Dianne Abbott was the first black woman MP, back in 1987. Her career went steeply downhill from then on. From being Corbyn’s main squeeze for a number of years (a relationship which could act as the absolute definition of ‘ick’), she held tight to the hard left of the Labour Party, which reached its zenith under her ex and for which she became the spokesperson in charge of getting it wrong. She became a liability, then a joke. Her name is now a metaphor for ignorance and incompetence.

That just about covers it, other than the antisemitism. And there were several incidents of this arriving at our shores from La Abbott. As it should be if you’re a spokesperson for the most antisemitic party this country has known since Moseley’s blackshirts. Who weren’t really a proper ‘party’, more a group of nazi thugs.

Once Starmer arrived her position became difficult. She was no longer a protected species as she had been under Corbyn. But she was an MP and Starmer was leader of the opposition and he needed her, even with the fight to rid the party from the Jew-haters. He needed the numbers. Though Dianne and numbers is never a happy marriage. And she wrote a letter to the Observer in 2023 in which she stated that discrimination against Jewish people (the subject at hand), like that towards ‘travellers’ and Irish people, was not like the racism black people endure every day.

She created, in one ill-conceived letter, a ‘hierarchy of racism’. Not appreciating that such a thing only divides further when anyone with one functioning brain cell would perhaps feel the need to try joining people together in this context.

More importantly, again in that specific context, of antisemitism, the issue of the undeniable racism against black people is irrelevant. As is global warming and the fuel consumption of Hybrid cars. And her letter only served to produce an ‘it’s all about MEEEE!’, moment.

She apologised, after they remove the Labour whip from her, because she wanted to stand as a Labour candidate in the election. Her words were facile (obviously), transparently insincere and meaningless. Which was fine for Starmer. He’s not one for confrontation so her returned the whip. And she won her seat once more and all was fine.

Until this week, when they played an interview with DA in which she stated that she wasn’t at all sorry for her original letter and the statements contained therein. So Labour suspended the whip once again. Probably never to be returned. But it doesn’t matter. She’ll go and join ‘love of her life’ Corbyn in ‘the new party’, should it ever materialise, and abandon her lifelong love of Labour. And with Dianne as the new party’s ‘intellectual heavyweight’, how can it go wrong?

Happy Saturday

A xxxx