Bombshell leak over Diane Abbott suspension should ruin Starmer.

Right, so the matter of Diane Abbott and will she or won’t she be allowed to run for Labour might have pretty much just been answered if not in so many words. Despite the General Election campaign only having been underway for about a week now, the question of Abbott’s ongoing suspension, seemingly having lasted over a year now without any investigation actually happening, has been at a minimum incredibly disrespectful, but at worst, completely factional, intentional her very safe seat perhaps being lined up for a Starmer loyalist, a right winger from the NEC maybe as per my other video I put out today.
But actually as it turns out, the investigation into Diane Abbott, relating to the wrong draft of a reply to a letter sent to the Observer, so completely over the top anyway, since it was an honest mistake she apologised for, was wrapped up 5 months ago. And yet Starmer is telling the media, he’s hoping it gets wrapped up soon.
Right, so that was Keir Starmer talking to Nick Ferrari on his LBC show on the 24th May, so 4 days ago at time of writing, telling Ferrari that the matter of Diane Abbott and her suspension would have to be resolved by the 4th June, that she was going through a process, that the matter she had been suspended for had not yet been finally resolved, that the National Executive Committee will decide that in the end, it all has to be wrapped up quickly now. That last bit was the honest thing he said, because the rest was a barefaced lie it seems, I’m sure you’re shocked and surprised to hear that Keir Starmer is lying to the public yet again, but such is the findings of a Newsnight investigation, into this overlong, blatantly factional suspension.
Diane Abbott in case you were not aware or had forgotten, wrote to the Observer in reply to an article posted in the Observer by writer Tomiwa Owalade titled ‘Racism in Britain is not a black and white issue, it’s far more complicated.’
However the wrong draft of said letter was sent to the Observer, which ended up coming across as implying that racism affecting non white people was somehow worse than that of racism suffered by some white groups, for example the GRT community, Jewish people.
It was sent in error, Abbott held her hands up within hours of it being published as a mistake, apologising for offence caused, as you’d expect from such a statement, given how it could be taken. What she meant, as was clarified by Martin Forde KC, author of the Forde Report explained that he clearly understood what Diane Abbott meant, and that was that the racism suffered by non whites is as a result of their particular protected characteristic being very much more obvious as well as completely irrational and he’s right this really ought to be obvious to anyone. Starmer had Abbott suspended in a heartbeat, almost as if he couldn’t believe his luck, Abbott being one of his most vocal critics across social media, showing far more spine in challenging Starmer’s authoritarianism than anyone else seems prepared to.
Abbott has as far as we the public have been aware, been suspended ever since. Claims an investigation was ongoing persist and indeed Starmer has just there to Nick Ferrari repeated that himself. Except it seems it isn’t true and it is a BBC Newsnight investigation that appears to have exposed Starmer’s lies in no uncertain terms as Newsnight presenter Victoria Derbyshire has tweeted out this morning:
‘NEW: I can reveal Labour’s investigation into suspended MP Diane Abbott’s racism comments finished 5 months ago A source says she was given a ‘formal warning’ in Dec ‘23 Ms Abbott was required to do an online ‘anti semitism course’ - which she did in Feb Yet source says she still hasn’t been told if she can stand as a Labour candidate at election I understand veteran MP is ‘angry, depressed & worn out’ by way she feels she’s been treated by Labour.
Diane Abbott was suspended as a Labour MP 13 months ago after writing in The Observer that Jewish, Irish & traveller people undoubtedly experienced prejudice but that they were not subject to racism ‘all their lives’. She apologised at the time. The Labour leader condemned her remarks as anti-Semitic.’
