 Mulholland as PLP secretary was the main liaison between MPs and the Labour Party. In February 2017, she said, Diane Abbott literally makes me sick. In the same WhatsApp group, senior staff discussed Abbott crying in the toilets and telling Michael Crick, a Channel 4 reporter at the time where she was. And now let's go to their WhatsApp chat, which is actually sickening. Okay, so Patrick Hannigan, Abbott found crying in the lose. Julie Lawrence, a sort of crying emoji. Tracy Allen, Abbott Memorial cupboard works well. Patrick Hannigan, Diane and Leon on Vic Street, Fiona Stanton, shall we tell Michael Crick, Patrick Hannigan already have. So this is someone, he's an executive director of the Labour Party who's telling people the location of Diane Abbott when she's been crying in the toilet. Before I bring you in, Aaron, I want to show what was potentially the context of Diane Abbott crying in a toilet. Now, I mean, it's common knowledge that she received more abuse, racist, sexist, awful, awful abuse over the last four years than any other politician in Britain. Disgusting stuff. But it is worth checking the dates of when this conversation happened and what was in the news on that day or the following day, what was going on that week. So this conversation was going on on the 18th, on the 8th of March, 2017. I'm going to get up a Guardian article from the 9th, sorry, the 8th of February, 2017, I'm going to get up a Guardian article from the 9th of February, 2017 headline, conservative officials suspended over racist tweet aimed at Diane Abbott. The context of that tweet got a local conservative official was suspended from the party for retweeting a message aimed at Diane Abbott that had been, they say, described as racist, but it was, I think that's a bit bad from the Guardian really. So he had tweeted, done a tweet portraying Abbott, the shadow home secretary is an ape wearing lipstick. And he posted nice lips, kid, but a shade too much rouge. Disgusting. But anyway, this is a quote that I thought was incredibly relevant to what's going on here. So the controversy emerged as it was revealed that a female staff member in Abbott's team wrote to the Metropolitan Police about another threatening and racist message sent this week. Abbott would not comment on the police complaint, which was leaked to the Guardian, but sources confirmed that it had been sent. The worker claimed that death and rape threats and offensive messages focusing on race and weight were now a daily occurrence for the shadow home secretary. So that week, Diane Abbott, her team had had to write to the Metropolitan Police about another message, which was threatening violence, threatening rape. And obviously, Diane Abbott is quite rightly upset about this. And what do you do as director for campaigns of the Labour Party? You tell a Channel 4 journalist where she's getting her lunch. Leon is a calf, is a restaurant. So he's telling journalists to go and follow Diane Abbott, who's getting more abuse than any other politician in this country, to follow her when she goes for lunch and making jokes when she's upset in a toilet. It's disgusting. It's horrific. It's harassment. It's a targeted campaign of harassment, not by partly by Twitter trolls and the far right and so on, partly by the media. You always want a story. Oh, we maybe can break the shadow home secretary as a human being, of course, far more interesting for them because she's a black woman who has left-wing views. But then it's aided and abetted by people within her own organisation, people who are meant to have her back, people who are paid to have her back. And it's just, it's remarkable. How dare anybody in the Labour Party say they're the party of anti-misogyny, anti-racism? How dare they? Not even a Tory would sink this low. People said, oh, Will, I saw Owen Jones make a tweet. This is what the Tories do. No, they don't. The Bullingdon Club wouldn't do this to their own. It's absolutely despicable. Not one ounce of loyalty or integrity from these people. Disgusting, malevolent stuff. And, you know, it's people like hyperbole. People love superlatives. How else would you like to characterize this? Somebody, and this, by the way, this gentleman has an OBE. He has an OBE and he's a director of the Labour Party, and he's telling not just any old journalist, somebody who he knows is a very hostile political journalist at the time, I think, was political editor General Four, Michael Crick, to find out where the Sherlock Holmes secretary is. This person isn't just not welcome in the Labour Party. He shouldn't just not work for them. They're an abhorrent human being. They really need to look in the mirror. And I mean, when I tweeted this yesterday, Abby Wilkinson, a journalist and friend of the show, she tweeted under it like, I wouldn't do this to my worst enemy. You know, it's sort of like, political enmity cannot explain this behaviour. This behaviour is like sociopathic. It's just and anyway, let's actually let's go to now Dawn Butler, because obviously it wasn't just Diane Abbott. Let's go to graphic six. So this is from October 2016. Emily Oldnow again, Dawn Butler. So this is when she's just been appointed to the shadow cabinet. And so then Neil Fleming, acting head of press and broadcasting. Yep. PLP women will go spare. Emily Oldnow, good grief. Claire Francis Fuller, did she not accuse the LP and its staff of being racist this week? Nice. Emily Oldnow, Harriet White, privileged Harman. Now, I mean, that