Tuesday 3 August 2010

Diane Abbott for Chancellor !

... for this is she, offering her mathematical prowess on money matters when being interviewed by La Toynbee on the subject of campaign funding for the Labour Leadership (11:30 in, if you can't face the whole lot):

"[David Miliband] declared £180,000: I have £1,700. Even you, Polly, wouldn’t say that David Miliband's politics are 10 times more popular than mine in the Labour Party"

Nope Diane, your popularity is measured in quite a different multiple ...
even if Polly is too polite to point it out.

ND

8 comments:

Obnoxio The Clown said...

Is that ironic, or are you also numerically challenged? Because there's actually two orders of magnitude there. :o)

Nick Drew said...

well, err, 100 plays 10 = one ...

Bill Quango MP said...

Poor Dianne. She must be wishing she hadn't stood up.

"Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"?

Mark Wadsworth said...

Well spotted, most chucklesome

Andrew B said...

You all have it wrong.
The leader of the party does not need to be able to add two numbers together - much less multiply. That is why Tony Blair had Gordon Brown.


Oh.

Budgie said...

I have no sympathy for Abbbbot, but most of us speak imprecisely, so cut her a little slack. (Even though it is funny).

Electro-Kevin said...

ASLEF have chosen her for their political backing. I was at a meeting last night.

Why is a Conservative like me doing this ?

Nick Drew said...

that's the right type of slack to cut her, Kev

enough rope ...