- Ms Abbott appeared to be wearing two left shoes from separate pairs of loafers
- She turned out to support Labour colleague Meg Hillier in Hackney South
- But Twitter users quickly spotted something was up in snap posted online
Labour’s Diane Abbott started off on the wrong foot today – as she appeared to go out campaigning with odd shoes on the wrong feet.
At the end of a long and gruelling winter election campaign she turned out to support Labour colleague Meg Hillier in her neighbouring East London constituency of Hackney South.
But Twitter users quickly spotted something was up when Ms Hillier posted a picture of them online.
Ms Abbott appeared to be wearing two left shoes.
But Twitter users quickly spotted something was up when Ms Hillier posted a picture of them online
Ms Abbott appeared to be wearing two left shoes from separate pairs of black loafers
They were at a supermarket in east London this morning
Ms Abbott speaking ahead of the election yesterday
Some of the comments that greeted the picture of Ms Abbott on Twitter this morning
One person wrote: ‘Mmmmm well done Dianne Abbott. Odd shoes and one of the shoes is on the wrong foot.’
Another said: ‘Two left shoes and odd shoes too!’
But others showed their support for the Labour veteran, with one saying: ‘Ms Abbott is quite obviously under the weather- take her home for a nice cup of tea and a hobnob … one can’t help but feel sorry.’
Ms Abbott, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn, is defending a Labour majority of 35,000 in her Hackney North and Stoke Newington seat.
She has had a low key election campaign and has seldom featured at large events with Jeremy Corbyn or any of the other shadow Cabinet members,
He was greeted by a protester dressed as Elmo, a character from children’s TV programme Sesame Street as he arrived to cast his vote in north London this morning.
The woman was restrained by security guards as she tried to approach Mr Corbyn as he entered the polling station.
As the woman in fancy dress argued with security and police, Mr Corbyn said: “Hello guys, can we stop the arguments please.”
He later posed for photographs with a small number of supporters and well-wishers outside the polling station at Pakeman Primary School in Islington with his wife Laura Alvarez.
Voters were stuck in the biggest queues seen at polling stations for years today as millions took part in Britain’s most important election for a generation with their decision expected to make-or-break Brexit.
Mr Corbyn was greeted by a protester dressed as Elmo, a character from children’s TV programme Sesame Street as he arrived to cast his vote in north London this morning
Thousands snaked around the block outside schools, village halls, churches, pubs and other community buildings in the wet and cold to exercise their democratic right at the UK’s 50,000 polling stations from 7am.
The largest queues were seen in London’s marginal seats where many were late for work and described the busiest election day they had seen for decades.
Hundreds waited for up to 45 minutes to vote in Battersea, Bow, Brixton, Clapham, Wandsworth and Woolwich in the capital as well as in Greater Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham as Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn battle to become the next Prime Minister.
Experts have said the crowds suggest that the turnout for the first December general election since 1923 could be the highest since Clement Atlee and Sir Winston Churchill fought to be PM in the 1950s. Turnouts have been dropping in the UK since Tony Blair’s landslide victory in 1997.
Fifty infamous moments that shame Jeremy Corbyn: The list of incidents that call into question the Labour leader’s credentials to be prime minister
Jeremy Corbyn has been branded a threat to national security by everyone from his own shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth to former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove.
During his long career in politics, he has held meetings with and appeared at rallies with enemies of Britain including IRA bombers and Islamist extremists.
The Labour leader claims he has always wanted to bring about peace and talk to all sides in conflicts.
But the list below, which originated online before being reviewed and separately confirmed by the Mail as to its accuracy, would appear — at the very least — to call into question Mr Corbyn’s claim and his credentials to be prime minister.
Mr Corbyn’s supporters say that he has always stood up for minority groups who are oppressed by larger, more powerful states, and has always sought dialogue and peace.
This means, however, that he sometimes shares platforms with people whose views he does not share, be they in the Middle East or in Northern Ireland.
He said in 2015: ‘I am absolutely committed to a meaningful peace process between Israelis and Palestinians and that has to be one based on the 1967 borders. I am proud to have been one of the first politicians prepared to engage in dialogue with Irish republicans about a peace process in Northern Ireland in the 1980s.’
This is the list of what Mr Corbyn has done:
Jeremy Corbyn can be seen in October 2014, attending a wreath-laying ceremony at the grave of one of the 1976 Munich massacre terrorists
1. Invited two IRA members to Parliament two weeks after the Brighton bombing
2. Attended Bloody Sunday commemoration with bomber Brendan McKenna
3. Attended meeting with Provisional IRA member Raymond McCartney
4. Hosted IRA-linked Mitchell McLaughlin in Parliament
5. Spoke alongside IRA terrorist Martina Anderson
6. Attended Sinn Fein dinner with IRA bomber Gerry Kelly
7. Chaired Irish republican event with IRA bomber Brendan MacFarlane
8. Attended Bobby Sands commemoration honouring IRA terrorists
9. Stood in minute’s silence for IRA gunmen shot dead by the SAS
10. Signed Early Day Motion after IRA massacre, blaming Britain for the deaths
11. Arrested while protesting in support of Brighton bomber’s co-defendants
12. Lobbied Government to improve visiting conditions for IRA killers
13. Attended Irish republican event where calls were made for armed conflict against Britain
14. Put up £20,000 bail money for IRA terror suspect Roisin McAliskey
15. Said banned terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah were his ‘friends’
16. Called for Hamas to be removed from terror banned list
17. Attended wreath-laying at grave of 1976 Munich massacre terrorist (above)
18. Attended conference where Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were present
19. Photographed at rally in front of Hezbollah flag
20. Attended rally with members of banned Al-Muhajiroun
21. Repeatedly shared platforms with plane hijacker
22. Accepted £20,000 for appearing on state TV channel of terror-sponsoring Iranian regime
23. Opposed banning Britons from going to Syria to fight for ISIS
24. Defended rights of fighters returning from Syria
25. Voted to let ISIS fighters return from Syria
26. Opposed police ‘shoot to kill’ policy
27. Signed letter defending Lockerbie bombing suspects
28. Accepted £5,000 donation from academic who said ‘Palestinians have a moral right to their terrorism’
29. Chaired Stop The War, which praised the ‘internationalism and solidarity’ of ISIS
30. Shook hands with cleric Raed Salah after he had been found guilty of incitement to terrorism
31. Shared platform with representative of extremist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
32. Compared ISIS to U.S. military in interview on Russia Today
33. Opposed proscription of extreme Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir
34. Backed Holocaust-denying anti-Zionist extremist Paul Eisen
35. Criticised drone strike that killed Jihadi John
36. Failed to unequivocally condemn the 9/11 attacks
37. Called Colombian terror group M-19 ‘comrades’
38. Gave speech in support of Gaddafi regime
39. Voted against banning support for the IRA
40. Voted against the Prevention of Terrorism Act three times during the Troubles
41. Voted against emergency counter-terror laws after 9/11
42. Voted against stricter punishments for being a member of a terror group
43. Voted against criminalising the encouragement of terrorism
44. Voted against banning al-Qaeda
45. Voted against control orders for terror suspects
46. Voted against increased funding for the security services to combat terrorism
Meeting: Gerard McLaughlin (far left) and Jeremy Corbyn (far right) with bespectacled Gerry Adams and Tony Benn at the House of Commons in 1994
47. Helped convicted IRA bombmaker Gerard McLaughlin (above left with Corbyn) get a job after he got a council flat
48. Said ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi should have been arrested rather than killed
49. Went to court to support an IRA fixer
50. Co-sponsored Irish Republican event that called jailed bombers ‘prisoners of war’
source:dailymail