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According to ''YouGov'' on 24 December 2022 Abbott is disliked by 46% of the UK public, with only 15% having a positive opinion of her.<ref>[https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Diane_Abbott?content=articles Diane Abbott popularity & fame]</ref> | According to ''YouGov'' on 24 December 2022 Abbott is disliked by 46% of the UK public, with only 15% having a positive opinion of her.<ref>[https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Diane_Abbott?content=articles Diane Abbott popularity & fame]</ref> | ||
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=== James Abbott-Thompson === | === James Abbott-Thompson === | ||
Abbott's son James Abbott-Thompson was born in 1992. In 2020, Abbott-Thompson admitted to biting and attempting to punch a co-worker and spitting at a police officer.<ref name="telegraphjamesabbott">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oD3Kzcv-szIJ:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/23/diane-abbotts-son-admits-spitting-police-officer-biting-colleague/&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0 Diane Abbott's son admits spitting at police officer and biting his colleague outside Foreign Office]</ref> | Abbott's son James Abbott-Thompson was born in 1992. In 2020, Abbott-Thompson admitted to biting and attempting to punch a co-worker and spitting at a police officer.<ref name="telegraphjamesabbott">[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oD3Kzcv-szIJ:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/23/diane-abbotts-son-admits-spitting-police-officer-biting-colleague/&hl=en&gl=uk&strip=1&vwsrc=0 Diane Abbott's son admits spitting at police officer and biting his colleague outside Foreign Office]</ref> | ||
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| Diane Abbott | |
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Shadow Home Secretary of the United Kingdom
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| In office 6 October 2016 – 5 April 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Andy Burnham |
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| Succeeded by | Nick Thomas-Symonds |
| Born | 27 September 1953 London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | David Ayensu-Thompson (divorced) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
Diane Julie Abbott (b. 1953) is a British far-left career 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, who obliterated Abbott in a 1990 Prime Minister's Questions.[1] 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.[2] She has also expressed support for IRA terrorists,[3] praised Chinese dictator Mao Zedong,[4] made insensitive comments about Islamic terrorist attacks and appeared in livestream with a Uyghur genocide denier.
Abbott has one son who is known for anti-social behavior.[5]
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".[3]
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".[6]
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.[7]
Abbott and Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn came under fire on 9 December 2016 from Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones for their "London-centric" views.[8]
On 6 May 2017, it was revealed that Abbott had acquired over £100,000 of taxpayer's money from BBC television appearances.[9]
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".[10]
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".[11]
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.[12]
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.[13]
Public opinion
According to YouGov on 24 December 2022 Abbott is disliked by 46% of the UK public, with only 15% having a positive opinion of her.[14]
Personal life
James Abbott-Thompson
Abbott's son James Abbott-Thompson was born in 1992. In 2020, Abbott-Thompson admitted to biting and attempting to punch a co-worker and spitting at a police officer.[5]
References
- ↑ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5axvTRVZI YouTube, "Margaret Thatcher Vs Diane Abbott"
- ↑ Diane Abbott: 'White people love playing divide and rule'
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Diane Abbott Expressed Support for the IRA at the Height of the Troubles
- ↑ Why does the Left still love communism?
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Diane Abbott's son admits spitting at police officer and biting his colleague outside Foreign Office
- ↑ Diane Abbott lets slip Labour's real immigration policy
- ↑ [https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2016/09/27/labour-diane-abbott-brexit-voters-racist-responsible-hate-crimes/ Labour’s Diane Abbott Says Brexit Voters Are Racist and Responsible for Hate Crimes
- ↑ Labour’s Welsh leader blasts Corbyn & says EU migrants must have jobs before coming to UK
- ↑ Diane Abbott Banked £110,000 From BBC Punditry
- ↑ Abbott: Finsbury Park a ‘Terror Attack’, But Westminster, Manchester, and London Bridge ‘Incidents’
- ↑ Diane Abbott sparks fury over Britain's immigration views as she draws pre-Nazi Germany comparisons
- ↑ Pics: ‘Zionist Israel = Nazi Germany’ — Pro-Palestinian Activists March in London
- ↑ Where does Diane Abbott stand on abortion?
- ↑ Diane Abbott popularity & fame