'''Diane Julie Abbott''' (born 1953) is a British [[far-left]] [[career politician]], [[racist]] writer and [[champagne socialist]]. A suspended member of the [[Labour Party]], she has represented the constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington since the 1987 [[Conservative]] landslide under [[Margaret Thatcher]], who obliterated Abbott in a 1990 Prime Minister's Questions.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5axvTRVZI YouTube, "Margaret Thatcher Vs Diane Abbott"]</ref> Serving as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016 to 2020, a post in which she was notorious for [[incompetence]], Abbott is also a [[Failure|failed]] Labour leadership candidate. She is highly unpopular with the British public; as of late 2020, she was about as popular in the UK as [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref name="yougov" /> | '''Diane Julie Abbott''' (born 1953) is a British [[far-left]] [[career politician]], [[racist]] writer and [[champagne socialist]]. A suspended member of the [[Labour Party]], she has represented the constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington since the 1987 [[Conservative]] landslide under [[Margaret Thatcher]], who obliterated Abbott in a 1990 Prime Minister's Questions.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5axvTRVZI YouTube, "Margaret Thatcher Vs Diane Abbott"]</ref> Serving as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016 to 2020, a post in which she was notorious for [[incompetence]], Abbott is also a [[Failure|failed]] Labour leadership candidate. She is highly unpopular with the British public; as of late 2020, she was about as popular in the UK as [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref name="yougov" /> |