Shadow Health Minister dismisses an entire county

I have had an interesting exchange with Dianne Abbott on Twitter this morning. She was involved in a discussion with a Lib Dem friend of mine, @10anta, about the record of Ken Livingstone as London mayor. She then posted this tweet:

@10anta You live in Yorkshire, so all you know about Ken is what you read in the (Tory) press.

Subsequent exchanges have revealed that the point she was trying (but failing) to make was apparently something to do with the difficulty of judging London mayors if you live outside London. But she has singularly and repeatedly failed to apologise for her apparent view that people who live in Yorkshire are unable to think for themselves.

One wonders quite what the MPs for Doncaster North and Morley & Outwood would make of her opinions...