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Labour MP Diane Abbott SUSPENDED for Writing RACIST Letter
— Labour MP Diane Abbott has been suspended for a letter she wrote to a comment piece in the Guardian about racism; which itself was racist. In the letter, she said “many types of white people with points of difference” can experience prejudice, but “they are not all their lives subject to racism.” She went on to write, “Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus.”
The comments were deemed “deeply offensive and wrong” by Labour, and Abbott later withdrew her remarks and apologized “for any anguish caused.”
The suspension means Abbott will sit as an independent MP in the House of Commons while the investigation takes place.
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