Diane Abbott's letter 'deeply wrong, historically wrong and offensive' – Labour's Pat McFadden



Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury has spoken to Sky News about the controversy over a letter written by Diane Abbott, who suggested that Jewish people and GRT people don’t face racism.

Pat McFadden said: “I can’t put myself in her mind, I can only express a view on what she wrote, which was wrong.”

First though, Mr McFadden talked about the situation in Sudan and the UK citizens still left there.

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47 thoughts on “Diane Abbott's letter 'deeply wrong, historically wrong and offensive' – Labour's Pat McFadden”

  1. Abbott is a racist, she has shown her hatred for white people and wants to divide the country.
    She doesn't have any brain cells and should never have got into politics , I always question voting for a party with her in

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  2. What ALL Politicians need to understand it ANYTHING they say or write WILL be taken at Face Value, so its a case of whatever a Politician says Will be manipulated by Media and at present Media seem to have spies everywhere

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  3. She's Labour's Coffey. Every time she opens her mouth something ugly comes out. Women have come so far, then there's people like this pair. Bye Diane, it's been a bloody long time coming.

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  4. Diane Abbott doesn't know what scale of racism that Jewish people have to deal with daily, she's not Jewish, six million Jews where gassed and murdered within living memory. Racism is not just something that happens to black people many people from different cultures and races including white people suffer prejudice towards themselves just because of who they are. The term racism does not belong to black people alone.

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  5. Maybe we should start by eradicating woke ideology from our schools so we don't raise a generation of Corbyns and Abbotts that view the world through the lens of race and victim hierarchies. Abbott can't bear to think she isn't at the top of the victim class

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  6. Divisions are driven by bigotry and Dianne Abbott has actually targeted less represented groups than the one she’s represented in the letter given the recent and ongoing public discourse. We are a nation dived if we don’t have base ideals.

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  7. It's nice to know her decades long racism and prejudice against white people and Britain gets ignored, tolerated and even given a platform by rags such as the Guardian, but only now when she made comments about other minorities does she finally get a snippet of what she deserves. If she was white and had the same racist bigotry but against black people she'd be in prison. But because she's black and hates white people she's had a career as an MP.

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  8. He seems very level headed. Normally politicians are very theatrical and performative in their dialogue with the media but this guy has a great balance.

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  9. In the meantime Andrew Edwards, a Conservative MP in Pembrokeshire said…
    He believes black people are inferior & every white man & woman should own a slave.
    But isn’t getting anywhere near the coverage Abbot is getting for simply pointing out…
    IRISH – A nationality. JUDAISM – A religion. TRAVELLER – A culture/lifestyle.

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  10. Not a fan of Abbott and rarely agree with her, but I don’t like that non-conforming views are being purged from both parties. We’re going to be left with this centrist, globalist, soft-authoritarian, dogmatic blob that encompasses both parties and that we have no way of getting rid of.

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  11. She didn't say anything that isn't true.
    I think black people should think very carefully about voting for the labour party. If she had said Jewsih people are them persecuted none would had bat an eyelid.

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  12. This was always coming. Diane Abbott has a history of being a racist. This is the 3rd or 4th public statement she's made that is unambiguously racist.

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  13. What's going on about the football shirt badges showing ships,was it Diane Abbott who said that they are slave ships,some miss informed idiot who once again is trying to cause bad feeling, but all it will do is inflame the fans,hands off our badges as there no racist,I say live for today and what's to come as we're only passing through.

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  14. It's absolutely right that she had distanced herself from her comment as her comment demonstrated error of judgement. As a strong campaigner against institutional racism, I'm careful about the use of language at all times.

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  15. so whats a race,, geneticly there can be more differance between people of the same so called race, and surely jewishness is a faith, what objectivly makes them differant to white europians, can farage rant against the percieved other at every opurtunity and not be racist, the whole subject is subjective and dependant on your politics no one states the facts

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  16. Funny how the racist in the Labour Party would not allow black section back in the 80's and got rid of Shoran Atkins and every other race and community has their section and are able to get at the good people who truly look out for equality I have a damage left hand that was done to me by a corrupt doctor on the 15th April 2014 has managed to keep corrupt police media and state officials and the justice system quite and discredit anyone who tries to make the case public. If there is anyone who believes in true justice get that doctor and the corrupt people involved to admit what they did and the lies and the cover up that they have instigated against a truly innocent person.

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  17. Why do certain sections of the community continually, desperately attempt to claim the "worst treated race" award?
    If they spent more time taking the opportunities this country gives them rather than dreaming up reasons why they consistently fail, they might not consistently fail…

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  18. Hi/
    Dianna Abbott is the architect of her own misfortune, no respect for others, those who lived by the sword will die of it.
    Contempt of House of commons rules v cutting-edge regulations in 2018 by PM.Theresa May.
    Breached by Dianna Abbott & her audience created as INTEND against me . Perhaps lessons will now be learned for use. Arrogant people Thanks. G.Ajayi Snr as McKenzie

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  19. The spirit of the innocent met police officer who died @ Broadwater farm in 197..? will not be at rest without hunting Dianna Abbott down.
    Cover up, delay tactics, manipulation of evidences against someone (Officer) who died on active service to the Nation. Thanks Engr.G.Ajayi Snr as McKenzie 26/4/23

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  20. Note how he carefully omits colour when saying all people should be treated equally. Abbott was clearly saying that past treatment of specifically black people was significantly worse than any other racial group. That is nonsense and can be fairly called a racist statement. There were people that were in slave labour and worked to death in Europe in the 1940s. They were not black they were Caucasian as were those that enslaved them.

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