{"id":26380,"date":"2023-09-19T16:32:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/?p=26380"},"modified":"2023-09-19T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:32:27","slug":"diane-abbott-makes-bombshell-claim-that-keir-starmer-is-trying-to-force-her-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/politics\/diane-abbott-makes-bombshell-claim-that-keir-starmer-is-trying-to-force-her-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Abbott makes bombshell claim that Keir Starmer is trying to force her out"},"content":{"rendered":"
Diane Abbott has claimed Sir Keir Starmer is attempting an anti-democratic coup in her constituency Labour Party, with the aim of replacing her as the candidate prior to the next election.<\/p>\n
Ms Abbott was suspended by Labour pending an investigation in April, after publishing a letter to the Guardian in which she appeared to suggest Jewish People are not \u201call their lives subject to racism\u201d.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201dIn pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus\u201d.<\/p>\n
Energy Secretary Grant Shapps accused the letter of being \u201chateful antisemitism\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ms Abbott eventually claimed the letter had merely been an \u201cinitial draft\u201d, but Labour suspended her regardless.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong> Diane Abbott could stand against Labour at next general election<\/strong><\/p>\n This afternoon she said the ongoing, four-month-long investigation into her \u201cis fraudulent\u201d.<\/p>\n Ms Abbott says she was told by the Labour Chief Whip to \u201cactively engage\u201d with the investigation, \u201cbut the Labour Whips are no long involved – it is now run entirely out of the Labour Party HQ, which reports to Keir Starmer\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThere is no investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n The longstanding Jeremy Corbyn ally argues \u201cothers have committed far more grave offences, and belated or grudging apologies have been wrung from them\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cYet they have been immediately excused as supporters of this leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info<\/p>\n She adds: \u201cThe Labour Party has not charged me with antisemitism because they know it is untrue\u201d.<\/p>\n Ms Abbott concludes that the Labour apparatus has \u201cdecapitated\u201d the elected leadership of her Hackney constituency party in order to install Starmer allies.<\/p>\n All of this, she argues, is to \u201creplace me as the candidate prior to the next election\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cTaken together, the procedural impropriety, Starmer’s pronouncement of my guilt, the four-month delay in the investigation, the repeated refusal to try to reach any accommodation, all point in the direction that the verdict has already been reached.\u201d<\/p>\n Ms Abbott is the longest serving black MP, elected to her seat in 1987.<\/p>\n She does not give any comment on her parliamentary future in light of, what she argues is, a \u201ccrushing of democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n The Labour Party has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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