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Theresa May’s hypocrisy over Diane Abbott abuse

Yesterday Home Secretary Sajid Javid praised veteran Labour MP Dianne Abbott for being the sort of “role model” that Conservatives should be appealling to, insiting “it takes guts and determination to become the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons,” in a rousing Conservative Party Conference speech many speculated was his […]

Ben Gelblum by Ben Gelblum
2018-10-03 14:58
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Yesterday Home Secretary Sajid Javid praised veteran Labour MP Dianne Abbott for being the sort of “role model” that Conservatives should be appealling to, insiting “it takes guts and determination to become the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons,” in a rousing Conservative Party Conference speech many speculated was his pitch to be the next Tory leader.

Keen not to be outdone in the messaging of inclusiveness, Prime Minister Theresa May also heaped praise on the Hackney North & Stoke Newington MP, and hit out at the appalling abuse the Shadow Home Secretary had received.

“The first black woman ever to be elected to the House of Commons received more racist and misogynist messages today than when she first stood over 30 years ago,” said the Conservative leader in her speech to the conference.

“The first black woman ever to be elected to the House of Commons received more racist and misogynist messages today than when she first stood 30 years ago” ⁰⁰⁰

U.K. PM Theresa May condemns abuse towards Labour MP Diane Abbott at the Conservative Party Conference #CPC18 pic.twitter.com/nFeup3tax6

— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) October 3, 2018

Last week The London Economic reported how UKIP leader Gerard Batten invited a controversial YouTuber behind UKIP’s Warplan Purple social media campaign to address the UKIP conference even though he had tweeted “I wouldn’t even rape you” at Labour MP Jess Phillips during a hideous campaign of online abuse and threats of the female MP.

A week later in Birmingham, Tories gathered at their party conference applauded their leader’s speech as she insisted that politicians such as Diane Abbott and ‘hard’ Brexit championing thorn in her side Jacob Rees-Mogg should be free from trolls and abuse.

But many soon pointed out that during 2017’s surprise snap election called by Theresa May, it was her Conservative Party HQ leading attacks on Diane Abbott.

Bit odd Theresa May hitting out at the abuse Diane Abbott has received when the Conservative election campaign directly targeted her.

— Ashley Cowburn (@ashcowburn) October 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/1047442054379442177

Theresa May recognises Diane Abbott receives the most abuse of any politician – what she fails to mention is the coordinated Tory attack on Abbott during the 2017 general election campaign…

— Maya Goodfellow (@MayaGoodfellow) October 3, 2018

And it did not go unnoticed by the Hackney MP herself:

Some nice words from Tory leaders like Theresa May and Sajid Javid. Makes you wonder who was responsible for the Tory party’s relentless personal attacks in the general election campaign 2017 #CPC18 pic.twitter.com/w3Ar0dZLkA

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) October 3, 2018

“The @Conservatives ran a nasty campaign, defined by personal attacks, which particularly targeted Diane Abbott. For Theresa May to now pretend she’s on Diane’s side, and to pay lip service to ending abuse in politics, is disgraceful hypocrisy,” commented the Labour Party.

The @Conservatives ran a nasty campaign, defined by personal attacks, which particularly targeted Diane Abbott. For Theresa May to now pretend she's on Diane's side, and to pay lip service to ending abuse in politics, is disgraceful hypocrisy. https://t.co/NZb5JAjvOa pic.twitter.com/vIwLM0DTiM

— Tory Cost of Chaos (@labourpress) October 3, 2018

During the last election, left wing journalist Paul Mason called out the Tory attacks as “dog whistle racism.”

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A study of social media abuse during the last election by Amnesty International found that black and female MP’s suffered the worst abuse, and trolling of the Shadow Home Secretary accounted for a third of all online abuse during the election campaign.

In fact Britain’s first black female MP suffered 45% of all abusive tweets in the six weeks leading to Theresa May’s snap election.

“The type of abuse she receives often focuses on her gender and race, and includes threats of sexual violence,” the Amnesty study found.

This followed election period analysis by Buzzfeed that found that a third of Conservative emails to members “explicitly mention the so-called threat of Abbott becoming home secretary, while the Tories have increasingly taken to pushing videos involving Abbott on their official Facebook page and received above-average engagement. One video posted on Monday already has more than a million views, possibly helped by paid-for Facebook advertising.”

Theresa May herself repeatedly named Diane Abbott as a risk in interviews including her BBC Question Time debate.

This time next week Diane Abbott could be Home Secretary in charge of immigration and security. Not worth taking the risk #bbcqt

— CCHQ Press (@CCHQPress) June 2, 2017

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