Diane Abbott’s case was presided over and decided upon by the Labour National Executive Committee last December, so Keir Starmer is bare faced liar. They reviewed Diane Abbott’s case, what she said, her actions to that were measured up – an immediate apology and retraction - and their action was to recommend that Abbott complete an Antisemitism awareness course, which she did in February. That should have been an end to it. If that was the Labour NEC’s recommendation and she has completed that action, then restoration of the Labour whip should have already happened and for all we know it did, but with Keir Starmer now lying about the truth of this matter and knowing how he abused his own executive power to keep Jeremy Corbyn suspended despite being cleared of any antisemitic wrongdoing by the Labour NEC himself, is it again the case that Keir Starmer is the one keeping Abbott suspended? He is the one lying about it after all, why are you lying about it Keith if this doesn’t have a ring of truth to it?
This also casts new light on an allegation made by the Labour right’s favourite go to hack Lee Harpin back in March, so after the NEC had ruled on her suspension and after she had completed the antisemitism awareness course, that she could have the whip back if she agreed to stand down at the next election, Harpin putting this out in a now apparently deleted tweet that:
‘My understanding of the Diane Abbott situation is a compromise deal could be reached whereby she has the whip restored at some point, while she also rules out standing again in Hackney at the election. No secret that at least 4 people already seeking to become candidate in that seat.’
A lovely safe seat that some Starmer shill could take, but Abbott has no intention of stepping down for Starmer, else she would have had the whip back if what Harpin said here was true, which is admittedly always a stretch in my view. It evaded him it seems that Abbott had already had her case heard and done as instructed. The whip should be hers again and it is a question now as to why this isn’t the case, it is also for the NEC to decide who can be candidates in the upcoming General Election, yet if Starmer is abusing executive power to keep Abbott suspended himself, something else he would be lying about therefore, they of course cannot do that. This is all on Keir Starmer it seems and Diane Abbott is fully aware of it, having tweeted out following Starmer repeating the same things he said on LBC to Radio 4 interview:
‘Just heard Keir Starmer on BBC Radio 4claiming that the decision to let [me] back into Labour has “nothing to do with him.” It has EVERYTHING to do with him.’
She is on the face of it absolutely right and it wasn’t the only gem of a statement to come from Starmer in that Radio 4 interview either as he said on the Today programme:
‘“It’s not a question of what I want... the days when the leader of the Labour Party rolls up his or her sleeves and gets involved in disciplinary cases are well and truly over.”’
Yet here he is, very much it appears to be doing just that and looks to have been caught out doing it.
Keir Starmer currently has a personal rating amongst ethnically diverse communities, according to a recent poll by Ipsos Mori of minus 31 and here he is, apparently taking it upon himself and lying about it, trying to get rid of Britain’s first black female MP, trying it seems to force her out of parliament for no other reason it appears than petty factionalism. That score deserves to fall through the floor as news of this stunt he appears to be pulling spreads and if it truly looks set to blow up in his face, expect someone else to take the blame and carry the can for it, probably one of his whips, he doesn’t seem to ever make mistakes you see, always someone else’s fault.
The deadline for Labour to appoint their candidate for Hackney North & Stoke Newington, Diane Abbott’s seat is the 4th June. That’s a deadline for Diane too. She either stands as an Independent, going down the same road as Jeremy Corbyn has, or be forced into retirement by Starmer, because at this point it would be by Starmer, he is after all, the only reason it seems now based on this bombshell, that she hasn’t had the whip back already.
Starmer has claimed this case has had nothing to do with him. It seems it has had everything to do with him, him alone and nobody else, the NEC having done it’s job, this is all on Starmer and he must carry the can for it, must do the right thing by Diane Abbott, must show Labour truly is a democracy, because if this is not rectified, then Labour is clearly a dictatorship now and do we therefore really want someone like Keir Starmer to run the country, acting like this in his own party, treating the whole country like this if given the chance?
Meanwhile if you want to learn more about the carrot being dangled before Diane Abbott over whip restoration from back in March, a particularly gnarly, wrinkly old carrot, bit limp, as it was, the full details of what amounts to blackmail can be found on this video recommendation here and I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.