conversation would look dismissive and ridiculous enough as it is. But given the people in that conversation, in the conversation that we also now can see, were pointing out where the person subject to the most racism of any politician in the country was having lunch so that a journalist could follow them, to then think that Labour Party staff, it would be ridiculous to question whether or not their anti-racists is more than a little ironic, isn't it, Aaron? But yeah, and also, look, I mean, sometimes you have to take stock and you go, you look around the room, you go, oh, wow, we're mostly middle-aged white people, white guys actually. One of the astonishing things in this report was Emily Oldnow, who's a woman, is repeatedly abusive about other women. Misogyny, misogynoir isn't just limited to men. It can be internalised by women. This is a classic example of that. But more horrific is seeing men, John Stoller Day, Hennigan, two or three men, repeatedly denigrate women, Carrie Murphy was in one, Diane Abbots another, using the most violent language imaginable. Now, when a man uses violent language about women repeatedly, again, it goes beyond a political or factional point, right? What kind of psychological mindset does it work here? Maybe, I don't think this is about left and right, and I'm not trying to win people over to my side of the debate here, but it's not ideological. Anybody that uses that kind of violent, aggressive language about women repeatedly, particularly women of colour, I think they have significant problems, and they certainly shouldn't be working in a progressive party, and they certainly shouldn't try and dawn themselves the mask of anti-racism. And it's just, again, it's repulsive. All right, let's go to... I mean, there's so many examples. Let's just do two more examples of how sort of childish these people are, because I think when we get John in, we're going to discuss sort of like what explains this sort of behaviour, and what does it say actually about the Labour Party, that these are the people who ended up having very high-powered jobs in it, because these are people that I wouldn't really want running any organisation, let alone the organisation which is supposed to be the future of social democracy and the future and present, the main representatives of progressive politics in this country to be run by people like this. And yeah, I want to just bring up one more sort of show how this isn't just factional, it's just like who are these people. This is Emily Aldo again, Graphic7a, who is, let's remind you, Executive Director of the Labour Party for Governance. So she's the person who's, she's the top dog when it comes to dealing with complaints. She's the, you know, the buck stops with her. Let's go up this conversation about Carrie Murphy and Katie Clark. Emily Aldo, fuck off PewPed. I'm too busy slagging you off. Mike Creighton, can I just point out from my sick bed that there's too much disparaging talk about old folk on this timeline, salt of the earth, don't you know? Tracy Allen. Who is PewPed? Emily Aldo, to talk to you about John Trickett's diary, Katie. Also, they were talking, they were calling Katie Clark PewPed. Now let's go to Graphic7b. Again, they're talking about Katie Clark. Emily Aldo, Katie Clark had the exact same clothes on yesterday, smelly cow. Tracy Allen, didn't she do that at conference too? Emily Aldo, yes, same clothes four days. Patrick Kenigan probably slept in them. Disgusting. Emily Aldo, Carrie is fat too. There's a good old role in that photo. Like this is, I've heard people say, look, this is a WhatsApp chat and people chat shit on WhatsApp chats. And it's, you know, potentially, you know, sometimes I say some things on WhatsApp chats that are a bit politically incorrect or something. And, you know, I wouldn't publish it publicly on Twitter. But what the fuck adult writes this year? Because it's not even, you know, it's not, it's not funny. Like if sometimes if you've got a sort of, if you're doing some banter on a WhatsApp chat and someone says something rude about someone, you're like, oh, at least that was witty. Oh, I wouldn't say that in public. But this is just like, are these people 14? No, they're executive directors of Britain's main progressive party. I mean, I know what you're saying. And there's, there is, this isn't us trying to, oh, this is cancel culture. This is not cancel culture. This is not about there's a distinction between what you would publish, publish, publish your privately, which, like you say, Michael, is a thing, you know, on WhatsApp, I'll be saying, oh, you fancy this or that person. You know, that's what people do. But you would say the same to me. You'd say something silly. This is, I think that's making the WhatsApp chat sound a bit more innocent. Yeah. You fancy this person. You might be rude about other people, but just not. Well, we're not. Childish. No, we don't say anything like this. I mean, I might go, God, that guy's fucking ridiculous. I mean, okay, that's everybody does that. But like you say, it's like people's fat and ugly. Pew ped. It's like what, I mean, maybe I would have done when I was 14, but then I would have been like, even then, even then people have been like 14 year old Michael. That's really mean. That's really me. Yeah, exactly. I mean, like, this was a person in charge of how people should behave in the Labour Party who hasn't moved on from being like a really awful 14 year old with an OBE. How does that happen?