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.

@Redundantrobin 👏👏👏

Mate, gleefully (and it was gleeful, with your smug 'I'll just leave this here' post) sharing Twitter posts from a far right supporter (Tommy Robinson can no less) with statements falsely attributed to a black woman in an effort to discredit her stance on racism, on a thread about racist comments made towards her (including wishing she would get shot) does rather invite such assumptions.

Night.

BIossomtoes
Zero basic rate tax for all frontline healthcare workers? They’re on glue.

Did you vote Labour in 2019?
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-the-gaps-in-labours-spending-plans

One week Sunak's standing outside No. 10, holding a press conference about the 'worrying rise of abuse aimed at MPs' - the next his party are trying their hardest to play down the most blatant racism/inciteful language we've heard in quite some time because he wants to hold onto a donation.

The scumbags need to go. ASAP.

Have you been switched to Reform UK now @Clavinova?🤔

People aren't making assumptions. They are simply making observations.

No.

Hatred can indeed make the world a better place. A hatred of inequality, injustice etc.

I'm neither an alpha or particulary successful, most of my class aren't. It's irrelevant to my point anyway.

Young men being radicalised isn't a new phenomena, the NF was full of them when I was young. The alt-right culture war nonsense, pushing back against feminism & anti-racist progress, is really what's at its core.

If your central premise were true, the radicalised right would be made of of predominantly young working-class men. Yet here, these views are held by our MPs, heads of business, members of the House of Lords. By people like Toby Young & Laurence Fox etc who bleat on about their loss of status/power.

Am I the only person who thinks that in no way should the Tories give the disgusting racist Hester a £10m handout? They should keep that money but refuse any further dealings with him.

Other parties have a history of keeping donations from "dodgy" sources, such as Labour from David Abrahams and Dale Vince, and Lib Dems from Michael Brown. The Michael Brown case is interesting in that other donors attached conditions to their donations that no money should be used to refund Brown.

There is a big difference between legal donations that don't break any rules even though they may come from sources that later prove to be disagreeable, and donations that do break the rules and which should always be returned.

Eh. Dale Vince might be a complete twat, (and I have no time for him), but he's not a dodgy source of money.

That he also donates to other causes that you may or may not agree with, doesn't make him dodgy.

I'm going for a lie down now, never thought I'd be defending him.

You'll get told a year later that you aren't being kind now. 🙄

That would be the obvious last resort of the patently obvious shills on here...

He’s reprehensible and I feel for Diane abbot, the hurt and public humiliation she must feel.

Misogyny

Am I the only person who thinks that in no wayshould the Tories give the disgusting racist Hester a £10m handout? They should keep that money but refuse any further dealings with him.

Perhaps, rather than giving it back, they should donate it to an anti racist charity? Or spend it on an investigation into racism within the Tory party?

Your philosophy is worse than I thought. It simply means that white men deserve to be hated.

I refuse to look at my son and accept that he deserves to be hated.

And while we are at the hate game your philosophy makes is perfectly acceptable , in fact it compels it, to hate white women because they (well 99.99% of them) failed, until very recently, to speak out against the systematic oppression of women of Colour. They had that right and they failed to exercise it. Buy luckily I try not to hate so just as I won't hate my son as your philosophy compels I won't hate women either. I will leave the hating to others.

Don't be silly.

I alwys find if so bizarre that people who choose to be so openly and vocally racist then have a strop when people point out they are racist. They are either incredibly stupid, or they think everyone else is so stupid that their racism won’t be noticed. Then again, I am yet to meet a racist who isn’t rather dim, so it shouldn’t surprise me.

No I didn’t. But even Corbyn didn’t propose taking the majority of the employees in the biggest employer in Europe out of the tax system. There’s no comparison. You just can’t help yourself, can you Clav? “Yes but Labour” all the way.

No you re not, Hester is perfectly entitled to donate to who he wishes too, i want to see the Tories wallow in this scandal and not draw a line under it by handing back the money.

Hopefully the Met Police will take her complaint seriously.

PMQs today.

Last week, the Prime Minister said

"What started as protests on our streets, has descended into intimidation, threats, and planned acts of violence.
Jewish children fearful to wear their school uniform lest it reveal their identity.
Muslim women abused in the street for the actions of a terrorist group they have no connection with.
Now our democracy itself is a target.
Council meetings and local events have been stormed.
MPs do not feel safe in their homes. "

His biggest donor said an MP should be shot. Is the donor an extremist?

With some follow ups:

He also said:

"If we can do that, we can build on our great achievement in creating today’s Britain…
…a country of kind, decent, tolerant people."

When his largest donor says that The Honorable Lady for Hackney makes him want to hate all black women, is that kind, decent and tolerant?

There seems to be a determined effort by some to redefine racism. They must not succeed. I am SO glad Abbott reported this to the police.

I really hope Starmer puts this front and centre at PMQs. He has a big chink in his armour though- the fact that DA hasn't had the whip reinstated.

I don't think white men are hated or discriminated against. I do think that racist white men don't like their racism being called out and choose to play the victim. There are quite a few on Twitter making a career out of it.

He has a big chink in his armour though- the fact that DA hasn't had the whip reinstated.

You’re falling into the Clav school of logic trap there. It’s irrelevant whether she’s got the whip. She could be a member of any political party, doesn’t matter. Sunak needs to be called out on his ten million reasons for not immediately condemning this horrible racist and his reasons for not handing the money back.

Unbelievable!

Tory Minister on Sky says the comment was racist, BUT he has apologised & is not a racist!!!

Talk about digging a hole for yourself!