Diane Abbott: 'I'm the only candidate who's not a continuity candidate'

Diane Abbot tells Polly Toynbee why she's not a loner and how the election for Labour leader is being bought

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News & Politics

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• The Toynbee Test
• Diane Abbott
• Politics
• Labour leadership
• Polly Toynbee
• Alice Salfield
• Andy Gallagher

[fukdsn]

shes a racist!!!!!!! OH sily me black cant be racist only white can be.

[codownni]

what?? She didn't say anything about Caucasians in this interview? she must have been very tired.

[RoofLight00]

Labour will be forever consigned to the margins with people like this in their party. Milliband is a dead duck.

[rouens]

a racist all around and look at the size of the fat cow spending others money!

[ScottishCaledonian]

The Guardian is a typical white hating racist paper.

[SuperHank73]

she hates whites because no white man would smash her fat black ass!!

[khanite1]

@leotardgirlbunny stop honking piglet that n!glet is 100 percent dirt pour like grubby squealing pig that eats own vomit

[utrapzab]

ha ha ha lol - coloured politicians playing at non jungle related activities - how quaint, tell me did she come to the uk in one of the banana boats or a cage?

[leotardgirlbunny]

I BET THIS NEGRESS SUCKS THE BIGGEST MUSLIM DICK SHE CAN FIND

[Junno40]

What I want to know if this is being pushed to the fore of the news .. What is it the establishment don't want us to hear about! Bet there planning war on china lol

[barrach7]

Abott - you're an asshole. I don't care what colour you are or aren't, as I'm a human being. Again - you're an asshole and a disgrace. RESIGN

[newman447]

@lilmissannette Yes because because Barak Obama is white. You fuckin retard

[newman447]

@rinseoutdrycleaner No. Its because its racist. The sooner everyone realises that black people can be racist too, the better. Also, as a white person, am i directly or indirectly responsible for the slave trade? I am neither, It has nothing to do with me whatsoever

[newman447]

Hey Diane, its not because you're black that you cant get a taxi....Its because YOU'RE TOO FUCKIN FAT YOU BEAST

[karezza6]

Dianne Abbott - West Indian racist. Negroes only care about negroes.

[1000shoeswoman]

@aeronuk1 why you think its there (best schools) for white people black people arent stuiped u no they want the best for there children just like anyone else dont matter what culor u are do u want black people to go around with there head burie in the sand

[1000shoeswoman]

diane pick u self up and get on with the good work that you do come on girl

[1000shoeswoman]

@BarriosGroupie why does that make a difference ''oh yes because it would make a differnce to u if you are white '' leave the women alone let her carry on with her good work that she is doing''

[aeronuk1]

She is a white-hating socialist from Hackney who prefers her son to be privately educated among rich white boys...a hypocrite if ever there was one.

[Treyb3yond]

@rinseoutdrycleaner But you can't have one rule for one and one rule for another. White people get crucified for saying something half as bad. And that's how it is.

[wuggahumftamuf]

Diane Abbott is a chocolate idiot

[rinseoutdrycleaner]

@Treyb3yond perhaps she should be more careful but personally im fucking tired of this politically correct society where you cant say anything close to the knuckle anymore. if a black representative of the community has a problem with someone else in government, which she clearly does, she should be encouraged to come out and share it in full, but instead she backs down and apologises, and this is how our country is now, racism is clearly not the main issue here.

[Treyb3yond]

@rinseoutdrycleaner I'm white and I interpret it is racism. Whether she meant it as such is irrelevant, she should be careful.

[lilmissannette]

can someone please tell me how dianne abbots saying "white people love to divide and conquer" is in anyway racist? when it is in fact historical truth. Aswell as in current use in iraq?

[Treyb3yond]

@Junno40 She's an idiot, what more is there to say?

[BarriosGroupie]

@Treyb3yond well yeah, Black people do think White people are stupid given the way they've allowed Black majorities to destroy the White community in the name of "diversity"

[rinseoutdrycleaner]

@Junno40 i think you just need to see understand what she is saying because it applies to all of us, white, black, yellow or green.. really it came across more like an anti-establishment attack as opposed to a racist one.

When you factor in that she could be challenging for ed milibands seat you should put 2 and 2 together and realise why the same establishment of powerful white men are putting a story like this all over the papers and television..for people to interpret it as racism.