Local residents showing support for Diane Abbott last night in Hackney

28 comments

1. Deeply odd

2. Lol 😂. Proof that Hackney will support anything.

3. Why are they voicing support for her? Genuine question.

4. This is…a bit much.

5. Who is that and why are they supporting her?

6. The reaction to this is proof that racism is alive and well in Britain.

7. Who would have thought that the abuse she gets would be from a vocal minority of keyboard-warrior gobshites that look like thumbs?

8. People downvoting other people’s actual questions! Why don’t you educate people if they ask? Surely that would be better?

9. She’s consistently got some of the highest majorities at General Elections. She’s popular in Hackney.

10. I think there’s some missing context here.

    This isn’t a rally about an MP doing their job as MP etc etc. Honestly I think we all know she’s not a particularly good MP in many ways, though she is fundamentally one of the only people in politics who does care.

    What this little display is about is that a powerful Tory party donor said that she made him ‘hate all black women’. This is in addition to jokes about killing her and years of abuse from all angles. MPs in particular are under constant threat and it has diminished politics dramatically.

    Look at the faces of the people at this rally. They are there to stand against racism and sexism and elitism. Good for Hackney and good for Diane Abbott.

11. What that guy said about Diane was wrong, no doubt. But let’s not forget Diane herself is currently suspended for her own unsavoury comments. If you know you know……

12. Imagine supporting a racist.

13. I need the Labour party to be centre left, disciplined and most of all, get elected. I prefer Diane Abbott, John McDonell, Len McLuskey, Corbyn, Rebecca Long Bailey to be out of the way. I cringe at half the remarks that DA makes. I hate the racist sexist abuse she gets. Starmer and Sue Gray should hold their nerve and let her remain on the outs.

14. I have nothing but sympathy for Diane. What an awful lot of shit she’s had to deal with. Seems like a lovely person.

    She’s a terrible, terrible politician though and has given the right so much ammunition over the years through her own bumbling uselessness in that regard.

    But you can tell she genuinely cares, and tries her best for no other reason than wanting to help, so perhaps that outweighs the bad, I dunno.

15. I’m not sure about any of the abuse and haven’t seen it but there’s one thing I know for sure; she’s thick and a poor MP.

    That has absolutely nothing to do with her skin colour. She’s just bloody awful.

16. Clearly I haven’t been keeping up with the news. What exactly has happened with Diane recently? I’m hearing that she’s been racially abused but she’s also been the perpetrator of racial discrimination?

    Also, where in Hackney is this? Can’t believe I didn’t even know what was happening in my own back garden

17. Diane Abbott has faced and continues to face racism, has broken glass ceilings for black women around the country throughout her life and is also at best a complete idiot and at worst a horrific racist herself – all of these things can simultaneously be true. All in all I don’t think she’s very suitable to sit in parliament.

18. Google is completely clogged with what the millionaire said about her.
    Can those saying shes also a racist provide a source or summary please?

19. Even racists shouldn’t be the victim of racism. This could be the first time Abbott is right about something.

20. Labour will lose hackney

21. She compared the holocaust to the bias against red heads. Are we seriously trying to rehabilitate this person’s image??

22. But /r/unitedkingdom told me everyone hates her!

23. Fuck Tories!!!

24. What are those stupid flags for

25. She’s literally only in that job because of her race. In any case they won’t vote for anything other than labour in Hackney.

26. Isn’t she an absolutely horrific anti semite? F her

27. She’s part of the problem though. She calls out racism when it suits her . Whilst saying some really dodgy stuff about other groups .
    It’s the same shit as a few others like her who believe that because of the color of her skin, she’s incapable of being racist herself.

    Racism isn’t exclusive to any group. Every race has done horrendous things to other groups because they dare to be different . We’re all just slightly evolved monkeys still flinging shit at one another

28. This is nice. Poor women has taken so much shit over the years when comparatively the current Tory mob are literally 100x worst.