The “should be shot” comment should have the made headline too. Yikes.
You don’t have to be so mean about someone who accidentally wears two left shoes.
> “It’s like trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott on the TV, and you’re just like I hate, you just want to hate all black women because she’s there, and I don’t hate all black women at all, but I think she should be shot”
and
> “[The executive] and Diane Abbott need to be shot. She’s stupid … If we can get [the executive] being unprofessional we can get her sacked. It’s not as good as her dying. It would be much better if she died. She’s consuming resource. She’s eating food that other people could eat. You know?”
and then
> [His company’s] lawyers said … that Hester’s comments had been distorted and taken out of context, and were not a true or accurate characterisation of the company or Hester.
What context justifies saying a sitting MP should be shot?
The amount of hate from weird racists that Diane Abbott gets is mad
Literally calling for the murder of an MP. They should give the money to charity and he should be arrested.
As a white middle aged man I look at him and start to hate all white middle aged men.
Has he looked at himself – he hit every branch on the way down the ugly tree and clearly, his personality is no compensation.
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m beginning to suspect the government histrionics about extremism are a bit contrived and that these Tories aren’t very nice.
Biggest Tory donor’s company has been awarded hundreds of millions worth of contracts? Also a massive racist? I’m SHOCKED.
If the Tory party had any grace and dignity his donations would be being returned right now, his membership card ceremoniously burned, and a row of Tory MPs would be coming out to disown this vile racist dirtbag.
I don’t hold my breath.
10 years ago they wouldn’t have dared say this. The last ten years of story rule has emboldened the racists.
So when people say “ what’s the point in voting labour, they are all the same ”, well clearly they’re not.
I’m out of the loop with Diane Abbott, but I have seen that she gets quite a lot of hate. Can someone give me some examples of why she gets a bad wrap?
I’ve seen Starmer supporters say similar. Maybe Sir Keef will give him a peerage.
If it was a Muslim saying this they would be instantly labelled a terrorist
I too am not a fan of Dianne Abbott, but why bring race into it?
She is criminally incompetent, but death is drastic.
Oh dear, just now someone had added the word ‘racist’ to his wukipedia page in the sentence “He is the largest ever racist donor to the UK’s Conservative Party, having given £10 million in the year up to March 2024” but it has already been amended as of two minutes ago to remove the word. People move quick on the Internets.
> comments has been taken out of context
And under what specific context are those comments acceptable?
This is repulsive, sinister and utterly virulent racism. It’s also extremely similar to a lot of comments targeting Abbott made by senior officials in her own party. That ought to tell you something.
I’m a lifelong Labour voter and didn’t particularly care for Diane Abbott – she seemed out of her depth and scatter-brained. But how the hell does one extrapolate from ‘this politician seems useless’ into ‘she’s black and a woman, so now I hate all members of that demographic?’
That’s really nasty. She’s an imbecile who should be nowhere near government but to say she should be shot is disgusting.
Sounds like the kind of comment a terrorist would make. I presume the Tories and the spineless Sunak will return his donations.
Not my reaction personally. Nice self-report though.
I mean I know Diane Abbot is a thick cow, but jesus christ.
Hold on, I thought that threats against MPs weren’t all that bad? There were lots of people last week that shrugged their shoulders when someone daubed Jeremy Hunts constituency office with ‘die tory scum’.
So are threats against politicians ok or not or does it depend on ‘who’ is being threatened?
Tory donors are living the Shrek meme life right now.
“Can you not say something racist, homophobic, or downright stupid, FER FIVE MINUTES?”
Only a few weeks since the speaker / Tories / Labour were saying pro-Palestine protestors were a threat to MPs safety and are were/are to limit right to protest and stirring up Islamophobia. I am sure they will spend as much time debating this direct threat from a right wing donor in the house of commons as they did on the protestors.
I wish hating white men would be taking as seriously as hating black women.
Be outraged!!! be angry!!! but just remember to register to vote.
Make sure you vote out every single tory bit of garbage out of every ward.
Toryism is a mental illness.
Can we just have two decent political parties? Or is that two much to ask for.
Lucky the tories are cracking down on extremism like this.
Racist will always let their mask slip. Even if they like to tell you they are not racist.
I mean I dislike Diane Abbott, but only as much as I dislike every other incompetent MP. There are plenty more stupid than her on the other side of the house, but they get away with it because they’re white men.
