Diane Abbott’s ‘divide and rule’ tweet hypocrisy: She’s an expert if ever there was one

By
Abhijit Pandya

Last updated at 6:00 PM on 5th January 2012

‘White people love playing divide and rule’ tweets Diane Abbott. An extraordinary statement for someone who has built her entire political career on fomenting, exacerbating and inculcating racial differences.

If anyone, including several leading corporate strategists of mergers and acquisition, want to look at the how-to manual of ‘divide and rule’ they would need to go no further than the career of Diane Julie Abbott, Labour MP of North Hackney and Stoke Newington.

For where would poor old Diane be today without conquering her voters with the black victim card? The card that has become such a life-long obsession with her that it has brought out in her the very thing that as a British MP she should be fighting: racialism.

aDiane Abbott has faced criticism in the past over her decision to send her son to a private school

Diane Abbott has faced criticism in the past over her decision to send her son to a private school

The answer is probably a lot less wealthy without her taxpayer’s salary for public service. A failed service that has wrongly, and unfairly like a giant playground bully, pandered to the victim mindset in ethnic minorities, making assimilation for so many of them into British life so much more difficult.

As a defender of free speech I do not believe one should be prosecuted for such an evidently racial statement such as Abbott’s. However she should be judged extremely harshly as a politician who is supposed to represent people of ALL colour. Abbott’s statement clearly harbours prejudice in a way that the recently investigated remarks of John Terry, or Luis Suarez, made in a heated exchange do not.

We have come to a rather abysmal point of not applying standards evenly. We now have one group of people, wrongly, allowed to say whatever they want without censure and others who can get away with it.

If anyone white was to make broad general statements of this type about blacks their careers and their lives would be ruined and they would, very possibly, need fortified barricades on their front door. This difference of treatment perpetuates differences. If Abbott had any real interest in racial parity, she would be fighting against this sort of unfairness.

Alas, Abbott has only ever been able conceive of a world of black and white. Her comment reveals an ambiguously racial mindset. She was applying very negative characteristics to a supposed group of races (white peoples in her words) implying that they were all anti-black and with a predominant interest in the oppression of other races.

It is an outrageous statement that a woman who preaches so often about racial harmony should be attempting to inflame racial stereotypes and tensions. However, with a closer look at Abbott’s career, this sort of statement coming from her is not entirely unpredictable.

Abbott has established herself at the nexus of the profitable, both politically and financially, race relations industry. Her power comes from maintaining the view that ethnic minorities are oppressed and that as many people as possible fall into the black racial category for whom she claims to speak.

A classic example of her racialist behaviour can be seen from the way in which she refused to allow a white person to become the Labour Party MP for Tottenham after Bernie Grant’s death, stating in terms, with undertones of apartheid, that Tottenham could only ever have a black MP.  An outrageous behaviour of racial prejudice that went totally uncensored by the Labour Party.

Her views express a deeper problem with left wing multicultural policy. Her grasp on power lies on her ability to maintain a strong sense of division between black and white. There is irony in the fact that she made this specific remark, considering that the base of her electoral power in her constituency, which has a high proportion of ethnic minorities, is cannily cemented by her obsession with racial differences.

Call from the boss: Abbott walked off after receiving a phone call during an interview

Call from the boss: Abbott walked off after receiving a phone call during an interview

Abbott’s remarks are also revealing because they illustrate the problems with the current race relations industry. The maintenance of racial differences is critical to sustaining these bloated and divisive bodies; in particular the activities of groups like the Equality and Human Rights Commission that force thousands of employers to undertake bureaucratic ethnic minorities checks.

These checks reinforce rather than overcome racial differences. Worst still they are a part of a policy framework that rejects assimilation, and allows immigrants to have jobs before they can have the opportunity to culturally adjust. Would Abbott ever fight to repeal any of this? Would she ever understand that positive discrimination is disguised racism against all races?

As appointments from doctors, to lawyers and top city jobs have all been taken by ethnic minorities at some point or another due to ability- it is slowly becoming clear that the whole race industry is a fake sham. It allows politicians like Abbott to politicise race to entrench power through divide and rule. This she has mastered in just over two decades as a MP into a wily, deliberate and Sun Tzu like, art form for power.

Mad Miliband: The Labour Party has distanced itself from the MP's remarks

Mad Miliband: The Labour Party has distanced itself from the MP’s remarks

Abbott’s political techniques include reducing the virtues of self-responsibility in favour of feelings of victimisation and persecution. This weakens the mindset of ethnic minorities and their ability to compete on an even footing in our economy. It also gives a wonderful excuse to immigrants, from less successful economies with bad working practices, not to pull their socks up.

Abbott has never favoured the assimilation card, sadly for so many of her first and second generation immigrant constituents in Inner London. She is thus the worst type of person to represent them.

Abbott sent her British born son sent for long periods to Ghana to re-discover his ‘roots’ as she put it. As if he could not learn about the history and culture of the country of his birth.

She stood for the Labour party leadership on the  absurd premise that there had to be someone from an ethnic minority to stand. Can you think of anything more racist that standing to represent someone’s colour of skin? But our value system has become so perverse we tolerate these extraordinary bilious and morally base acts under the slogan of race relations.

As for her comment, if you want an example of divide and rule go no further than Diane Abbot’s monthly ethnic minority and black only constituency meetings. Which MP would dare to do this and get away with it but her? There may be ambiguous grounds to suggest Abbott is a racist, but there are crystal clear ones to suggest that she is a hypocrite.

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