Tory donor openly states Dianne Abbot should be shot..

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Frank Hestor reportedly said: “It’s like trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott on the TV, and you’re just like… 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.
“(The executive) and Diane Abbott need to be shot.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/frank-hester-tory-donor-diane-abbott-comments-black-women-labour-b1144631.html

Abominable, disgusting. Aibu to be incecsed by this?
Money allows all sorts of behaviours apparently, particularly if you give a lot of it to a political party.

So now you’ve repeated ‘stain on humanity’ does that make them your words, too?

Yes I agree. It's painfully frustrating that almost no politicians, from any parties, answer direct questions with direct answers. Painfully frustrating and annoying,

So you recognise it's tedious when they do it.

But choose to do it constantly yourself.

What an odd choice to make.

Give it a rest.

I agree with Yvette Cooper -

Labour's Yvette Cooper has said shadow chancellor John McDonnell should "absolutely" apologise for calling former minister Esther McVey a "stain on humanity".

https://news.sky.com/video/cooper-mcdonnell-should-absolutely-apologise-10592783

Cool, thanks for sharing.

But now you’ve said the words, by your definition, they are your words, so you should also apologise.

"Tone"? FFS.

Where's your evidence that she's an incompetent constuency MP?

Hester has more. He's got loads more comments about different ethnicities so perhaps Sunak can spend another day sitting on his hands while he decides if it is racist or not.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/12/tory-donor-frank-hester-no-room-for-the-indians

I don't know whether I did or not. Would you care to provide a link?

It's not 'the tone' but the clear incitment to hatred and violence, murder even. Combined with racism and misoginy.

How anyone can compare his comments to 'a stain on humanity' is just bizarre. I believe Farage is a stain on humanity, I would never advocate he is shot.

What's with the weird hashtagging?

Having trouble with your cut and paste @Clavinova ?

I'm waiting for that link.

@Clavinova

you’ve just quoted someone saying ‘Tory filth’. So now those are your words.

are you going to apologise?

Was it a reference to all the sewage they voted to keep pumping into our waters because that is certainly filthy.

#HesterforHatredVoteConservative

Getting rattled clav?

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at No.10 right now following the most recent revelations.

The Tories are going to be forced to hand back that £10m. Sunak should also personally refund the helicopter money.

Don't worry @Clavinova. I've found it. On 28th March I said that my vote in a marginal seat would help to keep the Tory filth out. It wasn't a comment directed at an individual, but I suspect you knew that.

She's certainly rattled if she had to do a search to come up with a response like that. She's losing her touch.

Indeed, NO comparison.

Given the number of Tory MPs who have recently had to step down due to allegations of corruption and sexual abuse, and given the state of our rivers - I think 'Tory filth' describes more than a few of them quite accurately.

Thank you. @Clavinova is really scraping the barrel there.

Redundantrobin
But now you’ve said the words, by your definition, they are your words

No, they're not.

John McDonnell was speaking at a comedy night - he thought it was funny to repeat the 'lynching/bast..d jibe' - he repeated it for laughs (there's a tape recording). The 'stain on humanity' comment was apparently made during a debate. As far as I am aware McDonnell has refused to apologise for either comment - even when Esther McVey was sitting a short distance away from him in a TV studio he refused to apologise.

The point is that Sunak and Badenoch claim to lead us. Their moral character on this is probably below that of a teenager. It is late. It is slow. And it is begrudgingly done, which is not leadership. It is the opposite.