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Diane Abbott made a particularly stupid comment when interviewed on the
Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme on Sky News (May 9). She has taken to trying to talk very slowly - either in a vain attempt to add ‘gravitas’ or, more likely, to try and enable her brain to keep pace with her mouth.
Asked whether Labour could ever win a general election again, Abbott replied that Eric Hobsbawm had written a widely circulated article in 1978 entitled ‘The forward march of Labour halted?’ and that “proved to be completely wrong”. Completely wrong? The following year the Labour government of James Callaghan was defeated by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives, who then remained in office for the following 18 years, winning four general elections on the trot. Labour did eventually return to office in a landslide in 1997, but Abbott and her wing of Labour refused to accept New Labour as real Labour and claimed the period between 1997 and 2010 was an anathema. So that is either 1
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