Diane Abbott

Diane Julie Abbott (b. 1953) is a British far-left politician and champagne socialist. A member of the Labour Party, she has represented the constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington since the 1987 Conservative landslide under Margaret Thatcher. Serving as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016-2020, a post in which she was notorious for incompetence, Abbott is also a failed Labour leadership candidate.

With a long history of politicizing race, Abbott is known for her racist comments about Finnish nurses and white people in general. She has also expressed support for IRA terrorists, praised Chinese dictator Mao Zedong, made insensitive comments about Islamic terrorist attacks and appeared in livestream with a Uyghur genocide denier.

History and controversies

1970s

During the 1970s, Diane Abbott and fellow future Labour Party MP Jeremy Corbyn went on a motorcycle tour of communist state East Germany.

1980s

Abbott expressed vehement support for the Irish Republican Army (IRA), a terrorist group responsible for thousands of deaths, in a 1984 interview. Abbott stated that "every defeat for the British state is a victory for all of us".

In the 1987, in which the Thatcherite Conservatives won their third victory in a row in a landslide, Diane Abbott won the seat of Hackney North and Stoke Newington for the Labour Party with 48% of the vote. She took over from the retiring Ernie Roberts (1912-1994) who performed 4 points better than her in the 1983 election.

1990s

In 1996, Abbott made a racist attack on her local hospital for hiring "blonde, blue eyed Finnish girls" who have "never met a black person".

2010s

In a delusional rant at the September 2016 Labour Party conference, Abbott called Brexit voters "racist" and blamed them for hate crimes. Claims of a rise in hate crimes following the Brexit vote were based on a single press release with no substantiating evidence, with convictions for hate crimes having fallen between the vote in June 2016 and September that year.

Abbott and Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn came under fire on 9 December 2016 from Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones for their "London-centric" views.

On 6 May 2017, it was revealed that Abbott had acquired over £100,000 of taxpayer's money from BBC television appearances.

On 19 June 2017, Breitbart exposed Abbott's hypocrisy of calling an attack on a Mosque in Finsbury Park (which caused 1 death and 10 injuries) a "terror attack" yet referring to Islamic terrorist attacks at Westminster (6 deaths, 48 injuries), London Bridge (11 deaths, 48 injuries) and Manchester Arena (23 deaths, 1017 injuries) as "incidents".

On 21 February 2018, Diane Abbott was blasted for comparing British people's concerns about mass immigration to the scapegoating of minorities by Nazis in the 1930s. UK Conservative Party politician Philip Hollobone commented that Abbot's London-centric and anti-Brexit views were "more warped than ever".

2020s

In May 2021, Diane Abbott was among numerous left-wing politicians who joined an antisemitic, pro-Palestine march which compared "Zionist Israel" to Nazi Germany.

Diane Abbott, in October 2022, voted in favor of an authoritarian, anti-free speech bill to make it a criminal offense to pray or offer support outside an abortion clinic.