Dear Dame,
Diane Abbott MP has reported the Tory Party's biggest donor, Frank Hester, to the police for his loathsome racist comments. I could not believe that Hester said that Diane Abbott made him want to "hate all Black women." He ended his racist rant by saying that Diane "should be shot." Hester clearly has no respect for Diane's feelings or for Black women more generally. Diane has my sympathy. and support and I hope the police prosecute Hester.
Shortly after Emma Dent Coad was elected to Parliament, the Black Tory politician, Shaun Bailey AM, complained that Emma had drawn a pin man picture of him being hanged and put it up on the internet when the pair of them had a spat. Two Black Tory MP's wrote to Jeremy Corbyn MP, the most highly principled anti-racist ever to have sat in parliament, complaining about Emma Dent Coad's racism.
Corbyn did not discipline Emma Dent Coad or suspend the whip.
Vanessa Feltz asked Corbyn on her BBC Radio Programme what he was going to about Emma's racism and he said,
"Have a word with her about her use of language."
Emma dodged Corbyn's bullet over language by saying that she was merely repeating what a Black Grandma had said to her. The circle that Corbyn never squared to my satisfaction is that the Black Grandma never drew the picture of Shaun Bailey AM being hanged, Emma Dent Coad did that all on her own.
To my surprise, Diane Abbott MP and Emma Dent Coad became bosom pals and have, presumably, remained so when most people would shun a racist who wanted something so violent to happen to a Black guy.
Does racism only matter to Diane if the insult comes from a Tory?
Sunak should expel Hester and decline to accept the £10 million to show he is better than Corbyn. He will probably want to hang on to Hester's money.
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Hester took advantage of the maximum publicity afforded to him because he donated £10 million to the Tory Party and capitalised on that publicity to dish up racist abuse to Diane Abbott. Very nasty.
ReplyDeleteHester’s relationship with the Tories Hester continues to unravel. I wonder what else £10 (I mean £15) million of dirty cash buys this racist as it sure as hell has bought Sunak’s silence. Tory Britain, a place of utter shame.
DeleteSome call it corruption
ReplyDeleteHester made £135m from contracts with the Department of Health and Social Care in under four years.
Donated £10m to the Tory Party.
Equals £125m clear profit.
At a minimum - huge conflict of interest when a major donor gets awarded government contracts
DeleteWe now know the Conservative Party will sell its reputation for £10 million. But how low will it go?
ReplyDeleteDiane Abbott is rightly indignant about Frank Hester's racism. It is a pity that she did not feel the same way about Emma Dent Coad drawing that disgusting picture of Shaun Bailey being hanged.
ReplyDeleteAfter being shown up for racism in 2017, one would have expected Emma Dent Coad to have been careful to have no further brushes with racism. It was shocking to hear Shaun Bailey AM say that not even the BNP had abused him as much as Emma had done. How Jeremy Corbyn dismissed such a profoundly shocking comment and allowed Emma to continue to sit as a Labour MP beats me.
ReplyDeleteIn 2019, Emma was shown up for having antisemitic thoughts. One brush with racism was careless but a second brush with antisemitism was dire.
Emma blamed the Lib Dems lying about her for losing the 2019 General Election which was very immature and rather stupid of her.
(i) Emma should know no there is no such thing as monocausality - even in politics. If she had studied PPE, Economics, Law or even General Science at school, she would have known that and not said such a silly thing.
(ii) A multiplicity of factors come in to play when people decide how to vote in elections, not just one thing. Therefore, it is impossible to say Lib Dem lies cost her the election because they allegedly told lies.
The reality is that:-
(a) Voters throughout the UK, not just in Kensington, overwhelmingly rejected Jeremy Corbyn's political prospectus and by implication Emma's candidacy as a prospective MP.
(b) Additionally, voters did not want a Marxist and an Antisemite as Prime Minister. The EHRC found that antisemitism was rife in the National Labour Party which is shocking.
(c) Some voters in Kensington would have refused to vote for a racist and an antisemitic candidate as MP particularly one who refused to apologise properly.
(d) Some Labour voters did not think much of Emma's representation on local issues including the Grenfell fire.
It is just plain wrong of Emma to blame her downfall on the Lib Dems and the lies she alleges that they told. The Lib Dems may have influenced some voters not to vote for Emma but this is just one significant factor amongst a number of other factors.
The police declined to prosecute Gymiah for the electoral offence of which Emma complained.
No one thing cost Emma the election in 2019. I know socialists are not very good at accepting personal responsibility for things but now is the time to do so if Emma wants to have a fighting chance this time round.
The new definition of "extremism" is out today. Alison Thewliss MP asked Michael Gove if Hester's abuse of Diane Abbott MP would be regarded as "extremism." If Hester is caught by the new definition for saying Diane should be shot then Emma will caught by it for drawing a picture of Shaun being hanged.