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The “should be shot” comment should have the made headline too. Yikes.
You don’t have to be so mean about someone who accidentally wears two left shoes.
> “It’s like trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott on the TV, and you’re just like I hate, you just want to hate all black women because she’s there, and I don’t hate all black women at all, but I think she should be shot”
and
> “[The executive] and Diane Abbott need to be shot. She’s stupid … If we can get [the executive] being unprofessional we can get her sacked. It’s not as good as her dying. It would be much better if she died. She’s consuming resource. She’s eating food that other people could eat. You know?”
and then
> [His company’s] lawyers said … that Hester’s comments had been distorted and taken out of context, and were not a true or accurate characterisation of the company or Hester.
What context justifies saying a sitting MP should be shot?
The amount of hate from weird racists that Diane Abbott gets is mad
Literally calling for the murder of an MP. They should give the money to charity and he should be arrested.
As a white middle aged man I look at him and start to hate all white middle aged men.
Has he looked at himself – he hit every branch on the way down the ugly tree and clearly, his personality is no compensation.
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m beginning to suspect the government histrionics about extremism are a bit contrived and that these Tories aren’t very nice.
Biggest Tory donor’s company has been awarded hundreds of millions worth of contracts? Also a massive racist? I’m SHOCKED.
If the Tory party had any grace and dignity his donations would be being returned right now, his membership card ceremoniously burned, and a row of Tory MPs would be coming out to disown this vile racist dirtbag.
I don’t hold my breath.
10 years ago they wouldn’t have dared say this. The last ten years of story rule has emboldened the racists.
So when people say “ what’s the point in voting labour, they are all the same ”, well clearly they’re not.
I’m out of the loop with Diane Abbott, but I have seen that she gets quite a lot of hate. Can someone give me some examples of why she gets a bad wrap?
I’ve seen Starmer supporters say similar. Maybe Sir Keef will give him a peerage.
If it was a Muslim saying this they would be instantly labelled a terrorist
I too am not a fan of Dianne Abbott, but why bring race into it?
She is criminally incompetent, but death is drastic.
Oh dear, just now someone had added the word ‘racist’ to his wukipedia page in the sentence “He is the largest ever racist donor to the UK’s Conservative Party, having given £10 million in the year up to March 2024” but it has already been amended as of two minutes ago to remove the word. People move quick on the Internets.
> comments has been taken out of context
And under what specific context are those comments acceptable?
This is repulsive, sinister and utterly virulent racism. It’s also extremely similar to a lot of comments targeting Abbott made by senior officials in her own party. That ought to tell you something.
I’m a lifelong Labour voter and didn’t particularly care for Diane Abbott – she seemed out of her depth and scatter-brained. But how the hell does one extrapolate from ‘this politician seems useless’ into ‘she’s black and a woman, so now I hate all members of that demographic?’
That’s really nasty. She’s an imbecile who should be nowhere near government but to say she should be shot is disgusting.
Sounds like the kind of comment a terrorist would make. I presume the Tories and the spineless Sunak will return his donations.
Not my reaction personally. Nice self-report though.
I mean I know Diane Abbot is a thick cow, but jesus christ.
Hold on, I thought that threats against MPs weren’t all that bad? There were lots of people last week that shrugged their shoulders when someone daubed Jeremy Hunts constituency office with ‘die tory scum’.
So are threats against politicians ok or not or does it depend on ‘who’ is being threatened?
Tory donors are living the Shrek meme life right now.
“Can you not say something racist, homophobic, or downright stupid, FER FIVE MINUTES?”
Only a few weeks since the speaker / Tories / Labour were saying pro-Palestine protestors were a threat to MPs safety and are were/are to limit right to protest and stirring up Islamophobia. I am sure they will spend as much time debating this direct threat from a right wing donor in the house of commons as they did on the protestors.
I wish hating white men would be taking as seriously as hating black women.
Be outraged!!! be angry!!! but just remember to register to vote.
Make sure you vote out every single tory bit of garbage out of every ward.
Toryism is a mental illness.
Can we just have two decent political parties? Or is that two much to ask for.
Lucky the tories are cracking down on extremism like this.
Racist will always let their mask slip. Even if they like to tell you they are not racist.
I mean I dislike Diane Abbott, but only as much as I dislike every other incompetent MP. There are plenty more stupid than her on the other side of the house, but they get away with it because they’re white men.