"Misspoke"

[gray_marian]

Brass Neck or what

Diane Abbott says she 'misspoke' on Labour's police policy - BBC News

According to the BBC, Diane Abbott first said that the 10,000 additional police officers would cost £300,000 over four years (£30 each), then she raised it to £80 million (£8,000 each over 4 years. Apparently Jeremy Corbyn has confirmed that the figure should be £300 million a year.

That works out at £30,000 per officer per annum. Now that sounds very light to me, that should cover the officer's salary cost OK, but doesn't sound like a reasonable whole cost once you factor in on top of that the significant employer's pension and NI contributions costs and infrastructural costs like training, uniforms, vehicles, accommodation, management overheads etc. .

[John Pruden]

is this the diane abbot who has come out for some time with racist remarks?? why would your party put her on tv to say anything she has one foot permanently stuck in her mouth.. this shows how much labour is in disarray ? what has happened to that once great party{remember the one for the people} is raving looney still going or does it come under labour in todays politics?? jp

[vic mcclymont]

John, D.A in my opinion has trouble stringing a sentence together, watch her on TV, she always pauses before and during any statements.
Regards
Vic

[cappy]

###no wonder there was no money in the treasury last time they got kicked out ....they cant even bloody add up ......and of course corbyn backs his old buddy ...to the HILT ....I BET .....URRG.what a bleedin thought ..... is there anyone left in the country who could vote for these tinpot tossers.....who create nothing but spend all.... jeez no wonder england trembles cappy

[Frederick Lacey]

Just a thought....perhaps she means Special Plods, they don't get a wage, all they get is expenses.
mileage etc to and from work....an underhanded way of getting more police.

[Jim Brady]

###no wonder there was no money in the treasury last time they got kicked out .cappy

Cappy I think that there is less in it now than what there was then.
Regards.
Jim.b.

[happy daze john in oz]

She sounds like our State Premier, Dictator Dan.

He has promised an additonal 2500 police over the next four years.
When challenged about the fact that it takes two years from who to first day on the beat and the academy can only turn out 500 per year, he attempted to change the subject.

The attrition rate is around 300 per year, retirement etc, and new needed for new suburbs soak up the rest.

The conclusion, Labor employs some of the biggest idiots it can find.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
There are very very few politicians today worth their salt. Take our wonderful PM he met with The Indian billionaire and said that he was welcome to build his new coalmine in Queensland that will destroy the Great Barrier Reef, then when he came home he said that the Gov't would not lend him the $4biilion to build the railway line nessesary to ship it to the coast. He calls all the big bankers to parliament house and chastises them banks for ripping the people off, but does nothing to stop them, then he calls on the public to boycott the ANZ Bank for refusing to lend Andani the Four $Billion that he refused to give him.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Des, politicians are an evil we are stuck with, it matters noty which side you like thye arte all the same.
But we must remeber that it is treasury and the public service thta actualy run the nation. Politicians just try to stuff it up.

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates, Diana Abbott ? she is getting on in years , no longer the force she was ? Cappy my shipmate ,no money in the treasurey was a joke he left a note, a school boy prank !!! i.e NO sweets in the tuck shop, no booze in the bond, there is never any money in the treasury as our government tory/ labour and anyone else? borrow to spend , more than they tax a fact, from 1986 we have been pennyless/pot less as a country, proof ??? see the debt clock for up to date information, the people in power are the bankers, and foreign counties, China Saudi and the U,S.A. are our owners today. NOT the government a load of free loaders with No say in the real world. sorry but thats the facts our vote is a waste of time see BREXIT it will run for years and years.