January 2012 idiot award goes to...

The idiot award of January 2012 may have been snatched up.  Unsurprisingly by a politician, the labour MP Dianne Abbott who stated on twitter ''White people love playing 'divide and rule'".  She was soon reprimanded by Ed Miliband and advised a quick apology was in order.  But it does make you think, if she was not bought to attention over this would she of had insight enough to have made her own apologies.  Furthermore in response Tory MPs have said if it were one of their lot they'd have to resign from government.  It's a fair comment to make.  Perhaps she thought twitter was an OK place to put personal remarks for other people.  In any case as Nick Clegg noted the comment was stupid and crass.  So should Ms Abbott be allowed to front the Labour party I wonder.  After all, quite a few white labour party supporters might well be offended. Me one of them.