantage of a post-dubious Bush/Republican set up, and it backfired on the Republicans. Blair HAD to follow the Republicans into battle, especially, as mentioned elsewhere, when ozzie youngsters got bombed in Bali in Indonesia in 2002.

It was getting too mad.

The Minimum Wage was a great policy. New Labour brought us some good policies but those came with huge mistakes that made people feel that we had abandoned our principles. I think people were concerned with single mother's benefits being cut in '97-2000, 10p tax rate, anti-terrorism laws that eroded our civil liberties, deregulation and Labour's dangerous and destructive privatization of the health service. New Labour capitulating to the neoliberal paradigm also resulted in us being one of the hardest hit economies in the West. I could go on. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were the final nail in the coffin after all that took place for most voters.

There is now a real need for radicalism in our thinking. We need new ideas grounded in traditional socialist values. Ed and Ed and Dave and Andy are, in my opinion, far too entrenched in the New Labour institution to provide what we truly need at this point in our history.

Diane is the only one holding a consistently progressive voting record. As someone said above me, she has been proven right on many occasions. And for that she wins my vote.

And don't you worry, oh yes, the US in some form and our marvellous tory party with their post empire ideas had their sticky fingers well into to fuck England and Bobby Moore in Mexico, which, apparently, is just south of the US, to win the UK election a few days later.

For Bobby Moore and Mexico World Cup, google Columbia with it, and shop,and necklace, or fucking some other jewelery.

Allan Clarke should have played against the germans in the quarters, not that WBA Jeff Astle, though I don't have anything at all against him, rip.

Allan,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt7mN9jMStg

@Freeman

"The Minimum Wage was a signal to the cruddiest employers that they now had a government-approved Maximum Wage for the lowest of the low."

Before the Minimum Wage, there were hotel jobs in Cornwall paying £1.50 per hour. The rise to £3.60 per hour in 1999 made a real difference to those people.

Tony Hazell 'The Minimum Wage was a great policy.'

The Minimum Wage was a signal to the cruddiest employers that they now had a government-approved Maximum Wage for the lowest of the low.

"The Minimum Wage was a signal to the cruddiest employers that they now had a government-approved Maximum Wage for the lowest of the low."

Spot-on. The minimum wage is a disaster.

Right, not sure I follow what people are saying here. But I dislike the presumption of this article, that Diane won't win, when, in fact, she has as much chance as the rest of them.

In fact, she's actually the public choice for Labour leader. http://bit.ly/b13yeg

After a series of grand mal seizures, I was emergency admitted to my local hospital A and E at 08:00. At 11:50 I was moved to the Emergency Assessment Unit (corridor). The target in A and E is 4 hours. I was seen by a consultant in the EAU at 22:00. When not fitting, I am just extremly tired. The poor staff ran around and were brilliant. I gave my pillow to an old chap as he did not have a pilow. I think I watched the man in the next bed in the EAU die. I saw the hand coloured charts showing the A and E met all its targets. No targets for the EAU. Presentation is all to the tainted four ex ministers.

DWP wants people to phone. They do not give email addresses anymore. To hard to fiddle performance. Phones are good as the call centre sofware tells when targets are about to be missed. The standard approach is to pull people off the line and they call repeatedly, hold for a second and then put the phone down. Sometimes they have to call hundreds of times to get the average down. Real patients have to wait longer and longer but the targets are met. Presentation is all to the tainted four ex ministers. Easy to prove by audit but the tainted four ex ministers loved announcing that they met their targets and are setting tighter targets.

Finally I will say if you deal in shares and make significant money through capital gains Labour have been wonderful. Before Labour, capital gains above the exemption limit was taxed at the personal tax rate as the CGT rate was the high tax rate. You also had to faff around with taper relief. I could not believe Labour changed it to a flat rate 18pc and got rid of the taper relief. You can upload the transaction list of captial gains and losses to the HMRC online. Brilliant. Done in a few seconds. Thank you Lord Mandelson and the other Labour Lords. You certainly looked after the rich. The poor can go hang make obtaining benefits as difficult as possible.
http://www.whywaitforever.com/dwpatos.html

Even better Labour assisted in the volatility of the markets. Labour screwed up company pensions so dividends have to be cut, assets sold and M and A activity is encouraged to meet the shortfall in company pensions. Holding financial assets for long periods is stupid. You make money on the rollacoaster and the holders of long term funds suffer. Look at most people's annual personal pension statement while Labour was in power. Savings bring no return due to QE and the inflation wave about to hit us. Gold 2000 USD by 2011 Q1 anyone? Labour has well looked after the handful of rich who contribute to party funds and all the others have suffered.

My wallet tells me to vote for one of the tainted four ex ministers but my Epicurean philosphy says DA. She is closest to knowing how the poor are suffering. She will ask for the independent audits and accounts that the tainted four ex ministers reviewed with a Nelsonian eye. The coalition might do her job for her. I can see her join the Lib Dems or the Greens. The Labour of the incompetent 13 years is not the party for DA it has been the party of the very rich. Can DA change the party? I hope so building her team from the untainted.

Labour should be saying what they will do for the most needy in society and what they will do to protect people from explotation. All else is secondary to a true Labour party. The 4 tainted ex ministers are still not Labour and never likely to be.

Has DA said anything about Labour's Welfare Reform Act 2007 and the operation of "disability denial factories"?

Has DA said anything about "Atos Healthcare, part of Atos Origin, cheating the sick by providing unsound medical advice to the DWP"?
http://www.whywaitforever.com/dwpatoscases.html

Has DA said anything about "Atos Healthcare, part of Atos Origin, cheating the disabled veterans by providing unsound medical advice to the SPVA"?
http://www.whywaitforever.com/dwpatosveterans.html

Has DA mentioned that the DWP estimates of fraud are tiny and falling and benefit fraud is less likely than winning a prize in the lottery?

I read Hansard and yes she did mention the abuse of the dying, the sick, the disabled and their carers. None of the four tainted ex ministers said a thing.

http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Documents/GetInvolved/Campaigns/Benefits/Fai...

wake up poeple whoever gets in will make the rich richer and the poor poorer. I've worked with mps from both sides and they are full of shit!!! until you sheep wake up things will only get worse bbbbaaaaaahhhhh!!!!

Her fat arse planted firmly on the backbenches where it belongs.

Diane should get the defence portfolio

refuse the trident money

i'm glad dianne abbots in the mix she's put her head above the para(noid)pit as much as we all hate to admit it the labour party needs to come at the coalition government by stealth.all the other candidates can be read like an open book.the other parties will pick them off because they use the same rhetoric book as coalition do.either way we look at it what has labour to lose.re alignment in politics is reqd because all the parties to a degree are similar

Diane Abbott is an out-and-out hypocrite and no-brain gas-bag. I seriously hope she becomes the leader of the Labour Party, though that's less likely than her being asked to advertise Weight Watchers.