In Case You Missed It…British MP, Diane Abbott Makes History
On Wednesday, June 9, British Member of Parliament Diane Abbott (the first Black Woman to be elected to British Parliament, in 1987) became the first black person to contest the Labour leadership. The withdrawal of John McDonnell, a series of late nominations and high profile endorsements secured her place in the five-person contest. She told Kay Burley of Sky News:
‘…it was “a relief” to be nominated after “a scramble in the last hour”.
“The main plank of my campaign is to reconnect to our voters and listen to them,” she said.
Ms Abbott said she was looking forward to “taking part in a campaign which will do the Labour Party proud”, but added: “I’m concentrating on winning.”
The Guardian weighed in and quoted media/political reaction:
“Anyone explain why MPs who disagree with Diane Abbott should nominate her? Tad patronising to women, black people and lefties?” tweeted Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 news; while former Labour special adviser Paul Richards commented: “If you don’t want her to be leader, don’t nominate her. It’s just patronising.”
We want to hear what you think. Is Diane Abbott’s nomination:
a) Patronising tokenism and wahala (nonsense)
b) Same ol’ same ol’ cynical politics
c) A step forward for Britain’s multi cultural society
d) None of the above
e) Or something else?
Blog your answers below…
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Morning HfH’ers,
Friend of Home, from Home, Wunmi is taking part in ‘The Simple ® Shoes Road to Reeperbahn 2010 Competition.’
The 50 bands with the most downloads by will move on to be reviewed by a panel of judges from Simple Shoes and the Reeperbahn Festival. The ten resulting finalists will get Simple shoes and a top secret mission to create a video for fans to vote on. The band whose video receives the most votes will play at Reeperbahn in front of 15,000 festival goers and 3600 EUR to get there.
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The sun has gone away, so we figured we’d generate some light ourselves, by putting up some ‘throwback’ videos’.
Not so politically correct and highly dubious lyrics aside, we used to love these songs (OK, and we still do, lol). Silk may be better known, but back in the day, Portrait may have had it, but, we’ll leave that to you to decide! Who would win in a battle of the old skool bands? (and yes, we know that the videos are from different years, but still..). So who gets your vote?
Portrait…..?
or Silk…?
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To mark the first ten years of the Calabash International Literary Festival, Home, from Home is GIVING AWAY five copies of the book ‘So Much Things To Say, published by Akashic books.
LISTEN to the latest edition of Home, from Home to hear Christabel’s conversation with award-winning author, Kwame Dawes, one of the Literary Festival organizers, about the event.
The Book features the work of 100 poets who participated in the first 10 Calabash Festivals, including Derek Walcott, Linton Kwesi Johnson and President Obama’s inaugural poet, Elizabeth Alexander.
TO WIN A COPY of the book, just send an email with the book title, ‘SO MUCH THINGS TO SAY’ in the header, and your NAME in the body of the email to: HFH@HFHSHOW.COM BEFORE JUNE 14, 2010!
The senders of the first five (5) emails to be selected at random, by the Home, from Home team from all emails received by June 14, 2010 will each receive a copy of the book!
One entry per person. Winners will be notified by email. CLICK HERE FOR FULL GIVEAWAY TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
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