Labour In Crisis Over Diane Abbott Mistreatment Scandal
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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This is damning in so many ways.
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| 0:00.0 | Labor's vile treatment of Dineba is an injustice in itself and revealing about how the party will behave |
| 0:06.0 | when they get the whopping big landslide which is absolutely inevitable in five weeks time |
| 0:10.7 | thanks of course the Conservatives self-destruction which is |
| 0:14.4 | why as it keeps saying you're free to vote according to your conscience |
| 0:16.6 | without risk now that's treatment compared to white male allies of the |
| 0:20.8 | labor leadership speaks for itself a toxic combination of |
| 0:24.3 | factionalism and racism and it also speaks the obsessive and shameless rampant |
| 0:29.2 | dishonesty of labour leader Sir Kiestammer himself who's set to be our Prime Minister |
| 0:33.6 | for at least the next five years. |
| 0:35.6 | Now, the other party has managed to plunge itself into crisis over this in the midst of a |
| 0:39.4 | completely unloosable election |
| 0:41.0 | is testament to the sheer commitment of this crew to |
| 0:43.9 | factional spite. Now Dan Abbott was elected the first female black MP in British |
| 0:49.6 | history back in 1987 which involved overcoming astonishing odds at the time and thus was of particular significance of course |
| 0:56.2 | to a whole generation of black Britons something she alluded to in her victory speech at the time. |
| 1:01.6 | And I am aware that a lot of hopes, not just in Hackney, but across the country, ride on |
| 1:10.0 | our victory tonight. |
| 1:11.7 | I hope and believe that I can fulfil those hopes. |
| 1:15.8 | Now Dan Abbott was long a prominent backbencher, a former junior minister and a leadership |
| 1:20.6 | candidate. She also carved out a public position as a broadcaster, and when |
| 1:24.8 | Jamie Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party was a senior member of his shallow cabinet. |
| 1:29.5 | Now, Dan Abbott has always been subjected to relentless racist attacks and with her increased prominence |
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