Abbott suspended

[Bakerboy 4,663]

See the racist b@stard has been suspended from the labour party, sandyqueer be besides itself

[Francie, 2,150]

1 minute ago, Bakerboy said:

See the racist b@stard has been suspended from the labour party, sandyqueer be besides itself

I heard on the radio it was travellers she was being "racist" toward bb?

[Bakerboy 4,663]

13 minutes ago, Francie, said:

I heard on the radio it was travellers she was being "racist" toward bb?

There was a bit more to it than that mate

[sandymere 8,263]

Shame tories don't get rid of their antis as quickly.

[mC HULL 12,234]

9 minutes ago, sandymere said:

Shame tories don't get rid of their antis as quickly.

antis ?

[kanny 20,453]

38 minutes ago, Francie, said:

I heard on the radio it was travellers she was being "racist" toward bb?

She went after the chosen ones 

[Borr 5,803]

Anti semetism , thought it was a labour thing . That's why Corbyn is gone , Abbott just forgot about 6 million Jews getting killed, mentioned apartheid and slave ships . I'm amazed she hasn't politically suicide herself before now , I guess her constituency can live with stupid but labour can't.live with antisemitism, Tories must love her

[mel b 2,226]

57 minutes ago, Bakerboy said:

See the racist b@stard has been suspended from the labour party, sandyqueer be besides itself

Snigger .

[low plains drifter 10,317]

 

[chartpolski 23,201]

If the left wing loonies had of got their way and Corbyn had become Prime Minister, this imbecile would have been Home Secretary! One of the four great offices of state ! A woman who is numerically illiterate and can’t even put her shoes on !

I don’t like Starmer, he’s a lying chancer, but at least he’s realised Labour can’t win with the lunatic left on board, so has started the defenestration of the lunatic left with Corbyn and Abott, now I see why that old communist McDonnell is keeping such a low profile……don’t forget, if the Corbyn supporters had got their way, McDonnell would be Chancellor of the Exchequer!!

Yeah, the Tory’s are shit, but imagine Corbyn Labour being in charge !!!! 
Cheers.

[paulus 26]

Labour's new anti-racism drive is not going to help black people - by Patrick O'Flynn

The danger is that dialling-down tough policing will lead to more gang violence, rather than lessIN THE 30 years since the terrible racist murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence, there have been several hundred teen homicides in London.

Going back through media reports for just the last 20 years, since 2003, this weekend, I counted 372 such killings in the capital. A large majority of the victims were black or brown and so were a large majority of the perpetrators.

Try as I might, I was unable to find another definite example of a racially-motivated teen murder. There were a few proven cases in which the victim was from one ethnicity and the perpetrators from another – for example the white teenager Ben Kinsella was stabbed to death by three black teenagers in Islington in 2008 – but racism was not cited as the motivating cause.

It would be odd to regard this apparent absence of homicidal racism in London as any cause for celebration or even comfort. Nearly 400 teenagers killed in our capital city in 20 years – and no doubt many thousands more badly injured - mainly in brutal street attacks carried out by other teens or young men, is utterly heartbreaking and scandalous, whatever the motivation.

But that should surely lead any public-spirited politician to consider what the more pressing priority should be: setting out new policies to tackle the teen gangs that have brought so much death and destruction to city streets, or using the utterly exceptional racist murder of an ethnic minority teenager three decades ago to further elevate concern about a supposed tidal wave of racism in British society.

To be fair to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, he has recently been talking about clamping down on teen knife crime, though with the accent on softly-softly measures – such as providing more youth mental health workers – rather than tougher policing.

But this weekend he chose to use the anniversary of Stephen’s murder to emphasise Labour’s commitment to eradicate what it sees as very serious and ongoing anti-black racism in British society.

Releasing a film of himself alongside Stephen’s dignified mother Doreen, now a Labour peer, he pledged the next Labour government will introduce “a new landmark Race Equality Act”.

Starmer has been very vague about what provisions this new race legislation would contain, but the black newspaper The Voice recently published a seemingly well-sourced list of suggestions including: ending deportations for people who have been in the UK since childhood; reducing disproportionate school exclusion rates; providing special help for black-led businesses to secure public sector contracts and forcing companies to tackle an “ethnicity pay gap”.

Labour has also suggested that eradicating “disproportionalities” in the criminal justice system, as set out by David Lammy when he conducted a review at the request of David Cameron, will be a central aim of the new Act.

Yet this is where alarm bells start to ring with me. For a start, the terrible catalogue of teen killings points to disproportionalities being rooted not in racism on the part of the authorities but in offending behaviour.

As former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick told the Commons home affairs committee in 2020: “You are four times more likely to be a victim of homicide if you are black and eight times more likely to be a perpetrator. The overlaps with my key metric, which is knife injuries for under 25s…shows enormous disproportionality in the way it affects our young black men as victims and, I am sorry to say, as perpetrators.”

The much-maligned Dame Cressida told MPs in that appearance that many black mothers supported police stop and search operations aimed at their own sons, paraphrasing one as saying: “I do not care if my son gets stopped and searched ten times because I want him not to be carrying a knife. I want him not to be at risk.”

Flanked by Starmer and Labour London Mayor Sadiq Khan at this weekend’s memorial service for Stephen Lawrence, the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley came out with a very different message: “We have let black communities down. They feel over policed and under protected…There are disproportionalities and systemic biases in our use of policing tactics and our support to victims of crime. We are deeply sorry for these failings.”

This suggests less use of stop and search against black teenagers, despite past experience indicating that when the tactic is reduced the rate of stabbings increases (see for example https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/.../rise-knife-crime.../).

How Sir Mark intends to square the circle of ending a perception among black Londoners that they are “under protected” while also easing back on targeted street patrols so they no longer feel “over policed” is just a massive mystery. Less policing is surely synonymous with less protection, or if not then what is the point of policing at all?

It would be a terrible irony and the very opposite of a fitting memorial to Stephen Lawrence were anti-racist political activism within the Labour Party to lead to more black teenagers rather than fewer being exposed to homicidal gang-related violence. But I am afraid that this is the direction we seem to be heading in.

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[tatsblisters 9,466]

I don't think she will be that bothered tbh she is like most of the tory and Labour MPs who have stolen a wage off us mugs who have voted for them. 

[kanny 20,453]

 

[Francie, 2,150]

40 minutes ago, kanny said:

 

Hes lying his lips are moving

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

As a country I’d say we are the most vulnerable to attack from within than at any time in our history .