ReplyDeleteBloomberg reports: “In recent days, Cabinet ministers have held private discussions exploring the possibility the party might be forced to replace Sunak before a UK election due later this year, according to people familiar with the matter.”
DeleteYeah, except voters in Kensington didn’t “overwhelmingly” reject Emma Dent Coad at the last general election. Buchan only won by 150 votes - which likely wouldn’t have been the case if the Lib Dems hadn’t employed dirty tactics to pinch more votes from the unassuming, wealthy, clueless elderly Labour voters who stupidly believed Jo Swinson would STOOOPPPP BRRREEXXXIITTTT. Everybody knows this.
ReplyDeleteShaun Bailey is himself a racist individual, and many black people in London can attest to his nastiness towards his fellow blacks with the flippant and racist tropes he has used to demean many young, vulnerable black teenagers throughout (and following) his supposed ‘youth work’ in the 1990s and 2000s (before he became a backstabbing careerist)
15.46. IF AND IT IS NOT ACCEPTED that Shaun Bailey is a racist, this does not excuse or exonerate Emma Dent Coad's Anti Black Racism but you suggest otherwise. Em!
DeleteShaun Bailey did not endorse an antisemitic trope on a social media. Emma did.
Delete15.46. When someone draws a picture of a Black bloke being hanged, the message conveyed is more to do with EXTREMISM than racialism.
DeleteSome former Labour voters have told me that they did not want Corbyn but really wanted Boris. So they voted for Flicka instead. Emma was the collateral damage, Felicity was the victor. There is the Boris making light work of Corbyn and Dent Coad factor.
DeleteInteresting!
DeleteDennis Skinner was shafted by the Boris factor in Bolsover. So, if Skinner is shown the door in working class Bolsover, it is not surprising that Emma endured a similar humiliation in upper class Kensington.
I'll give Emma her due. She at least stood on the platform to hear that Felicity won. Skinner could not take the humiliation of losing and disappeared from the Declaration claiming he was unwell. Skinner has not surfaced since.
Emma was emotional and could not bring herself to shake Flick's proffered hand at Flick's Declaration.
15.46 must be desperate. Talk about scoring an own goal. Rather desperate of EDC to say Shaun is racist. Emma is a self proclaimed "proud antiracist" who, as a socialist, believes in equality. Racist insults and pictures of a Blackman being strung up is not the stuff of equality or antiracism.
DeleteLord Bailey is not standing for parliament in Kensington. As a member of the House of Lords he is unable to do so. If he were standing in Kensington, people would be entitled to go for him over the allegations of racism now surfacing.
DeleteI'll say this for Kemi Badenoch MP. She really is a proud antiracist campaigner.
DeleteBadenoch reported Dent Coad to Corbyn over Dent Coad racially abusing Bailey when it came to light in 2017.
Similarly, Badenoch has been indignant at the racism visited on Diane Abbott and has not used any mealy mouthed language to call out Tory, Hester's, racism.
Badenoch is consistent in calling out racism in the Labour Party and in the Tory Party. If Diane Abbott had wanted Dent Coad expelled, Corbyn would have seen to it. Instead of Diane acting with unimpeachable integrity and even handedness over racism, regardless of party politics, she treated Dent Coad to a cream cake.
Just what the hell did Abbott think she was doing? Rewarding the racist with cake.
DeleteLabour's elderly voters did not want an antisemitic marxist as PM. A lot of them struggled with Corbyn's nuanced language on Brexit. One of them told me that you needed a degree in English to work out Corbyn's position on Brexit. These two issues juxtaposed together, eliminating her racism, just go to prove that Emma's monocausal analysis is flawed.
ReplyDeleteEmma reported Sam Gymiah to the Police and they declined to prosecute. Dirty tricks indeed.
When EDC lost in 2019, she was capricious and all over the shop. She blamed the people who called her "marxist." Everyone else's fault except hers.
DeleteMr Hester has given the Tory party a further £5million that has not yet been declared, as the Electoral Commission only publishes its list of donations every three months.The outlet said the party was “sitting on” the extra cash, which brings the total donation to £15million.
ReplyDeleteIt is good that not all are corrupt sh*ts! Andy Street says the racism row would make him think about ‘the company he keeps’ and his party (The Tory’s) should return the money.
ReplyDeleteThere is no point in my asking Comrade Dent Coad what policies she has on offer to Reform Residential Leasehold. She and her Party did nothing for Leaseholders when she was in. As she is an independent election candidate this time round, she is not standing on any policies. All that she can if she gets in is to object to legislative measures that she dislikes- making her about as useless as chocolate teapot. And Kensington deserves a candidate with policy measures.
ReplyDeleteWhat does the Labour Party have to offer leaseholders in terms of Residential Leasehold Reform?
And Joe, it had better be good?